George Liscomb and Alexander Campbell, fur traders from Mankato, are lynched in New Ulm after they kill a town citizen, John Spinner, in a bar fight upon being ejected from the Hauenstein Saloon. The following day, 300 angry Mankato residents, along with a company of militia, marched to New Ulm to investigate the lynching. They found Liscomb's and Campbell's mutilated bodies stuffed under the ice of the Minnesota River. An investigation quickly named members of the mob, leading to indictments. One indicted participant, John Gut, was convicted of murder, but Governor Horace Austin eventually commuted his sentence of execution.