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1 FORT MILL TIMES. VOL. XI. FORT MILL, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1902. NO. 5. FAREWELL TO GEN. PALlHIAl Ovation at Central Valley Prior to His Departure For Cuba. ! < I OLD NEIGHBORS MOVED TO TEACG The Kntlre Town Turned Out t<? !>?? Ilonor ^ to tho Veteran Patriot?Ills Affci IIiik 1 I.eixve-TaUliic? Cuba's Pivot President l'rrdlctii the l\Ktnl>ll*hii'enl of Cor.lial . 1 Relations With the United States. I [ 1 New York City.?General T. Kstrndn 5 Pnlnia, President-elect of the Cuban i 1 Republic. en me to this city from his ; i home in Central Valley. He left by ! rail for Norfolk. Yn.. where he sailed ' ' for Cuba on tlie steamship Admiral j Fnrragut to assume the duties of the t first Executive of the luw Cnhan lie- 11 public. , President Pnlnia has not been in C.' for twenty-eight years, and l:"r v.-ife, who is a native of Honduras, '"antral America, and his six children ' have never yet set foot on Cnhan soil. , lie will assume the duties of his ottice on May 110. It is in Central Valley that Con era 1 Palma has made his home for the past , eighteen years, and there five of his six ] children were horn, in a rambling old ( white bouse, set in a grove of vener- , sthle willows, half way up the side of , a hill on the outskirts of the village. ; He has been so long a resident of the place, and to such an extent has he , won the deep regard of his neighbors v ntul friends, that practically every one , In the village turned out to participate , in t!l(? W'l! 1*111 l*t oil /lnmniwlbntlnn i --- - I farewell ami wish "Estrada," as they ? call him there, God speed in his new ? labors. r At an early hour the little place was , astir. A procession formed, in which j every one took part, and marched to General Talma's house. The village hand headed it, followed by all the t school children, carrying Cuban and j American tlags. the main body of the t citizens and the Fire Department, with t their apparatus. In front of the Gen- i eral's house tlie hand played the Bay- i f aino hymn, the anthem of General Pal- ^ inn's native province, and then they es- i t corted him to the village square. All I the houses along the line of march dis- t played Cuban tings. , ] There the little formal demonstration j < of parting took place, and many of his j ( old neighbors were moved to tears. ' < Every person in the village passed and ! shook hands with General Talma. Irv- j ing Washburn, who was spokesman | for the villagers, said: 1 i "As you take up your new task for ' t Cuba, we ask for her and for you the t blessing and the protection of Ilim * who guidetli tin1 destinies of men and < of nations. < | "Our hearts, our hopes, arc all with thee; f Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our ' tears. ' j , Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, f Are all with thee." j ^ "We are eomo to attend you with the . Of,... t.... ? C . .. . ". .. riMMu> III uiiiri 111 I music 1111(1 11IO WHV- J in;* of (lags?your Hag and our?. <Jod . grant they over thus float in unison." ?] General I'alma was much affected ?, by tlio deep sincerity of the words of j his old friend. With a faltering voice , ho replied: "Neighbors and friends: Tn this mo- ., ment my position is a very peculiar t one. I have lived here eighteen years. A and considered myself nor a neighbor , or a friend, but a brother to every one of you. I do not know how to express j my feeling of gratitude to you. I am f obliged to go to my native country to ] t discharge the duties I am called to assume. You may be assured tlint as 1 ! t go 1 leave a portion of my soul in Con- \ tral Valley. "I hope this feeling and kindred sen- j timcnt will lie of a kind to link to- ^ get her my country and the United -j States. I pray that the Almighty may shower all Hi? blessings and bounty upon this valley." P.efore halving CVnir-il Vniint. f,..* iv oral ralni.i save what ho railed a vnl- . edlotory review. lie said: ' I am going to my native country. N which I am delighted to soo again after so many years. Moreover. 1 return to a free country, r. State in which the people arc to enjoy the blessings of self-government. The American people know that I am heartily grateful " for tlpir hospitality, and for the hearty ^ sympathy shown for the Cuban cause and the help for the independence of the Island. I am sure that the people of Cuba will show by the high eharac- 1 ter and tone of the government they will establish and maintain that they }j are worthy of the sympathy and help they have received from the American people. I am certain also that I do not need to make any efforts to establish J.' most cordial and successful relations ^ of friendship between my people and the people of the T'nlted States. The feeling among the Cubans is already spontaneous and does not need to lie aroused. Cuba feels the warmest j friendship for this country. n "I'nr Cuba's future I have the great- .. est of hopes. Her future, I believe. ^ will be very bright. The people unnaturally orderly and peaceful. They j are also an industrious people, and anxious to prove that they are worthy , to rule themselves. 1 think that they Jj will demonstrate that fact to tli sa' sfactlon of all who are interested in a their welfare." u New I'hyftlrinii For the Wlittn Jloi:*o. ,, Surgeon John K. T rie. U. S. X? has ] l-een appointed an ntteiulnng physi- v clan at the White House, at Washington, to succeed Presley M. Itixej-, ap 1> pointed Surgeon-General. II FRENCHY" IS PARDONED' lo "Was Convicted of "Old Shakespeare &' Murder. Jovfrnnr Oiloll Tlilnkn Tliere Arc Crnvo Dottlitu of III* iiullt? New Kviili'iice AVliieli Indicate* ills Iniiuccmr. Albany. N. Y.?Governor Otlell lias mriloned Anier Ken All. better known ! is "Freneliy," who lias been serving : i life senieiiee in the Matieawnn State i Hospital for Insane Criminals for the: mirder of a woman called "Old ! Tinkespenre" In New York City in | IST>1. The pardon was granted l?y the Governor because be believes there irr grave doubts of the prisoner's jv.ilt. much of the testimony being of i peculiar character, and "Fronchy." to in it placed at a disadvantage. beln;r tnalde to sneak English. The pardon ivas asked for by several influential' tvl preiuincnt men. including the Ton. Jules Cainbon. the French Ain nssador; Frederic 11. Coudert. .1. 11. Tart in and others. "Frcncliy" was convicted of murder n the second degree in 1NP1. lie is an Mcerinn. and it is said will go back o Algiers. New York City.?About twelve years tiro the world was astir over atrocious murders committed by a ".lack lite Itipper" in T.nmlon. The press at that hue printed interviews with nolico kiefs and famous detectives on lite lossibilitics of such a crime being comnitted in tliis country. Superintendent Thomas Byrnes, in in interview, said tlint a crime of that tort being committed in this city was >uf of the question. A few days after ho White Chapel murder in London, lowever. a woman, known as "Old <hakospenre." was found murdered in li.% r.oifti. u.dni ? Ill* I I'll | ( II it ,||M MUlt'l, .11 1 HI 11*11 I 111" iml Water streets. Immediately the ; most inn became prevalent in the pub- j le mind that New York City had a Mack the Ripper." Superintendent Byrnes and his enire detective force set to work to un avel the mystery, and a few days fter "Old Shakesp 'are" was discovered nurdercd, George Frank, a sailor, mown as "Frencliy." who had been stopping at the Fourth Ward Hotel, vas arrested charged with committing lie crime. "Frencliy." being an Algerian, at hat time he could speak no English. [To steadfastly maintained his Inno ence. t>ut he was Indicted and placed >n trial. The Jury returned a verdict >f murder in the second degree, and Frencliy" was sentenced to life imprisonment. At the time of the murder a peculiar coy which "Old Shakespeare" had for lie door of her room In the Fourth j kVnrd Hotel, was found to lie missing. > md. although detectives attached the i rreatest significance to the loss of the coy it was never found. About a year ago. after several vain ittempts had been made to have Frencliy" pardoned, new light was lirown on tlit* murder. A man avIio :nid he had had in his employ a Dane vliom he suspected of having oomnitted the murder of "Old Shakesleare " told some facts which declared Vt-onr 1?.i.. .1 . ..... .... ..in.', cui in i in- limine iniini. > 1'his id.'in said that the day "Old thakespearo" was found murdered his "biuish farmhand came home with a leouiiar key. Tie had rend of the , ntirder, and wlien his farmhand disippenred that same night he snspeetcd hat lie might have been connected villi Hie crime. lie did not. however, nake known Ids suspicions until a year igo. when a newspaper reporter got a eomnmniealion with him. The new acts in the ease were made known to lie lawyers who had defended T'renchy." and an appeal was made o Covernor Odell to pardon tlie eoii icted nnirderor. HE REV- DR. TALMACE'S FUNERAL lie Sfrvirf* itt lVimlilnelon Coml ucteil liy Four Minuter*. Washington. I>. C.?Funeral services rere held at tli?* Church of the Coveiant over tlie hodj' of tlie Rev. I)r. T. >e Witt Talmage. The large church vas crowded to tlie doors. The Rev. I)r. Tennis S. Hamlin, pnsor of the Church of tlie Covenant, and lie Rev. Drs. Thojnns Chalmers Eas011, of tliis city; S. J. Nicols and allies Demurest. Dotli of Brooklyn, ttieiated. The casket rested in front f the pulpit, and over it was a massive icd of violets. The floral offerings v*ere numerous. including a wreath ent trom the White House by Preslent and Mrs. Itoosevelt. The members of the family oecupicJ ews on the right, while across the isle were the honorary pall bearers, niong whom were Justices Hnrhu ml Brewer, t .* the United States Sulfonic Court; Senators Cullom, Burows and Dollivor; Representative Vllliam Alden Smith, Michigan, and ormer Secretary of State John W. . "ostcr. After the family had entered, the laic quartet sang "Lend, Kindly dght," n favorite hymn of Dr. Tallage, and during the services sang Beyond the Smiling and the Weeptig" and "It Is Well With My Soul." Dr. Hamlin in his address pictured >r. Talmage as one of the great elerymen of the century. Dr. Huston proi-sted that it was yet too early to leasure Dr. Talmage. Dr. Hamlin closed the services with pravcr for the family. The casket remained in the church ntil late in the evening, when it was laced on a special car attached to rain for New York City. The remains rere Interred at flrcenwood Cemetery, i Brooklyn, after services conducted v the Rev. Dr. Howard Suydatn, of thin ibeek, N. Y. BORE RIGID AMY INQUIRY General Chaffee Ordered to investigate Charces oi Cruelty. COURTS-MARTIAL IN PHILIPPINES j A Trial For Gcncrnl Smith, If His Alleged OrdnrK Ari> Verified ? Action Taken After a Cabinet Mcctli'c nt Which the Keocm IllsclostireH Wore Considered?Secretary lloot'a I>is|i?tcli Washington, P. 0.?Secretary Root has ordered Geuoral Chaffee, at Manila, to investigate the newspaper reports of the Waller trial, ami if they are correct to court-marlial General Jneol> II. Smith. Also, If the facts are established as tcslltteil to before the Senate ConitnKleo on the Philippines, to court-martial the oltieers who ad- j ministered the "water cure" to the Presidente of Igbarras. Those ollicers are Major Glenn, Lieutenant Conner mil Assistant Surgeon Lyon. This action was the result of the consideration of the Gahinet of the barges of cruel treatment of Filipinos hy United States soldiers. President Roosevelt is determined to silt the aiattcr to the bottom. The following cablegram was sent to General Chaffee: "On February lit last a letter was sent to you enclosing for investigation a copy of charges made hy Governor Gardener, of Tnyabas Province, which contained general allegations of cruel- I ;tno nrncti^twl lit* fpnonc on n<it Ivkc "Press dispatches state that upon the trial of Major Waller, of the Marine Corps, testimony was given by Waller, corroborated by other witnesses, that General Jacob II. Smith instructed him to kill and burn; that the more he killed and burned the better pleased General Smith would lie; that it was no time to take prisoners, and that when Major Waller asked General j Smith to define the age limit for kill- | Ing lie replied, 'everything over ten.* "If such testimony was given, and the facts can lie established, you will place General Smith on trial by courtmartial. "Yesterday, before the Senate Committee, Sergeant Charles S. Kiley and Private William Lewis Smith, of the Twenty-sixth Volunteer Infantry, testified that the form of torture known is the water cure was administered to the Presidente of Igbarras, lloilo Province, by a detachment of the Eighteenth Infantry, commanded by Lieutenant Arthur L. Conger, under irders of Major Edwin F. Glenn, then Captain of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, tnd that Captain and Assistant Surgeon Palmer Lyon was present to assist them. "The officers named will be tried tlirrefor by court-martial. "Conger and Lyon are in this conn- ; try, and most of the witnesses being presumptively here, the Secretary of War directs that Major Glenn shall oroceed to San Francisco, with a view to his trial by court-martial. "As the two years allowed for the prosecution by the statute of limitations is nearly at an end, no time is to be lost. "The fact that such acta of cruelty ind barbarity appear to have been lone Indicates the necessity of a most thorough, searching and exhaustive inrestigation under the general charges preferred by Governor Gardener, nnd | vou will spare no effort In the investigation ordered under these charges to lneover every such ease whieh may anve occurred and bring the offenders to justice. "The President desires to know in :he fullest and most circumstantial t manner all the facts, nothing being concealed, and no man being for ativ I enson favored or shielded. Nothing an justify or will lie held to justify :he tise of torture or Inhuman conduct jf any kind on the part of the American army. KI.1FIU HOOT. "Secretary of War." MMZ. VON OLENHAUSEN DEAD. ?crv?-<l In tli? Prancn-l'rniminn War-tlfrnrntril by Kmpcror William I. Boston, Mass.?The Baroness Mary von Olenhausen. the only American woman except Miss Clara Barton, who 1 wore the Iron Cross, a decoration conferred ui)ott her in person liy Emperor William I of Germany, died in her home in Lexington. She was nearly eighty years old. "The little madame with the Iron Gross," as she was known, married a German nobleman, whom Theodore i Parker called the most profound scholar lie had ever known. The ltaron lied and Ms widow gave tlie remainder af her life to self-sacrificing work. <lie won the Iron Cro?s for brave and ftident service in earing for Cerinau toldicrs wlm were wounded in the Franco-Prussiau war. ^ AN MOTOR CARRIAGE TOO FAST. Hr. Kilmer Whh Fined S'i.'iO, But the f Court Accpiifpil ? I " Morristowu, N. J.?Dr. Willis Sbarpe Kilmer, of Ringba niton, N. Y., and liree of his companions were arrested leve on a charge of running their new four-ton motor carriage at a tifty-mile ;ait. To Justice (.'lift Dr. Kilmer said ne was making an experiment Willi lis machine to see how fast it could over tlie ground. The experiment cost him $17.in?all fhe money lie had with him, for the lustlce worked the line on the sliding male. starting with $250 and dropping to the amount the prisoner possessed. N'on* of hh> friends had any money. i t STUDENT TURNS ASSASSIN Kills M. Sipiaguine, the Russian Minister of the Interior. IVrionnl Ttovenjjp, lie Sny*?1'unUho.l Tliroc Yours Ajo li.v Mlnlslor'u Onlors For 1'artioljtiitlnc Jii :? Ktot. St. Petersburg, Russia.?M. Sipincuine. Minister of the Interior, was shot here e.s lie was on bis way to attend a Cabinet meeting, lie died soon afterward in a hospital. The assassin is a yonnjj student or former student of the Kiefi* University, lie pives the name of P.als: ' an He drove to the Imperial f'outv-'l Dttiee. wearing the uniform of a lr.ili- i tarv officer. and a waited M. Sipia?nine's arrival. When he aw the Minister he advan?a l and handed lent a letter, savins that he had hern directed l?y (irand ttuke Kergius to d liver it. M. Sipiaguiue s'opped to take the letter whereupon the assassin van' lly fired Ave shots at him. Two of the bullets lodged in the Minister's 1 !v and another struck his man servant, inflict in? a wound which is not believed to he serious. ' 'lie murderer did not resist arrest. ,?e said h > was punished by M. Siniauuinc's orders for oartieip.atiie* in a demonstration a* KietT in May. 'POl, and was determiueii t.? he reven .1. M. Sipiaguiue. who was tifty-tive years old. had been in the imperial service most of his life, lie was also Chief of the Secret Police. FOUR HEAD BY CAS. rrnnlc l'mllii; of tin Kn km com out Thirty fit veil For Ono of tin* Vli tlm?. New York City ?Four persons were found dead in a flat, suffocated by csis. which anpareniiv nan im? n uin?c?i tin accidentally at the conclusion ?>f a lollitlcat inn over the engagement of one of the four. Thov were Mrs. Esther Kohen. a widow: her two cliililren. Ilarry and I^ena. who were twenty-three and seventeen years old respectively, ami .Edna Floro, a yuing Hungarian girl. The family and a nnnther o' their friends had celebrated the engagement of Ilarry Kohen. All retired in excel- j lent spirits. Nothing w.:s heard of I the family after tliat until a partner i of young Kohen in the liieyele busl- j ness, went to tlie flat to see why J Kohen had not tt: tied up for work. Tiie door to the flat was ' eked. Wh n It was broken down all four were discovered dead in bed. Coroner CSnldcnkrnnz said tliat the | women had apparently neon dead n< ar- | iy twenty hours, and young Kohen j about fifteen hot.rs. i.:is was escaping from two jets in the Kohen's rooms. The Coroner is convinced that It was turned on by oroide"t. LLECALLY IMPRISONED FOR YEARSIVcsley Dliiiiis, ?VI?<> \V:ik it Hoy Murderer, Obtains Ills freedom. Des Moines, Iowa.?Wesley Elkins, wlio confessed to the murder of his father and stepmother when lie was eleven years old. is to lie released from the State Prison at Aiiniuosu, after twelve years and three months of what is admitted to have been illegal incarceration, as the courts have held repeatedly that a child under fourteen years of age presumably is incapable ?t' crime, llis application for a parole lias been the subject of an exciting eontest in the State Senate. The parole is granted by a majority of one vote. The crime followed alleged excessive 1 punishment by his father and stepmother. During his imprisonment El kins has manured in obtain an education intu li beyond that of most young i men of liis ago. 400 FEET THROUGH A P;PZ. Venr-Ohl Infant ItraoMrl'ntrtl After I'eing 1 Keacued I n<oi*<iou*. Monrovia, t'al. The year-old sen of .lames MeAleenan. of Lower Intarte, has had a remarkable escape from death. The child was playing in the yard, in which is an irrigation standpipe. in some way it fell in and was carried by the water through lUU feet of cement pipe underground. The mother ran to the exit, where | the wjtter (lowed into an open ditch, and not seeing the child, tin* halfcraved Woman returned t:> the standpipe .lust then a Mexican working on j the ditch saw the child forced out of the pipe. iie caught the babe and commenced rolling it on the ground to expel the water. Breathing had practically t eased, but the Mexican succeeded iu , bringing the infant back to consciousness. Boy* Have a Fatal Fight. Louis Fairehild, fourb i n years old, was arrested at Lincoln, Neb., on the charge of killing Lawrence Stultz. a playmate, l'airchlld umpired a ball game. Stult'/. captained one team. 11?? disputed with Faitvhild over a decision uiul til-y exchanged blows. Stultz walked home and died five hours afterward. Tlie autopsy revealed thai he had an abnormally thin skull, which the blow fractured. Hoy (if Trn I.Iowa Out ills llrnitiM, Klliot Lawrence, ten years old, bei 11.4 locked in a room at L'arrollion, Ky., by liis parents as punishment, went to iiis brother's pocket, took a revolver and blew out his brains. The boy had slipped away froru school, and liis mother had forbidden him going out of the house during the afternoon, lie took his sentence quietly, and the pistol sdiot was the final message of his rebellion against the sentence. VAN WOlilEliS A8E GUILIV Three Brothers Conv'cted o! the Murder ot Peter Ha'.tenbeck. TO DIE iN THE ELECTh!C CHAlii #'T1i?h is t?'.e tToincnt of CnroiM'," .Iiistico ( lirster is: ^entoiH'iiik Tlirtn? \( 1 )hiiiitMnorsi Prison, ihiriutr t l?.? Wei'k of M:i\ 150. Titev Will tlio Kiilini; of Tliclr 11 ml-on. N". V. The jury in the trial <>.' I lit' ihive Vail Wnl'li'.i ; ii.\.'. :c. - - ^ Willie, r.urion ::u<l I* red charged with the minder of their undo. l'otor Hal- ' hnlteok. r.mii' iuio court at IVM o'< led: m.. ami ai:u in ed a verdle: of 11:;*"- , dor in the tirs, ?' r against a'l three of the tl 'fviulnilI Tin' ?-:i?'.? wi n; to the ju -y :ii i.t'l p. : 111 mi the 1m W;i i:> d ly. \VI , ti the vev?i -t was nnnouuivi! l?y Solon Sr. itli, foreman o! i!io jury, fiiniii'i* Judge Fatly. * -on n -*"1 for ih<> dofen.-e. a a'--! thai the jury lu* polled. As tiii was | done each loan responded. llnding ?! fondants guilty of mtudcr in the Jirst , degree. Judge t'a<iv i toil moved for a tmw tr'al. win 'i was denied. A in.ei io-i . n :;r of inihriuriil was al-o denied. Kaeii defeiidaul then ill lirtu. elear toue.witiiout a trace of cino- ! tioii. said lie Knew of no reason why sellieiice shntlid not lie pronounced. Justice ('hosier thereupon senleiieeil | tile three defendants to lie elcetrocnted in Clinton prison, at Itaiuieinora. duriter the week beginning May .".o. Ill:til. In passing sentetiee the Justice said gravely: "It is the saddest aet of inv ollieial earee* to lie compelled to senieneo threi yoimg nun. three brothers, tut- ! der a verdict of murder in the first tie- j gree." The ease will lie taken to the Court f Appeals as soon as necessary papers j ean lie seemed. The prisoners were i transferred to Danncinora. No disposition lias yet been made of Harvey Hruee's ease, and it probably wi'l go over to the May term. Urin e's counsel is willing that his client plead guilty to such offence as would warrant the Judge in sentencing hint to iin* jmjiic iii'inrniniory at r.t aura, nut tin* District Attorney will not accept i such a plea. Peter A. ITallctilieck was shot in his house at Creeuport. N. Y.. where he lived with his a set] wife. The story, as brought out on the stand hy the | prisoners tlieniselves ami their cousin. ITarvey Hruce. who. while he was with them at the time of the murder, was not on trial, was thai the Van Wormers bought face masks at the store of one Intend Yenner in Kinderhook. where the lived, on the day before Christmas and then hired a one horse team at a livery stable and drove near- | Jv twenty miles to their uncle's house. The\ lirst peered into the church windows at that place to make sure that > Charles Ilallenbeek. the old man's son. and his wife were not with their father. Then they proceeded to the house, rang the hell and as soon as the door otienetl began tiring with revolvers at ! the .aged man. W hen he was dead I the went back to their team, which j they had hitched in the yard, drove a distance down the road, removed their masks, turned their coats rightsidc out and reached Kinderhook again late .at night. The motive for the murder was declared by the prosecution to be tltie to a family fetid. The trial was conducted with unusual celerity, the jury having been secured only thirteen days before the ! verdict was rendered. < CENEHAL MALVAR SURRENDERS. The Kiid of the Insurrection in the Northern l'hili|i|iities. Manila. (Jencrnl Mnlvar has uiicoti<1 it iiitiall v siiri-ioul i-.'il tn 1li-t.r-i.tli> (leueral .1. l-'rauklin Hell. ai l.ipa. Hatangos lVo\iu< ? . \i111 the rutin- Insur- J gent force of tin- l'roviiu-es of Lacuna am! Hntaugas. (tem-ral It II says li s (Hell's! iutiuciice is sutririciii to quell the insurrectionary jnovcinctils in Taynbas and t'nvite Provinces and capture all those ill the .leld who have not yet ' surrendered, lui' Malvar has ordered the complete surrender of every insur- j gent to the nearest American force. tleneral Wheaton, reporting to the Division Headquarters, says that all 1 resistance in his department has end -d. 1 and that the surrenders just anuoum-Ml j ' mean that the ports will he opened and that tie- Filipinos iu the 'detention , ' camps can he allowed *o nturn to their homes iu time to plant the crops-. tleneral Wheaton is peciallypleased vvitii (ieneral Hell's care of the natives ! coulincd in the camps. NEW REGIME IN CUCA. ; J Order Convening Die Iteimlilicuii (love n innnt rul>ll>?lii-<t. Havana. Cuba. The Cuhan con.-tltuion lias hcen pulili.died in the Oltici.v) tia/.cttc, together with an order < :: vetting the new government. The orth-r declares that the t lit if ii;i I Convention. which was di solved hy Congress, will as? nihle 1:i Havana on May f? for the purposes of examining eredeutials ami eonuliog < and reetii'ying the eleetoral vole. Tin Senate ivill hrdd its sessions in tin- Second Palace, the lieadi|U?rli rs i ?>f I lie quartermaster's department, while the House of Representatives i , will meet in the building now oeeu i pied as the headquarters of tin* .Marine i Department. The order provides that i May lit), the date upon which Setmr ; Kstrada I'alina is to he inaugurated < President, shall he a special holiday. j BOY THIEVES IN CLOVER Robbd 200 Churches Eohveen Pittsburg1 and New York City. (I|if , .itf I Wltliouf Detection?riniill; Slruc'.i :? Vat-nlsli t'urtory ami Found It Kicltcr Than a Mint. Ni v.' York t'ily.- I.ouis Lester Jtml Thomas it'll y. who wore arrested in lire klyr.. liave in iho last two years v.v Til iiiiioi, our. ill <-11111'Ill's, llll'IIIMWI rooms ninl small stores. Lester '? twi-nly two years old and Uuey nineteen. luster. ia making a confession, said- "M.\ I i- in f.alvi -.o:\ Tex. 1 was Kradi'.aUil from Hie liijrh school and ran awax from hoaie. 1 lirst broko oiu n tills* litisiu >s two years a.yo. in I*i.: where I picked up my p-'1. Uiley. \w found it easier to hreak into ehurehes than anywhere else. 'I'la-re is n<> risk, no bnrjrlar alartn. no di . or watehnian. You can always slip in at a eellar window and make your way up into the ImiMit r.ed l? -Ii? yoe.i I'" to what yon want. "After we had touched off a fow ehurehes in IMttshnry we drii' i d to ward Itnfl'alo. roidiitf; a e'tun-li a one town, pawning the stuff w. would yet in the next town: doiny a < i'tireli >r two tluoe, ami ?o on to the t. \t 'own. if th- re was an easy prop ?;,;,m in the w..y of a little store with money it: it ;ve would t. that in. Inst that was not often, i 'hurches for ems, every ' till*-. "I suppose we've broken into 1M0 hurcin-s mini pot away with 11k* poods. When We i'm tile til New York t'lt.V !l few 111 1111lis a po we found si warehouse in Seventy-fourth street that was like petting money out of the liank. We toe!: 10'in gallons of vsirnisli nut i f tlisit plsiee iii two months, working only on Sundays. We pot J?li.ot? a gallon lor it. We took sev enty live imported razors oiu of a harbor shop near the t'harles Street Poliee Station, in New York City, a few weeks ago. We went through about thirty churches in l'm oklyn sis near as 1 esin tlpure it." Many pawn tickets were found on the prisoners. They were held for the (irt.nd Jury. CU3AN BILL. PASSED. It cf it til t cu n H Join llriiiocnit H to Helen* I tin lleuto l.foill'rs. Yv'.asliinpton. 1>. ('. The House has passed the t'uhsui Keeiproeity hill by si vote of "17 to r>2, after uddinp t< it :>n siiuetidineiit eiittiup till' the ditVereutisil on refilled supar. The action of Hie Democratic can ens was reflected in the action of tin* House, the united vote of the minority and of ilie licet supar Uepub'ienr.s In iup siittieienl to override the ruling of Chairman Sh -mian and attach an : inendmeiii to the Cuban Keeiproci.y bill abolisliinp the differential duty oil reiiiied supar iluriiip the existence of tiie reciprocal treaty with Cuba. The combination was exerted only on "Ik* motion of .Mr. .Morris, oi' .\ii t iiesoia, to strike off the differential, :: 11 other amendments being obiter rulotl out of order, or voted <lo\vu by tit entire Republican vote. It was shown lit si and most effectively ill the committee of the whole, when, after Chairman Sherman, of New York, bad ruled the amendment out of order, lie was reversed oil appeal taken by Mr. Morris, over thirty lCepublioans joining the Democrats in sustaining the appeal. 'I'here vvtts a majority of nearly lil'ty on that proposition, and a slightly larger one ots tiic adoption of th amendment itt the eonttuiltee. 'litis is tlie tirst time in many (' presses that the leadership of the Ui pniiliean pahy has been o> li own by the eoiieerted aetion of tin? L' t.:oerals ami bolting Republicans. COERCION IN IRELAND. l'lirce Swtiimii of tli?? Crime* Art to Its Kiiforceit in Mmiy ItiHtrielK. Dublin, Ireland. Three sections ? i he Crimes tiei have lieeii put in for. e in a large liumlier of districts of lie and by proclamation, issued by 10a. 1 ado^an, tiie Lord Lieutenant of i.i aid. These sections provide for summary jurisdiction in eases of criminal eonpirary, intimidation and unlawful its toinbly. for trial by special jury and or change of Venn at the option of lie < 'rowII. The counties affected by the oil forcing of tlte Crimes act are Cavcn. Clare, !o;k, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon. *ligo, Tipi>erary ttad Waterford, as well :is the boroughs dl' Cork stud Wati-rford. These are (lie districts in which the I'nited Irish League Ints been most iftive. Til" League itself hits not yet -< ii proclaimed, lull it is believed t!:;.c !iis step will he taken soon. minese. exclujdn bill pacsed. cn.ifi liittpU ilt?* I'liii'l % mfiul*?? *iiC !!? Kn.-ictliij; tlio l"r??jiriit Idiw. Wash n-jti.n, i?. After spending in :? ( i"ii. u in voting o:t Innumerable ii , initios |o 1 lie I'liiliese MxelRsioti :!| lie- Sewn coiujio-edly dlopj. al hot wen-are ami adopted the t'latt 'i.i-; iiitte hy a vote of forty-eight to ii: i.. . hree. Having made this suh,.ii on. the Senate pas-od the aweiid<! hill b.\ a vole of seventy-six to < lie. Wi\ Hoar ah.lie voting In the negative. The Piatt Miiistltul( in.ply re cuni t.+ iie pre cut law and extends it to the Philippine-, it was the lii'.l contended *o hy tie- < on?i rviitive element which 'posed i . all rigorous modes of Pliii:e::elii>ion. ami was also voted for >\ tho-e who remind it as tin sinnr;, nit inllde. than the proposed hill, (t ivas offered |,y .Senator Piatt, of Con n et lout. J OL