Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-10-15
1T WAS NOT SUICIDE.
Doubts as to the Cause of Parnelrs Death
Set art neutrality-suspicious. Makea Report.

Set art Kest-Physicians Makea Report.
LONDON, Oct S.-Since the tragedy of
Fords Tbeater, twenty-six years ago,
there has been perhaps no death of an
individual which has created such a
general shock or affected such wide ma
tional interests as the wholly I'M
looked-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, were
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
he has passed in his morning examina-
ton an apparently healthy patient, only to
be hurriedly summoned IN the afternoon to
cardiac affection. When the mind is off
its balance, the physique is equally out of
pOlSe.
Mr.. Parnell had always led an indolent
life He rarely drank anything save clar-
ct, and smoked Sparlngly, using very
small, light cheroot. He took very little
exercise, shooting over his AvOrdale pre-
serves only five or six days in the year, and
as 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 cXertion, he was unable to
stand it.
Journeys over to Ireland every Sunday
Weared hun more than anything else as
he is miserable sailor, but to the end he
persisted in returning weekly to his home
in Brighton to be with the woman he
loved. 1t is only the unhappy fact of tn e
nations cause being bound up in this TO
nance, which prevents it from appealing to
us now as fine and lofty thing. He real
ly 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. 1t is quite in keeping with the
habits of his life that no one knew lie was
ill till startled by the announcement Of his
death. This secrecy has been habitual
with both him and his wife. Naturally
course, a possibility that the intensity OF
his rheumatic pains promoted him to an
excessive use of anTstheticS, but there
seems to beIno other ground for the rumors,
which were suggested doubtless by the
strange Balmaceda and Boulanger paral-
lelS OF last month.
People in ireland will be peculiarly inn
pressed by the weird coincidence OF his
dying within a few hours of Sir John Pope
Hennessey. No feature of Mr.. ParnelPs
frantic behavior since the divorce court
verdict has attracted so much attention
among the Irish, as his remark at Xii
kenny, when, pointing to a funeral process
sion in the streets, he said: There goes
Pope Heunesscy's funeral" Everywhere
among the ghoSt-secing and tairy-loynG
peasantry of the West and South this
strange double happening Will crystalline
into legends which Will last Tor genera
tons to come.
Politically the effect will be literally
overwhelming. Mr.. Parnell's death re-
leases the Paris fund, which Mr.. Nc
earthly will at once apply to the
succor. 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 UNI
heard of. He had been lavish IN premises
to devise means to divide the bulk OF this
fund among his adhcrcntS. They find
without leader, without u party, without
money, and bitterly hated by every respect
able element in Irish life. Only n few of
them will be allowed to return to the Ma
tionalist fold. Others may desperately
strive to rally the drcGS of Fenlanism, but
the most they do is to keep Ireland dis
turbed during the winter. Perhaps they
Will not even try to do that. In fact, tle
faction fight in Ireland, which yesterday
was a pitiful yet eXasperating affair, is to-
day as dead as Julius Caesar.
DR.. Covers, Jr., son OF the famous Spe-
calisr on nervous diseases, DR.. William
Richard Covers, f. Il. 8, both of whom
were in attendance upon MI. Parnell dur
| ing his last sickness, in an intervic" to-
day said that the death OF Mr.. p&rnell
was due to acute rheumatism and to
congestic;l of the lungs. The elder Cow
ers signed the certificate of death to-day,
but he would not say anything for puDlica-
| ton in regard to the last moments OF his
| distinguished patient, giving as his reason
| for reticence that he does not wish 70 dis
| turb the grief Of the SOrroWng relatives by
| newspaper reports.
Mrs. Parnell is still Frustrated with
grief, and. though weak and exhausted
| from long watching and the terrible shock
| experienced, she positively refuses to l'ar-
| take of any food or refreshments and VIII
| only see her daughter The alterations
being made at the Quarry House at Bletch-
| llGlN, cNIJCN, NIiClt hi. 'Ni't Aiho.
| 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 Cor the funeral viii bc 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
mortem eXam!nar.on IN the body OF Mr..
Parnell, with tle view on 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 fer publication
! in regard to the death OF Mr.. Parneli.
| Both of the gentlemen referred to distinctly
refused to say anything upon The subject.
A dispatch from Brighton sent at 3 +. NJ.
saws tie doctors certificate, which has
! lust been filed, states that MIR. parncll S
| death wos caused by rheumatic fever, re-
sultno III excessive temperature and taIl-
ure of the heart.
1 - .,,,c nx-antp liy- dnpiHn1 at the family