Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-11-06

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| ing about it being forgery.
| During the high northwest wind on the
morning of the Doth the schooner Swallow
broke from her mornings at Mayhew's lum-
| ber-yard, and was carried through the Mus
kegon road bridge, damaging that structure
to a considerable extent. She also struck
| Layton q Co.'s slaughter house and tore away
the corner of the building.
Thomas Mack, prominent Boston mer-
chant has sent the Rev. Mr. Dudley, of the
Milwaukee Plymouth Church, 800 as token
of his esteem.
Rev. James A Craig, of Ripon, was arrested
in Milwaukee, lately, for the larceny of books
from one of the booksellers there. Mr.. G. is a
Methodist clergyman in good standing, and is
supposed to be afflicted with kleptomania
An unknown man, sixty years old, was run
over and killed at Milwaukee the other day
by train on the Northern Division of the St.
Paul Railway.
Marathon County.
Between 100000 and 100000 feet of lum-
berlin the log are laid up above Grandfather
Bull Falls, with no possible means of remov-
ing them without danger to life, and the Wis
consin River improvement Company are pros
pecting around to see what they can do about
it.
Marquette County.
A Montello paper says the farmers through
out the county report good yields of corn and
buckwheat, which is being brought into
market at lively rate
Monroe County.
The youth of Sparta drive prize package
swindlers out of the town with stale eggs.
Casper Smith, of Farmers Valley, was car
rying back-load of corn up into the granary,
when the steps tumbled down and he fell,
breaking one of his legs.
OcOntO County.
Oconto has paid her teachers $6,625 during
the past year The cash value of her school
houses is $4,000. i
An employe of IT. Witbecks Logging Com
pany named Finn was caught between two
logs and crushed to death, the other day, al
one of the camps up the river.
Polk County.
Mr.. McAdams, of Osceola, has found large
quantity of rock which he claims contains 80
per cent. of silver ore.
Capt. Kimball, of Pennington Center, on
four and a half acres Of ground raised 465
bushels of corn this year.
Racine County.
A daughter of Mathew Blackburn was terri
bly, injured at Burlington, recently, while
playing with matches, her clothing having
caught fire.
company has been organized in Racine
for the manufacture of Irvine and cordage.
They use at present ten tons of flax straw
daily.
About noon on the 30th the schooner Will
lam Grandy, bound for Chicago with a load
OF coal, ran hard on to the reef opposite
Racine harbor.
Rock County.
The farmers of this county have been lately
sWindled by some peddlers claiming to be
connected with the National Grange They
sold goods to them at fabulous prices-in
some instances for two or three times their
actual worth-and then left for parts un-
known. So says the GAINESVILLE Recorder.
Sank County.
The first snow storm at Baraboo of the sea-
son began on the morning of the 3Oth ult. and
lasted all day.
ShaWaMO county,
j. M. Schwears, of Shawano, is the las9
man heard from who kept pet bear. The
little cub got hold of his little girl few days
ago and bit her terribly.
ShebOygan County.
William Horckman, residing in the town of
Scott, was severely injured the other morning
by the accidental discharge of revolver.
The revolver was lying on a shelf, and upon
his attempting to take it down it slipped
from his hands, and striking upon the floor
was discharged. The ball entered Mr.. Horck-
mans thigh, causing a severe wound.
While on his way from Sheboygan to Hay
ton, where he intended to visit his brother,
Lorenzo Hazelbauers stopped at Keil Station
to see some friends, and in attempting to
board the train while it was in motion was
thrown under the rear car, run over and in
stantly killed.
The butter trade of the county is assuming
huge proportions, and prices ought to be sat
isfactory. At recent sale held at Sheboy-
gan, under the auspices of the Changers
Board of Trade, an average of thirty three
cents per pound was paid.
TrempeaIeau County.
A Galesville incident: A scene that called
for sympathy was exhibited the other day in
the woman who passed through town driving
an equine attached to a rumbling shay In
her arms she held pair of twins, while two
sucking colts and four dogs followed in pro-
cessiOn.
Waukesha County.
The other day, Mr.. John dwell, of Ocono-
mowoc, in attempting to oil the cylinder gear
ing of threshing machine caught his sleeve
in the pinions, and was Immediately drawn
into and upon them. They were revolving
very fast and while drawing him into the ma
chine tore and lacerated his flesh badly. A
large cash six inches in length, extending
from the throat across the breast, was cut to
the bone, severing an artery, from which the
blood gushed in stream.
Waupaca County.
John Long, of New London, had three fin
gers of his hand taken off, the other day,
while coupling cars at the depot
| A lad named Putnam was recently drowned
at Northport.
| A German wedding procession headed by a
band and a funeral cortege got SO mixed in
the streets of New London, recently, that
some of the people are swearing they saw
funeral procession accompanied by brass
band, and others that wedding procession
passed headed by hearse.
Winnebago County.
Herman Moody, employed at the Insane
Asylum at Oshkosh, slipped and fell down
three stories to the ground the other day. A
| large cash was cut on each side of his head
and his spine was dislocated
| Prof Ma1thin Prinnir,ol Of thn