Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1907 — SIX MURDERED BY MAFIA. [ARTICLE]

SIX MURDERED BY MAFIA.

New Orleans Italian* Kill Vletltu* tn Attack with Knives. _ '■ A plot of the Mafia, which has been working secretly in New Orleansfor years, resulted in the murder of six Italians, Whose bodies were found the other day in a tenement house on Dumaine street. In that city. The bodies were burned. Buch a panic has been created among Italians as a result of the discovery that It was necessary to send every reserve policeman in the city to the tenement house. Even then there was so much excitement that the officers could, not cope with the situation and all ablebodied fifemen were ordered to the scene to assist in maintaining order. There has not been so much excitement In the Italian colony sincs the wholesale lynchidgs of. Italians several years ago. The murders are believed to have been committed during the early part of the night, and there is every indication that they were carefully planned. As no screams from the victims were heard it is believed many men participated in the slaughter and that all the victims were struck down at the same time. The bodies were literally hacked to pieces. Those which were burned were probably set on fire after the murders had been committed. BOAT AFIRE RACES IiEATH. Heroism of Crew Saves 380 P««»enKer* on Nova Scotia Coast. Enveloped in flames and with 380 panic-stricken passengers huddled on the decks, the steamer Strathcona raced for shore in the darkness of a recent night. It was a race with death and the steamer won. The 380 passengers were landed at Port Dufferfn, N. 8., and in less than an hour the steamer hnd burned to the water’s edge. The flames, Tanned by the speed, were spreading with tremendous rapidity, and the ship'presented a terrible sight as it forged ahead at the top notch of its speed toward shore. The engineers stuck to-their posts in thv engine room till the flames broke through, but still they refused' to abandon the hold. Most of the passengers were Christmas shoppers returning from Halifax. EXPECT 1,283,313 ALIENS IN 1007. Commissioner Wntchorn Makes Some Fiicures for Ellis Island. Figures just compiled at Ellis ’sland, New York, indicate that at the present rate of increase 1,283,415 more aliens may be expected to enter this country through the immigration station on Ellis island next year. “The number of aliens who will land at New York this year,” said Immigration Commissioner Watchorn, “will approximate 1,050.000 persons, as against a total of 859,010 who landed here In 1905. This shows an increase in the immigration of about 22.23 per cent. Using these figures as the basis for an estimate im1907, we may expect 1,283,415 aliens to arrive at Ellis island.” BELOW ZERO IN NORTHWEST. Homestender Froien to Death Near Shack at Imperial, N. D, Below zero temperatures prevailed the other night in North Dakota, part of Montana and Canada. The weather bureau reported 8 degrees below at Williston, 4 below at Devil's Lake, N. D, and 2 below at Winnipeg, Man., 4 below at Minnedosa and 2 below at Qu’Appelle. A telegram from Imperial, N. I)., says that Frank Warnick, a homesteader, was found frozen to death near his shack three miles north of that town. Warnick was engaged in the printing business on tho Pacific coast eight years ago. APPLE CROP IS IMMENSE. Over 30,120,000 Barrels Raised East of the Rockies. The American Agriculturist gives the apple crop of 1906 as 36,120,000 barrels, as against 24,000,000 barrels in 1905. an increase of 12,100,000 barrels, but 3.880,000 barrels short of each of the crops of the three years prior to 1905. The figures arrived at are the crystallization of returns from correspondents in every ap- - pie producing section east of the Rocky mountains. A good applesare' available for winter storage. Explosion in Gns Plnnt. In an explosion and fire which threatened to wreck the $2,000,000 plant of the Northwestern Gas Light and Coke Company in Evanston, 111., one man was burned to death and three .others were injured seriously. The flames caused damage estimated at $25,000. Dense volumes of smoke from a burning tank containing 12.000 gallons of tar added an element of spectacularity.

More Soldlen Cause Riot. Several members of the squadron of the Ninth cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth, while intoxicated, created a disturbance on a Fort Leavenworth-bound electric car in Leavenworth, Kan. They kicked all of the windows out, beat , the conductor and the motorman, locked them in and raced with the car to Fort Leavenworth, where the rioters were placed in the guard bouse. Not Guilty of Killing Father. “Not guilty by reason of insanity” was the verdict returned by the jury in Spokane, Wash., in the case of Sidney Sloane, the 18-year-old boy charged with the murder of hia father, James F. Sloane, a pioneer merchant of Spokane. Robbery wawthe motive for the crime. It is probable the boy will be sent to the insane asylum. Oil Case* Are Thrown Out. In Findlay, Ohio, Judge Duncan decided that all the proceedings in the“ Probate Court of Hancock county relative to the Standard Oil Company were illegal and that cases should have been started in the Common Pleas Court. He held the Probate Court bad no jurisdiction to try the cases under the Valentine law. Mnrderdus Maa Kills Hlmaelf. Giving no signs of the agony caused by two bullets which her husband fired into her head. Mrs. John J. O'Rourke of Morris Park, L. 1.. feigned death until her spouae, thinking himself a murderer, killed himself. Straagrers Kill City Marshal. City Marshal Hemriqo Frisby was shot and killed at Laman Colo., by two stranger*. Sheriff George ‘Thomas heard the ■hots and arrived in time to see the two men make their escape.