The county will match the amount. G. Spencer Wallrath, landlord of Janesville's Union House rooming house, is killed by a train while traveling in New Mexico. The county refused them aid. The steamer Columbia and a couple of smaller steam-powered boats carry sightseers and revelers on the Rock River north of Janesville. But more than 60 gasoline-powered launches are plying the river above the Centerway Dam.
Tornado wreaks havoc in Rock County.
Ida Fox, railroad bookkeeper, is run down and killed by a train. Escorting them is Miss Murphy, a colleague of famed humanitarian Jane Addams, who has founded Hull House in Chicago. Harry J. Moore, lamptender for Janesville Electric Co., is killed by an interurban train on South Franklin Street. Hiram Merrill, president of Janesville's New Gas Light Co., dies. His family gives up control of the company, whose roots run to 1853, to United Gas Improvement Co. of Philadelphia.