History of the United States . Courtesy Commercial Museum, Philadelphia SALMON FISHING IN ALASKA tions relative to the control of the Samoan Islands (Sec. 258),Bering Sea difficulties arosc between the two countries with refer-controversy ^^^^ ^^ ^^le scal fishiug in Bering Sea. In this matterSecretary Blaine insisted that the Bering Sea was, for seal FOREIGN RELATIONS UNDER HARRISON 351 catching, closed to the ships of other nations, and the UnitedStates had already seized British ships fishing there. WhenGreat Britain demanded reparation the two nations were directlyat odds. Fortunately the
History of the United States . Courtesy Commercial Museum, Philadelphia SALMON FISHING IN ALASKA tions relative to the control of the Samoan Islands (Sec. 258),Bering Sea difficulties arosc between the two countries with refer-controversy ^^^^ ^^ ^^le scal fishiug in Bering Sea. In this matterSecretary Blaine insisted that the Bering Sea was, for seal FOREIGN RELATIONS UNDER HARRISON 351 catching, closed to the ships of other nations, and the UnitedStates had already seized British ships fishing there. WhenGreat Britain demanded reparation the two nations were directlyat odds. Fortunately the dispute was, in 1892, submitted to anarbitration tribunal at Paris, which, on most of the points incontroversy, decided in favor of Great Britain and the othernations PICTURE ILLUSTRATIXG THE USE OF THE STEAM PLOW, NOW BEIXG REPLACED BY MOTORplows or plows EQUIPPED WITH INTERNAL COMBUSTION TRACTORS An Italian secret society, loiown as the Mafia, had terrorizedthe city of New Orleans by numerous crimes. In 1890, the chiefof police, who had been very active in prosecuting the Mafia out- . ^. . rages in New society, was assassinated. Nine Italians were tried Orleansfor complicity in the murder; six were acquitted, and the jurydisagreed in the cases of the others. The people of New Orleanswere convinced that some of the jurors had been intimidatedor bribed. Accordingly a crowd of citizens forced an entranceto the jail, and put the accused Italians to death. As some of themen thus killed were citizens of Italy, the government of thatcountry demanded reparation. The United States consented to payan indemnity to the families of the Italian citizens slain by themob, and trouble between the two governments was October 16, 1892, two United Sta
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