Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Baron Fava to Mr. Olney.

[Telegram.]

Bar Harbor, Me., August 11, 1896.

Newspapers report three Italians taken from the prison of Hahnville, La., and lynched by mob. Please kindly telegraph me the news you have received concerning this dreadful outrage.

Fava.