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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Erie, Fort, (search)
of all his heavy ordnance, began a bombardment, which continued through the day, and was renewed on the morning of the 14th. When the attack ceased that night, very little impression had been made on the American works. Satisfied that Drummond intended to storm the works, Gaines made disposition accordingly. At midnight an ominous silence prevailed in both camps. It was soon broken by a tremendous uproar. At two o'clock in the morning (Aug. 15) the British, 1,500 strong, under Lieutenant-Colonel Fischer, made a furious attack upon Towson's battery and the abatis, on the extreme left, between that work and the shore. They expected to find the Americans slumbering, but were mistaken. At a signal, Towson's artillerists sent forth such a continuous stream of flame from his tall battery that the British called it the Yankee light-house. Explanation of the above map. A, old Fort Erie; a, a, demi-bastions; b, a ravelin, and c, c, block-houses. These were all built by the Britis
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spies, August Vincent Theodore 1855- (search)
fficers, killing one and wounding sixty-two, several 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. Spe 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)
who killed and ate his companions when starving in their camp on the site of Lake City, Col., in 1874; convicted at New York of manslaughter, and sentenced 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
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
this session of Congress, President Cleveland vetoed 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 Lightning ignites 70,000 pounds of dynamite and seventy tons of powder at Laflin & Rand's powder-magazine near Chicago, Ill. 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, and Parsons hanged......Nov. 11, 1887 Johann Most, anarchist, of New York, arrested for incendiary language......Nov. 17, 1887 Fiftieth Congress, first session, opens......Dec. 5, 1887 President Cleveland's third annual message....