The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-08

kind Charles, they have killed youl" she
shrieked Her grief was heartrending
She was seized with terrors and by tur4s
laughed and wept.
seTbat viper" she exclaimed, after she
had recovered, pointing her long, bony fin
ger at the house of her half brother, Ed
ward Stewart, that viper over there kept
me away from him. He began a suit for
$4,000 against me to dispossess me of my
home, and spent my all in defending it.
When Charles wrote me, asking whether
needed anything, / told him that the
crops were bringing me plenty of money.
That cleared him, and it pleased me to say
so, although l was in poverty. oh, he was
q good and dutiful son and never neglect
ed me- Lies, lies, lies-all lies-when they
say that be refused to provide for me. l
say the story is a slander. foul slander. :"
Then the old lady paced up and down
the room. sobbing convulsively. Its
Michael Davitt and the Irish Worlds per-
secution and the politicians that killed
him." she cried. 81 knew this last trouble
would be his death, and to think that
could not be near him at all among those
vipersi For fifty years / have been trying
to do something for the Irish people, and
nv reward is the death of my children. /
have lost three daughters, two grandsons
and now a son. His death, said she, after
a moments pause, "has been caused by the
persecution of his enemies. Troubles have
not come on him singly, but so thick and
last that his grand heart has at last been
able to bear no more. His heart has been
broken, and that was the cause OF his
death. In the death of my son, Ireland
lost her best friend. No other would have
done or could have done SO much for the
people as he"
At times her grief became so great that
she gave way to it in words which she sub
sequently said that she did not mean. 81
don't believe be died a natural death, she
said at one point. ''If he did, it was be-
cause his heart was broken, and there was
no other Gauss whatever, no matter what
the physicians saw" As to any reports |
which might be started to the effect that
Parnell had committed suicide, Mrs Par /
nell said that such reports would not he /
worthy of consideration. Suits in the |
courts at Philadelphia have kept Mrs. 4
Parnell from visiting Ireland. The pro-
ceedings had left her entirely without |
funds. At present the old lady, now 76, /
lives alone, with the exception of the |
presence of one friend, in what is left OF a
big house known as the ''Ironsides."
Mrs. Psrnell says that with the death of |
her son, she is done with her efforts in
Ireland's cause. HE gave his life for it,
she said, ''but that was enough" Mes
sages from few friends. offering condo
lence and sympathy were received by Mrs.
Parnell his afternoon. No message had
been received by Mrs. Psrnell from abroad
up to 2 o'clock this afternoon. This seem
ing neglect was an additional cause of
grief TO the old lady. Although Mrs
Parpell claims that she is in no need of
assistance, she is living here in abiect
poverty.
GENERAL NOTES.
LONDON, Oct. IA news agency states
! 1 N.@~ ..1s 4
affairs, Pdrnell left unsettled the question
of the custody of bis wife's Younger
1T is no secret" says the same
that PaInell claimed to be the
father of the two younger children OF Mrs. I
O'Shea"
BRUSSELS, Oct. THE independence
Beige today says that Parnell, fortunately, ;
lied before he had time to destroy his own ,
work on behalf of Ireland, ,
adding: "There are so many brilliant I
pages in his political career that the last I
plotted page will be torn from the public !
memory"
LONDON, Oct. Coupled with the an {
louncement this morning that Mr.. Par c
lell died last night, was the news that Sir ?
Ohm Pope Hennessey, member of parlia- '
nent for North Kilkenny. was also dead '
'ir John Pope HenneSSey, it will be re- Y
nembered, Immediately after the expos r
ire in the O'Shea divorce case in Decem- {
er. 1890, contested the North Kilkenny I
lection, backed up by Mr.. Parnell's r
pponents, and defeated the Parnellite '
andidate, Mr.. Vincent Scully, by ], ,147 g
otes. i
LONDON. Oct. Tt appears that Mr.. f
nd Mrs. Parnell fully intended having a n
eliglous marriage ceremony performed, c
ut the vicar of Steyning refused to Off s
late, on the ground that Mrs. Parnell was g
divorced woman. The vicar, however, 1
Hered to lend the use of his church for
he ceremony il Parnell found a clergyman :
0 ofhcjate. The bishop of the diocese a
hen forbid the ceremony, as the parties a
7ere already civilly married. Finally. n
through Parnelfs perseverance, it was O
ranged that Rev. Mr.. Penfold, of St. "
ames' church, Marylebone, should Off r.
late, and Parnell intended TO seek a c,
cense when the bishop of Chichester, who a
las on the continent, returned. 1t was ii
equested that the marriage should take O.
lace at s o'clock a. m, and should not be n
ivulged until afterwards. n