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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Anarchists. (search)
ming a great chain, but diminishing the fear of traitors. The oaths of the members are said to be of a most terrible character. From its original inception anarchism soon changed until the members of the society in all lands were regarded as standing solely for the overthrow of existing institutions. The growth of the society in this country began to alarm police officials. The agitators kept busy among the unemployed masses in all the large cities. Dire predictions were made when on May 4, 1886, an anarchistic meeting in Chicago resulted in such a disturbance that the people became aroused and anarchy received a death-blow. On the night of May 4, a great number of anarchists held a meeting in Haymarket Square, Chicago. The city was in a restless state at the time because of frequent labor troubles. One of the speakers waved a red flag and shouted to the people to get dynamite and blow up the houses of the rich,. At these words a small body of police charged the anarchists. S
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Riots in the United States. (search)
tant riots: Boston massacre 1770 Doctor's mob, New York 1788 At Baltimore, Md. 1812, 1861 Alton, Ill. 1837 Philadelphia 1844 Astor Place riots in New York, growing out of rivalry between the actors Forrest and Macready May 10, 1849 Draft riot in New York; mob in possession of the city July 13 to 17, 1863 Orange riot in New York between Catholic and Protestant Irish; sixty persons killed July 12, 1871 Cincinnati. After a verdict of manslaughter in the Berner and Palmer murder trial, both having confessed the murder. Twenty untried murderers in the county jail. Six days riot beganMarch 28, 1884 Anarchists in Chicago, Ill. May 4, 1886 Eleven Italians, implicated in the murder of David C. Hennessy, chief of police, are killed in the parish prison, New Orleans March 14, 1891 Carnegie iron and steel workers at Homestead, Pa. Strike lasted nearly six months; began Feb. 25, 1893 Federal troops ordered to Chicago during the railway strikes beginningJune 26, 1894 See strikes.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
2, 1886 President's message suggesting a commission of labor, to consider and settle, when possible, controversies between labor and capital......April 22, 1886 Great railroad strike formally declared at an end by Knights of Labor......May 4, 1886 Anarchist riot, Haymarket massacre, in Chicago, Ill.......May 4, 1886 Act of Congress to provide for study of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and their effect on the human system, in public schools of Territories, District of Columbia, aMay 4, 1886 Act of Congress to provide for study of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and their effect on the human system, in public schools of Territories, District of Columbia, and in military and naval academies and Indian and colored schools of the United States......May 20, 1886 Henry W. Jaehne, vice-president of the New York City common council, sentenced to nine years and ten months in Sing Sing, for receiving a bribe from Jacob Sharp's Broadway surface road, Aug. 30, 1884......May 20, 1886 Twenty-two anarchists indicted at Chicago for murder......May 27, 1886 President Cleveland married to Frances Folsom at the White House, Washington, D. C.......June 2,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Idaho (search)
can National Convention meets at Chicago......June 2, 1880 Greenback National Convention meets at Chicago......June 2, 1880 Robert T. Lincoln, Secretary of War......March 5, 1881 Aurora the first city in the world to light its streets with electricity......1881 Governor Cullom, elected United States Senator, is succeeded by John M. Hamilton......Feb. 7, 1883 Chicago voice and hearing school for the deaf opened at Englewood......1883 Haymarket massacre by anarchists......May 4, 1886 Gen. John A. Logan, United States Senator, dies at Washington......Dec. 26, 1886 Chicago University endowed with $1,600,000 by J. D. Rockefeller, and a gift of land by Marshall Field......1890 Chicago secures the World's Fair, the vote on the site in the House of Representatives being: Chicago, 157; New York, 107; St. Louis, 26; Washington, 18......Feb. 24, 1890 Panic in the Chicago board of trade......April 12, 1890 Constitutional amendment, to permit the city of Chicago t