Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1901

Mr. Hay to Signor Carignani.

Department of State,
Washington, July 17, 1901.

No. 687.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 15th instant reporting the lynching of two Italians named Giovanni and Vincenzo Serio, and the wounding of a third, named Salvatore Liberto, by an armed mob at Erwin, Miss.

In reply I have the honor to say that the case has been at once referred to the governor of Mississippi for appropriate action.

Accept, etc.,

John Hay.