The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-10-17

ent. From the dav he took to his bed,
however, the state of Mr.. Parnell's
health has been such as to necessitate
the constant attendance of two physi-
clans; but in spite of their Incessant and
untiring efforts to prolong or to save
his life, Mr.. Parnell gradually sank
lower and lower until he expired in the
ly prostrated bv the shock experienced
through her husbands death.
In this city particularly the news of
Mr.. ParnelPs death came down like q
thunderbolt upon the clubs and IN po
litical circles. Nobody, so far as at first
known, was even aware that he
was indisposed, and consequently, when
it became known that the Irish leader
was dead, naturally the first idea
formed was that he had committed
suicide. AS the day wore on. however,
it leaked out from the statements of
his intimate friends that Mr.. Parnell
had complained to them recently of
not feeling as well as usual, but it WAS
not thought by anybody that there was
anything serious in the symptoms re-
ferred to bv the late member for Cork
CITY, though he was thinner than he
was last year. The last time Mr.. Par
nell appeared in public was at Creegs,
in Ireland, on September q, when he
delivered long speech upon the atti
tude and alleged inconsistencies of
Messrs Dillon and O'Brien. Upon that
occasion Mr.. Parnell stated that he was
speaking in defiance of the orders Of
the doctors who were attending hl IN,
and who had expressly ordered him to
keep him room.
Mr.. Parnell was still young man.
He was born in the year 1916, at Avon
dale. in the County of Wicklow, Ireland,
the son of a gentleman who was at one
time high sheriff for tho County Meath.
His mother was the daughter of an ad
miral in the United States navy, and
this connection gives additional
interest to the story of the
young statesman's life. Mr.. Parnell's
grandfather was the last chancellor of
the excheQuer of the Irish Parliament,
and bitterly opposed the identification
of Irish with British interests in the
Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Parnell inherited the estate on which he
was born, and was educated at Harrow
School, England, and Magdalen College
of the University of Cambridge.
MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
Parnell first came into prominence in
1879. when he was elected member of
Parliament for Meath, and represe nted
lIldl III Ailt SCLSi tANtNioAl
of 1880. when he was returned for three
constituencies, including the one he had
represented so long. Mr.. Parnell pre-
ferred to sit for Cork. He belonged, at
the beginning of his parlia-
mentary career, to the Irish
home rule party, in which he
soon rose to eminence, although
Protestant and personally not popular
with the leading members This fact
probably accounts for his failure. in 1879.
TO reconstruct the party by means of a
national convention; but, in October of
the same year, he founded and Vas
made first president of the National
Irish Land League. The harvests of
1877 and 1873 We're very bad, and that of
1879 total failure. Irish discomfort
rose accordingly, and Mr.. Parnell and
his fellow Land-leaguers saw an oppor-
tunity for successful agitation. Their
objects were, in brief: /. A reduction of
rents, and refusal 10 pay if such
reduction was refused. ?. A final
and entire change IN the land laws;
peasant proprietorships 70 be substituted
for that of landlords. simultaneously
with an agitation which IN 1880 made
Mr ParnelI the supreme Irishman and