Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-16
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. FEELINGIN NEW ORLEANS Comment of the Crescent
 City Press. 4 VEHEMENT PROTEST FROM ITALY. Montreal Visited by a Ter
 rife Storm. WRECK OF THE STEAMSHIP GALENA. Arrival of the Several Irish
 Delegates.
WRECK OF THE STEAMSHIP GALENA.
THAT NEW ORLEANS AFFAIR.


 Quietness fin the City Yesterday-Ar
 of the Victims Burfed-The Vfg1.
 lance Committee Still at Work
 Obligations of the United States
 Toward Italian Subjects-Commenl
 of the Press of New Orleans n the | Work of the Mob.
 NEW ORLEANS, La., March 15.-The city wore it's usual Sunday aspect and there was no sign of any unusal excitement Many continued to visit the scene of the lynching, although few were admitted in- side the prison. Steps will be taken to re- pair the damage caused, and where stood the door which was battered in will be built solid wall. The prison officials are incensed over the censure at their failure to make more formidable defense. They say that when the crowd broke in all the officers were found at their posts. Had they fired at the crowd it would have caused the storming and perhaps destruction of the prison ,and l the sacrifice of many innocent lives within and without the jail. At all times they re- | fused to give up the keys until driven in- to corner and compelled to. Even then | they did not designate the location of any | of the Italians. The prisoners in the yard | gave this information. While the e1ecu l tion was going on Sheriff Villers was with | Attorney General Rogers at Governor Nicholls office endeavoring to have l provision for defence of the prison should an attack be made upon it. BURIAL OF THE VICTIMS.
 All of the victims were buried to-day. To o,,I l unclaimed up to noon and the charity wagon took them to potter's field. Politze and Comites were followed to the. grave by a single carriage, and in Magnetto's case the hearse went alone. There were no re- ligious services in these cases. The others had large and well attended funerals, Joseph P. Macheca's being the largest Caruso and Macheca were taken from their residences to the St. Louis cathedral, and the ceremonies in each case, with priests, organ, choir, catafalque and magnificent caskets, were very imposing. Macheca had half dozen pallbearers, none of them Italians.
 The vigilance committee is known to be still at work, and it is said that tomorrow will be Detective O'Malley's day of reckon ing The jury will also be attended to, but probably through the courts, as it is proposed to obtain the evidence in the cases of those who were bribed. One of the jurors is said to have confessed already, and the state had evidence against several before the verdict was announced. The grand jury will indict one juror on Tues day and others will follow. Foreman J. M. Seligman has taken time by the fore lock and gone to Cincinnati. One of the chief causes of public indignation in con- nection with the Mafia trial has been the belief that the society depended on bribery to procure the release of the ac- cused. It has been asserted that S75, ,0OO over the country to be used as @ corrup ton fund. Thousands of dollars, it was said, came from Chicago, New York and other cities where the Italians are con- gregated in large numbers. It is certain that the poor Italian laborers in this vicin- ity were taxed two dollars apiece as con- tribution to the defence fund and that there was no lack of money in the treas ury of the society.
 It is now stated that the reason Politz's confession was not made use of by the state in the trial was because Politz did not incriminate himself, but asserted that all the others accused were guilty.
 SEAL OF THE MAF1A.
 Father Manoritta exhibits letter which he received on the morning of the tenth. The letter bore the seal of the Mafia organ ization, the skull and cross bones at the top and bottom. The seal consists of rougb stamp in blue ink. The writing is in a bold, business-like hand with an ap- parent attempt at concealing the identity of the writer. The latter advised the Rev. Father Manoritta that he had better stay at home and not go to the court every day as his presence there did not do the society any good. He was told to beware. The letter is signed, "The Ma6a Society, M M C." Father Manoritta said that he had intended to give the letter to the dis trict attorney, but refrained from doing so through fear. He further says that the jury in the Provencano case had been en- tirely lenient with them, that whilst he deplored the course of the citizens in act ing as they did yesterday, similar action in the other case would have proved more effectual in completely eradicating the Mafia society.
 Governor Nichols said the Italian consul had called on him at his office yesterday morning and that he had asked interfer- ence and protection for Italian subjects in the parish prison, threatened with mob violence. The matter had not been called officially to the governors attention, and besides call for the militia would have to come through the mayor of the city. No | such demand has been made. When the | consul called on the governor the crowd l had already started toward the prison. Mayor Shakespeare says that his aid had not been invoked, and when he reached his office it was all over. He had not asked any aid of the governor
 PRESS COMMENT.
 1 The States says editorially: "Yesterday the cancer, which for years had been l gnawing at our system until good mems hearts had near despaired-the hideous Mafa-was once for all, amid torrents of blood fercely rooted out by the peoples strong arm and with the peoples instru- ments. The assassins of our chief of | police have been executed. Peace to their ashes. The evils which remain to aff1ict our community-a vicious jury system and the suborners living among us-are not of the deadly character which demands heroic treatment. The offences of per jured juror, of convicted suborner may we'll be remitted to the slower and more deliberative judgment of court justice. Let the constituted authorities then move against the jury who have outraged justice and insulted common sense"
 The Times Democrat, commenting edi- torially on the events of yesterday, after referring to the laxity of criminal justice in this city for year or two past, says: t'This paralysis of justice was due neither to the incompetency of the police nor to the incapacity of the officials appointed to administer the laws. It was due to the settlement in New Orleans of lawless bands of men, hailing mostly from south ern Italy, who brought with them to this country of freedom and of free institutions the pernicious ideas and murdeous methods which have planted conspiracy and assas sination societies in this quondam home and which enable the members of those societies to defy detection and laugh jus tice to scorn. The short, sharp and deci sive drama of yesterday had in it, more over, @ warning for another class which they will do we'll not to disregard. We refer to the jury f1ers who are experts ir getting at talesman and jurymen and fix
 ing the jury box, partially or wholly witt
 men pledged to consult, above all things the interests of the criminals and to set
 that the convictions shall not be arrived a !, by juries against them"
 }l TELEGRAM TO THE GOVERNOR. , WASHINGTON, March 15.-Secretar, , Blaine tonight sent the following telegram
 to Governor Nichols at New Orleans: DEPARTMENT OF STATE, :. WASHINGTON, D. O., March 15.
 His Excellency, Francis H. Nichols, th
 governor of Louisiana, New Orleans. It has been represented to the presiden
 by the minister of Italy accredited to thi I 41,a&a fha xyJnffr <,ff h