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The Semi Weekly Miner
Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana
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In Milwaukee on June 23, twenty Union sailors boarded three vessels and assaulted non-Union crew members, threatening them to leave town. Crews of the schooner Luzerne and bark Goshawk deserted their captains; police intervened for protection.
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MILWAUKEE, June 23.—On Saturday morning the schooner Luzerne, of Cleveland, the bark Goshawk, of Cleveland, and the barge Vought, of Buffalo, were boarded at their respective docks by twenty men, supposed to be Union sailors, who pulled the non-Union men from their berths by the hair of the head and threatened to kill them unless they left town inside of two hours. The crew of the Luzerne deserted their captain, as did two men on the Goshawk. The police have gone aboard armed to protect the people.
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Primary Location
Milwaukee
Event Date
Saturday Morning, June 23
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crew of the luzerne deserted their captain; two men on the goshawk deserted; police intervened armed to protect.
Event Details
Twenty men, supposed to be Union sailors, boarded the schooner Luzerne of Cleveland, the bark Goshawk of Cleveland, and the barge Vought of Buffalo at their docks, pulling non-Union men from berths by the hair and threatening to kill them unless they left town in two hours.