The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-08
PARNELL DEAD.
The Famous Irish Politician Suddenly Dies
OF Rheumatic Affection.

The Famous Irish Politician Suddenly Dies
Of Rheumatic Affection.
LONDON, Oct. z-Charles Stewart Par
nell. "Irelapd's uncrowned king" and de-
posed leader. but one of the brightest men
and most skIllful politicians that country
ever produced, is dead. He died unex-
pectedly at his home on Walsingham ter
race, Brighton, last night, at 1880 o'clock.
Mr.. Parnell arrived at his home at
Brighton from Ireland last Thursday and
complained of suffering from q chill. On
the Friday following he was unable to
leave his bed and mis- regular physician was
summoned. He seems to have considered
Mr. ParnelPs illness TO have been of q
serious nature, for he soon sent for another
physician, with whom he held long con-
sultatiOn over the sickness of the Irish
leader. This consultation Of physicians
was resumed on Sunday. when Mr.. Par
nell was found to be in great pain
and apparently growing weaker every
hour. His sickness was pronounced to
be an attack of acute rheumatism, and ev-r
cry attention and care was paid to the
sufferer. lie was carefully and uptiringly
narsed by his wifo, who hardly left his bed
side from the moment her husbands illness
was pronounced to be of q serious nature
Mr. Parnell. in spite of the care and atten-
tion which he received, did not seem to
rally from the rheumatic attack and grew
weaker and weaker. Several hours before
his death Mr.. Parnell became unconscious.
and so renamed until he died in intense
agony. Owing to the suddenness of the
Irish leaders illnessan to the belief of his
wife aud of the attending ply ysicians that
bo would recover. no friends or relations
of his family were present at Mr.. Parnelrs
bedside when death came. Mrs. Parnell,
Mrs. ParnelPs two daughters and the sery-
ants were the only occupants of the house
when the Irish leader expired. The end
was one of intense agony for the sick man
until the moment when he became uncon-
scious. and eventually died without pain.
IN POOR HEALTH FOR SOME TIME.
When the fact of Mr.. ParnelPs death be-
| came known this morning it caused great
surprise throughout Great Britain and
| Ireland. 1t has been well known that Mr..
| Parnell has not enjoyed the best health for
years past and it has been noticed and
| widely commented upon that since the
| OShea divorce developments became
matter of public notoriety, and since po-
litical trouble came upon him, that the
great Irish member of Parliament had
grown thinner and that he had percept-
| IDLY aged in appearance, but nobody ex-
| pected TO hear of his death, and no inkling
| as to his illness reached the newspapers
| until to-day. In this city, particularly,
the news of Mr.. Psrnelps death came down
like thunderbolt upon the clubs and in
political circles. Nobody, so far as at first
known. was even aware that he was indis-
posed. 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 statements
| of his intimate friends that Mr.. Parneil
had complained to them recently as not
! feeling es well as usual, but 1t was not
thought by anybody that there was any
thing serious In the symptoms referred to
by the late member for Cork city. though
he was thinner than he was last year.
The last time Mr. Parnell appeared in
public was at Creegs. in Ireland. on Sept.
| %. when he delivered long speech upon
| the attitude and alleged Inconsistencies of
Messrs. Dillon and OBrien. Upon that oc-
casion Mr.. Parnell stated that ho was
speaking in defiance of the orders of the
doctors who were attending him, and who
had expressly ordered him to keep his
room. While Mr.. Parnell was speaking at
Creegs it was noticed that he was very
pale. and that. in other respects. he was
not the same man he had been in the past
In addition TO his psllor which seemed to
denote failing health. Mr.. Parnell, upon
the occasion referred 10, carried his left
arm in a sling. His friends. upon asking
him the cause of this. were informed that
he was suffering from rheumatism.
A dispatch from Dublin says: Now that
Mr.. Parnell Is dead. 1t IS said that 1t was q
matter of notoriety AMONG his intimate
friends that his health has been rapidly de-
clining for months back. His friends and
doctors. they say. urged him IN vain to be
more careful. but all their remonstrances
were unavailing: Mr.. Parnell continued to
work at the highest pressure and under
went constant privatious and fatiguing
journeys which would have ruined the
health of the strongest man. Alter the
Sligo election, when Mr. Bernard Colley.
the anti-Parnell candidate defeated Mr..
ParnelPs candidate. Mr.. Valentine b. Dill
lon, it was privately admitted that Mr..
Parnell was greatly depressed. and that
he felt himself obliged TO resort
] 70 etimulants in order to sustain