The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-03-25
NOTA WAR OF RACES
Governor Nichols Reply to Sec
'retary Blaine's Inquiry.
NO FURTHER VIOLENCE FEARED.

Louisiana's Governor Admits That
Two or Three of the Lynched
Men May Have Been italian SUBJ
jects - Tho War Departments
Worlds Fair Exhibit.
WASHINGTON, March Ex-Governor
Nichols expected letter to Secretary
Blaine regarding the recent lynching of
Italians in New Orleans has been re-
celved and is as follows:
| The Hon. James G. Blaine. Secretary Of
State, Washington, d. g.
SIR-At a late hour on the 18th inst.
i received a dispatch from you, having
reference to the forcible breaking on
the t4th of this month of the Jail in this
city, and the killing of the eleven per-
sons- confined therein under indict-
ments found in the criminal district
| court for the parish of New Orleans.
You stated to me that it had been
represented to the president by the
minister to Italy accredited to the gov
| eminent of the United States that
1 among the killed on that occasion were
three or four subjects of the king of
Italy. The telegram disclosed an ap-
| prehension on the part of the minister,
evidently shared in by the president,
that the disturbance was continuous
and swelling disturbance, which might
involve the Italian subjects in New
| Orleans.
Not Race War.
l have reason to believe that the hope
expressed by the president that would
cooperate with him in maintaining the
obligations of the United States toward
Italian subjects who might be within
the perils of the excitement and that
further violence and bloodshed might
be prevented, was based upon that be-
lief. The president further expressed
the hope that oil offenders might be
promptly brought to justice.
On the 10th inst. l telegraphed you
that there was no excitement in the
city at that time and that saw no rea-
son to anticipate further trouble.
also stated that the action taken was
directed agrinst particular individuals,
and that the race or nationality of the
parties did not enter as factor into
the disturbance.
Nearly All Citizens.
A week has passed since the date Of
my dispatch, and the opinion then en-
tertained as to the termination of the
trouble is proved to have been we'll
founded. The men killed, as have
stated, were confined in prison, under
indictments found in the criminal dis
trict court for the parish of Orleans; the
sheriff has made his return of the facts
to that court; the judge thereof has
1 charged the grand jury, nowssin session,
in regard to the matter, and the whole
subject is, assume, now under investi-
CATION by that body.
am satisfied that most of the persons
killed were American citizens, but it is
probable that two or three were Italian
subjects. have the honor to be very
respectfully,
FRANCIS 7. NICHOLS. Governor.
Governor Nicholl's letter is written
on official paper and is dated at the
capital of the state. 1t is evident, how
ever, that it was written in New Or
leans, as it speaks Of the killing as hav-
ing occurred at the Jail 'sin this city,
Secretary Blaine has sent a copy of
the letter to Baron Faya, the Italian
minister.
The War Departments Display.
q The board of army officers detailed by
the secretary of war to prepare the war
department display at the Worlds fair
held its second formal meeting at the
rooms of the departmental board of
management yesterday. There were
present Maj, Clifton Comfy, the repre-
sentative of the department.. Capt. John
L. Rodgers, in charge of the quarter
master section; Surgeon John s. Bill
lings, temporarily representing Capt.
Louis A. La Garde, in charge of the
medical section; Capt William l.. Mar
shall in charge of the engineer section;
Capt Charles w. Whipple. in charge of
the ordnance section Capt. r. e.
Thompson in charge of the signal sec.
tion. Capts, Rodgers and Whipple
were among the officers who prepared
the governmental display at the Cen
tennial exposition.
A Comprehensive Scheme.
Yesterdays session was chiefly de-
voted to the consideration of details Of
the schemes of the several war depart
ment branches, and the work was
brought to a conclusion, the plans of
the department being now complete,
subject only to such enlargement or
modification as the appropriations may
warrant.
The scheme is surprisingly compre-
hensiye, embracing not only illustra-
tions of the war resources of the country
and the methods of manufacture and
preparation, but everything in the line
of modern surgery and medicine, as
well as everything in the way of means
of communication, from the flag signal
and carrier pigeons to the latest tele-
graphic and telephone inventions,
adapted to war purposes.
Final allotments of the funds already
available and tentative allotments of
prospective appropriations were made
to the several branches of the depart
ment.
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