Chicago Anarchists Death Sentences Upheld by Illinois Supreme Court
Ottawa Sept. 14 The Illinois Supreme Court affirms the lower court in the Chicago anarchists cases. The eight defendants face death sentences with October and August hearings noted. The ruling details conspiracy theory and bomb evidence linked to Haymarket events and names Lingg Seliger and others.
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Ottawa
Fil
Illinois Supreme Court
Chicago
Smith
Ilinois
Magruder
Sheldon
Superior Court of
Cook County
August Spies
Oes
Adolph Fincher ii
Sascher
Haymarket
Spies
Parsons
Fielden
Desplaines Street
Degen
Louis Lineg
William Seliver
Lingg
Seliger
Heebner
Lingh
Thalen
Herman
Tinge
Ape
Degan
Alarm
Arbeiter Zeitung
The Public Lands and Western Settlement Policy
An extended examination of how free land policy spurred settlement in the West, the rectangular survey system, and the path from entry to patent. It contrasts land availability with costs, outlines settler process from the land office to the shack, and notes future land needs and regional potential.
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Dakota
United States Land Office
United States
Congress
Thomas Jefferson
Salt Lick Creek
Ohio River
Virginia
Atlantic States
Biddle
Thomas Barton
Barton
Sesaet Meridia
Register
Louisiana Purchase
Northwest Territory
John Fiske
Nordhoff
Cuba
Sani Domingo
Mexico
Forty-Ninth Parallel
Lake Winnipeg
Hudson’s Bay
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Astinaboine
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Athabasca
Red River Valley
Peace River
Montana
Great Inland Lakes
St Lawrence
Westie
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Axsiniboine
Dakota Territorial News Highlights and Trials
Hon Hugh Campbell spoke in the territory. Grand Forks resident John Hennessy died of heart disease. Numerous patent issuances across towns. a Hutchinson County Methodist preacher faces incest charges. Railroads, bank closures, arrests for adultery and burglary, and fires affect Mitchell and surrounding areas. Territorial political divisions and a Beadle County push for a seventh parallel division draw wide support at a Huron gathering.
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Hugh Campbell
Watertown
John Hennessy
Grand Forks
Dakota
T. A. Fraser
Mitchell
G. M. Powell
Geneva
E.B. Warren
Plankinton
W. G. Glenn
Hutchinson County
New Dakota
J. Phare Wilmot
R. Herbesen
Pierre
G. W. Weeks
Altamont
D. A. Grant
Chicago
Fosdick
Pembina
Fargo Argus
Col. Webb
Adjt
Tyner
Col. Brown
Bony” Dewing
Adams County
Wis
Dewing
Hazen
Frankfort
Redfield
Frank Reeser
Mary Walder
Frank
Templeton
Church
Pierce
Hester
Congress
Campbell
Huron
Augustine Davis
Beadle County
Northern Pacific
Mentzer
Cleveland
Yankton
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Sam Piecolw
M Scuwae
the Public Lands
Edward Biddle
Frank W. Maxon
Walworth
Wia
Neanee
N. E. Oor
Dakota Territorial News
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