The Irish standard., 1893-04-29

regiment he served during the closing
period Of the Civil War. He afterwards
proceeded to Chicago, where an heredit-
ary instinct his father had been editor
of the Galway Vindicator in the Old
Land-lnduced him to embrace the
career of journalism, in which be soon
proved himself conspicuous success.
He rose at various bounds from the
humble post of police court reporter to
that of special war correspondent. He
was commissioned in '76 by the late Mr..
Storey, the able proprietor OF the Chicago
Times, to join the Crook expedition,
which had been then despatched by the
Washington authorities to OAK kota, North
Wyoming and other adjacent territories
where the Sioux tribes were fomentiog
disturbances. The Sioux war was re-
ported for the Times by Mr.. Finerty in a
series of brilliant letters, which were pub
lished in book form under the title of
"Warpath and Bivouac." This volume
also includes his experiences with Gen.
Miles in the second expedition of 1879
Throughout both these campaigns Mr..
Finerty had many hair-breadth escapes
from death on food and field in the dis
charge Of his duty. He subsequently,
Travelled over New Mexico and large
portion of Mexico proper in the interests
of the Times. In 1882 he started in Chi
cago an Irish national weekly, entitled
the Citizen. III the same year he was
elected to-, the Forty eighth Congress
from the Second District Of Illinois.
Edmund O'Donovan, son of DR..
O'Donovan, one of the most illustrious of
Irish scholars, was born in Dublin and
educated in Trinity. He became jour-
nalist early in life, and won mis- chief
spurs in the profession during the Carliet
war of the early seventies. He had, how
ever, previously written aeeries of letters
on the Franco German war, in the course
of which he fought on the French side,
and was taken prisoner to Germany.
Having secured post on the staff Of the
London Daily News, he secured some
marvellous Exclusives for that journal.
His discovery of the road to Merv is one
of the great triumphs of modern journal
ism Owing to the friendship entertained
for him by the officers of the Russian
army, including the late Gen. Skoboletf,
he was enabled to send the News the
spiciest of items, while at the same time
never breaking the confidence of his
Muscovite friends. His tour to the land
of the Mahdi was the last of his journal
istic experiences.
It is supposed that he lost his life in
that ill-fated expedition, though no def
lnite news of his fate has ever been given
to the public
"GHAz1" POWER AND o'KELLY.
"Ghazi" Power, as he was Familiarity
called by his friends, was Dublin man,
and hal q short but adventurous career.
While on the reporting staff of the Free
mans Journal he enjoyed the reputation
of being the most irrepressible wag that
ever ate sandwiches or spilled beer over
the counter of Fortunes bar in Grafton
street. His imagination was at times
boundless. One night, finding himself
disastrously hard up for 'copy," bril-
liant idea struck him. acting on the in
spiration of which he rushed breathlesely
into the Office, and announced to the
astonished editor that he had just come
from Kingstown; that thousand
Fenians had landed at that port, and that
with the green flag waving DER their
heads they were then actually marching
on Dublin Castle. It was just a. M,
an hour before the paper went to press
The late Edmund Dwyer Gray was tele-
phoned to his residence, and apprised Of
the stupendous news. whereupon he
jumped out of his warm bed, and reached
the Office in hot haste. The wires to
Kingstown were at once set in motion
for confirmation of "Ghazi's" story,
which was soon found to be fake, with
the result that "Ghazi" himself was sum-
marily dismissed from his post on the
journal. He subsequently accompanied
General Gordon to. Khartoum, where
both were massscred by the followers Of
the Mahdi.
James J. O'Kelly has been soldier
as we'll as war correspondent. Having
enlisted in early life in the Foreign
Legion Of France, he spent several
years of an adventurous existence in
Algiers. He afterwards proceeded to
this continent, and becoming repre-
sentative Of the New York Herald,
had a marrow escape from being shot
on the uDfounc ed suspicion Of being
q spy by the Cuba revolutionists. Mr..
O'Kelly was for several years member
Of the Irish Parliamentary party. His
devotion to the late Charles Stewart
Parnell cost him his seat for Roscommon
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