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Struggling For Life

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Day
29
Month
September
Year
1887
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Public Domain
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THE DOOMED ANAKCHISTS. Chicago, Sept 22.- A. K. Parsons, one ol the seven condemned Anarchiste, yesterday lssued an address to the American people in which he reviews the decisión oí the Bupreme Court at soine length, asserte hie innocence ol any participation in or responsibility for the Haymarket massacre, and declares that he does not desire a commutatlon of his sentence to imprisonment, bnt wants either liberty or death. Chicaoo, Sept 23. - The Amnesty Association is endeavoring to secure the passagi of resolutions asking Executive clemency for the Anarchists by labor organizationp here and elsewhere. A number of thesf bodies have adopted sueh resolutiona Gov ernor Oglesby is deluged with correspond ence relating to the Anarchists. "It is enough to make any body sick and disgusted," Baid one of the moet prominent friends of the Anarchist yesterday, "to see those fellows in jaü behaving this way. Here we are spending our time and money and energy and taking without a murmuí all the odium cast npon us by a hostile press, in order to rescue them from the gallows, and in the meantime Parsons, Lingg and Engel come out in public lettere denouncins every body, reiecting our forte to get them a fair hearing beíore the Supreme Court, and abusing the men who try to get up a petition for their pardon. It's the silliest thing that could be done at the present time, and if it were not for the sake of justice I would drop the matter at once." New York, Sept 25.- Af ter a oonference with Captain Black Friday General Eoger A. Pryor announced that he had become connected with the Anarchist case, and predlcted that the application for a writ ot error to the Supreme Court would be granted in time to prevent the execution of his clients. Ottawa, HL, Sept 2G.- The death order to the sheriff of Cook County in the Anarchist case was handed down by the Snpreme Court Saturday morning and has ■been forwarded to Sheriff Matëon, of Chicago. The warrant says the record of the trial, as reviewed by the Judges, is without error, and the judgment of the lower court is therefore affirmed. The official notificatdon to the sheriff closes as follows: ' "And it is further ordered by the eourt that the llth day oí November. A. D. 18S7, be and the same is hereby fixed as the time when the sentence of death pronounced upon said plaintiffs in error- August Spies, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, Albert R. Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel and Louis Lingg- by the criminal court of Cook County, 111., shall be exeeuted; and it is further ordered by the court that the sheriff of Cook County, 111., be and is hereby ordered and directed to carry into execution the sentence by the criminal court of Cook County, 111., of the defendants." Chicago, Sept 26.- Mm Lucy E. Par60ns, wife oí the condemned Anarchist, who was arrested on Friday for distributing a pamphlet containing her husband's address to the American people, was taken bef ore Justice Lyon Saturday. She was quiet in her demeanor, and only asked that justice be dealt her, claimingthat Bhe had violated no law in handing out the address. She was allowed to go on her own recognizance until the 27th inst New York, Sept 26.- George Franois Train spoke Saturday evening for the first time in many years, in favor of the condemned Anarchists. The proceeds go to the families of the condemned men. He said he should epeak every evening nntil November 11. Chicago, Sept 27.- Oscar Xeebe, one of the condemned Anarchiste, sentenced to Berve fifteen years in the penitentiary, was taken to Joliet last evening.

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