Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five people of Italian origin were held in the jail at Tallulah, Louisiana, according to an account cited in the president's annual message to Congress, as reprinted in The Van Buren Press in December 1899. The account says a mob took them from the jail and hanged them. The five are not named, and the report gives no date for the killings. It is cited as the latest in a series of lynchings of Italian subjects.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: the president's annual message to Congress, reprinted in this paper.