Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-14
1T WAS NOT SUICIDE.

there has been perhaps no death OF an
individual which has created such
general shock or affected such wide ma
tional interests as the wholly I'M
Iooked-for demise of Mr.. Parnell.
He looked always an extremely
fragile man, and in his earlier days dan
ger of his collapse gave much concern
TO his party associates; but when they
learned how and where his long alb
sences from his post, which he ex-
planned on account of ill-health, we're
really spent, incredulity as to his con-
dition succeeded to the former appre-
hension, and all sides ceased thinking
of it.
The truth is that Mr.. Parnell came
from hereditarily mad family. Where
neuroitis exists in the blood, as it did in
The case of his family, sudden seizure
of this kind is to be looked for. Every
physician knows from experience how
be has passed in his morning eXamina-
ton an apparently healthy patient. only to
be hurriedly summoned in the afternoon to
see him dying from pleuriSy or some
cardiac affection. When the mind is off
its balance, the physique is. equally out of
polSe.
life. He rarely drank anything save clar-
ct, and smoked sparingly, using very
small, light cheroot He took very little
exercise, shooting over his Avondale pre-
serves only five or six days IN the year, and
as a rule, sitting at home with his books
or chemical experiments while his guests
followed the dogs. Hence, when the
SchlSm came, with the necessary strenuous
and constant eXertiOn, he was unable to
stand it.
Journeys over to Ireland every Sunday
wearied hum more thar anything else as
he is miserable sailor, but to the end he
persisted in returning weekly to his home
III Brighton to be with the woman he
loved. 1t is only the unhappy fact of tin
nations cause being bound up in this rO-
NANCE which prevents it from appealing to
us now as a fine and lofty thing. He real
~ gave his life to it. The last voyage he
caught cold and appeared before an audi
ence at CreggS, in Galway, with his arm in
a sling.
This later, it seems developed into peri
carditis. It is quite in keeping with the
habits Of his life that no one knew he was
Ill till startled by the announcement of his
death. This secrecy has been habitual
with both him and his wife. Naturally
there are stories of suicide. There is, of
course, possibility that the intensity of
lis rheumatic pains promoted him to an
excessive use Of anfestheticS, but there
seems to beino other ground for the rumorS,
which We're Sugc ested doubtless by the
strange Balmaceda and BOulanger paral-
lelS OF last month.
People in Ireland will be peculiarly i'm
pressed by the weird coincidence OF his
dying within few hours of Sir John Pope
HenneSSey. No feature OF Mr.. Parnelfs
frantic behavior since the divorce court
verdict has attracted so much attention
among the Irish, as his remark at Kill
kenny. when, pointing to funeral process
sion in the streets. he said: There goes
Pope HennesSey's funeral Everywhere
among the ghOSt-Seelng and fairy-lOvng
peasaHtry of the West and South this
strange double happening VIII crystalline
into legends which Will last for genera
lions to come.
Politically the effect will be literally
Overwhelming. Mr.. ParnelPs death re-
leases the Paris fund. which Mr.. Nc
Carthy will at once apply TO the
Succ0r Of eyicted tenants. The lead
-ers Of the Irish party are fully pre-
pared to find this fund smaller than Mr..
Parnell represented it TO be, and discover
claims against it which hitherto were I'M
heard Of. He had been lavish n premises
10 devise means to divide the bulk Of this
fund among his adherents. They find
themselves now in most de plOrable state,
without q leader. without party. without
money and bitterly hated BY every respect
able element in Irish life. Only a few Of
them will be allowed TO return TO the Ma
tionalist fold. Others may desperately
strive to rally the dregs OF Fenlanism. but
the most they do is to keep Ireland dis
turbed during the winter. Perhaps thew
Will not even try to Go that In fact. tle
faction fight III Ireland, which yesterday
was pitiful yet eXaspeTating affair, is to-
day as dead as Julius Caesar.
DR.. Covers, Jr., son Of the famous spe-
cialisJ on nervous diseases, Dr.. William
EIchard Covers, T. Il. 8, both Of whom
were in attendance upon Mr.. Parnell dur
ing his last sickness, in an interview to-
day said that the death Of Mr.. Parnell
was due to acute rheumatism and to
c0ngesticl of the lungs. The elder Cow
ters signed the certificate Of death to-day,
out he would not say anything for DuDlica-
ton III regard to the last moments Of his
distinguished patient, giving as his reason
for r6ticence that he does not wish 10 dis
turb the grief Of the sorrowlng relatives by
newspaper reports.
Mrs. Parnel is still FRUSTRATED with
grief. and, though weak and exhausted
rom long watching and the terrible shock
experienced. she positively refuses to BAR
take Of any food or refreShment, and will
only see her daughter. The alterations
being made at the Quarry House at Bletch-
ngly, Surrey, where Mr.. and Mrs. ParnelI
intended to take up their residence at
about the end Of the present month, have
been stopped.
A family council will be held to-day at
WalSingham Terrace and the necessary az
rangementS for the funeral VIII be made,
after consultation with the committee OF
irish members Of Parliament who have
been deputed to take part IN such prepare
tons. 1t has been decided to holu post
morton eXaminarlon On the body Of Mr..
Parnell, with the view Oh settling definitely
the cause of death.
John Dillon. member Of Parliament for
East Mayo, and William O'Brlen, member
of Parliament for East Cork, who are both
IN Irelane, were seen yesterday and asked
for an expression Of views for publication
in regard to the death Of MI. Parnell.
j Both of the gentlemen referred to distinctly
refused to say anything upon The subject.
& dispatch from Brighton sent at 3 P. NJ.
says the Doctors certificate, which has
Just been filed, states that Mr.. ParneIls
death w0s caused by rheumatic fever. re-
.sulting in excessive temperature and fail
ure Of the heart.
1t was eventually decided at the family
council held this afternoon that Mr.. Par
nell'S remains shall be accorded public
funeral, ana thet the body shall be inferred
at Av0ndale, County Wicklow, Ireland.
where the dead leeder was born.
The executive committee Of the mem