[TI] Peasants Killed. Gendarmes Try to Eject Them fromGovernmentLand

[Sally Glenn]

Larie,
There are also a lot who came to  Illinois, PA,  NY eventually to OH. My 
family members worked on the railroads as well as in  the produce 
business.My family members came over between 1900 - 1915.
Sally Ann
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Yes, you would wonder sometime why they left. A lot of our family (Termini 
and Ustica) moved to Gulfport/Biloxi, Mississippi and I wonder if the Chief 
Hennessy murder had something to do with it.
I just thought it a person died on this day they may have been involved for 
possible connection.
Larie

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Thank you. It was about this time that my wife's ancestors left Termini.
Jim McCarthy, Somerville, MA
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Sicilian Peasants Killed
Peasants Killed. Gendarmes Try to Eject Them from Government Land

Rome, Jan. 21, - A serious conflict occured at Termini, a seaport town in
Sicily, between gendarmes and peasants. About 600 peasants, men and women
proceeded deliberately to seize and equat upon lands belonging to the
commune, claiming the soil as their own.
The authorities ordered the intruders to depart, but the latter paid no
attention to the notice. Then the gendarmes were called upon to eject the
squatters. The peasants resisted and a fierce struggle ensued. The gendarmes
fired on the peasants, killing eight of them and wounding 20. A number of
the peasants were taken prisoner and the others fled to the interior
swearing vengenance upon the gendarmes and the authorities.

Morning Olympian
Washington
Janurary 22, 1893


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Peasants Killed
Bisody Battle with Soldiers in a Sicilian Town

Rome, Jan 23. - A terrible battle between 600 peasants and a body of
gendarmes occurred at Termini, a seaport town in Sicily. Eight of the
peasants were killed and twenty s severly wounded. A large number of women
were among the rebellious peasants, but it is not known that any of them are
numbered among the dead or wounded. The fight was caused by the refusal of
the peasants to vacate a tract of land, the ownership of which is claimed by
the commune. Recently peasants began to squat on the tract and in a short
time 600 or more had extablished there. The attention of the authorities and
called to the fact. Formal notice was sent to the squatters, ordering them
to vacate. They paid no attention to the order, and when spoken to about it
replied that the soil was their own and they would not leave. Upon learning
that the peasants had refused to obey the notice the authorities sent a body
of gendarmes, with orders to eject the
squatters by force if necessary. The peasants resisted and a fierce
struggle ensued. The gendarmes fired upon the peasants, killing eight of
them and wounding twenty. A number of the peasants were taken prisoners and
others fled to the interior, swearing vengence upon the gendarmes and the
authorities.

Grand Forks Daily Herald
North Dakota
January 24, 1893

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