Irish American and Other Gossip
DEATHS. MR. WILLIAM HACKETT, a popular resident of South Boston, Mass., [Massachussets?] who died recently, was born in Tipperary, Ire., [Ireland?] in 1844. SERGEANT PATRICK MULLER of the Dallas, Tex., [Texas?] police force, who was a native of Ireland, died recently in Dallas. CAPT. JOSEPH HILL PRATT died in Brooklyn, Sept. 7. He was born in Ireland in 1839. He was a member of the police department of New York from 1873 to 1883. MR. MAURICE J. POWER, one of the best known men in politics in New York County, died recently. He was born in Cork in 1838, the son of Hon. Maurice Power, M. P., who represented an Irish constituency in the House of Commons for years, and came to this country in 1850. MAJOR DANIEL O'DRISCOLL, one of the most prominent criminal lawyers of the District of Columbia bar, was instantly killed Sept. 8 by an express train of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Major O'Driscoll came to the United States from Ireland and served throughout the civil war, losing a leg at the battle of Chancellorsville. REV. THOMAS SCULLY, noted temperance advocate and permanent rector of one of the largest parishes in Cambridge, Mass., [Massachusetts?] died in that city Sept.11. He was born in Ireland, March 25, 1832, received his early education in England, and while yet a student he came to the United States. On the breaking out of the civil war, he was commissioned chaplain of the 9th Massachusetts regiment and won the admiration of every comrade for his faithful and untiring work on the field of battle and in the hospitals in ministering to the sick, wounded and dying.Close