The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-28
OBITUARI.

James DAILY, 6s years old. a railroad con-
tractor and owner Of trottin G horses. died
on Sunday at his large breeding farm neal
Mount Kisco. Al his dying request his
body will be taken 10 ireland for burial In
the family plot near Limerick. Mr.. DAILY
came to this country when he was 10 wears
old and accumulated a fort ule. For more
than forty years he was q prominent railroad
contractor. H.s arst large work was helping
to build the Lacka wanna Railroad. For
more than twenty years he was in general
charge Of all the largo contractors Of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Ra abroad.
At the time OF HE death he had the contract
! from the New Haven company for making
its branch from the Harlem River TO New
Rochelle a six track road at a cost OF more
than 5000 OU. He was also connected
with the nrl which built a section OF the
subway. His breeding fam ~ Mount kisc0
turned out some OF the best trotting horses.
and he was represented for many. years at
the Grand Circuit meets throughout the
country. Mr.. DAILY was a widower and
leo YES n sou. John W. DAILY. who is also In
the contracting .business, and o daughter,
who is the wife Of Senator Wills Of California.
The Very Rev. John J tedigan. former pro-
vinclal Of the order OF 81, Augustine and for
many years rector OF 81. Nicholas Church AZ
Atlantic city. died o. the Nillanovl Monastery,
near Philadelphia, Yesterday. Father Fedi-
gan had been IN r critical condition for three
weeks anu W pOOI ltdlN LOT TWO mont uH
and his death was not unexpected. lie was
co years old. borty years oil the life of the
Rev. Father Fed.gAn were devoted TO mission
work for the Catholic Church, he buildings
Of Nllsnoya College stand as a monument to
his energies, while in various States there
have been erected substantial ediDces through
his ei orts. In 1898 he established missions on
Staten Island and at Havana, Cuba,
Daniel J. O'Neil, the first man Of the Allied
troops TO scale the walls Of Pekin In the Boxer
great Strength, died at his home in East
Cambridge, Moss, yesterday, aged 20. lie
had been sick about two weeks. At the time
Of the Boxer uprising O'Neil was a member
OF the Ninth United States Regulars, then Ia
the Philippines, In advance OF the regi-
mental officers be scaled the walls OF the
city. he Joined the Brookline Swimming
cub on his return and soon became one OF
It's best swimmers. He was a member OF
the relay team which won the national cham
pionshlp a few years ago.
Edwin q. HOtchkiss. a former Major OF
the T~wenty-third Regiment and a civil war
veteran. died on Sunday at biz home, 403
Fourth street. Brooklyn, in his seventy
\ Ma re and was q graduate Of New York
University. He was senior member Of the
old iron firm Of Hotchklss h Nichols. He
organized Company D Of the Twenty-third
Regimen and also the Hotchkiss battery,
Inter the Calling Battery and now the Third
Battery. lie had been a mem Der Of the Old
Guard Of New York for twenty-five years.
He leaves a widow. three sons and three
daughters.
Samuel Paul Higgins died yesterday st
his home In Phillipsb urs. y. j. He was
N years old. He was born At EastOn, Pa,
in 1927, and when still a young man founded
the faston Morning TimFS, the only morning
paper ever published In that city. Later
he founded the Mauch Chunk PA Gazette
and was OF the firm Of Higgins. Davis A
Eiclman, who founded the Easton Ddiiy
hIprCss. now owned by Howard MutchleT.
MIR. Higgins was also az one time on the STAFF
Of the New York Heraid. Thirty years ago
he retired from newspa per work and enter ed
the employ Of the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad.
lie was a pcnsioner Of the railroad company.
Dr.. Edward Dodd. a retired physician,
whose home was al North Babylon, died last
night Al 2 sanitarium in DObbs willie Of nneu-
mOnia. DIR, Dodd was born in North Babvlon
In 1882. Ne served with distinction with
sherman In the civil war In charge Of hospital
work. He studied In Vienna and Paris and
built up q good practice, He retired some
years ago.
Philnnder /. Smith, for seventy years a
prominent resident Of Fredonia, \. Y, died
Yesterday He was a veteran Of the civil
war and a member OF Holt Poet, q. A. r.
He IL survived BY two daughters, Mrs. y. W
Cas- and Miss May Smith.