Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1891-10-08

mitted suicide. AS the day wore on,
however, it leaked out from statements
of his intimate friends that Parnell
complained recently OF not feeling as
we'll as usual but it was not thought by
anybody that there was anything seri-
GUS in the symptoms, though he was
thinner than last year.
kilograms from the principal towns in
England and Ireland unite in reporting
that the news of the death of PaInell
causes great sensation among his sup
porters on account OF its suddenness.
In Dublin his supporters are in a
state of CONSERVATION. A meeting
hastily called as soon as the news OF his
death was known, decided that meet
ing of all Parnell's followers in that city
should be called for this evening, the
object being to consider what steps to
take in the face OF this most disastrous
event for their party.
REMARKABLE CoTNCIDENT.
Coupled with the announcement that
Parnell died last night, is the news that
Sir John Pope Hennessey, member OF
parliament from North Kilkenny, is
also dead. Hennessey, it will be re-
membered, Immediately after the ex-
posure in the O'Shea divorce case, con-
tested the North Kilkenny election,
backed by Parnells opponents, and de-
feated the Parnellites candidate, Vim
cent Scully, by 1147 votes. This was
great, possibly the greatest, test of
strength between the Parnellites and
McCarthyites, and the defeat of Scully
no doubt counted for great deal in the
future series of disasters which befell
the Irish leader.
TIE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN.
The son of DR.. William Richard
Powers, f. R. S., author of many inn
portant medical works on diseases of the
brain and spinal cord, who had been at
tending Parnell, was the physician who
watched the closing hours of his life.
The great leaders, condition was so bad
throughout yesterday that DIR. Powers
was unable to leave his bedside from
early morning until Parnell breathed
his last in the evening.
MESSAGES OF CoNDoLENCE.
Mrs. Parnell is receiving large num-
Der of telegraphic messages from ap-
parently all parts Of the world, all of
them containing words of coincidence.
A dispatch sent from Brighton at 5 80
D. m. today, says Mrs. Parnell continues
in condition too Frustrated to be able
to see any one. Both Mr.. Powers and
his son refuse to make any statement as
to the cause of his death, or as to the
progress Of his sickness until the family
authorizes 1t.
NOT RELIGIoUsLY MARRIED.
1t appears that Mr.. and Mrs. Parnell
fully intended having a religious mar
riage ceremony performed, but the vicar
of Steyning refused to oficiate, on the
ground that Mrs. Parnell was divorced
woman. The vicar, however offered to
lend the use Of his church for the cere-
mony if Mr.. Parnell found clergyman
TO oficiate. The bishop of the diocese
then forbade the ceremony, as the par
ties were already civilly married. FL
nally, through Parnell's 8 perseverance, it
was arranged that Rev. Mr.. Penfold, of
st. James, Marylebone, should officiate,
and Mr.. Parnell intended to seek a Ii
cense when the bishopof Chichester, who
was on the continent, returned.
FATHER OF MRS. o'sHEAs CHILDREN.
A news agency states that among his
complicated private affairs, Parnell left
unsettled the question of the custody Of
his wife's youngest children. 'It is no
secret" says the same authority, "tEat
Mr.. Parnell claimed to be the father of
the two youngest children of Mrs.
O'Shea."
RUMORS OF SUICIDE.
Early in the day the report that Par
nell died by his own hand, spread far
and wide, and among the persons whom
it reached was Mrs. Parnell. Tonight
she requests that an emphatic denial be
given the rumor that her husband COM
mitted suicide. She states that he had
long suffered from rheumatism which
developed into fever which killed him.
PEACEFUL FACE OF THE DEAD.
In an interview this evening, James
O'Kelly, member of parliament for North
Roscommon, said he called upon Mrs.
Parnell tonight, and she admitted him
to see the body OF Parnell. O'Kelly de-
clared, that from the peaceful express
sion of the face of his late friend, it was
difficult to believe that he was really
dead. He could not state what was the
cause of his death. The aspect of the
corpse, however, suggested that death
resulted from natural causes, and had
come without any violent pain.
LATEST ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH SCENE.
Later-Parnell, it is now stated, suf-
fered from congestion OF the lungs, be-
sides rheumatism. He became un-
conscious at Z O'Clock last evening. After
repeated recalling to sensibility, he
lapsed into final unconsciousness.
The night without was a
wild one. the wind bowling
around the house facing the sea, and
heavy gusts OF rain beating at the win
dows. Signs of extreme exhaustion
warned those about the bedside that the
end was near. He finally passed away
before his wife realized that he was
dead. She had borne up nobly till the
last, and then when all was over broke
down utterly.
[Charles Stewart Parnell was born at
Avondale, county Of Wicklow, Ireland,
in 1916. He was educated at Cam
bridge university, and entered parlia-
ment as a member for Meath in 1875.
In 1877 he introduced the Irish church
act amendment bill, in order to facili-
tate the purchase OF the tenantry hold