The age-herald., 1899-06-13
ARMED BRIGANDS SECURE LARGE SUM Sacked a Store on Marreri Plan
 tati0n. ONE OF THEM WAS KILLED Bv the Rural Guards, Who Gave Chase General Maxine Gomez Will Be
 Made An Adopted Son
 of Havana.
ONE OF THEM WAS KILLED

Havana, June 12-A dispatch from Puerto Padre says that a party of thirty men armed, sacked a storIe on the Marreri plan tation at Palomas, securing a large sum of money. The rural guards pursued the outlaws, killed, Atanasio Diaz, and cap tured two, Belo and Citino, all Cubans and former members of the Spanish guerilla forces.
 Advices from Guanajay to the Associated Press and the local papers say that party of twenty negroes, armed, but not mounted, yesterday attacked a plantation near Artemisa, killing the owner and carrying off sum of money The accounts are conflicting as to the amount, ranging from $50 to s45O.
 pr. Fernando Mendez Capote, brother of Senor Capote, secretary of government in the governor generals advisory cabinet, has been appointed mayor of Cardenas in succession to General Rohas, resigned. Rohas was originally designated as a com missioner to assist in paying off the in- surgents and came to Havana for that purpose.
 Subsequently,, although he assured Gen eral Gomez of his intention to accept the position he refused, and he has since shown decided antipathy to the American policy. The assumption Is that on arriving here he fell in with the representatives of the for Tner military assembly and was not only pursuaded to refuse the commiSslonershfp, but also to change his views radically with regard to the Americans. His resignation as mayor quickly followed this change Of front.
 The municipality of Havana has present. ed to General Meximo Gomez eertlhcate naming him as an adopted son of the city. In a short letter, which appears today, ne thanks the governors for the honor con- ferred. and says that nothing could touch him more than this illustration of the friendship of the people of Cuba, who can always depend upon his loyalty.
 The ceremony Is regarded as hiSh one which has seldom been bestowed upon na- five peers Calfxto Garcia and Antonio Ma eco. Gomez, in receiving the distinctlon' is the choice of the principal cities or the island. all of which have named streets after him. The action is generally approv- ed except by those who habituaily oppose him. They say 1t is merely f1attering man who is close to the Americans. The bishop of Havana Monsignor Santandre Frutos' called today upon Governor General Brooke to advise him as to the attitude the churcn would take regarding the cemeries Whlcn have been placed under municipal control: He said the ecclesiastical authorities would reserve Their right to bring civil actions later, when the passions and ill feeling now existing should have died out General Brooke replied that he was conhdent all the legal rights represented by the Bishop would be fully protected as it was not the desire of either Cubans or Americans to interfere with vested rights. He assured him also that if under the order issued April any injustice had been done the remedy would certainly follow, but that health conditions must be supreme no mat ter who owned the cemeteries.