Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1891 — THE MAFIA’S REVENGE. [ARTICLE]

THE MAFIA’S REVENGE.

Plotting to Avenge the Lynching of the New Orleans Assassins. Twenty Thousand Said to be Preparing to March Upon aud Pillage Pittsburg. A dispatch from New Castle, 7 says: To-day Sebastain Gabarrio. leader of the 550 Italians employed near Wampum. told a strange story, which, he said, should be communicated to the authorities at once. Glbar-rio is a property owner in Wampum, and seemed to place considerable weight upon the information imparted. He said that a strange Italian who resided in Pittsburg, called him aside and asked him if he would go into a plot to avenge his countrymen who had been killed at New Orleans. The stranger, who refused to give his name, said, that at least twentythoiisand Italians could bp brought Into Pittsburg in five hours to meet, and, with the aid of guns and by surprising the citizens, they would be able to take thq city without much trouble. Ho strongly urged Gabarrio to get the Italians at Wampum to consent to meet the others in Pttsburg at a given signal. He then went on to telllliow every Italian settlement in Allegheny and Reaver counties were receiving the same information and how each settlement was expected to send a large delegation. Ho stated, also, that a movement of this kind was to be started all over the country. In the afternoon the Pittsburg envoy left for Carbon to stir up the Italians there, and said that a secret meeting was to be held in the near future to talk the matter over among themselves. There are four or five hundred Italians at Carbon, and it is known that at least half a dozen are members of the Mafia. Gabarrio is a naturalized citizen of the United States, and will prevent such a mad plot in his section. A dispatch from Wheeling states that two thousand Italians near Moundsville, now employed on the railroad, and who have been drilling, intend to go to New Orleans, but for what purpose they refuse to state. Whatever of tru ththere maybe in the reports from New Castle and Wheeling as to an attack on Pittsburgh, in ease oi trouble between this country and Italy, one thing is certain. For the past week an unusual number of Italians have been arriving in this city daily, and to-day squads of twenty and thirty were unusually numerous. The police department has been quietly at work and secured a list ol several hundred Italians’ boarding houses, and tkadaily invoice of strangersis under strict supervision.

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