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* KEANE. 421 KEARNY. ed Sir Colin HaUcett as commander-in-chief at Bombay, and in 1S39 coumianded the advance into Afghanistan, the most brilliant exploit in which was the capture of the supposedly im- pregnable fortress of Ghuzni. For this service he was made G.C.B., and created Baron Keane of Ghuzni and Cappoquin, with a pension of £2000. KEANE, JoH.x Joseph (1839—). An Ameri- can Konuin Catliolie prelate. He was born at Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland; came to America in 1846. and graduated at Saint Cliarles's College and Saint Mary's Seminary. Baltimore. As assistant pastor of Saint Patrick's, Washing- ton (1866-78), he was prominent in the Catholic Young Men's National Union and in the Total .Abstinence Union of North America. During his occupancy of the See of Richmond (1878-86) he established the Confraternity of the Holy Ghost. He was rector of the Catholic University of America from 1886 to 1897: and after three years in Rome was conseci'ated Archbisliop of Dubuque, Iowa, in 1900. He wrote on education, especiallj' on the question of denominational schools. He was Dudleian Lecturer at Har'ard in 1890. KEARNEY, k-ir'ni. A city and the county- seat of Buft'alo County. Neb.. 196 miles west by -south of Omaha ; on the Union Pacitic, the Bur- lington and Missouri River, and the Kearnev and Black Hills railroads (Map: Nebraska, E 3). A water channel or canal 13 miles long, and used incidentally for irrigation, furnishes 4.500 horse- power for the manufactures of the city. The industrial establishments include large cotton, Hour, and oat-meal mills, grain-elevators, brick- works, cigar-factories, foundry and machine- shops, and other works. The city has also extensive grain, stock, ice, alfalfa, and stock-feed- ing interests. Celery is extensively raised. Kear- ney has the State Industrial School for Boys, a military academy, normal institute, public li- brary of .5000 volumes, and a fine high school, city hall, court-house, and opera-house. There are also two public parks, a bridge a mile long across the Platte River, and Lake Kearney, a beautiful sheet of water covering 40 acres. Set- tled in 1871. Kearney was incorporated as a village in the following year. The government is administered, under a charter of 1901, by a mayor elected ever>- two years, and a council, one-half of the members of which are elected by wards and the other half at large. Population, in 1800, 8074; in 1900, 5634. KEARNEY, Denis (1847—). An American labor agitator, the leader of the movement known as Kearneyism in California. He was born in Oakmont, Ireland : went to sea as a cabin-boy at the age of eleven, and in 1872 settled in San Francisco, Cal., where he obtained employment as foreman of a gang of ste,vedores, and soon afterwards went into the draying business on his own account. In 1877 he began to incite the laboring men of San Francisco against the wealth- ier classes, and soon gained almost complete ascendency over the mass of them. Great meet- ings were held on the 'Sand Lots' near the city, where Kearney ruled supreme, soon attracting general attention by his savage attacks upon capital, niinese labor, and various alleged griev- ances. His influence rapidly increased, until his adherent-s were strong enough to pack a constitu- tional convention and force the adoption of a new State constitution, which was largely in their own interest, and was most detrimental to capital and vested iuierests generally. In the sununer of 1878 Kearney visited the Eastern States, and delivered incendiary and intemperate sjjeeches in the larger cities. He did not succeed in winning many new adherents, however, and leturned to California, where his old following gradually drew awaj' from him, and he himself soon relapsed into insignificance. Consult the chapter "Kearneyism in California," in Bryce's American Commonwealth (last ed.. New York, 1895). KEARNY, kitr'nl. A town in Hudson County, N. J., on the Passaic River, opposite Newark, and on the Erie and other railroads (Map: New Jersey, D 2). It is a residential sub- urb of Newark and New Y'ork, and has a State soldiers' home, a Roman Catholic pro- tectory, and an Italian orphan asylum. There are imfMrtant manufactures of linoleum, cotton and linen thread, roofing material, white metal, brass novelties, metal liedsteads, etc. The gov- ernment, imder a charter of 1895, is vested in a town council, which includes one member elected at large for a tenn of two years, who acts as mayor. Kearny was first settled by Germans, who named the place New Barbadoes. Later it was comprised within the limits of Harrison, of which it remained a part until separately incor- porated in 1871, when it was named after Gen. Philip Kearny. Population, in 1900, 10,896. KEARNY, Lawbexce (1789-1868). An American naval officer, born at Perth Amboy, N. .J. He entered thi naxy as a midshipman in 1807, and during the War of 1812 took i)art in .several daring exploits. He was one of the offi- cers sent to {he Gulf of Mexico and the Carib- bean Sea in 1821 to stamp out piracy in those waters, and in 1823 was one of the commanders in Capt, David Porter's mosquito fieet, which completed this work. Three years later, as com- mander of the Warren, he performed a similar service for the Levant. He was commissioned captain in 1832, and in 1841 was appointed to the command of the East India Squadron. Dur- ing his stay on this station he began negotia- tions with the Chinese Government which re- sulted in the signing of a commercial treaty be- tween China and the United States in 1845. In 1843, while on his return to America, he stopped at the Hawaiian Islands and protested against the provisional cession to Great Britain which the King had been coerced into signing by Lord (iieorge Paulet. He was made a commodore, and was retired in 1867. KEARNY, Philip (181.5-62). An American soldier, prominent in the ^Mexican and Civil wars, the nephew of Gen. Stephen W. Kearny. He was born in New Y'ork City, graduated at Columbia in 1833, and subsequently studied law under Peter A. .lay. In 1837 he entered the L'nited States Armv as lieutenant in the First Dragoons, and two years later was one of three officers sent by the United States Government to study the French cavalry service. He spent several months in the cavalry school at Saunuir, and then, hav- ing secured a leave of absence, volunteered with the First Chasseurs d'Afrique. and served with conspicuous gallantry in the .lgerian War. Late in 1840 he returned to the United States. He was then successively aide-de-camp to General