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EXTRA.
4:00 P. M.
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HORRIBLE STRUGGLES ATTHE
ROPE'S END.
HOW THE NIGHT PASSED
' Hurrah for Anarchy,’* the Death Cry
of Fiacher Death Results Thirteen
and a-Half Minutes After the Trap
Fell—No Disturbance in the City A
PtrOßff Force of Police About the
Jail.
Chicago, Nov. 11.— Anarchists Parsons,
Fischer, Engel and Spies, the convicted
Hayraarket murderers, have l/een throttled
ov the law, the self-same that they had
hoped to throttle. Their scaffold drop fell
at it :54 this morning.
At 9:10 o'clock this morning Chief Deputy
Gleason arrived at. the jail with the fatal
documents authorizing th execution.
Mr. Gleason immediately went into
cios conference with the Sheriff
in a private adartinent that was
eked and bolted at once on I.hc inside.
While they were still conferring Spies’ in
ertial fever bad so increased as to induce
him to order a glass of Rhine wine, which
war. brought to his cell and swallowed at a
rulp. A few minutes were then occupied
by him in writing autographs for officers
attached to the Sheriff's office.
SINGING THE MARSEILLAISE.
At 10 o'clock Fischer was singing the
Marseillaise, in which tha other prisoners
Joined.
At 10 o'clock Parsons. Fischer and Spies
asked for twenty minutes each ou the gal
lows, in which to make speeches. The
sheriff d'.l not immediately return any
answer to the request.
Following close upon the telegraphic re
port from Springfield this morning that,
Gov. Oglesby had decided once for all, the
deputies commenced at, 10:37 o'clock dis
tributing tickets to the reporter-who were
to watch the inarch to the gallows. The
.neatest bustle and excitement prevailed in
the jail office, hut Spies in his cell continued
writing ou uninterruptedly, and the others
i emained equally nonchalant, notwithstand
ing the confusion that marked the beginning
of the end.
At 10:54 o'clock the reporters were ad
mitted into ihe cell room to view the exe
cution. They were conducted to the north
corridor and seated within a few feet of the
scaffold.
At 11:12 o'clock the condemned were eat
ing their final lunch. At 11:2a o'clock the
Sheriff commenced to rend the death war
rant to Spies. The death warrant was read
first to Spis, then to Fischer and then to
I.ngel. and at 11:48 o'clock the Sheriff was
nearly through with Parsons.
Spies, Engel and Fischer were in their
couds standing at the grated door and
saying adieus to friends in the visitors’
age.
At 11: t! o’clock the death march to the
•affold started.
A already stated, the trap fell at 11:5-4
o'clock.
Fischer died very hard, as did also Spies.
Parsons also struggled and kicked fearfully.
Fischer’s last win ds were, “Hurrah, An
archy!” The pulse of all the Anarchists
stopped beating in thirteen and a half min
utes.
At 12:13 o'clock the coffins for the An-
Hr, fists, plain black, with hut the silver
I- .Ms of the screws for ornaments, were car
i "and to the gallows.
CHICAGO’S HANGING SYSTEM.
A Mysterious Way of Cutting the Rope
that Does the Work.
Chicago, Nov. 11.—All the common
prisoners, to the number of about 200, were
•"ft in their usual cells last, night. The
practice of hanging at Chicago is to not re
move them until a few Deni's before tho
X‘-cutioii takes place. Sheriff Matson de
eided to* follow the old rule. At the ap
pointed time all of those located in the tier*
of cells facing north, and which partly com
mand a view of Hie scaffold, are nmrehed
into rim tiers facing south, where not, a
glimpse of the execution can be bail.
The gallows for the present hanging are
located in the extreme northeast corner of
: he ceil room. An inspection was made of
'hem during the night by an Associated
I’ick reporter. They are the largest ever
' rected in Cook county. They were origi
"ally built for swinging off three Italians,
" ho killed a fellow-countryman and shipped
is remains in a trunk to Pittsburg. Vt! lie
time the murderers were hung the trap was
cade to comfortably hold three men, but to
'• commodate the Anarchists it lias beenen
urged to the extent of two feet, and a lmlf
in width,
THE ROUTE TO THE GIBBET.
To reach the scaffold the men who are to
he executed are escorted from the jail office
through the lower corridor of the cell room
to the iron stairway, which leads to Uio
scowl tier. This is a distance of ten feet.
' rum the ground floor, and the platform of
the gallows is even with this tier.
The woodwork of this structure ts
painted or rather stained a very
dull reddish brown, and as seen by
the dim light of the gas jets was anything
but pleasant to look upon The weird effoet,
ws heightened by n little gentry
lex which is located just hack
of the trap. Tn this is stationed
li e man who really is the executioner.
Into this box extends a rope. At a given
sinnal the unknown man inside cuts the
'■ope with a bran new and especially sharp
ended chisel of wide dimensions by striking
,! ’e chisel a heavy blow with a mallet, down
CG3B the trap a distance of six feet, and at
Me same tune the murderers ere launched
iota eternity.
HOW THE NIGHT PASSED.
All the Condemned Nonchalant- Par
sons Sang a Song.
Chicago, 111., Nov. ll.—At l o'clock
this morning a change was made in the
death watch. Deputy Hn-lkec had been
guarding Spies since 8 o'clock. He reported
that he had quite a long talk with the An
archist. Spies declared that lie hud no
reason to lie afraid, and then launched
into a i irade against the courts. He asserted
that the Judges who had any connection
with the case had reason to tremble, while
the Anarchists could hold up their heads
and walk to their death with steady foot
steps. The deputy also related the manner
in which Rev, Dr. Bolton was received bv
Spies. The divine asked bint if ho would
not accept spiritual consolation. Spies,
with a shake of the head, declared that be
had no use for any clergymen.
“I’ll pray for you all night,” cried the
doctor.
“Pray for yourself,” retorted Spies.
“You need it more than I.”
PARSONS SINGS A SONG.
At 11 o’clock last night Spies lay down on
his cot and closed his eyes but he did not
sleep. Several times he got up for a drink
of water,but his every movement betokened
a firmness which was astonishing. So it
was with the rest of the Anarchists. Par
sons bad the nerve to entertain his guard
with a song. His selection was “Annie
Laurie ’’ He snug the sweet song entirely
through and when he finished rested ins
head on his hands for a few moments and
then repeated the song. His fortitude was
the wonder of all who heard him.
TESTING THE GALLOWS.
Between i and 3 o'clock this morning the
Sheriff and his assistants tested the gallows.
Heavy bags of sand were attached to the
rope and the t raps were sprung. The ma
chine worked to perfection, and in all re
spects was satisfactory to tiie authorities.
Then the usual quiet prevailed in the jail.
The only noise in the cell room was the low
voices of a few deputies, the turning of a
key in the lock, and the rapid ticking of a
telegraph instrument which was telling tho
world of the lart hours of the four An
archists.
THE NEWSPAPER NIGHT WATCH.
During the long hours of the night the
only newspaper men w ho wore admitted to
tin inner precincts of the jail were the rep
resentatives of the Associated Press. They
had quarters in what is known as the
lawyer’s cage, and were within 10
feet of the Anarchists. Vt, -4 o'clock
one of t hem made a tour of tho lower corri
dor, where Spies, Parsons, Fischer and
Engel were confined. In each cell were two
stalwart guards, who stood w atch over the
Anarchists. The former chatted in low
tones, and whispered jokes among them
selves to while away the time.
THE ANARCHISTS ASLEEP.
But the talk and whispered jokes were all
lost on tho prisoners. Each one was in the
heaviest of slumbers.
Spies lay on one side with his head on his
arm and slept ns peacefully as a babe.
Fischer had turned over on his back and
the consequence was that he frequently let
out a snore tliat echoed in a startling man
ner through the silent corridors of the
building.
Engel lay motionless, as did Parsons, ex
cept that at times the latter started uneasily
as if dreams were coursing through his
tnind.
WATCHFULNESS OK THE GUARDS.
Then at intervals the silence was broken
by the steady walk of an armed guard, who
made a tour of the lower corridor to see that
all was well. The only other disturbing ele
ment was the mewing of the jail
cat, which kept up a noise
so persistently that at last a
deputy bore down, captured and removed
her to the basement, where her cries could
not be heard
PARSONS ANNOYED.
Some time after midnight Parsons com
plained that the hum of conversation in the
Jailor's oflioc annoyed him and prevented
hint from sleeping. The wooden door be
tween the office and cell room was closed
•nd the Anarchist dropped into an uneasy
slumber. In the office a busy crowd of report
er stood w riting at a high desk or lounged
about talking with the deputies. Occasion
ally heavy steps sounded on the iron stairs
outside, and the door was opened, revealing
a candidate for admission to all. From
within the lawyers’ cage came the sharp,
metallic click of the Associated Press in
struments dispatching tho gather
ing incidents of Ihe ni.s;ht. Along
the otherwise silent corridors sound
oil the slow. regular tramp of
the deputies composing the death watch to
and fro ceaselessly in front of the eel! doors,
behind which were the four forfeited lives.
At brief intervals, when the hum of conver
sation sank low, could be heard the meas
ured tick of the clock on the office wall
marking the time for those for whom time
would soon bo no more.
ON THE STREET. *
On the street armed policemen paced their
beats, and all who had no business in tho
neighborhood were promptly ordered to
move on and if they did not move at once
1 thev were arrested.
The jail proper occupies Illinois street
from the front of tho building, while that,
part used by the Criminal Court fronts on
Michigan street. On the latter front
is the mam entrance, through which
all who enter must pass. This opening
was guarded by a heavy double iron door,
which was kept closed and fastened bv a
padlock and chain. Immediately within
the door stood two trusty |>olicetnen, armed
with breech-loading rifles and carrying
thirty-eight rounds each in a convenient
cartridge box.
GOV. OGLESBY'S DECISION FINAL.
Springfield, 111.. Nov. ll.—The con
ference between Oapt. Black and Gov.
Oglesby was at an end at 9 o'clock this
morning and the Governor announced his
final and irrevocable decision. Heemphafei
callv refused to further interfere in behalf
of the condemned men.
GUARDING THE JAIL.
Hundreds of Police Armed to the Teeth
, Ready for a Riot.
Chicago, Nov. 11.—At fi o'clock this
morning 800 policemen, armed with rifles,
bayonets, revolvers and full cartridge
lio.tes, were on duty at the jail. Chief
Ebersold was in command in person, his
staff being Capts. Buckley, Hub
bard and Schaaek. A battalion of
t hree companies of police,that was quartered
in the jail and Criminal Court building
since 1h new order* went into effect, did
duty inside the building to-day. The offi
cers in command were instructed to dispose
of their men. a detail having been made for
every advantageous post.
A COMPANY ON THE OUTSIDE.
In addition to the battalion on the inside
there was a force on the outside, coirirswsi
of a company from each of the five pre
cincts, commanded by a lieutenant, and
Hiree companies from the Central detail.
This force' was armed with rifles, and sur
rounded the entire block in which the jail
is situated, which in addition to these cor
dons of police was inclosed by ropes. The
lieutenants had orders lo station thoir com
panics in open order, with loaded pieces and
fixed bayonets, and were especially instruct
SAVANNAH. GA„ FRIDAI NOVEMBER 11, 1887.
cd to hold their positions, no matter wbat
happened, until they received .orders from
their superior officers.
OBJECTS OF THE ORDER.
The object* of the order were these:
The men were to be deployed iti open or
der ,-n if they were attacked, especially
with bombs, the execution, would not be su
great, wriile at the same time the police
would It- aide to return tho lire with greater
effect and less duugei- t-.i themselves, and in
case of attack th- v were not to break, but
hold their position till rc-ent'oieed or
called back. A police official said in
speaking of the arrangements that the chief
desire in case of attack was to keep the
police from Icing thrown into confusion.
If this could be prevented they need not
fear ny mob. The entire force was to tie
held in the pi wit-ion described until as late in
tin: day as might be thought w ise. The
members of the police department noton
duty at the jail were to be held in reserveat
the various stations in readiness to mass at
any point at a moment's notice, except a
very few who were lo be out on post. De
tectives were -tationed outside the police
lines and mingled with the crowd. Lieut.
ISteele was there to look after his men.
A STORY OF THE CRIME.
Sketches of the Men who Played the
Leading Roles.
A more striking procession of civic events
may never again be witnessed than the one
having its latest outcome to-day.
The supposed absurdly theatrical demon
strations with red banners and black that
took place in the streets of Chicago not, two
winters ago, followed soon afterward by the
picturesque, yet ominous, Sunday gatber
erings of tatterdemalions, foreigners and
demagogues ou the broad common at the
lake front, are now recalled ns tho quick
forerunners of secret cellar-drillings by
hundreds of ignorant, fanatical riflemen in
the purlieus throughout the city. Then
catne tho cool, deliberate dynamite exper
iments by carefully-selected masked rep
resentatives in the woods skirting the
suburbs. Later on, secluded in the quiet of
down-town back rooms,
DARK CONCLAVES
of wild i<lead but brainy, unscrupulous
leaders eagerly discussed as their long
coveted opportunity the just-beginning de
velopment of tho workingman’s concerted
movement for a uniform eight-hour day.
How the gigantic, peaceful, strikes were
turned into ri ts, how the entire world was
startled by the blood-chilling liontb massa
cre in the llaymarket; then the majestic
State trial, the amazing bravado of the one
American defendant, the horribly grotesque
marriage of another one of the prisoners—
every detail of these strange occurrences
and the extraordinary tram succeeding,
now presents itself again as if the whole
had passed but yesterday.
The key-note of it all is found in the
platform of
THE MYSTERIOUS I. A. A.
International Arbeiter- (Workingmen’s) As
sociation—of which organization August
Spies and his seven co-defendants were
leading members and upholders. In the
International platform it is urged that “the
present system under which property is
owned by individuals should bo destroyed,
and that all capital which has been pro
duced by labor should lie trans
formed into common property by
force.” Eighty “groups” of this dangerous
association existed in the United States,
chiefly at the great industrial centres, Chi
cago alone being the ill-starred possessor of
seven. Only a portion of the members
were armed, yet the number of this class in
Chicago exceeded 3,000, every man of whom
attended regular military <b-ill, had his own
rifle and revolver, and could obtain
DYNAMITE AND BOMBS
for the asking. The unarmed members of
the groups were constantly in contact with
their armed brethren and in hearty sym
pathy with their purposes and their princi
ples. It was this compact, well-disciplined
I. A. A. that had for it organs three now
noted newspapers—the Arbeiter Zeitung,
the Alarm and the Anarchist. Excepting
handsome, youthful liOuis Lingg, who,
though taking a conspicuous part, was a
mere acting agent, each of
THE EIGHT HAYMARKET DEFENDANTS
was directly connected with one of these
papers.
August Spies, a keen, cynical Hessian,
with tile subtle intellectual vigor of an lago,
was editor-in-chief of the Arbeiter. The
jaunty, dare-devil little Texan, Albert It.
Parsons, brother of a Confederate General,
presided over the Alarm. At the head
of the Anarchist George Engel, another
Hessian, but of a coarse, brutal type, out-
Herodod the most blood-thirsty ut teranees of
bis compeers. While Sam Kielden, the
Englishman, sullen looking, shaggy and
forbidding but as an agitator
simply volcanic, and Oscar Neebe, the
jiolished, attractive German-American or
ganizer. were more especially concerned in
other than journalistic branches of the
propaganda, they were, nevertheless, among
the directors respectively of the .Harm and
the Arbeiter Zeitung. The gaunt Bavarian
Michael Schwab was Spies’ assistant editor,
and his fellow-countryman. Adolph Fischer,
he of the poisoned dagger, was the Arbeiter s
head foreman.
Not one of these men—however they
might split hairs, could candidly deny i hat
he was instrumental to a greater or less
degree in helping on the catastrophe at the
Hay market. Of the legal guilt of each
nothing need lie said further than its cer
tainty was put to test* seldom if ever par
alleled.
During the long months preceding the
bomb-throwing the defendants one and all
were incessantly active in
AGITATING AND ORGANIZING
in “demonstrations’ and “experiments.”
Their speeches and articles fairly bristled
with impassioned appeals fqr the laboring
people to provide themselves with firearms
and dynamite. Specific instructions were
given how to handle and use the explosive,
and how to make bombs and how to procure
weapons. All this was stated tty the
conspirators to be making ready for
the coming “social revolution.” Wbat
was meant, by “social revolution” was not
left to lie vaguely inferred, nor was the time
when it was to be inaugurated n dim uncer
tainty of thefuture. The “revolution ' was
frequently defined ill speech and wriling
as a sudden, bloody, forcible upheaval of
the right of private ownership of property,
then the bringing about of a state of so
ciety in which all property should he held
in common.
Incredible as it may seem, the avowed
purpose was.
TO DELUGE THE CITY IN BLOOD
of the property owning classes, first, destroy
ing the police and militia, who were derided
as their special champions. The jieriod of
confusion developing from the mammoth
strikes of May 1.1889, was definitely un
noun<-l months before as the time when the
fearful bolt should fall. Pitiless us was this
programme, and difficult as a belief is that
it ever was contemplated by men, the facts
as stated were abundantly proven in court
The diabolism was fully shared in by
women. Especially so was this the case in
the
FANTASTIC PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS,
like the red-flag procession of ragamuffin*
with torches that, attempted at night to en
ter tho magnificent n*\v Board of Trade
when the dedication festivities of the insti-
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tution had for the tire) being transformed
the huge building into scene of social bril
liance without a loopreeedenf. The re
pulsive, blasphemingintruders of both
sexes were sternly ireed back at the
muzzle? of three dozepolice revolvers. In
affairs like this the dusky wife of
Parsons, and otb* no less desperate
women seemed in leir proper element.
Of the many other deer outbreaks preced
ing the Hayntarke tragedy, the most
startling at the timtperbaps, was the iu
rade Thanksgiving <y, when, in ridicule of
President Cleveland proclamation, nearly
a thousand uncouthnen and women of the
slums, headed by bnnerof black andjsd,
traversed the choicyjggidenoe avenues wildly
yelling and seoffi:g it tfie well-dressed peo
ple who crowded to we windows, anxious
to learn the causeifdumult.
The city authonles affecte. 1 for some
reason to ignore all bullitions of the mob.
Asa result of this
OFFICIAL NDIFFERtNCE,
when the time cam at last for the eight
hour labor distunance and the simulta
neous inauguratioiof the secret ly cherished
“revolution,” the marchists wore a power
indeed, and the tolice weie ignorant of
danger. It is truethat the Chicago papers
contained timely ktirnat ions of the plots,
but owing to the lec.uliar atutude of tho
high municipal .uthorities, the articles
were treated as r®k sensatipialiam.
J ust one day bfore the tine set for the
strikes, Louis Liigg, the bonw-maker. slip
ped into his lodgings a heavy, auspicious
looking box, 8 fed in length. The tiox con
tained a large invoice of lyn&mite. Its
delivery at Liagg’s lodging- was the first
immediate preparation for
T/ie BLOODY RKSU/r
of five da}"* later. For maty weeks pre
vious Lingg 110/l been puremsing and ex
perimenting with dynamite as the paid
agent of one of tho seven International
“groups," but subsequent eveits showed be
yond any reasonable doubt that this par
ticular explosive made the. bomb that was
heard round the world. The bomb was, with
fifty others, manufactured by Lingg under
the auspices af the International Associa
tion, which furnished the money, and of
which the celebrated defendants wero not
members simply but leaders.
Next day, May 1, tho eight-hour strikes
began in earnest, and by nightfall when the
first intelligent estimates were obtainable,
30,000 men walked the streets idle. Prompt
ly in the morning. Sunday, when the
churches throughout the city were resound
ing with the swelling hosannas, the stuffy
little Bohemian Hall on Etnrna street was
crowded with membors of
THE LEHR AND WEHR VIREIN,
mi inner circle of the omnipresent Inter
national. Detailed plans for the near-at
hand conflict w ith the police were submit
ted bv Editor Engel and listened toby Spies'
lieutenant, Fischer. These plans were the
ones followed almost to t,bo letter at the
Haymarket, but, the decision to do so was
giot reached at this meeting. Instead it was
determined to take action at another gath
ering of the Lehr mid Welir, in a larger
hall and more central location, to be assem
bled within twenty-four hoirs. This was
to t>e in Greif’s Hall, Monday night,
Mav 3.
The Arbeiter Zeitung, of which Spies and
Schwab wore the editors and managers,
• •ailed together the armed men who were to
engage in this
SPECIFIC COMPACT TO MURDER.
The Sunday evening edition, published a
few hours after the Bohemian Hall meet
ing, contained this cabalistic legend: “Y
—Komme Montag Abend.” (Y -Come
Monday Nigbt). This was the summons
to the armed sections to meet, ns they did,
Monday night at Greff's. The call was
published again Monday afternoon, indi
cating the importance of the matters to
come liefore the meeting. The Sunday
issue of the Arbeiter had n significant art)
cle urging “quick and immediate action,”
adding: “By Monday or Ti’esrlag the. con
flict, m"st hare reached, its highest inten
sity, else success mill then be doubtful."
Almost, before the ink ou this could dry,
Spies was at the Sunday afternoon meeting
of the Central lather Union arranging to
have himself dispatched to McCormick’s
factory- the following day to address the
thousands of strikers otit along the old
Black road.
From the top of a freight car, on the
prairie near McCormick's, next afternoon—
Monday—Spies lielched into the ears of
18,000 excited strikers, mostly foreigners,
the hottest harangue ever uttered hy him
in public. He spoke in the German lan
guage, of which he is more master even
than of English. The effect of his words
was like magic
"ON to m’cormick’s!”
was the cry. The maddened horde, urged
forward by Spies. Lingg and other danug
Anarchists present, rushed at the gpeat
factory like so many w ild tieasts. They
had caught up bowlders and clubs on the
wiv, and in an Instant the thousand win
dowr, of the factory were being shivered
in countless fragments. Then it was that
patrol wagons, loaded with police, the
horses covered with foam, dashed through
the crowd from behind. It is admit
ted by Spies that he ordered the
mob, many of whom were flour
ishing revolver*, to resist the attempt,
of tho police to quell tho riot. Of course
the victors wore the police, but that to Spies,
according to his own accounts, was not. of
main concern. The blood of workingmen
i had beendrawm, und when he satisfied him
self that such a result w’as produced, the
j Anarc hist leader coolly withdrew, though
I the battle was at its height.
Taking a street car direct to the Arbeiter
Zeitung office,Spies, after a hurried consul
tation with Schwab. Neebe and others, de
cided to call the Haymarket mass meeting,
and then wrote
THE INFAMOUS “REVENGE CIRCULAR.”
Twenty-five hundred copies were issued
as quickly as printers could work, and
everytmng wns now ripe for (ho murder
compact meeting that night in Greff's base
ment, the same that had been called by the
Arbeiter Zeitung that day and the day
before. In this connection the exact w ord
ing of the circular, especially the lutter por
tion, foreshadowing the slaughter of the
morrow, the fatal May 4, possesses peculiar
interest. Spies wrote:
REVENGE! REVENGE!
WORKMEN, TO ARMS!
Men of labor, this afternoon the bloodhounds
of your oppressors murdered six of your Virolh
era ot McCormick's. Why did they murder
them’’ Because they desired to be dissatisfied
with the lot to which your oppressors have as
signed to them. They demanded bread and
they gave them lead for an answer, mindful of
the'fact that tints people are most effectively
silenced. You have for many, many years en
dured every humiliation without protest; have
drudged from early in the morning till late at.
night : have suffered all sorts of privat ions, have
even sacrificed vour children. You have done
everything to fill the coffers of your masters—
everything for them; and now, when you ap
proach them and implore them to make your
burden a little lighter, as a reward for your sac
rifices thev send their bloodhounds the police
-at you in order to cure you, with bullets, of
vour dissatisfaction Slaves, we ask and ron
jnce you. bv all that is sacred and dear to von,
avenge the atrocious murder which has been
committed on your brothers to-day, aud which
will likely be committed upon you to morrow.
Laboring men, Hercules, you have arrived at
the cross" ay. Which way will you decide? For
slavery and 'hunger nr for freedom and hread *
If you' decide for the latter, then do not delay a
moment: then, people-to arms! This must tie
your motto. Think of the heroes whose blood
has fertilized the road to progress, liberty and
humanity, and strive to Itec-imn worthy of
them. Your Brothkbs.
Neebe and other notables of the I. A. A.
took horses, awl in person scattered the cir
cular broadcast, not falling to leave copies
with the rank and file of the International
“arm>4 sections” gathering in Greifs Hal),
54 West Lake street. That the circular
gave the impulse to t he action of the armed
sections at this Monday night meeting, and
inspired the adoption of
THE PLAN OF BOMB THROWING
agreed upon, I* apiareiit from the fact 'hat.
its contents were first fully discussed. Then
the complete detailed plan of the particular
met hod of inaugurating the wholesale mur
der for which they originally organized was
formally considered and adopted, the time
for the slaughter (sting left for the Arbeiter
Zeitung to designate by publishing the
signal word “nine” (peace). This Tatter
feature was the work of Adolph Fischer,
who had como to the meeting straight
from the Arbeiter Zeitung, where h had
been assisting Spies and Schwab. That
Fischer was carrying out. the plans of his
superiors appears more clearly from the
circumstances that it was he who
MANOEUVRED THE “ARMED SECTIONS’
out of their idea of holding the Hay
market meeting in the morning instead of
at night, as Hpies and the other leaders had
decided.
A darker picture is not to be found in his
tory than this spectacle of four-score mur
derous conspirators in the wretched saloon,
basement, remorselessly plotting the mas
sacre that occurred not a hundred yards
distant, before another midnight jwis-vod.
Rudolph Hobnaubelt, the thrower of
the Haymarket bomb, was among the
eighty or more assassins who composed this
horrible meeting. Though adjournment
did not come till tong after ll it was not
7 o’clock next morning, Tuesday, when
Ixiuis Lingg, a member of this identical
“armed section," opened the chest of dyna
mite that had lain untouched in hi* lodgings
since four days before. Under his expert
directions, six of the men who attended the
murder meeting of the previous night,
quickly set to work then nud t here filling
globular shells with dynamite.
Early as was the hour, Fischer was also
at work getting out the handbills calling
the Haymarket mass meeting. Tho hand
biliy last words were: “Workingmen,
arm Yourselves and appear in full force I”
What Spies, Schwab and the other leaders
were doing that day may be partly inferred
front tho
BURNING APPEALS FOB RESISTANCE,
and rails “To Anns:'’ thfttappeared itt their
newspaper organs that, eveumg. “flnUe,
punned bv Spies’ own hand, stared out ot
the .1 rfiiiltr Zeiltiiifl. After the jiapeis
were off mid their editors bad swallowed a
hasty supper, it is known that .Spies. I'm
sons', Schwab, Fieldon, Fischer, mid other
ruling spirits, mostly merit tiers of tlie-slt'-
smite ’‘untied sections 1 ’ that belli the tireit s
Hall cimeluve, went Intpeloee session at the
International lieadituit'ters in the . Irhiiifer
Ztituny building, where report* by inessen
ger and telephone were received as the
moitieuts spell.
I.ingg’s crew of bomb-makers were still
assiduously at work. For some reason he
himself was unable to remain with them
all (lie time, and the evening tonnd him
eursing their slow progress, It was some
time after i :50 p. tn.—tlie hour mentioned
for the Haymarkot meeting to begin--
when Lingg put into a little trunk what,
bombs were ready some titty or sixty—
anil started with' las burden for the ap
pointed rendezvous, an Anarchist’s saloon
near by, Known ns Nfit's Hall, 58 Clybourn
avenue li" was met on the way by a mes
senger who hail coiue to hurry him along.
The trunk was left ojien in a passage way
of the saloon, and without more ado men
iiegau dropping in quietly, alone or in
couples,
POCKET! N<t A BOMB OK TWO
each and vanishing into the darkness. This
celeritv may have somewhat mollitiod
Lingg,' but bis delay was not the only
stumbling block of the reds.
Twenty-five thousand people, the An
archist leaders estimated,would lie gathered
together in the Haymarkefc. This was not
an extravagant expectation, when 13.<HX)
had been so easily massed near Mc-
Cormick’s. But fear of further riot
ing kept pretty much evervlsxly
at home except about 2,000
• men. nearly all of them unmistakably An
archists. Undoubtedly th > smallness of the
crowd made the Anarchist ktatklrs pause.
“The social revolution” backed by a mob of
workmen, 25,000 strong, had changed to a
prospective fight between Anarchists ulone
on one side and the jiolice in force on the
other, it was evident to the most casual
spectator in the linymnrket that a hitch
existed soincwberc, and apparently the
meeting’s managers were all completely at
sea. .
The great dim lighted square was n deci
dedly uncanny scene, with its scattered
groujis of gesticulating, tranipisli-looking
occujiants lining the sidewalks and pouring
in nnd out of the rickety surrounding .sa
loons. The Arbeiter Zeitunp conference of
loaders had been a prolonged one, and when
at last Spies, Parsons, Fieldon mul the rest
rcuched the Haymarkot Square they seemed
BENT ON A WAITING GAME.
It will probably never tic known whether
the evident hesitancy was caused bythede
lav of Lingg’sconfederates, a proposed aban
donment of the outbreak, or the hrqic that
the police would attack and attempt to dis
ix-rso the dangerous looking crowd tiefore
the speaking should begin, thus relieving
the lei tilers from appearing to incite riot.
Finally, an hour uud o half late, Hpies,
Parsons and Fielden addressed the crowd,
in the order named, using a wagon for their
rostrum. The first two, in eoin|xirison with
their usual harangues, were tame as a pair
of doves. Gradually the crowd thinned
out. No police interfered, and the chance
the “reds" had waited months for was
nearly gone. The meeting would be a
laughing-stock to the public, the leaders
would he discredited by even their own ilk,
and
THE RUBE-SIGNAL
would mean not the “social revolution"
begun, but the International Association
collapsed. ,
Fielden was worthy the occasion. lie
had been in the background on the wagon
wit 1 1 Sylinaubelt, the boinb-tlimwer. Spies
and other directing minds, who saw plainly
that something must he done, and quickly.
Therefore, when his turn came, Fielden
stepped boldly to the front, discarding nil
pretense of mildness. Ho electrified the
rulibie at once. The crowd swayed excited
ly backward and forward in the narrow
shadowy confines of Desplaines street, into
which they had come from tin' open square,
and press,l eagerly closer to the flickering
gasiamp that lighted the speaker's shaggily
bearded and jKiwerful form. When lie
tragically urged the wrought-up mob,
stuuding in plain view of a |o!ica station, to
“throttle and kill the law,’’ the disguised
officers in the crowd saw the necessity of
PROMPT ACTION.
mid word was passed to their commander.
Capt. Binifleld, following tbo plain direc
tions of Ilie State law covering exactly
such cases, gave orders to liavo the meeting
dispersed. Seven companies of police, 175
men, led by himself and Capt. Ward,
marched in platoon, extending from curb
to curb, the short diatom-o on Desplaincs
street from the station to the speaker's
wagon. As the police approached. Fielden
shouted to the crowd: “Here come tho
blood-hounds. You do your duty, and I'll
do mine.” Capt. Ward, in a loud voice,
called out: “In the name of the people of
the State of Illinois, 1 command you to
peaceably disperse.” Fielden, stepping
flown from the wagon, gave the “rube ex
clamation: “We are peaceable." Instantly
the bomb was thrown, the first in free
America. ,
A sputturing spark in the air, on tlie
ground a blinding burst—that was all.
(Slackness was everywhere. The pygmy
• racking of the pistol-shots out from Ihe
mob-jammed sidewalks, a few tall forms in
I lie street rapidly closing together, the flash
and smoke of volley after volley from them
Hiul the rear platoons, then tho din became
hideous with the groaning of mangled men,
and the yells of rage and fear in the wild
scramble for pscape.
THE SEQUEL
lias stretched out to today. Foremost it b -
cludes the death of seven bomb-slain police,
and the slow recovery of sixty officers
wounded. The Immediate arrest of all the
chief malefactors, barring Parson* alone,
was followed by their prompt arraignment
for murder June 81, before Judge Joseph E.
Clary, who proved himself as able as he is
worthy. Tlie escape of Hchnaubelt, the
actual thrower of the bomb who was set
free before his importance had been sus
spected, was a blunder only equaled by the
mistake on the opposite side when Par
sons made his sensational voluntary sur
render.
THE FIRST DAY IN COURT.
Two month* precisely was the length of
the trial, engrossing from day to day the at
tention of the civilized world. Whatever
legal talent could do was exhausted by the
defense under the direetten of Capt. Black,
while State's Attorney GrinneU directed
the prosecution with a skill reaching every
iHiittt.
Heath sentence* for all but Neebe, and
the penitentiary for him; the tour of
American dtics by European Hocialists,
Liebknecht, the Herman parliamentarian,
and Aveling, the English scientist, in an at
tempt to give prestige to the condemned
and gain sympathy for them; the effort to
make seDtimentaUMn have an eifect through
the ostentatious love-inaking of Spies and
Miss Van Zandt and their subsequent proxy
marriage—all these followed each other m
rapid succession. Next came tho introduc
tion of the Anarchist*' cause as an issue
PRICERIO A YEAR >
'( B CENT* A COPY, f
in Chicago polictics, resulting in th* crush
ing
DEFEAT OF THE BED FLAG
advocates. Abraham Lincoln’s ex-partner.
Leonard Swotf, presenting the defendant*’
case to the Supreme Court of Illinois
cientcd anew sensation, but his effort*
were no more effected than subsequent ones
for the “reds'’ by Gen. Butler, Roger
Pryor and J. Randolph Tucker before the
highest court of the nation. George
Francis Train nnd his queer exploits were in
singular contrast with the grave legal pro
ceedings an I the bitter struggles m th*
trades unions.
Tho splits caused by friends of the con
demned in two of the greatest-brotherhood*
in the world—Knights of I.ab<>rand Turn
ers -have had fur-reaching effects, but t.h
attention of people at large has been much
more strongly arrested by the events of the
past few days. Beginning with Parsons'
extraordinary demand for liberty complete
or death, and Spies’ equally surprising ap
peal for a little lease of life, everything
seems to have combined, if possible, tomaka
this period exceed iu world-wide interest
the duys of the Haymnrket massacre.
COTTON BEARS CRUSHED.
Several Houses Said to be Short Over
100,005 Bales Each.
New York, Nov. 10.—There is a bear
punic on the Cotton F.xohsnge, and reports
of trouble are current. Different future*
have advanced sixty points since noou, on
the publication of the crop reports confirm
ing the estimates of a short, crop and placing
this year’s crop at 0,800,000 bales. Novemlier
advanced from 0.98 to 10.511, December from
9.00 to 10.50, January from 10.09 to 10.0 c,
February from 10.10 to 10.75, Match from
10.81 to 10.87, May from 10.85 to
10.05, nnd June from i0.43 to 11. Several
houses are said to be short over 100.000
bales each, nnd one house is reported to
have had to provide 8300,000 additional
margin.
WASHINGTON’S
New York Getting Ready U> Celebrat*
the Centennial Anniversary
New York, Nov.' 10.—A number of well
known citizens, met at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel to-night and made preliminary ar
rangement* for a celebration here on April
30, 1880, of the centennial anniversary of
the first inauguration of Washington as
President. Committees have been ap-
IKiinled by the Historical Society and
Chamber of Commerce. The Governors of
nil the States and Territories have neen
aeked to be present, nnd Congress will be
requested to provide for participation in tho
celebration by the national government.
LORD MAYOR SULLIVAN-
Tho Government’s Appeal, of Coura*,
Successful.
Dublin, Nov. 10.—The government'* ap
peal from the decision of Magistrate O'Don
nell in dismissing the case of Lord Mayor
HulJivnn, who was charged with publishing
in his paper, The A a ion, reports M meet
ings of suppressed branches ot the national
league, was decided to-day. The court or
dered the case to bo referred back and re
heard.
Closing Trafalgar Square.
London, Nov. 10. — Committee*of leading
workingmens’ radical clubs held excited
meetings to-day and decided to organize the
fullest force to oppose the police edict clos
ing Trafalgar Square on Sunday.
Robert Graham. Member of Parliament
for the Northwest division of Lanarkshire,
an advunced Liberal, will attempt to speak
iu Trafalgar Square, on Sunday next in
order to teet the legality of the police order
closing it.
Princeton** President Resigns.
Princeton, N. J. Nov. 10.—The fall
meeting of the Boardof Trqptces of Prince
ton College was held to-day. President.
MeCosh tendered hi? resignation in a speech
of some length, congratulating the trustees
up nt he prosperous condition of the col
lege. The only reasons he has for retiring
are his years mid his unselfish desire to see
the college in the hands of a younger man.
Ho will probably reto.n the chair of Philos
ophy, if not in an active capacity then as
an emeritus professor.
Tennessee’s Temperance Alliance.
Nakhvit,i.k, Nov. 10.—The State Conven
tion of tiie Tennessee Temperance Alliance
was organizer yesterday by electing ex-
Congrcwsman G. O. Dibrelf President and
G. V . Armistead, of the few, Secretary.
A large number of resolutions were read
and referred without action to tbe Commit
tee on Platform. The convention is called
to take action deemed appropriate in view
of the result of the recent election on the
prohibition amendment. Six hundred dele
gates are in attendance.
Secretary Lamar’s Judgeship
Washington, Nov. 10. — There is a*
longer any doubt that during the first feW
days of the coining session of Congress the
President will nominate Secretary Lamar
to till the vacancy on tlie Supreme Bench
caused by the death of Justice Woods, and
at, t'-i same time Postmaster General Vilas
will >• nominated to succeed Mr. Lamar as
Secretary of the Interior.
Lovering to be Made Marshal.
Washington, Nov. 10—Henry Bacon
Lovering. Democratic candidate for Gover
nor of Massachusetts, will be appointed
United State* Marshal for Massachusetf
m>on the expiration of the term of Gen. N.
H. Banks next month.
Cardinal Gibbons at Richmond.
Richmond, Va., Nov. 10.—Cardinal Gil>
bons arrived here this morning from th
Mouth. He was received quietly, and will
leave for Baltimore to-morrow morning.
Tills is his first visit to Richmond since his
elevation to the Cardinalate
Not u Single Indictment.
Montgomery. Ala., Nov. 10.—The grand
jury of the Unit'd Stares Court for the
Middle District of Alabama, which ha|
been in session here for several days, ad
journed to-day without finding a single in
dietment.
Store Keepers and Gauger*.
Washington, Nov. 10.—The Acting Sec
retary of the Treasury to-day appointed the
following store keepers and gauger*!
Thoma* Horne, at Farmington. N. C., and
James A. Norris, at Stanley's Creek, N. C.
Gov. Gordon’s Son Resigns.
Washington, Nov. 10. —Frank Gordou,
of Georgia, Examiner of Public Land* ii
tbe General Land Office, has resigned. Hs
is a son of Gen. Gordon.
Races Postponed.
Washington, Nov. 10.—Today’s races
of the National Jockey Club were postponed
until to-morrow on account of rain.
Bhot and Killed.
Memphis, Tenx., Nov. 10.—A difficulty
oeoored ut noon yesterday at Horn Lake,
Miss., between Alex Wood and Henry
Douglas, which result'd in the former being
shot and killed.