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The four Italians, alleged to be members of a local branch of theBlack Hand society, are still in thecltv prison awaiting their hearings,which will take place Saturday after-noon, none of their friends coming forward with the $500 bail for each of them. The officials realize that itwill be a hard matter to prove the guilt of the men arrested, as the foreigners rarely give testimony against any of their countrymen. The threatsthat are supposed to have been made0were none of them in writing, but all were verbal. Some of them, it is stated, were made when Mrs. MikeAltire was alone and she is unable totell what was really said, as the menspoke in their native tongue, which she cannot understand. The police are of the opinion that another Italian saloonist is at the bottom of all the trouble. Thursday evening Joseph Santangelo, who is known as the Italian constable, telephoned to Chief Smith that he desired protection. lie was fearful that, his housewould he blown up with dynamite by friends of the arrested men, who nowNoaccus' him of giving thorn away, records have yet been found allowing that there is u branch of tlit* BlackHand in tie' city, although the officers are confident that an organization of some sort exists among the Italians in this city. The penalty for “Xtorting money by threatening is very severe in this state, the son-DECREASE IN PENSIONERSLess Than One Million Now onthe List.Washington, Feb. 7.—Figures compiled by the interior department,show that the pension roll stands at 967,371, the smallest since 1893. The losses to the roll in the year were 15,768 by death and .'1,866 from btlier causes, a total of 49.6:14. The net lossfor 1907 was 18,600. On the pensionroll are three Daughters of the Revolution, 558 widows of soldiers of the war of 1812, 5,208 pensioned veterans of the civil war and 256,168 widows.Veterans of the war with Spain drawing pensions number 19,031 and widows 1,100. The total pension disbursements from 1790 to 1865 wore$96,445,414, and since 1865, $3,501,-570,279, or a total of $3,598,015,723. About ninety per cent of this sum was on account of the civil war.ITALIANS ARRESTEDI 1Believed to Belong to BlackHand Society.01fence in thlt;* penitentiary being from time to Iwentv-five years.James Hagerman, who, when In* returned from the West a few days ago,was placed under arrest and taken to the city prison on an affidavit sworn out last summer by Miss Emma Cross,Pittsburg, Feb. 7— (By Associated Press.)—Six Italians, alleged members of the Black Hand society, werearrested by police at SewicklyHeights, a fashionable suburb, today. The foreigners are suid to be responsible for threatening letters mailed to prominent residents of Sewickly Heights. A large quantity of Black Hand literature andii;weapons were found in tin* shanty occupied by the Italians.;lt;
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Massillon Evening Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Fri, Feb 07, 1908
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