The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-02-26
JAMES Y. REILLY DEAD.
Ono of Whoellng's Bost Known
BUSINESS Mon Dlos Suddenly.
IT WNSAMOST UNEXPECTED EVENT.
Tho Family Physician Had Promised
that MIR. reilly Would Have re.
covered Sufficiently 10 Attend TO
B"'incss This Morning-A Relapse
set In and 10 Died Mt o O'clock.
Career OF tho Dcnd Mnn.

Tho announcement. Of tho death OF
James V. Reilly, son OF tho late
Michael Reilly, will take nInoty.nino
out oil every hundred Of tho pooplo Of
this community by surpriaC. Eow knew
that he was i'll, and fewer still that no
wa1 80 close to deaths door, lie has
been Ill for tho past ten days, at first
with n severe cold, which several days
ago developed into pneumonia. That
he was dangerously sick no ono imaG.
med aud only on Saturday night DR..
trlsSetl, who was his attending phyGi.
Clan, a@id that he would have him so
that he would be ablu 10 attend to bust.
ness inns morning. Last evening about
d O'CLOCK however, he began to grow
mnch worse and sank rapidly until .
o'clock, when he expired. Shortly he.
1919 ms death DR.. Reed Baird was also
Ca!ied IN attendance but too late for
mortal aid to avail. During his last
moments he was attended by his spir-
itual advisor Father McDcrmott, OF tho
Cathedral, and by Nil OF hia near rcla-.
tiyes and family.
James '. Reilly was the son OF Mich
aol Reilly. who for half q century was
probably the most noticeable figure in
commercial Wheeling; was born in Oc'
topcr. lSi7 and was therefore i'll tho
iorty:soventh year OF his age. lilo was
tho sixth son Of Michael md Matilda c.
FinneGan Reilly. and was born and rear
cd in this city. Ono brother, Thomas,
dieu before tho father, and the living
Grothera and sistcrsarc George, Michael,
John and llelcn wife OF \. Z. Jamlson.
lie received good education in his
youth aud while still almost boy en-
tered his fathers big wholesale grocery
establishment on Main street. In late
years the father depended greatly on
Thomas and james in the management
OF tho store, and after the death OF Mi
chael Reilly he assumed the manage
ment OF tho establishment, which lie
retained until it was closed.
lilo was n good business man, and
was so esteemed by his business asso.
clates i'll this city aud Dci&hborhood.
lie had probably ono OF the most cS-
tensivo acquaintance III tho tri.state
radius, having been on tho road us
travelling salesman for his father for
eighteen years. Though quiet ordi-
narllr and at no time demonstrativc,
he was held in terms OF personal friend
ship by n largo number. lie was
member oil but two organizations. St.
Nlnccnts benevolent society, the mem
bership of which is made up OF the St.
Joseph,s cathedral congregation. and oil
the Wheeling Press Club, which lie
Joined early in its existence, and 10
whose rooms he was frequent and
always welcome visitor.
lie was married 10 Miss Irene Jami-
son several years ago, and tho union
has been blessed by two bright child
rem, son, Charles. aged five years. and
Agnes, who is Just one year old. \ CO.
incidence was that his sister. Miss
Helen Reilly, married his brothcr.in-
law, 4. c. Jamison.
Ills demise seems peculiarly unfor-
tunatc III the face OF the so very recent
victory he. with his. fellow contestants,
achieved in breaking the Michael Reilly
will in the circuit court. 1t can hardly
be realized that the sell contained gen.
tleman who SO recently was watching
the coursc Of that notable contest, and
who was about to receive tho benefits
that accrued from the hard fought legal
battle, now lies cold and dead. As
mentioned above, DR.. Charles Frisscll
promised that he would have recovered
sufficiently to attend to business this
morning. The dramatic feature OF the
incident is that the business was to DO
4 conference between Mr. W. ?. Hub
bard, counsel ior tho contestants in the
late will contest, who returned from
New York last night, and james and
George Reilly, executors and admins
traitors for tho heirs Of Michael Reilly,
Mt which tho estate was to have
been handed over to them.
President Anshu,Z, OF tho Wheeling
Press Club, has called meeting OF that
organization to take place this evening
Mt . o'clock, ut which suitable action on
the death OF one oil its most valuable
members will be taken.