Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1900 — CHICAGO “REDS” ARRESTED. [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO “REDS” ARRESTED.

Police Prevent Anarchist Meeting to Approve Humbert’s Assassination. Anarchy tried to come to life in Chicago again for a little while Sunday afternoon. The effort continued long enough to cause a riot in the street in front of the West Twelfth Street Turner Hall. The riot lasted long enough only for the police to gather up Mrs. Lucy Parsons and dump her in a patrol wagon, grab Abraham Edelstalt because he yelled “Shame,” to smash Clement Pfeuntzner because he was supposed to be a dangerous anarchist, to drag in two other anarchists, and, with this batch of five in the wagon, to go galloping off to the police-station. This was all that came of the proposed celebration in West Twelfth Street Turner Hall of the murder of King Humbert. A handful of policemen was all that was needed to put an end to the plans and hopes of revived anarchy in Chicago. King Humbert’s assassination was to have been celebrated with a big meeting. Mrs. Parsons, whose husband, Albert Parsons, was hanged for complicity in the Haymarket massacre in 188(1 and who was, with her husband, one of the leaders of the anarchists then, was to have been the principal speaker at the meeting. L. S. Oliver, another old-time anarchist, was to have made a speech. Simonetta. the Italian anarchist, was to have discussed what lie called the master stroke of Bressi in murdering King Humbert. This meeting was -to have for its watchword the cry that anarchy was not dead in Chicago. The police set about to demonstrate to the anarchists that anarchy was dead in Chicago.