Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-07-15
DEATH OF DANIEL LYONS.
HIS Great Troubles End Rather
Unexpectedly on sunday
Morning.

People were surprised yesterday
morning to hear that Daniel Lyons
was dead. Although he had been
visibly failing for some months
past, he was met about town daily
up to the day Of his death. 1t
appears that he fell in a fit on
Tuesday last, but after recovering
somewhat his native pluck inn
PEELED him to knock about again.
DR.. Wood on Saturday advised
that he be sent to the Queens Hos
pital, and 7. B. Murray, presi-
dent of the American League, of
which Mr.. Lyons was financial
secretary, put the advice into
effect. Mr.. Lyons sank rapidly
after entering the hospital, and
his death took place at 3 O'CLOCK
Sunday morning.
Daniel Lyons came to these
islands twelve or thirteen years
ago from Nevada, where he had
won some fame as a politician and
a newspaper business man. He
served a term in the Legislature
of that State, and was a recog-
nized party manager at Virginia
City. Mr.. Lyons FIRST appeared
in the newspaper field here as
business manager of the Daily
Hawaiian. an evening paper
started in 1883 with influential
owners, including Hon. Godfrey
Rhodes, president of the Legs
lature of 1884, and the late A. J.
Cartwright. The paper took a
prominent part in fighting and
defeating Spreckels' bank charter
of 1884. The editor was Mr..
Nesfeld, an exceptionally BRILL
ant man from the Coast, yet the
paper proved heavy lost to the
owners. Mr.. NesfeId retired
soon after the Legislative session,
being succeeded by Captain H,
W. Mist, r. N, who did not stick
to the paper long. Mr.. Lyons
changed the paper to a weekly
and Mr.. Scaife, who had been its
reporter, conducted it a short
time until it became extinct.
Mr.. Lyons then went into the
Advertiser business office for
a while, and next managed the
business of the Elels, a native
paper owned by the late Mr.. Glib
son, which, after the revolution
Of 1887, he conducted on his own
account, with influential backing,
as combined English and native
paper. This paper took no small |
part in the somewhat confused |
politics of the next two years. !
While managing it Mr.. Lyons
organized the famous native poll
tical society called the Hui Kalai-
alma, which allying with the
Mechanics Union formed the
National Reform party that
carried the election of 1890. Mr. |
Lyons through this society and |
his paper welded no small infiu-
ence, but Messrs. Bush and Will |
COX effected a move that placed |
themselves at the head of the |
organization, at meeting called |
by Mr.. Lyons in Wallis skating
rink that stood on Queen street. |
Those gentlemen in the revision
Of the constitution on that occa- |
sion displayed an apparently lib
eral disposition toward the new
order of things, but discarded |
some of the very radical proposals
of Mr.. Lyons, which included |
the popular election of eyery
important Government official, |
Mr.. Lyons gained his point,
however, to the extent Of having
the principle of popular election |
OF officials, to a limited extent,
placed in the platform of the |
National Reform party.
At the height of his political
influence Mr.. Lyons met with a
terrible affliction. His wife and
three of his children were carried
off by diphtheria within a few
days, although, strangely, the
disease was confined to his own
household. The fearful blow gave
the bereaved husband and father