The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-04-05

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Florida Orlando Reporter.
On Friday night the quiet of our
town was disturbed by the report that a
man was murdered in one of the princi-
pal streets Of the city before it was yet
scarcely dark The murdered man was q
cigar make by trade and belonged to
the Union de Tabaqueros. The Union,
composed altogether of Cubans, Is a Sc
cret society, and it is claimed that its
members are the slaves of its directors.
The cigar manufacturers of this city have
been powerless to break up the Union,
but of late their exactions had become
such that the manufacturers had united
and gave n ptice that hereafter they would
not recognize the Union, neither employ
any one unless they withdrew from the
Union. All the Union men withdrew,
and the nj manufacturers, so far as they
were able, employed men who did not
belong to the Union. Before this, owing
principally to the heavy failure Of Seiden-
burg & Co., times had been very dull
among the cigar makers and much dis
tress exste d among them, and when the
manufactuf ers closed down upon the
Union, nearly all of the Cuban cigar
makers, (seven-eights of whom belonged
to the Union,) were thrown out of en-
ployment since then incendary speeches
have been made, and threats to fire the
buildings of the manufacturers were fire.
quent. Members of the Union were anx-
ious to go to work and withdraw from
the Union in toto; but, to do so, would
be to bring down all the vengeance of the
Union upon them. One man, Bias Mar
tinez, had the courage to announce
that on Monday morning he intend
ed to go to work with Mr. Cato !;
that same night he was foully assassin
ated, when it was yet scarcely dark, in
one of the principal streets of the city
That night no clue could be got to his
murderer, but next day two men were
arrested on suspicion and placed in Jail !;
on the following morning Sunday one
of the men in Jail made affidavit that Mr.
Marrero, prominent cigar maker of the
town, was the murderer no doubt
to divert suspicion from the real criminal,
as it was shortly afterwards found that it
was impossible for him to have done it !;
anyway he was arrested and placed in
prison, but in short time he was releas-
ed or bond. This seemed to excite the
cigar maker to perfect fury, since two
of their np mber were left in Jail. In a
short while five or six hundred assembled
at the jail, making threatening demon
strtions to let the prisoners out; from
some cause the majority Of them left the
Jail and Dame down TO Mr. Marrcro's,
threatening to kill him, and had it not
been for a crowd of determined men, who
rushed upon the piazza in front of the in
furiated m b, they would have made short
work of him. The acting mayor was soon
on hand and ordered the crowd tONdis-
perse, threatening to read the Riot net.
Thirty special policemen were immediate
ly appointed, among them Colonel +. n.
Wicker, the Collector of Customs here
simultaneously, with the appointment Of
the special police, the fire bell was rung
for the assembling of the militia, and in a
few minutes quite respectable body OF
them came together with their rifles
squads of them were detailed to disperse
the crowd collected at the different places
of the str et, and to guard Mr.. Marrero's
and the jail Mr. Marrero was taken back
to the jail and remained until about five
o'clock, W hen he was taken home, guarded
by the militia. Invent -four men were
detailed to guard his house a guard was
also placed at the Jail, while others occa-
sionally went over the city. The marines
belonging to the L. S. Man-of-war, were
in readin ess if they had been needed
But after the first vigorous measures, no
other demonstration was made, though a
feeling of unrest pervades the city on ac
count of the threats to fire the town.
Key Vest Democrat. IF