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Ketchum, U. S. A., at Washington, June Elliott at Frankfort, Ky.; acquitted on

28, 1871; acquitted

Dec. 4, 1871-Jan. 24, 1872 George C. Barnard (judge of Supreme Court, New York) impeached, May 13, for corruption, and deposed

Aug. 18, 1872 Captain Jack and three other Modoc Indians tried, July 3, for the massacre of Gen. E. R. S. Canby, U. S. A., and Rev. Dr. Thomas (commissioner), April 11; convicted and hanged at Fort Klamath, Or...... .Oct. 3, 1873 Edward S. Stokes, for the murder of James Fisk, Jr., in New York, Jan. 6, 1872; first jury disagree, June 19, 1872; second trial (guilty and sentenced to be hanged Feb. 28, 1873), Dec. 18, 1872-Jan. 6, 1873; third trial (guilty of manslaughter in third degree; sentence, four years in prison at Sing Sing)

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Oct. 13-29, 1873 W. M. Tweed, for frauds upon the city and county of New York; sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment.. Nov. 19, 1873 A. Oakey Hall, ex-mayor of New York, for complicity with the Tweed ring" frauds; jury disagree, March 1-21, 1872; second trial, jury disagree, Nov. 1; acquitted.... .Dec. 24, 1873 David Swing, for heresy before the Chicago Presbytery, April 15 et seq., in twenty-eight specifications by Prof. Francis L. Patton; acquitted after a long trial 1874 [Professor Swing withdrew from the Presbyterian Church and formed an independent congregation.]

Theodore Tilton v. Henry Ward Beecher, for adultery, Brooklyn, N. Y.; jury disagree; case ended.... July 2, 1875

Jesse Pomeroy, the Boston boy murderer, for killing of Horace W. Millen, April 22, 1874, supposed to be Pomeroy's fourth victim... .1875 Gen. O. E. Babcock, private secretary of President Grant, tried at St. Louis for complicity in whiskey frauds; acquitted Feb. 7, 1876 W. W. Belknap, United States Secretary of War, impeached; acquitted

Aug. 1, 1876 John D. Lee, for the Mountain Meadow massacre, Sept. 15, 1857; convicted and executed... March 23, 1877 Col. Thomas Buford, for killing Judge

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Débris suit (California), decided against hydraulic miners, Judge Sawyer, of the United States court, San Franci 20, Cal., granting a perpetual injunction

Jan. 7, 1884 William Berner, convicted at Cincinnati of manslaughter in killing William H. Kirk..... . March 28, 1884

[Berner was a confessed murderer; the verdict of manslaughter, when twenty untried murderers were in the city jail, led to a six days' riot, during which the courthouse and other buildings were set on fire, forty-five persons were killed, and 138 injured.]

Brig. Gen. D. G. Swaim, judge-advocategeneral of the army, tried by court-martial for attempt to defraud a banking firm in Washington, and failing to report an army officer who had duplicated his pay account; sentenced to suspension from duty for twelve years on half-pay; trial opens Nov. 15, 1884

James D. Fish, president of the Marine Bank, of New York, secretly connected with the firm of Grant & Ward, convicted of misappropriation of funds, April 11, and sentenced to ten years at hard labor in Sing Sing, N. Y.

June 27, 1885 Ferdinand Ward, of the suspended firm of Grant & Ward, New York City, indicted for financial frauds, June 4; convicted and sentenced to ten years at hard labor in Sing Sing.... .Oct. 31, 1885 [Released, April 30, 1892.] Henry W. Jaehne, vice-president of the New York common council, for receiving

a bribe to support Jacob Sharp's Broad- "triangle," and condemned to death by way surface road on Aug. 30, 1884; sen- them for accusing them of embezzling tence, nine years and ten months in Sing funds allotted for dynamiting in England Sing..... .May 20, 1886 in February, May 4), found murdered at

Lake View, Chicago........May 22, 1889 Coroner's jury declare the murder to be the result of a conspiracy, of which

Alfred Packer, one of six miners, who killed and ate his companions when starving in their camp on the site of Lake City, Col., in 1874; convicted at New Alexander Sullivan, P. O'Sullivan, Daniel York of manslaughter, and sentenced to forty years' imprisonment. . August, 1886 Trial of Jacob Sharp; found guilty of bribery and sentenced to four years' imprisonment and a fine of $5,000.

July 14, 1887 [Sentence reversed by court of appeals.]

Anarchists at Chicago: Twenty-two indicted, May 27, 1886; seven convicted of murder, Aug. 20; four (Spies, Parsons, Fischer, and Engel) hanged; and one (Lingg) commits suicide.. Nov. 11, 1887 [Governor Altgeld pardoned all the anarchists (Schwab, Neebe, and Fielden) in prison, June 26, 1893.]

Coughlin, and Frank Woodruff (connected
with the Clan-na-Gael) were the prin-
cipals. Alexander Sullivan and others ar-
rested, June 12; Sullivan released on high
bail.....
..................June 15, 1889

Martin Burke arrested at Winnipeg, Canada, indicted about June 20. The grand jury at Chicago, after sixteen days' investigation, indict Martin Burke, John F. Beggs, Daniel Coughlin, Patrick O'Sul livan, Frank Woodruff, Patrick Cooney, and John Kunz, with others unknown, of conspiracy and of the murder of Patrick Henry Cronin..............June 29, 1889

Coughlin, Burke, O'Sullivan, Kunz, and Beggs, for murder of Cronin in Chicago, City of New Orleans against adminis- May 6; trial begins Aug. 30; the first tratrix of the estate of Myra Clark three are sentenced to imprisonment for Gaines, deceased, Jan. 9, 1885, in Su- life, Kunz for three years, and Beggs dispreme Court of United States; judgment charged... against the city for over $500,000

.Dec. 16, 1889 [Second trial of Daniel Coughlin began Nov. 3, 1893; acquitted by jury, March 8, 1894.]

Commander B. H. McCalla, of United States steamship Enterprise, by courtmartial for malfeasance and cruelty, April 22, on finding of a court of inquiry held in Brooklyn navy-yard, March 11, suspended from rank and duty for three years, sentence approved by Secretary Tracy

May 15, 1890

May 13, 1889 [About 1836 Myra Clark Gaines filed a bill in equity to recover real estate in the possession of the city of New Orleans. Her father, Daniel Clark, who died in New Orleans a reputed bachelor, Aug. 16, 1813, by will dated May 20, 1811, gave the property to his mother, and by memorandum for a will (which was never found) made in 1813, gave it to his daughter Myra. The latter will was received by the Supreme Court of Louisiana Feb. 18, 1856, and the legitimacy of Myra questioned. Judge Billings, of the United States circuit court at New Orleans, rendered a decision which recognized the probate of the will of 1813, in April, 1877; Rev. Charles A. Briggs, charged by the an appeal was taken, and in 1883 judg- presbytery of New York, Oct. 5, 1891, ment was again given in favor of Mrs. with teaching doctrines "which conflict Gaines for $1,925,667 and interest. The irreconcilably with, and are contrary to, final appeal, June, 1883, resulted as above. the cardinal doctrines taught in the Holy In 1861 the value of the property was estimated at $35,000,000.]

Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin, Irish dynamite nationalist (expelled from the Clanna-Gael, and denounced as a spy by Alexander Sullivan and the leaders, termed the

Dr. T. Thacher Graves, for murder of Mrs. Josephine Barnaby, of Providence, R. I., by poison, at Denver, Col......1891 [While awaiting his second trial he committed suicide in the county jail at Denver, Sept. 3, 1893.]

Scriptures," in an address at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, Jan. 20, 1891; case dismissed, Nov. 4; prosecuting committee appeal to the general assembly, Nov. 13; judgment reversed and case remanded to the presbytery of New

York for new trial, May 30, 1892; Pro- resigned in 1832 and became a civil en fessor Briggs acquitted after a trial of gineer; was with various railroads as nineteen days.... .Dec. 30, 1892 chief engineer till the outbreak of the Civil John Y. McKane, Gravesend, L. I., for War, when he took command of the nonelection frauds; convicted and sentenced uniformed volunteers recruited to defend to Sing Sing for six years... Feb. 19, 1894 Baltimore from Northern soldiers. In Miss Madeline V. Pollard, for breach of the same year he was made colonel of promise, against Representative W. C. P. engineers in Virginia and directed the Breckinridge, of Kentucky; damages, $50,- construction of the field works and forts 000; trial begun March 8, 1894, at Wash- at Norfolk; was promoted brigadier-genington, D. C.; verdict of $15,000 for Miss eral on finishing that work, and then took Pollard, Saturday.. .. April 14, 1894 charge of the location and construction Patrick Eugene Prendergast, for the of the batteries at Evansport on the murder of Carter Harrison, mayor of Chi- Potomac River. With these batteries he cago, Oct. 28, 1893; plea of defence, in blockaded the river against United States sanity; jury find him sane and he is vessels during the winter of 1861-62. hanged... .....July 13, 1894 He also participated and won distincEugene V. Debs, president American tion in various battles, including Gaines's Railroad Union, charged with conspiracy Mills, Slaughter's Mountain, Second Bull in directing great strike on the Western railroads, and acquitted..... .1894 [He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for contempt of court in violating its injunction in 1895.]

William R. Laidlaw, Jr., v. Russell Sage, for personal injuries at time of bomb explosion in the latter's office, Dec. 4, 1891; suit brought soon afterwards; plaintiff awarded heavy damages by jury; defendant appealed; case still in the courts.

Leon Czolgosz indicted in Buffalo for murder of President McKinley, Sept. 16, 1901; tried Sept. 23-24; found guilty on second day; executed in Auburn (N. Y.) prison.... ....Oct. 29, 1901 Trimble, ALLEN, statesman; born in Augusta county, Va., Nov. 24, 1783; removed to Lexington, Ky., in 1784; and later settled in Highland county, O., where he was clerk of the courts and recorder in 1809-16; was in command of a mounted regiment under Gen. William Henry Harrison in 1812-13; served in both branches of the State legislature in 181626; was acting governor of Ohio in 182122; governor in 1826-30; and president of the first State board of agriculture in 1846-48. He died in Hillsboro, O., Feb. 2, 1870.

Trimble, ISAAC RIDGEWAY, military officer; born in Culpeper county, Va., May 15, 1802; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1822, and was assigned the duty of surveying the military road from Washington to the Ohio River;

Run, Chancellorsville, etc.; was promoted major-general for gallantry and meritorious services April 23, 1863. During the third day of the action at Gettysburg le lost a leg, was captured, and held a prisoner at Johnson's Island for twenty-one months before being exchanged. After the war he settled in Baltimore, Md., where he died, Jan. 2, 1888.

Trimble, ROBERT, jurist; born in Berkeley county, Va., in 1777; removed with his parents to Kentucky in 1780; studied law and began practice in 1803; appointed second judge of the court of appeals in 1808; and chief-justice of Kentucky in 1810; was United States judge for Kentucky in 1816-26, and was then appointed a justice of the United States Supreme Court. He died Aug. 25, 1828.

Trimble, WILLIAM A., legislator; born in Woodford, Ky., April 4, 1786; graduated at Transylvania College; admitted to the bar and began practice in Highland, O., in 1811; was adjutant of his brother Allen's regiment in the campaign against the Pottawattomie Indians in 1812; became major of Ohio volunteers in 1812, and major of the 26th United States Infantry in 1813; brevetted lieutenantcolonel in 1814 for gallantry in the engagement at Fort Erie; was transferred to the 8th Infantry in 1815; and resigned March 1, 1819. He was United States Senator from 1819 till his death in Washington, D. C., Dec. 13, 1821.

Tri-mountain, the name first given to Boston, Mass.

Trinity Church. The first Episcopal ranean. His flag-ship was the President.

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He sailed from Hampton Roads, reached Gibraltar July 1, and soon after the Bey had declared war he appeared before Tripoli, having captured a Tripolitan corsair on the way. The Bey was astonished, and the little American squadron cruising in the Mediterranean made the Barbary States more circumspect. Recognizing the existence of war with Tripoli, the United States government ordered a

Morris, to relieve Dale. The Chesapeake was the commodore's flag-ship. The vessels did not go in a body, but proceeded one after another, between February (1801) and September. Early in May, the Boston, after taking the United States minister (R. R. Livingston) to France, blockaded the port of Tripoli. There she was joined by the frigate Constellation, while the Essex blockaded two Tripolitan corsairs at Gibraltar. The Constellation, left alone, had a severe contest not long afterwards with seventeen Tripolitan gunboats and some land batteries, which were severely handled.

church organized in the province of New York was called in its charter (1697) "The Parish of Trinity Church." The wardens and vestrymen first chosen included several members of the King's council. The following are the names of the first officers of the church: Bishop of London, rector; Thomas Wenham and Robert Lurting, wardens; Caleb Heathcote, William Merret, John Tudor, James Emott, William Morris, Thomas Clarke, squadron, under Commodore Richard V. Ebenezer Wilson, Samuel Burt, James Evets, Nathaniel Marston, Michael How den, John Crooke, William Sharpas, Lawrence Read, David Jamison, William Hudleston, Gabriel Ludlow, Thomas Burroughs, John Merret, and William Janeway, vestrymen. In 1705 a tract of land known as 'The Queen's Farm" extended (on the west side of Broadway) from St. Paul's Chapel (Vesey Street and Broadway) along the river to Skinner Road, now Christopher Street. This farm was then totally unproductive. Money was collected for the building of the church. It was a small square edifice then on the banks of the Hudson River. It was enlarged in 1737 to 148 feet in length, including the tower and chancel, and to 72 feet in width. The steeple, which was not completed until 1772, was 175 feet in height. The building was consumed in the great fire of 1776. It was rebuilt in 1788, taken down in 1839, and on May 21, 1846, the present edifice was consecrated. The corporation of Trinity Church still holds a portion of the land of the Queen's Farm, from which a large income is derived. That corporation has contributed generously towards the building and supporting of churches in various parts of the country and carrying on Christian work of various kinds.

Another naval expedition was sent to the Mediterranean in 1803, under the command of Com. Edward Preble, whose flagship was the Constitution. The other vessels were the Philadelphia, Argus, Siren, Nautilus, Vixen, and Enterprise. The Philadelphia, Captain Bainbridge, sailed in July, and captured a Moorish corsair off Tangier, holding an American merchant vessel. Preble arrived in August, and, going to Tangier, demanded an explanation of the Emperor of Morocco, who disclaimed the act and made a suitable apology. Then he proceeded to bring Tripoli to terms. Soon afterwards the Philadelphia fell into the hands of the Tripolitans. Little further of much interest occurred Tripoli, WAR WITH. In the autumn of until early in 1804, when the boldness of 1800, the ruler of Tripoli, learning that the Americans in destroying the Philathe United States had paid larger gross delphia in the harbor of Tripoli greatly sums to his neighbors (see ALGIERS) than alarmed the Bey (see PHILADELPHIA, to himself, demanded an annual tribute, THE). For a while Preble blockaded his and threatened war in case it was refused. port; and in July, 1804, he entered the In May, 1801, he caused the flag-staff of harbor (whose protection lay in heavy the American consulate to be cut down, batteries mounting 115 guns) with his and proclaimed war June 10. In antici- squadron. The Tripolitans also had in pation of this event, the American gov- the harbor nineteen gunboats, a brig, two ernment had sent Commodore Richard schooners, and some galleys, with 25,000 Dale with a squadron to the Mediter- soldiers on the land. A sheltering reef

afforded further protection. These formidable obstacles did not dismay Preble. On Aug. 3 he opened a heavy cannonade and bombardment from his gunboats, which

gunboat Number Four) alongside the largest of those of the enemy, and boarded and captured her after a fierce struggle. After the Americans had sunk or capt

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ured six of the Tripolitan vessels, and inflicted a heavy loss of life on the enemy, they withdrew, but resumed the attack four days later (Aug. 7). After the loss of a gunboat and ten men, the Americans again withdrew; but renewed the attack on the 24th, without any important result. A fourth attack was made on the 28th, and, after a sharp conflict, the American alone could get near enough for effective squadron again withdrew, and lay at service. A severe conflict ensued. Finally, anchor off the harbor until Sept. 2, when Lieutenant Decatur laid his vessel (the a fifth attack was made. A floating mine,

A STREET SCENE IN TRIPOLL.

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