ITALY AND AMERICA.
THREATENED RETALIATION. ITALIANS IN THE STATES DRILLING. Press Association— Telegraph.—)
Washington, April 4. The Italians in the States are organising, for the purpose of avenging the New Orleans lynching. Clubs numbering 2000 members are drilling at Mountville. They boast they can command 20,000 men, and are able to capture Pittsburg if they choose. The movement is reported to be spreading.
The President will probably ask Congress to enact that a violation of a treaty shall be a punishable offence. *■ v Washington, April 5.
President Harrison is gratified at the peaceful tone now adopted by the Marquis Rudini, the Italian Premier, with reference to the lynchers of Sicilians at New Orleans. April 6. The departure of Baron de Fava, Italian Minister, has been delayed on account of illness. New York, April 5.
A number of Italians resident in Virginia attempted to wreck a train and blew up a depot with dynamite.
Rome, April 6.
The Marquis Rudini has ordered Baron de Fava to postpone his departure from Washington.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8534, 7 April 1891, Page 5
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