The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04
CHICAGO ANARCHISTS.

organization called the International,
the object of which was to introduce
anarchy. To this end they proposed
to subdue by terror, or to exterminate
by violent deaths, all who favored law
and order. For more than a year be-
fore general strike for eight hours as
a days work was in contemplation,
they had endeavored to bring the
class they called 'proletariat' into their
ranks. and had urged that class to
arm themselves, especially with dyna-
mite bombs. In the fall of 1885 it
became probable that such strike
could be brought about on the first
day of the following May. They en-
couraged it to the utmost Of their abili-
ties; not for the purpose, as they
were frank enough to say, Of obtain
ing for laborers fewer hours OF toll,
but with the hope that in the disorder
to follow all working for wages would
be stopped, and tina: anarchy would
be the next step. Armed strikers
heating workers would bring the police
and militia, and if they could be over
come in battles, no force being left to
give vigor to the law, anarchy must
follow.
The first day OF May came and
great excitement prevailed. Many
struck. New men were to some ex-
tent taken on in their places. On the
Sd day of May very serious riot took
place at the Mccormick Harvesting
Machine Works, where the police pro-
tected the men at work. Some of the
:..::e.s were hurt, but probably none
killed. The anarchists called meet
ing to denOunce the police. 1t was
held near a police station at which
they knew large force was concen-
trated. The situation was critical.
The scent of danger was in the air.
They so conducted the meeting as to
make it the duty of the police to dis
perse il The police marched to the
meeting, halted, and a captain COM
manded the people to disperse. 1t
was then 1880 o'clock at night. A
dynamite bomb was thrown into the
ranks of the policemen, killing De
gan, MORALLY wounding six others
and wounding three-score more not
MORALLY.
This was on May 4, 1886. OF the
eight men arrested for the Haymarket
massacre four were hanged, one died
by his own hand, and three were SEN
fenced to imprisonment. Of the lat
ter Fielden and Schwab got life SEN
fences, while Neebe's punishment was
limited to fifteen years.
1t was Louis Lingg, the bombmaker
and most daring spirit among the con-
spirators, who, on Nov. 10, 1887, the
day before he was to be hanged,
placed Illuminating cap, used to ex-
plode dynamite cartridges, between
his teeth, ignited it and thus cheated
the executioner.
On the next day, Nov. II, A. Il.
Parsons, August Spies and Aaolph |
Fisher and George Engelwere hanged
in the Jail yard.
Strangely enough, Schnaubelt, the
man who threw the bomb which
caused the Haymarket massacre, al
though arrested with the Others, was,
before the importance of his capture
became known, permitted to go free
md has never been heard of since.
THEIR CRIME.
The gathering of the anarchists on
he fatal evening of May 1, seven
,ears ago, was expected to be the
argest ever held in the city, but when
he hour came the crowd was light,
md the leaders who had planned to
ave the officers attack the crowd and
n the melee to hurl their death-deal-
ng bombs feared that their plot would
niscarry.
Finally, an hour and half late,
pies, Parsons and Fielden addressed
he crowd, in the order named, using {
wagon for their rostrum. The first {
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