Word: haymarket
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...with the singing of "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum." Vagrants got drunk, made speeches, piously intoned the Hobo's Prayer. At wake's end, quarters were distributed to every guest. Next day Host Harry Batter was cremated, and his ashes scattered over the graves of the Haymarket rioters...
...them from going through the ropes. Browning wrapped his arms around Donnell's neck and the next instant wrestlers and referee plunked down on the cement floor. Donnell landed at the bottom. Spectators untangled them, found Donnell unconscious with concussion of the brain. He was taken to the Haymarket Relief Station. Wrestlers Browning and George returned to the ring where a substitute referee awarded the three-man fall to George. Amid more grunting and gripping Browning, who had hurt his hip, was quickly thrown through the ropes again, counted out for good...
...work on the Chicago Daily News less than a year after he graduated from the University of Illinois in 1881. He started as a night police reporter, was soon covering murder trials at the Criminal Courts Building. Later he was assigned to the anarchist uprisings that preceded the Haymarket riots. Like other Newsmen, he wrote his stories in longhand, warmed his shins at the fat-bellied stove in the "local" room...
...office. They swapped jokes while Field wrote his column (Sharps and Flats) for the paper and unprintable verses for his own amusement, and Dennis wrote editorials. Then, as now, sanitation was prime news in Chicago. His editorials urged construction of a drainage canal (started in 1892), deplored the famed Haymarket riots (1886) and graft in the County Commissioner's office...
...armed, stalking over the heads of the dancers. Darewski collapsed in a chair. Dancers flocked around him, said they could see nothing. But the incident gave rise to much whispering. It has long been rumored that Covent Garden is haunted (so, it is said, are the Drury Lane and Haymarket Theatres). The arrogant Siegfried might well have objected to the use of his hunting-ground for dances, cinema and other money-raising devices to which the old theatre has of late years been reduced...