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...West Rock, 400-ft. precipice near New Haven. Small boys playing baseball below saw Maniac Spang lift up his son Donald, 4, pitch him over the cliff, disappear, reappear, toss down his remaining children-Helen, Lorraine, Raymond. Maniac Spang then grappled with his wife, kicked her over too. After firemen had chased and tried to reason with him, Maniac Spang poised on a ledge, lifted his arms, gracefully dived off to join his dying family...
While the Chicago Press roared and the investigations continued, Reporter Lingle was given a funeral of civic proportions and dignity-a squad of mounted police, more police and firemen on foot, the Great Lakes Naval Station band (Lingle had served in the Navy intelligence service), an American Legion firing squad, four American Legion posts in uniform, Police Commissioner Russell, Detective Chief Stege and many another city official and magistrate whom Lingle had known well. Only conspicuous absentee was Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, whose ineptitude as the city's leader has for so long been so apparent that...
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Words stirred Gene mystically. The "Labor Movement" caught him up. He helped organize the Terre Haute lodge of the new Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen ("Benevolence, Sobriety, Industry"), rose to leadership in this moribund organization, revived it, resigned abruptly because of its opposition to strikes. In 1893 he developed his "one big union" idea in the form of the American Railway Union, led it successfully through the Great Northern strike, saw it disintegrate after the Pullman strike a year later. For contempt of a labor injunction he was jailed for six months, was impregnated with Socialism by a Milwaukee visitor, Victor...
They did. Hurling bricks, bottles, shooting guns, they broke the cordon of troops, set the courthouse aflame, hacked the hose of arriving firemen. In the fracas, John Melton and Floyd Barker were shot by comrades. The $60,000 building was demolished. George Hughes, in his vault, eventually roasted to death...