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Show "DEATH CALLS STOCKYARDS KING Chicago, March 16. Tho Rev. Maurice Mau-rice J. Dorncy, a Chicago Catholic priest, whose name is familiar on both sides of the Atlantic, died yesterday yes-terday at Morcy hospital, where his sister Is one of tho nuns In charge. Death was duo to paralysis, following heart trouble which attacked him a fow weeks ago. Arch-Bishop Qulgley was present at the bedside shortly before Father Dorney became unconscious. uncon-scious. Tho Stookyards priest, Father Maurice Mau-rice J. Dorney, the "King of the Stockyards," was one of the strongest strong-est and most picturesque characters in the west. Consul and protector, he had the power for thirty-five years of the- ruler of a principality n ono of the greatest Industrial centors in the world the Packing houso district of Chicago. His prestige extended to the White House In Washington and on a memorable occasion he earned the gratitude of Celts every where as a trusted envoy from Irish leaders on this side of the Atlantic, to Charles Stewart Parnell in London. Lon-don. Kept Out the Saloon. What is said to be the most Irish parish outside of Ireland, was Father Dorney's office charge of St. Gabriels at Forty-fifth street tho nearest Catholic Cath-olic parish to the main entrance of the Stockyards. To people well acquainted ac-quainted with that part of Chicago no more evldonco is needed to Illustrate the force of his personality than the fact that by his efforts a mile square of territory surrounding his church has for twenty years been absolutely free from the presence of a saloon. Irrespective of creed, the residents of the district revered him to an extent ex-tent that has been a standing wonder to outsiders. Here Is the reason as explained by one of the men of tho yards: Beloved by All. "If you want a battle. Just say something against Father Dorney and you'll get fight in plenty all the way from kids to grandfathers. No hour was ever too long or too dark or too cold or the roads too rough to stop Father Dorney from going to one who needed help." Perhaps tho meeting of Parnell and Father Dorney In the house of commons com-mons at London will be the public Incident to be longest remembered in the civil life of the priest. Father Dorney, It was; who there delivered to the Irish parliamentary leader the documents which showed that the Informer, In-former, Pigott's accusations against Parnell were based on forgery. The Pigott churches which formed an elaborate attempt to link Parnell with crime upon crime, had threatened to bring about the expulsion of Parnell from the commons and to cause the wrecking of home rule for Ireland. Largely as the result of Father Dorney's Dor-ney's successful mission, the prosecution prosecu-tion suddenly collapsed and Pigott not long after committed suicide in Spain. Father Dorney had been entrusted en-trusted with the documents by his life long friend Alexander Sullivan, president of the Irish-National league of America and by Patrick Egan, former for-mer treasurer of the Irish National league of Ireland and later United States minister to Chile. |