Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-03-20

mistaken for an indignation meeting. and
when it showed Its teeth it acted so quickly
That there was no time for the Mayor to apply
to the Governor and the Governor to call out
troops. The Sabbath quiet in the prison was
only broken by the ceremonies of the priests
over the bodies of the slain The funeral Is
took place on Sunday, none attracting atten-
ton bat those of Jos. Macheca verv wealthy
man and jim Caruso who was a business
man. Some of the dead bodies were claimed
by no one, and the city authorities buried
them in Fotters field-among those are Mon
asterio, Trahni and Marchesi, Who it is claim
ed are italian subjects.
THE TWO RECEPTIONS OF THE TRAGEDY.
In New Orleans, where the facts are I'M
derstood, there was not a moments hesitation
about giving a full endorsement to the acts of
the Committee of Law and Order. The Cot
ton Exchange assembled on Saturday soon
after the affair was over and adopted a reso-
luton endorsing the necessity of the act and
its commission. 1t also expelled from it's
membership Seligman the foreman of the
jury. The members of the jury hid themselves
during the execution and as far as heard
from have not yet come out. O'Mally the de-
tective hid for a while and then left the city.
Elsewhere, where the proceeding were little
understood and where only the naked fact
appeared that a party of Italians. directly
upon being acquitted by jury were
murdered by mob, the affair was
received differently. The Italian Minister of
State at Rome, Rudini telegraphed Secretary
Blaine demanding protection for Italians in
Americans if any italian who had not COM
Mitted murder was in any more danger than
any other American citizen Secretary Blaine
telegraphed Gov. Nichols of Louisiana that
the President regretted the ''deplorable occur
renee" and asked Gov n to see that Italians
were protected. Gov. N. teIegraphed the
President that Italians were in no danger and
he would see they were protected and that he
would write him by mail more fully. Italian
colonies in New York, Mobile, Chicago
Pittsburg-every city Of any size, telegrapllea
hither and thither to Italian consuls and to
Europe their wild indignation over the muir
der of their "countrymen' and denouncine
the barbarsm of Americans. American tray
ellers in Rome. Italy, were threatened and
newspapers in Rome denounced American
barbarlsm, one suggesting sending an Italian
IRON clad to the mouth Of the Mississippi riy-
er Many OF the Germanand Austrian papers
equally as ignorant of the facts of the case.
TOOK the same tone. An Italian COLONY in
Pittsburg, Pa, suggested that the one million
Italians i'll America go down to New Orleans
and wipe the barbarians out The Italian
who seems to have kept his head-a wise one
cool, is Baron Favar, the Italian Minister
at Washington, who Immediately on hearin O
Of thp fro rpu al no H.
consuls i'll the United States to urge upon
the Italians III their cities self command and
an avoidance of any extravaganza in speech
OF deed. The whole tone OF the American
press North and South seems more or less an
preciatve OF the situation Of the New Orleans
people and the stress under which they were
driven to take the action they did. In New
Orleans itself the leaders of the people who
did Saturdays work were interviewed by cor |
respondents of Northern papers and firmly
and quietly re-aSserted their convictions of ne
cesslty and right and said they would do it |
over again ii the occasion were the same I'm |
der the form of government of the United
Statess Italy is not likely to getany indemnity
for the three-there were only three-unpa
tnTaliZed Italians who were slain. The |
Washington governme Mt can make no com !
pensation as it was done in a State anC not in
territory, and the State of Louisiana cannot !
be made to do it by foreign power as long
as there is an American army and navy. The
law giving the U. S. Courts jurisdiction in |
disputes between States and other States OF
foreign powers may possibly open the way for
civil suits fer damages, but even that is
doubtful.
Two, for the preservation of peace, very
unfortunate occurrences have taken place
since Saturdays tragedy. W. S. Parkerson,
one OF the leaders, has received the following
note purporting to come from the Mafia
''You domed man and God Amity cant
save you. We have it sworn Our comrades
you murdered and we kill you and YOU fami-
". You will be poison. The styleto will do
for the wrest''
On last Tuesday morning Frank Hagadorn
While standing waiting for street car, ex-
pressed the opinion to friend that 'everv
member of the Malta ought to be hung He
was at once set upon by three Italians with
knives and badly cut. His assailants es-
capped