Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-11-06
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Ashland County.


the middle of Lake Superior was seventy.
eight degrees, according to the Ashland
Press.
That old settler at Ashland prognosticates a
warm winter on the strength of that never
failing sign, high muskrat huts." He of
fers to bet that the thermometer will not go
below forty degrees.
Eugene Prince, of Ashland, had his clothes
line stripped, the other day. of twenty four
yards of carpet and the family washing.
This has been the most prosperous year
for La Pointe since the days of the old Amer
lean Fur Company, and that old town has re-
newed its age.
Brown County.
The house of d. Dennie, of Green Bay, was
burned the other night. Loss $4,000.
The Indian Agent at Green Bay, C. j.
Bridgman, recently concluded the payment
of $4,000 to the Stockbridge Indians. The
money came from the sale of pine lands in
the reservation two years ago. Each indi-
vidual of the tribe received $675.
20O-pound black bear was recently killed
near Green Bay.
Buffalo County.
Mr.. Lee Hanan, of Mandovi, while acting
as chaplain at a recent Grange meeting,
dropped dead in his chair. The last word he
spoke was "Amen!"
Clark County.
Ashley Tousley, living near Neillsville
while at work on a scaffold about fourteen
feet high, the other day, fell to the ground in
consequence of the giving way of the boards
on which he was standing. He struck on the
back of the head and neck, and has become
paralyzed from the pit of his stomach down.
Columbia County.
While boring a well at Kilbourn City, late
ly, vein of pure copper, eighteen feet thick,
was bored through at distance of 493 feet
from the surface.
Chippewa County.
Daniel Sullivan was recently seriously and
probably fatally injured by being run over by
wagon-load of shingles.
A fourteen year-old son of VIM Mass, of
Augusta, recently had his left thigh and leg
broken by the rearing and falling of colt he
was riding.
Crawford County.
At recent Catholic orphans fair in
Prairie du Chen voting contest for a cane
drew out 1851 votes and a contest for a
whip 2,597 votes. The sum realized for the
two articles was S., 623.40
Dane County.
One of the party of men recently attacked
by Indians while on the way from Yankton to
the Black Hills was o. B. Orion, of Madison.
who was wounded in the arm.
The Good Templars' Hall at Ashton was
lately publicly dedicated by G. w. G. T..
Kanouse The attendance was large and
much interest was taken in the impressive
ceremony.
Door County.
d. w. Sanborn, an old resident of Bailey's
Harbor, has become temporarily insane.
Dunn County.
Scarlet fever prevails in Menomonee
Eau Claire County.
Polander, named Sohlogwskie, at Eau
Claire recently got his arm entangled with
belt and pulley, and received injuries so
serious as to cause his death.
Fond du Lac County.
In eleven hours, at a Fond du Lac saw-mill,
one circular saw cut rs 800 feet of lumber, ac-
cording to the Commonwealth.
A few nights ago a German woman, name
unknown, was injured at the intersection of
the Chicago 81 Northwestern Railroad with
the Air Line Road, by train on the latters
line. The woman, whose child was on the OPP
posite side of the track, attempted to cross
the rails before the incoming train in order to
prevent the child from crossing. She was
struck by the cow-catcher and thrown upon
the pilot. The blow fractured her hip-bone
and produced other injuries.
Grant County.
A valuable lead of lead ore has been dis
covered near Plattevlle.
Jefferson County.
EARLY on the morning of the Goth the Amer
Jean Express Companys safe at Watertown
Junction was blown open by burglars and
$4,000 in money stolen.
A bold robbery was perpetrated at the store
of McCrockin Bros, of Waterloo, on the night
of the 9th. The losses are estimated at be-
tween 1900 and $4,000
AS the night passenger train was going
south few nights ago, when a mile or so
north of Johnson's Creek, the engineer dis
covered five cattle on the track, but did not
see them till he was very close, owing to a
dense fog that prevailed at the time Seeing
and dashed upon them under full head of
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damage was done to the train.
Kenosha County.
Senator Carpenter, after speaking in Ke-
nosha on the evening of the oath was
taken seriously i'll from the effects of car
buncle on the back of his neck and for time
it was thought his illness would terminate
fatally. He recovered partially, however, and
was taken to Milwaukee on the night of the
9th. At last accounts he was extremely
feeble.
KeWaunee County.
Mrs. Oliver Rouse, living near Ahnapee,
was, short time ago, attacked by ram
and badly injured. She suffered a compound
fracture of the left arm and sustained bad
bruises and wounds all over her face and
body.
Ia Crosse County.
A tornado passed over Hamilton on the
afternoon of the Goth which did considerable
damage in the way of uprooting trees and
tearing down fences. thirst struck the house
of L. Osborn, damaging it slightly, and then
struck the buildings of Edward Walker. nm
roofing the barn and taking away the cattle
shed, eighty feet long, carried the tanning.
mill some distance, carried a wagon BODY
several yards and smashed it to pieces, and
damaged new brick house. 1t took q
threshing machine weighing 1000 pounds,
and after turning it a few times left it in a
smashed-up condition.
The wife of a man named Caskey, EN-.
ployed by G. L. Colman, of La Crosse, lately
attempted to commit suicide by taking laud.
anum. When Caskav want bo,,o 20 d;,,,