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The Stsndard Oil Company was incorporated in Ohio by John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil Company was at the top of the oil market through horizontal integration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil
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A nationwide financial panic was struck by the collapse of a Philadelphia investment bank, Jay Cooke and Company, that led to severe economic depression that lasted for six years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873
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A strike that shut down thousands of miles of track throughout the northeastern United States that was initiated by firemen and brakemen from the Baltimore ans Ohio Railroad. http://teaching.msa.maryland.gov/000001/000000/000070/html/t70.html
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Charles Guiteau, a federal office-seeker, shot President James Garfield. Garfield dies seventeen days after. http://fineartamerica.com/featured/6-garfield-assassination-granger.html
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A bomb was thrown killing six policemen and wounding more than 60 others in Chicago's Haymarket Square in support of striking workers from McCormick Harvester Works. https://homicide.northwestern.edu/historical/movements/haymarket/
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A battle that killed seven steel workers ans three detectives. Steel workers prevetned the two barges filled with srmed Pinkerton Detectives from landing. http://www.steelvalleytrail.org/POI.html
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Federal Troops were sent by President Grover Cleveland to enforce a court order prohibiting American Railway Union leadership from encouraging striking workers. http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2012/06/this-day-in-labor-history-june-26-1894
