* 1887 – Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.

* August Spies ( 1855 – 1887 ), anarchist

August Vincent Theodore Spies (, ; 1855 – 1887 ) was a German-born American newspaper editor and radical labor activist.

Frontis illustration from Spies ' autobiography, published by his wife in January 1887.

In January 1887, while still in prison, Spies married Nina van Zandt ( 1862 – 1936 ).

Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, and George Engel were hanged the next day, November 11, 1887.

George Engel ( April 15, 1836November 11, 1887 ) was an anarchist and labor union activist executed after the Haymarket riot, along with Albert Parsons, August Spies, and Adolph Fischer.

He was hanged on November 11, 1887 along with Spies, Parsons and George Engel.

Venezuela finally broke diplomatic relations with Britain in 1887 and appealed to the United States for help.

She wrote a series of pamphlets in 1887 called Over the River, in which she appealed for funds for the parish of St. Stephens in Southwark, south London.

The railroad company appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court, which reversed the lower court's ruling in 1887.

In 1887, Bismarck appealed to the Pope to use his authority to order the Center to support the military proposals of the government.

Bloomfield was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 1, 1887.

Carter Henry Harrison, Sr. ( February 15, 1825October 28, 1893 ) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1879 until 1887 ; he was subsequently elected to a fifth term in 1893 but was assassinated before completing his term.

The earliest known softball game was played in Chicago, Illinois on Thanksgiving Day, 1887.

One theory is that Whitaker used the name of a Chicago suburb: Buena Park, Illinois, although the community in Illinois was also named in 1887.

The town was founded in 1887 by David C. Cook, a wealthy publisher of Sunday School tracts and supplies from Elgin, Illinois, who bought the Rancho Temescal Mexican land grant from the sons of Ygnacio del Valle.

Because in Illinois at that time it was illegal for railroads or their officials to establish new towns, much of the land was then transferred to two McLean County real estate developers Jesse W. Fell ( 10 November 1808 – 22 February 1887 ) and Charles W. Holder ( 29 September 1819-30 April 1900 ).

Leeson, History of Stark County Illinois, 1887

In 1887, the Illinois Central Railroad decided to link Freeport to Madison, Wisconsin.

His principal works include, " The Boy " ( 1885 ); " Cain " ( 1886 ), later destroyed ; " Brotherly Love ," sometimes called " Two Friends " ( 1887 ); the allegorical " Two Natures " ( 1894, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York ); " The Hewer " ( 1902, at Cairo, Illinois ); " Great God Pan " Dodge Hall quadrangle, Columbia University campus, New York City ; the " Rose Maiden "; the simple and graceful " Maidenhood ".

Marjorie Merriweather Post ( March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973, Springfield, Illinois ) was a leading American socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc.

In the summer of 1887 a yellow fever epidemic struck many train crews on the neighboring Illinois Central Railroad, providing an unexpected opportunity for faster promotion of firemen on that line.

In 1886 her husband, who had been heavily involved in campaigning for the eight-hour day, was arrested, tried and executed on November 11, 1887, by the state of Illinois on charges that he had conspired in the Haymarket Riot — an event which was widely regarded as a political frame-up and which marked the beginning of May Day labor rallies in protest.

On January 28, 1887, while he was still married to Clara, Holmes married Myrta Belknap in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; their daughter, Lucy Theodate Holmes, was born on July 4, 1889 in Englewood, Illinois ( in adult life, Lucy was to become a public schoolteacher ).

Peoria, Illinois has the longest running Santa Claus Parade in the U. S. The 125th parade is to be held November 23, 2012 ; 1887 marked the first year of the parade, which consisted of boats and derricks coming down the river as part of construction of the new bridge.

A graduate of Columbia College, he was later an executive of the Illinois Central Railroad, and as its president from 1887 to 1906 oversaw its period of greatest expansion.

William Nathaniel Bell ( March 6, 1817 – September 6, 1887 ), originally from Edwardsville, Illinois and later a resident of Portland, Oregon, was a member of the Denny Party, the first group of white settlers in what is now Seattle, Washington.

Elihu Benjamin Washburne ( September 23, 1816, Livermore, Maine – October 23, 1887, Chicago, Illinois ) was a member of a Maine political family that played a prominent role in the early formation of the United States Republican Party.

He moved to Chicago, Illinois, and served as president of the Chicago Historical Society from 1884 to 1887.

From June 1887 to April 1888, Warner conducted an evangelistic tour through Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado.

The commissions followed fast, including the colossal Standing Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chicago in a setting by architect White, 1884 – 1887, considered the finest portrait statue in the United States ( a replica was placed at Lincoln's tomb in Springfield, Illinois, and another stands in London, facing Parliament Square ), and a long series of funerary monuments and busts, including the Adams Memorial, the Peter Cooper Monument, and the John A. Logan Monument.

Simmentals were reported as early as 1887 in Illinois, according to one source ; in 1895 in New Jersey ; and in both New York and New Mexico around the 1916 to 1920 period.

* Portrait and Biographical Album of Champaign County, Illinois Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1887 Milan Girls

John A. Roche ( August 12, 1844February 10, 1904 ; buried in Rosehill Cemetery ) served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois ( 1887 – 1889 ) for the Republican Party.

Leveraging the Supreme Court's establishment of Congressional supremacy over commerce, the Interstate Commerce Commission was established in 1887 with the intent of regulating railroad " robber barons ".

In August 1887, the Minnesota Supreme Court handed down a decision in favor of Wadena ; thus, the matter was settled and the county seat was retained at Wadena.

He was in 1887 appointed senior judge of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories.

* Pierce Butler, class of 1887, Supreme Court Justice from 1923 to 1939.

* William Wartenbee Johnson ( 1826 – 1887 ), Republican politician in the U. S. State of Ohio and Ohio Supreme Court Judge

* Percy R. Kelly ( 1887, from Albany College ), Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court

* Aaron Goodrich ( 1807 – 1887 ), first Chief Justice of Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court ( 1849 – 51 )

The Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories served as the first court of law in the Northwest Territories from 1876 until the creation of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories in 1887.

* Robert F. Morrison ( c. 1840 – 1887 ), 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California

In 1887, the university opened in its new location in Montgomery, but an Alabama State Supreme Court ruling forced the school to change its name ; thus, the school was renamed the Normal School for Colored Students.

Ward was appointed Acting Supreme Court Judge on four occasions: September 1867 Dunedin ; September 1886 Auckland ; September 1887 Christchurch ; March 1894 Dunedin again.

However in 1887, the territorial Washington Supreme Court ruled the 1883 universal suffrage act as unconstitutional in Harland v. Washington.

Charles Holland Locke, ( September 16, 1887 – May 30, 1980 ) was a Canadian Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

* Thornley v. United States ( 1885 ), a U. S. Supreme Court case of John Thornley ( d. 1887 )

In 1887, Macleod was appointed to the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories, which then included what is now known as Alberta and Saskatchewan.

* April 28 – The Supreme Court of the United States unanimously rules that, based on the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, African American passengers are entitled to equal accommodations on all passenger trains in the U. S.

In the 1887 case of Deaderick v. Oalds, the Supreme Court of Tennessee ruled on a case of trover.

Women had previously been given the vote in 1883 by the Washington Territorial Legislature, but the right was rescinded in 1887 by the Washington Territorial Supreme Court as a response to female support of prohibition.