Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-07-13
Items of State News.

Mr. and Mrs. Kyser, estimable citizens of
Waterloo, were drowned in Waterloo creek,
on the evening Of the 2sth ult., their car
riage running off the bridge and precipta-
ting them into the creek. A school
house was burned in the town of Blooming
Grove last Monday night-the result Of a
warm controversy in the district in regard
to building new house. The St.
Croix river is pretty effectually blockaded
by logs and lumber, preventing the passage
of steamers from Saltwater to the Falls of
St. Croix Horse thieves are on the
rampage in Dodge county An attempt is
being made to organize an anti-horse thief
society in Fox Lake. a heavily fat
ted beef weighing 1000 pounds, was served
up in Racine, recently ........ James Van
Meter, Of Wiota, Lafayette Co., a returned
soldier, had his hand blown off while firing
small cannon at that place on the 18th
We understand he has been, for three years
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Of the 31st Wisconsin regiment, -four COM
panies in number, arrived at Madison on
Tuesday afternoon, and were welcomed
by the citizens in an appropriate manner.
.. the late Fourth Of July was more
generally observed in this state than usual.
! The citizens Of almost every town
Of any size got up celebration of their
own, which was generally conducted in a
| satisfactory manner AT Monroe an
accident happened on the Fourth, by the
premature discharge Of cannon, by which
Joseph Sickinger lost thumb, and Joseph
Hilland Daniel Gunda both an arm. -.
We find the following item in the La Crosse
Democrat of late date: "The papers
generally report that Brick Pomeroy has
sold the La Crosse Democrat office. Such
is not the case. We have no idea of sell
ing in short, the establishment is not for
SALE Will those who have been so fast to
report sale, do us the justice to copy this
item, and when in La Crosse, visit the
model Office in this country, and help des-
troy bottle of champagne, take drive in
the trotting park, or be entertained other
wise in hospitable style. We are still at
home to friends or enemies" -. :. An in
spired poetess in the Beaver Dam Citizen
speaks of the vacant limbs" of the soldiers
whom she welcomes home" in some nine
stanzas. Can anybody tell us what consti-
tutes "vacant limb" The Sd, 9th,
10Th, 10th, 18th and 18th Wisconsin regi-
ments are expected home in a short time.
...E. W. SINNERS foundry in Madi-
son was burned on the night Of the ninth
inst Loss estimated at $4,000. The
Island City Times says, at Osceola, Polk
county, they have the smallpox, a new
brewery building, the army worm, and no
rain. Osceoa must be nice place to live
in....... Mr.. Peat, of Trenton, has lately
sheared from one year old Merino sheep,
a fleece weighing ten pounds, the wool OF
which is two and half inches long
The finest driving park in Wisconsin is the
one just completed in La Crosse, where a
Level mile track is in splendid order for try
ing the speed of horses, or for little exer-
else About five thousand dollars have
been expended there this season.
Anna Pankrats, of Kossuth, aged fourteen
years, was killed by lightning on the fourth
inst, while sitting in her room. No other
persons were injured $500. The house OF
Mr. John Holmes, in Neanah, was struck
by lightning on the evening of the 4th inst,
and was considerably shattered. ....
Urgent appeals are being made for the re-
lief Of those citizens of Viroqua, whose
property was entirely destroyed by the late
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