Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Sherman to the Governor of Pennsylvania.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, January 8, 1898.

Referring to your letter of December 24, circumstances now require the report which it was thought might be delayed without objection. Please forward to me the reports you have in regard to the killing and wounding of Austro-Hungarians near Hazleton. They are necessary to enable the Federal Government to deal with the international aspects of the case, but will not be made public pending the trial of the sheriff and his deputies.

John Sherman.