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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Altgeld, John Peter, 1847- (search)
Altgeld, John Peter, 1847- Lawyer; born in Germany, in December, 1847; was brought to the United States in infancy by his parents, who settled near Mansfield, O.; received a public school education; entered the Union army in 1863, and served till the close of the war. In 1869 he was admitted to the Missouri bar; in 1874 was elected State attorney of Andrew county, Mo.; in the following year removed to Chicago; in 1886-91 was judge of the superior court of that city; and in 1893-97 was governor of Illinois. His action in pardoning (June 27, 1893) Fielden, Schwab, and Neebe, who had been imprisoned for complicity in the Haymarket atrocity by alleged anarchists, excited strong and general criticism (see anarchists; Chicago). His publications include Our penal machinery and its victims; Lice questions; Oratory; Its requirements and its rewards (1901); etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spies, August Vincent Theodore 1855- (search)
ral of whom afterwards died. Many arrests were made of those who were supposed to have been implicated in the outrage. All of these were discharged excepting Spies, George Engel, Oscar Neebe, Adolph Fischer, Louis Lingg, Michael Schwab, and Samuel Fielden. Later Albert R. Parsons, who had been indicted with the others for murder but escaped, gave himself up. On Sept. 9, 1887, Louis Lingg committed suicide by exploding dynamite in his mouth. Spies, Engel, Fischer, and Parsons were hanged on Ne were discharged excepting Spies, George Engel, Oscar Neebe, Adolph Fischer, Louis Lingg, Michael Schwab, and Samuel Fielden. Later Albert R. Parsons, who had been indicted with the others for murder but escaped, gave himself up. On Sept. 9, 1887, Louis Lingg committed suicide by exploding dynamite in his mouth. Spies, Engel, Fischer, and Parsons were hanged on Nov. 11, 1887. Neebe, Schwab, and Fielden, who were sentenced to prison for life, were pardoned by Governor Altgeld, June 26, 1893.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
ntenced to forty years imprisonment......August, 1886 Trial of Jacob Sharp; found guilty of bribery and sentenced to four years imprisonment and a fine of $5,000.......July 14, 1887 [Sentence reversed by court of appeals.] Anarchists at Chicago: Twenty-two indicted, May 27, 1886; seven convicted of murder, Aug. 20; four (Spies, Parsons, Fischer, and Engel) hanged; and one (Lingg) commits suicide......Nov. 11, 1887 [Governor Altgeld pardoned all the anarchists (Schwab, Neebe, and Fielden) in prison, June 26, 1893.] City of New Orleans against administratrix of the estate of Myra Clark Gaines, deceased, Jan. 9, 1885, in Supreme Court of United States; judgment against the city for over $500,000......May 13, 1889 [About 1836 Myra Clark Gaines filed a bill in equity to recover real estate in the possession of the city of New Orleans. Her father, Daniel Clark, who died in New Orleans a reputed bachelor, Aug. 16, 1813, by will dated May 20, 1811, gave the property to his
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
oed 145 bills out of 1,649 passed; of 977 private pension bills he vetoed 123.] Seven Chicago anarchists convicted of murder; August Spies, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, Albert A. Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, and Louis Lingg, sentenced to death; Oscar W. Neebe to fifteen years imprisonment......Aug. 20, 1886 Lighshington for a tour of the West and South......Sept. 30, 1887 Elihu B. Washburne, born 1816, dies at Chicago, Ill.......Oct. 22, 1887 Sentence of anarchists Fielden and Schwab commuted to imprisonment for life; Lingg kills himself by exploding a bomb in his mouth......Nov. 10, 1887 Chicago anarchists Spies, Fischer, Engel, United States Senator Leland Stanford, ex-governor of California, born 1824, dies at Palo Alto, Cal.......June 20, 1893 Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, pardons Fielden, Schwab, and Neebe, anarchists engaged in the Haymarket riot......June 26, 1893 President Cleveland calls an extra session of Congress to meet Aug. 7......June