Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-10-09
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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Ashland County
| A wagon road has been located and sur
veyed from Penoka to the new settlement on
the Chippewa River.
Barron County.
| Another county-seat contest is expected this
| fall. The proposition to be voted on is to re-
move it from Rice Lake, whereit was put last
year by nineteen majority, and TO locate it at
the old place.
Bayfield, County.
Business at the Land-O Office at Bayfield, has
picked up a triie during September, though,
taken altogether, it has been the dullest sea-
son known for many years.
Brown County.
| Ell ira Squet, charged witl3 poisoning her
former husband, August Mai sart, was dis
charged from custody at tsreSif Bay on-the
2Sth, the District Attorney having entered a
nolle proseQsi.
All the saloon-keepers in the city of Green
Bay were complained of on the 30th for SELL
ing liquor on the preceding Sunday The
complaint was entered by Mrs. Pague, Bel
gian woman. She walked to town, a distance
her arms, to make the complaint.
The Brown County Republican Convention
met at Green Bay on the Sd and nominated G.
W. Watson, Register of Deeds; j. s. Feath-
erly, Sheriff; G. R. Cook County Treasurer;
A. A. Warren, Clerk of Court; J. D. Williams,
County Clerk; j. j. Tracy, District Attorney;
j. Harp, Coroner; E. Baldwin, County Sur
veyor
The warehouse and dock in Fort Howard
agents for the Goodrich Steamboat Line, were
destroyed by fire on the night of the I'd, to-
gether with 10000 slaves belonging to L. j.
Day; 1000 barrels of salt, belonging to John
Day & Brother; 100000 shingles, belonging to
N C. Foster; valuable machinery, merchan-
disc, ETC., belonging to L. j. Day and others.
Loss about $4,000; insurance about $4,000.
1t is supposed to have been the work of an
incendiary.
Two railway thieves at Green Bay were on
the I'd convicted and sentenced to Waupun
for the larceny of $3.50 worth of sundry arti-
cles of freight from the cars of the Green Bay
& Minnesota Railroad Company.
While Joseph Easterly was chopping in the
woods few miles north of Green Bay, on the
4th, his ak caught on limb, causing it to cut
a terrible cash in his leg, above the knee,
from which he bled to death on the afternoon
of the 5th.
Buffalo County.
Henry Hunter, of Mondovi, has a stalk of
corn measuring fifteen feet and two inches.
A triple wedding in one family is the latest
sensation in Dover.
Chippewa County.
Mercer's jewelry store at Chippewa Falls
was burglarized on the morning of the 2oth.
The thieves gained an entrance through
trap-door in the cellar and got away with
nearly $4,000 worth of jewelry.
Columbia County.
On the evening of the Goth ult. Brazila
Ormsbee, aged nineteen, living three miles
west of Doylestown Station, was instantly
killed by the accidental discharge of gun.
He took the gun by the muzzle and the en-
tire charge struck him in the neck, severing
the jugular vein.
The Reformers of Columbia have placed
the following ticket in the field: State Sena-
tor, w. I'll. Proctor, of Fountain Prairie;
Sheriff, Alex. Mcdonald, Of Portage City;
Treasurer, Valentine Helman, of Portage
City; County Clerk, J. A. Sweeney, of Fort
Winnebago; Register of Deeds, Charles j..
Pardee, of Wyocena; Clerk of the Court, E..
Bowen, of Columbus; District Attorney E.
E. Chaplin, of Columbus; School Superin-
tendent, u. Stearns, of Lodi.
Dane County.
Official information has been received at
Madison that Col. John w. Bashford lumber
agent for district in the st. Croix Valley, has
seized and caused to be sold Il, ,000,0 900 feet of
logs, realizing $53,7O0. During lastly there
was but 100000 feet seized in the whole
valley, and the entire sum realized was
$1S,000
A Wisconsin Central Poultry Association
has been organized at Madison, with the fol-
lowing officers: President, Col. w. HI. Ham
ilton, of Sun Prairie Secretary, E. S. McBride,
of Madison; Treasurer, S. H. Hall, of Burke
Dodge County.
Four thousand pounds of grapes from one
ourth of an acre is the yield reported by a
grape culturist near Beaver Dam.
The whole number of school children in
Fox Lake to draw public money is 4O2, an in
o. H. Jones was nominated for the Assem-
bly, on the 5th by the Republicans at Beaver
Dam.
Douglas County.
The weather was extremely warm for this
locality during September. There had been
no frost up to the 26th ult., and cucumbers,
beans and tomatoes were as green and fruit
full as in July and August.
Fond du Lac County.
The papers in the vicinity of the State
Prison say that attempted escapes of the pris-
oners are becoming alarming frequent.
The city Of Fond du Lac claims popula-
lion of II, 500.
CT. Hammond has been nominated for the
Assembly by the temperance people of Bran
don.
Grant County.
family living near Muscoda were recently
poisoned by eating toadstools under the mis-
taken impression that they were mushrooms.
The several Oranges of this county held
harvest home festival on the air-grounds
at Lancaster on the 30th. Three hundred
teams were in the procession and over 5000
people participated in the exercises.
Green County.
On the 26th Senator Carpenter discussed
the railroad question before 5000 people as
sembled at the county fair grounds.
The Republicans of this county met on the2d
and nominated c. r. Dennison for Assembly
man; d. w. Ball for Sheriff; 2. j. Clawson for
District Attorney; L. Zelter for County Clerk;
F. r. Milwin for Treasurer; G. E. Tauberg for
Register; Edmund Bartlett for Clerk of the
County Court; A. c. Stuntz for Surveyor, and
L. Frankenberger for Coroner