Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-10-15

His sickness was pronounced to be an
attack of acute rheumatism and every
care and attention were paid to the
sufferer. He was carefully and I'M
tiringly nursed by his wife, who hardly
left his bedside.
Mr. Parnell did not rally from the
rheumatic attack and grew weaker and
weaker. Several hours before his
death he became unconscious and SO
remained until he died, in intense
agony.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Charles Stewart Parnell was born at Avon.
dale in the county Wicklow, Ireland, in 1s47.
His father was the son of a gentleman who
was at one time high sheriff for the county
Meath, and his mother the daughter of Adm.
Stewart, who commanded the United States
fr1gate Constitution during the war of 1872
He inherited the estate on which he was
born and was educated at Harrow
school, England. and, Magdalen col
lese of the university of Cambridge.
In 1875 he elected member OF
parliament for Meath and represented that
constituency until the general election of
1880. when he was returned for three cOnstit-
uencieS, Including the one he had represent
ed so long He preferred to sit for the city
of Cork. At the beginning of h 8 parlia-
mentary career he was a member of the
home rule party, in which he soon rose to
eminence although Protestant and person
ally not popular with the leading members.
In October of the same year he foun Ell and
was made president of the National Irish
Land league.
simultaneously with an agitation which in
1889 made Mr.. Parnell the supreme Iris imam
ana the virtual ruler of his country, extra
ordinary means of relief were adopted TOR
the relief of Irish distress, in which both
England and the United States took con-
spicuOuS part In January, 1-80, Mr.. Par
melt visited the United States and created
feeling that CT stalized Itself in the forma-
ton of land league associations. which
proved thu main financial support of the
home organization. He was subsequently
chosen president of the home rule party in
place of Mr.. Shaw. Towards the close of
1873 Information of sedtious conspiracy was
applied for by the crown against Mr. Par
neil and certain of his associates, which
suited in a trial brought to an indetcrmi-
nate issue, but their viz ual acQuittal by the
non agreement of tn, jury. When he took
his seat for Cork, the young statesman was
made header of the Irish party in the house
of commons His tactics of obstruction
produced a strong feeling against him in
England, and under the coercion act, which
vas thought necessary By Mr.. Glad
stones government for the r. storatfon
of the power of the crown in Ire
land, he was, in October. 1881 arrested as
suspect" and imprisoned in kilmainham
Jail. He was released, it was alleged, as the
result of a letter to the prime minister in
which he is understood to have offered his
CO. operation with the regular authorities in
| the RESTORATION Oh OrQer ana the QeVlS1ng OF
measures intended to obviate the causes of
political trouble in his naive land. After
his TT turn to the hOus. of commons, he
showed remarkable ability as a leader and
was for years the head and front of local
agitation in Ireland. When the land league
collapsed .aS the result of the repreSsive leg
islation adop. ed Ly parliament. he organized
the irish National league. which was largely
composed of the same m an bership. Its
operations, however, were more or less re-
strained by law until about the time of the
change of the ministry, when Ireland again
came under the ad ADMINISTRATION of justice.
Gradually. as the years of conflict succeed
ed each other, brighter and brighter became
the prospects of ultimate success, nearer and
nearer to the goal to be gained were the van
tage points seized and held.
The public. ton in the L 1ndon Times of a
series of sensat .Onil articles. which led to a
libel suit. the suicide of Pigott, who had
forged the letters, the retraction of the
Times, and finally ParnelPs infatuation for
Mrs O'Shea and the division in the Irish
party are matters of late occurrence with
which the public is familiar.