Local baseball results and a liquor-fueled mob incident
Scores show La Crosse sweeping Wausau and Eau Claire beating Green Bay 3 to 2 while Freeport shut out Oshkosh 4 to 3. Oshkosh and Green Bay meet tomorrow with La Crosse at Wausau, and Green Bay hosts Freeport. A Richfield incident ends with two men injured by gunfire after a mob chase. arrests follow.
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Wausau Oshkosh
Eau Claire-Chip
Falls
la Crosse
Wausau
Oshkosh
Eau Claire
Wis
Eau Claire-Chippewa
Maone
Fiske
Asmussen
Gomiey
Lanan
Minni-o-wah La Crosse Man Describes fading town becomes summer resort
I G Mayhew recalls Minni-o-wah a mile north of Homer on the Minnesota side of the Mississippi. Once a promising rival to Winona built by Timothy Burns, land disputes halted growth, leaving ruins. Now a popular summer retreat with cabins and clubs seasonally active.
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I. G. Mayhew
la Crosse
Wis
Milwaukee Free Press
Minni-owah
Homer
Minnesota
Mississippi River
Mini-owah
Winona
Timothy Burns
Wiconsin
Minniewah
Crooks Fire On Pleasure Seekers Near Richfield
Four alleged burglars were rounded up by Sheriff Held and deputies five miles from Richfield after a pitched battle in which one man was shot. The suspects, believed Chicago professionals, offered aliases including Joe Casey and Thom- as their names.
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Clark
George Fritz
James Adams
Richfield
William Schulhers
West Bend
Wis
Held
Chicago
Joe Casey
Thom
Plan to Increase Mississippi River Freight for Flour Trails
A renewed push to raise Mississippi River freight and boost river navigation for flour and grain moves forward. The Northwestern Miller endorses river transport, citing Captain Wymans’s testimony on economical 10 000 barrel loads to New Orleans and river stages enabling upriver travel. Proponents urge La Crosse and the Mississippi River Improvement Association to sustain agitation for lower freight and broader commerce.
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Mississippi
la Crosse
Northwestern
Wm. de la Baree
St. Anthony Falls Water Power Company
Mineapolis
Minneapolis Mil Company
Isue
Old Customs House
St. Paul
Wymans
Secretary of War
United States
Upper
New Orleans
New York
Ohio River
Elbe
Rhine
Wester
Danube
Germany
Missinpi
Peabody Charteres Special Train for Columbus Trip
In Atlanta on June 27 George Foster Peabody, noted New York educator and philanthropist, chartered a special train to Columbus to avoid waking women in his party at sunrise. He paid 668 dollars for a few cars and an engine used for the trip.
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Atlanta
Columbus
George Foster Peabody
New York
Widow Mistakenly Visits Wrong Grave at Cemetery
Mrs. Eliza Young widow of Richard D Young wept at a cemetery grave before the superintendent corrected her she was at the wrong plot. The buried man had died a year earlier making the widow’s first grave visit a mistaken stop.
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Eliza Young
Richard D. Young
Young
Brother of Navy Commander Dies in Harbor Disaster
The deceased was a half brother of Commander Lucien Young of the United States ship Bennington, which was blown up in the San Francisco harbor. Mrs. Young resides at Paris, Kentucky.
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Lucien Young
United States
Bennington
San Francisco
Young
Paris, Ky
Governor Harris Recovers and Resumes Farm Barn Project
Governor Harris, after an illness on Sunday that raised concern about his health, has recovered and today resumed supervision of the new barn on his Ohio farm.
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Eaton
Ohio
Haris
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