Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-23
IRISH CHILDRENS HARD FATE
Finds Five Thousand in
Warehouses.
EVIL INFLUENCES HEDGE THEM
Miss Fitzgerald kenny Comments in
severe Terms on vile System
of "BoardinE out" Healthy
Youngsters.
EVIL INFLUENCES HEDGE THEM
IN THnMAs EMMNTT.

DUBLIN, oct. 22.-Cspecial to The Beef
In report 20 the local government board
on the boarding out OF children system,
Miss Fitzgerald Kenny deplores the fact
that there are more than 5000 healthy chill
dren inmates of various warehouses; In
Ireland She says:
Inside the same four walls are gathered
all sorts and conditions Of people-good and
bad, the worthless vagabond and the inno-
cent child All kinds of influences are at
work; but the good are few compared with
the evil
Il know no sadder sight than these poor
little prisoners shut away except for an
occasional walk, from the fields and frees,
excluded from the fresh air and the liberty
that children have"
King to Reside in Dublin.
There is some discussion in the environ
ment Of the court as to whether the king
would be favorable to the abolition OF the
Irish viceroyalty. If he were to put in a
residence of three weeks in Dublin in the
spring-the time hitherto allotted in court
annals to a Mediterranean trtp-it is ar
gued that the needs of the situation would
be met This would mean the retention of
Dublin castle.
selling of Estates.
Several Irish land owners have agreed to
sell their land to tenant farmers. Terms
have been agreed on for the purchase Of the
estate Of Sir Godfrey Thomas, in ryrelis-
pass and Newtown, Westmeath, under the
land act OF 1909. Rev. Peter McNamee, as
sisted the tenants in effectng a settlement.
The extensive Packenham- Mahon estate,
which includes the town Of strokestown,
Roscommon, has been sold to the estate
commissioners. The estate Is one Of the
best and most extensive in the province Of
Connaught.
Old Fenian story Told.
The STORY of an old rebel" by John
Denvir OF Liverpool an old Irish revolu-
Zionist, has created considerable talk espe-
cialiy in view of his account Of an attempt
planned by American Fenians to kidnap
the late King Edward Cprince OF Wales)
during the days of Fenianism. The ring
leader was Captain John McCafferty, who
had served In the confedsrs y army during
the American oiyil war. The writer says:
u was carrying on a printing business in
| Liverpool when McCafferty told me OF the
plans. The mission that he was engaged
on can only describe by the word amazing.
30 daring was Il, 20 heaged around with
apparent trnpossibilitiea that to the ordi-
nary man its very inception would be seri-
Oais and determined about It. and to him II
seemed practicable enough provided only
he could get a few more men like himself.
III he had been successfhi IN, carrying
out hin Idea. his. achisvement would have
formed the most oEtraoTdinary chapter IN
English history. Tor It was no leas than the
abduction OF the then prince OF wales, and
holding him as a hostage for a purpose Of
the Feuian organization. The plan was 70
take him to sen in vessel, and to keen
him there until the Fenian prisoners still
at that time unreleased were set al lib
erty."
Court Out of Business.
At cambridge petty aessions court q
meeting OF magistrates was held for tbs
purpose OF considering the advisabllity Of
holding the court monthly in future. in.
stead OF fOrtnightly. owing to the fact thai
there has been q considerable diminutiO1
in the business OF the court. This result
is apparent as the efforts OF the temper.
ancs propaganda by the Catholic and
Protestant temperance societies. The bust
ness OF the court, which formerly occupied
several hours daily, Is being disposed OF
in fifteen minutes each court day for Tho
past few months, and in the majority Of
instances there were no cases for drunk
enness dOcketed.