The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-02-12
..n., city Attorney Of keokuk.
~ Editor Of tho Constitution,
passed Away Yesterday
Morning.
has WELL KNOWN HERE
N. sIster-In-Law Mrs. ceiestine Glib
bons and Mrs. Z. w. Az
new Will Attend
Funeral.

,udae John Gibbons Of Chicago
.ormeT editor of the Keokuk Consti
.ution and city attorney Of Keokuk,
sisS suddenly in Chicago Sunday
EARNING. His death was due to
,ssrt trouble, and occurred at the
p,esbyterian hospital where he had
Mem operated on earlier in the week
=, slight abdominal trouble. Judge
cihhons was one of the best known
Il local attorneys in the earlier days
4 Keokuk, and is remembered by
many Of the older residents.
Ju;y II, 1876, John Gibbons, n. w.
flendenin, George Smith and Thomas
PAS bought the Constitution from
Iudge Cleggett's estate. Judge Glib
hons was the editor of the paper for
four years, when on April II, 1880,
he sold his interests to Smith, Glen
denim and Rees and moved to Chi
cago. Judge Gibbons was city attor-
new of Keokuk for several terms. and
also represented Lee county In the
legislature.
Judge Gibbons was in Keokuk a
couple of years ago looking after his
interests in a lawsuit being tried in
the district court then,
Mrs. Celestine Gibbons Of this city
Is sister-in-law of Judge Gibbons.
and she and her daughter Mrs. T. w.
Agnew, left this afternoon to attend
the funeral in Chicago Wednesday
morning.
Funeral In Chicago.
The following obituary notice Is
bken from the Chicago Herald:
Judge John Gibbons, who had been
on the circuit court bench Of Cook
county since 1893. died at the Pres.
byterian hospital yesterday morning.
He had undergone a slight abdominal
operation Thursday, but the immedi-
ate cause of death was heart trouble.
The judge is survived by widow.
He has no other near relatives in
Chicago. The funeral will be held
| from the late residence, 1417 North
Dearborn street, Wednesday morn
| Ing, with services at the Church of
the Immaculate Conception at 10
o'clock. The burial will be ut Cal
vary. The sermon probably will be
preached by the Right Rev. John.
Cavanaugh. president OF the Notre
Dame university. The judge was an
alumnus Of that institution, and had
received the degree OF L. L. D.
| from It.
Had Long Fought illness.
Judge Gibbons had not been in good
health for NUN Der of years. AS
long as fifteen years ago he. went to
Colorado to recuperate, and while
there he was stricken with pneu-
monia. When the crisis Of that had
passed he suffered a stroke of apo
plexy. His friends then thought
death was at hand, but the Judge had
sufficient reserve strength to throw
of both attacks.
Up to the time he was taken to the
hospital in his last illness ten days
|ago. the judge and Mrs. Gibbons were
climate when they were able to do
been unsatisfactory.
Judge Gibbons was the central fig
|ure in an unusual judicial proceeding
about year and half ago, when
special counsel in the gas suit sought
TO have him give up jurisdiction of
the cause because he was no longer
sitting in chancery corut.
Case Assigned to Another.
|. AS the case originally had come
before him he refused to surrender
", tustifyins his position by saying
the petition of the city's lawyers was
IN sense personal attack on him.
An appeal was taken to the chief
Justice Of the circuit court, who,
after some deliberation, ordered the
case transferred to another Judge
Judge Gibbons was born In County.
Donegal, Ireland, March 1S. 184s. He
came to this country in 1866. and was
graduated from Notre Dame in 1868.
he went to Keokuk. Iowa, in 1870.
and five years later was elected TO
the legislature in that state. In 1880
he came to Chicago.
Follower Of BIaine's.
Until 1884 the Judge had been a
democrat. In that year his admira-
uon for James G. Blaine. who was
the republican nominee for the presi-
.u!ency, took him over into the repub-
, |, party, where he remained until
his death.
For a number Of years the Judge
was editor of the Chicago Law Jour
nal. He was the author Of a work
on Rights and Wrongs OF PROPERTY
ana Labor" and he edited Ave vol
umes of American Criminal Reports.
Down in dry Alabama where snort
~ booze brings the top price on the
spot some smooth boozers hypnotized
special guards at Girard. tapped bar
y, recently seized and made away
WIN several jugsfu1 before the guard
woke up. An old trick in a new spot.
ears ago when the Omaha
leight house stood on the present site
y the Union Pacific station, booze
hunters bored hole through the floor
,hd into a whiskey barrel, secured all
hey could carry, while the rest OF the