Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-10-16

Ashland County.


The Indians are bringing considerable fur to
market.
There has been great abundance of pota-
toes, sweet-corn and vegetables raised in this
county the present season.
Barron County.
The survey of the North Wisconsin Railway
through this county is being vigorously pros
ecuted. This is the final survey, and the
route is being located preparatory to COM
mencement of the work next season.
Brown County.
Lee Allen was killed by the cars in the
switchboard of the Green Bay & Minnesota
Railway, at Fort Howard, the other day.
A man named Thomas Yerk bled to death
] atthe Juneau House, in Green Bay, on the
night,of the 9Th. He was taken with bleeding
of the lungs, which lasted but a few minutes,
when he expired.
Antoine Oseishi, Polander. was instantly
killed at Lilly's Lake on the Sth by a tree
falling upon him. He was trying to fell a
tree which was lodged by cutting the one
which it leaned against, when they both fell
z upon him, crushing him in horrible manner,
causing instant death.
On the evening of the 10th John Munich, Of
Green Bay, fell into a reservoir in course of
construction at the intersection of Pine and
. Madison streets. He was seriously injured.
5Buffalo County.
A number of Alma sportsmen recently
chartered a steamboat and went hunting.
81 They brought back lame snipe
Calumet County
The other day little son of Moses Ebert,
of Chiffon, was nearly drowned in swill-
pail lie was rescued by his mother just be-
fore life was extinct.
Clark County.
.- AS George Frantz, of Neilsville, was pilot
ing companion through the woods to a
game resort, the lattcrs gun caught on a
twig and discharged its contents into the
small of Frantz' back, inhicting a fatal
wound.
The woods in the county are filled with dig
gers of ginseng. They sell their findings at
nineteen cents pound
Augustus Monroe, of Neilsville, a boy fifteen
years old, recently shot a 500-pound black
bear.
Chippewa County.
Thomas Grady of Lafayette, sold squash
recently that weighed 113 pounds and meas
4.arurcu inches Ill
Columbia County.
The Valley Ne,os says Mr.. L. P Hindes, of
Lodi has raised the past season, from one
acre $3.50 hills), 2,537 pounds of hops, for
which he received 321a cents per pound,
yielding him $849.S4
Dane County.
Job Bradley, of Utica, raised this year 1000
bushels of rutabaga turnips on six acres of
ground.
The Liberal Democrats of Dane County
have nominated thefollowing ticket: Sheriff,
VIM c. Kser, of Fitchburg; Treasurer, Ber-
nard NJ Minch, of Madison; Register OF
Deeds, Lars j. Greade, of Windsor; County
Clerk, Philip Barry, of Fitchburg; District
Attorney, Burr w. Jones, of Madison; Clerk
of tn Court, Bernard Esser, of Springfield
= Surveyor, oNhn Douglas, of Burke; Coroner
John Arion, of BRISTOL.
Harvey A, Warner, young druggist in the
employ of Cunning 81 Sumn.r Madison died
very suddenly in his bedroom on the evening
of the 18th. He went up to his room over the
store to prepare for tea, leaving friend await
inc him. Not returning when expected, ali
other clerk went up, and found Warner dead
upon his bed. He came from Chicago early
Door County.
A Belgian woman was caught by the tumb-
ling-rod of a threshing machine in Brussels,
the other day, and killed
Dunn County.
1t has been decided in a suit in the Circuit
Court at MenomOnee that the "lager beer"
sold there does not intoXicate. In conse-
quence of this decision all the other suits
against parties by whom liquor was sold with
out license have been discontinued.
Eau Claire County.
Capt. Downs barn and stable were burned
on the 9th. Loss $4,000.
Fond du Lac County.
few Fond du Lac boys recently serenaded
ncwly-married couple with horns and tin
pans, and now the doctors are picking the
bird-shot out of their legs.
Grant County.
Edmund johnson, of Bradtville, was re-
Gently killed by a vicious bull which he was
attempting to lead. In passing stone wall
he was suddenly attacked by the Infatuated
animal and hurled against the wall, when he
was gored until insensible and then tossed
over the savage creatures back, striking on
his head. His spinal column was broken
and he was otherwise fearfully mangled.
An old speckled hen in Boscobel has
Matched and raised since last spring forty
two chickens, and up to the LIST had laid fifty
four eggs besides. That's business.
Green County.
=. On the 3d. during the race at the fair.
grounds, Simmons Canada colt bolted the
track and ran into the crowd, severely in.
juring Mr.. George Crooks, of Adams.
q, Green Lake County.
90 Nearly $4,000 bushels of cranberries have
been picked this fall in the vicinity of Berlin.
Jefferson County.
belonging to c. Hassell, killed himself re
Gently by getting his horns entangled in a
small willow bush.
The stores of Bartlett & Roberts, E. F. War
rims and w. H. Hudson, of Albany, were en-
tered on the night of the 9TH, and $125 was
stolen, besides goods to large amount. In
Hudson's store the burglars blew open the
safe, damaging the building to the extent OF
S.. $1,000.
3, Mrs. George Fitch, of Azlatan, committed
suicide on the evening of the Sth by hanging
herself to beam in the barn. Itappears that
she retired as usual, and got up during the
night and committed the deed. Domestic
trouble is assigned as the cause.
Juneau County.
The Headlight says that recent experiments
have shown that this county is well adapted
to fruit-raising, and that as good apples can
Z be produced here as in milder ATTITUDES.