Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1892 — Sued by the Mafia. [ARTICLE]

Sued by the Mafia.

Ip the Italian bandits strung up by the New Orleans mob were worth $30,000 apiece, then the bills for damages put in against the Government of Chiß by the American sailors of the Baltimore are very moderate. —Milwaukee Wisconsin. - The heirs of the six Italians slain by the New Orleans mob two years age have sued that city for damages. Somebody is responsible for those murders, and the trial of these cases ought to show who. If mob law is constitutional law there the sooner the public kuowe it the better. —Jacksonville TimesUnion. Heibs of the Italians slaughtered in New Orleans about a year ago have brought suit against the city for damages amounting in the aggregate to SIBO,OOO. They are more modest in their demands than our American sailors who were carved in the Valparaiso riot, —Minneapolis Tribune. As the plaintiffs are foreigners there is no doubt that they are entitled to bring their suits in the United States Court, but it is a question whether they can he maintained. If the city should he held responsible the measure of damages would have to be determined by juries, and It will be hard to obtain them from juries made up of citizens of Non Orleans.—New York Times.