Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-04-28
AFTER YEARS OF STRUGGLE
MeGARRAiIANs CLAIM ENDS ~
DISAPPOINTMENT AND DEATH.
For Forty Years He Fought Against
Great Odds ana HAD victory
Almost Within His craup
Several I4mes-rhe ciaIa.


ON the 18th Of Aprll Mr.. MoGarrahan.
aftcr the senate had passed his bin.
went 20 Providence hospital. suffering
from what was called a general break
down OF the system. Nobody who
Knew him well was surprised. for the
patient old man had long been fading
away and HE most Intimate friends
knew that the faithful body was weak
ening. At the hospital he was received
with the most tondcr care, and after
few days he recovered strength and
insisted upon going TO the capitol.
where, he told the sisters at the hos
piial. his affalrs needed attention.
They humored him and let him 20
over TO the great white building that
mas held his hopes and fears for mnnv
q year Fer three or four days he went
back and forth. sleeping nt the hospital
ana sitting around the Hobbies OF the
capitol IN the day. stiil hopeful that
ms bin would struggle through this
session and become law, But ON Fri
day last his symptoms became alarn-
ing and signs OF drOpsy made their
pearance developing so rapidly that Is
was soon apparent the days Of the poor
claimant We're numbered. on Saturday
he saw number Of friends and told
them that he would be ont IN a few
days. The physlclnna decided on Mon
day to perform tho onerntion of IAN
ping. hut In the AFTERNOON Dr Sewers
determined that the patient was too
Tar gone ana too weak, and that hn
operation would but hasten his death.
sim II was mot Thought that tho end
was So near
Whom IN. r,d W.. x.nr
rr,.
'H's Hlprnihg 'ne slsters Eenlly told
the old man that he couldn't live
through the dny. and naked him II he
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M'"'' INV =" "ee any pulucui"r irlehuH'
li' look the neWR as choerlullS az he
has an OF his many dlsapuolntments,
and asttsa .tbst e,,,tn,. rt,,,tc,, 90
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N"bli'"' VINO mas peeh MS iulthiW
friend throughout all the LITIGATION,
should be- sent for A toionhone mea-
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''"' w wv oNi'"'N """ o'"-
ator Huuton, who was then attending
"a meeting ur tho COMMITTEES on post
omras sopt b,cis ,y,r5 TINT no r,o,,tt
"V'N
n W. ~. we hosplta, ahortly Aitor nnon
rVi 'unHIelg ~ Chunbtu ms puogiNih
usu lrad'nev we SICK uhn sue utte
utter ~ uN"ek ar Mc,iairanun was
WY "V"N' uut ne i'N.sHls'N us HlNNu
hnu TOOK nm oE inc n9nd ana hela u
uilul ne 9leu, ne retnnlvu Nvnbyio w,
nes5 until ny ll-l9' ne hrenIleu nus
ast' ne hls'eI at ,ile huspltsl Was
Uunton roouested tbat Tnderiai,er ~,
be given charge Of the funeral. ar
rangements for which VIII be perfected
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without n Einsmen No one hns ever
heard OF any member of his family In
this country. 10 used TO tel OF
V SrS,uer Wno noI w M N, SSW ,rn,ebiy
klled during Inc struggle But II must
moi be thought that he was frleudlcaa
Tor In his forty wears OF attendance on
congress he formed the acqunlntanee OF
hundreds Of mon In nubllc ifc aud
made many fast. firm friends There
arc nrobnhly today more genuine re-
r-rats exprossed around the capitol at
tbc dontb of "plUv" Nicclarrnhan than
,,.a,,i1 ba ho,rd over the death OF nnv
n,tbiie man i'm congress. lie was aulct
irindlv mud reflucd and with that pc
cuIiar nathos In HID hearing that en-
acarcd b,r, 10 Tho hearts Of nearly MI
VIM mot linn. N mnv be that It was
t,c American love for good stout
a., or mo A,nc,lcnn fon. mess FOR
Nj tiot caused mi Who knew McGar-
raI,oH npd his claim 10 take an In
tsrsst In him. Never before has
aaH hfH rlmhtH nu he UffnlN DC
49,, tbar 10 be made such a de-
,or,,,t,,od atond before nm ndyorse fate.
i,,. Snncar,ncr nj inc CapItaI.
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McHarrnhhn useh 10 inahe u'o on,ee
OF the official stenogrnpherE OF the
,e,at. bis beadouarters for the day at
..,.., 80 -. ..iaa,,, ,,,ts,,,a a
the capitol una nc hu'u'" i'i'9eu
visit there whenever the senate was ~
session. All OF the reporters and stem
ographers knew him as n personal
friend and welcomed him to their
midst. Several years ago the stenog-
raphers held peh gI a az Whson ,r Nc
ne tbnT, be was as a brother IN the
crowd. and he gave a toast on that
occasion that VIII be eiWays re'hem-
pglpI y go ~ pTobabie thot tho McGnr-
rnhan claim viii ever be pushed by any
heir or successor TO Tue POOR oid man.
~ II aonp''u, W. ter,.i, Js r,snnnslbiiitv
mai thls single individual has upheld
FOR two score years y has always
been a plgpig , y I'm, fro,n " rs avn avn
~, nSeen NV were wasted years ago in tho
effort to secure the settlement OF his
nd md for several SESSIONS nnrk he