IN THE NEWS: Bill Dinneen, winner of 36 games for the Beaneaters (National League) in the past two years, signs with the rival Boston Somersets (American League), for whom he will win 20 or more for the next three years.
IN THE NEWS: Lulu Ortman, a recently jilted girl friend of Boston's Chick Stahl, is arrested in Fort Wayne, IN, after an unsuccessful attempt to shoot him.
IN THE NEWS: Dashing Tony Mullane, the first player to have jumped the reserve rule by signing with the St. Louis Unions of the Union Association in 1883, signs a contract with Toledo, of the new American Association (AAA).
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