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Anti-Chinese Riot Produced a Reported Lynching
Narrative
In March 1889, anti-Chinese violence in Milwaukee escalated from courtroom threats to citywide attacks on Chinese laundries and residents. The Pittsburg Post and The Great Falls Leader described crowds shouting “Kill them” and officers barely preventing the lynching of Chinese laundrymen. The Ashland Weekly News later claimed that “early this morning a Chinaman was hanged by a mob at Twenty-Seventh and Chesnut streets.” Because the surviving newspaper accounts conflict between attempted and completed lynching, this remains a possible lynching in the archive.