The interurban train line linking Janesville with Rockford, Ill., reduces service because of lack of riders. Blizzard hits Rock County on 29th day of spring. A real break for Parker Putnam. Sale of fireworks banned in Janesville. Fred Bauch killed at Samson when he's hit by a two-ton wheel.
Railroads hire local men to take the strikers' jobs.
Many of the strikebreakers run, leaving just a few on the job. Council buys seven more streetlights for downtown Janesville. Two days later, a train derails near Milton Junction because of a switch intentionally left open. The term nevertheless endures as part of American labor parlance and is used for virtually any worker who takes a striker's job or defies a picket line. No resolution of this case is reported in the Gazette's annual retrospectives, but Blanchard will make the news again.