Major F.F. Stevens, a Union veteran of the Civil War, dies at his Janesville home at age 74. Janesville Machine wins Commercial League baseball championship, 6-3, over Parker Pen, but Parker protests, claiming Janesville Machine used ringer players to win. The protest is disallowed. Laborer L. Johnson suffers a broken collarbone when a sewer ditch he is digging collapses. Owners of closed poker parlors complain to police that bridge is still played in cigar stores.
Cops clamp down on bridge playing.
Court records show 58 divorces in Rock County for the past year. The Gazette writes to U.S. cities employing the new mayor-commission form of government, a reform measure, and hears favorable reports from them. Cost overruns on the new City Hall, rising taxes, official silence on public expenditures and charges of crony politics among the city's aldermen fuel discussion and debate about government reform. Complaints filed against two policemen for clubbing suspects on arrest. One officer eventually is suspended.