Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-01-08
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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from Sec. 81, Township IS north, Range Ii,
west of the 4th principal meridian, TO Inc
southeast quarter of Sec %, Township "a
north, Range l. west of the 4th principal
meridian.
Brown County
John McDermott was thrown from load
of hay at Green Bay, the other day. His arm
was broken and he was internally injured.
Two men were lately arrested in Green
Bay for passing counterfeit ten-dollar note
upon restaurant-keeper.
Columbia County.
A new cheese factory has just been organ
lied at Arlington with capacity for manu-
featuring the milk of 500 cows during the
coming summer.
Dane County.
Charles Pierstorf, of Middleton, his wife,
five daughters and one son recently narrowly
escaped death by drinking coffee in which one
of the girls had accidentally put the seeds of
stramonium jamestown weed.
The team of Paul De Bower, of Dane Sta
ton, ran away the other morning, throwing
him out of his sleigh and breaking his leg
The noted conspiracy case in which Col
Bull, "a s. Rogers, A. Mueller and Sam
Rindskopf were defendants has ended. On
the Doth Col. Bull was fined $1,000 and SEN
fenced to six months imprisonment in the
county JAIL Mueller was fined $1,000 and
sentenced to one days Imprisonment; Rinds-
kopf was fined $4,000 and costs, and placed
one day in the custody of the United States
Marshal; Rogers, having turned States evil
dence, was discharged.
Arrriov If11ra mt
will convene at Madison on the 27th of
January.
Dodge County.
The Beaver Dam Citizen says a good story
is being circulated at the expense of men,
ber-elect of Congress, whose home is near
Beaver Dam. He read in the paper that Con-
gress was to assemble Dec. z, so he packed
up his clean linen, and with his wife and one
or two children started for the national cap
ital in time to claim his seat in the House of
Representatives at the opening session.
After his arrival there it did not take him
great while to learn that school would not
beginsfor him until the 4th of March. He
returned home after an absence of about
three weeks, and finds it mighty hard work
to convince his friends that he has only just
been visiting in Missouri.
Eau Claire County.
The freight receipts at Eau Claire for 1874
have wonderfully increased. They amounted
to 20000000 pounds in 1872; 81 ,24S, $50 pounds
in 1878, and about IS, 100000 pounds in 1874.
Four dwellings, were burned in Eau Claire
the other night worth about $4,000.
Fond du Lac County.
The Goth was the coolest day of the season
at Fond du Lac. At sunrise the thermometer
indicated 81 deg below zero.
The decision of Judge Ellis, giving j. w.
Bass, of Fond du Lac, judgment for some
$1,000 against the Northwestern Railway
Company for ejectment from ladies' car
some time ago, has been reversed by the Su-
preme Court.
Fond du Lac has shipped goods worth 81, 200
to the Kansas and Nebraska grasshopper
sufferers.
Green Lake County.
d. Williams, printer, and formerly one of
the proprietors of the Berlin Journal, COM
mitted suicide at Berlin the other night by
shooting himself through the heart. The
cause of the rash act is said to have been
family troubles.
jackson County.
It is estimated that the cut of logs on
Black River and tributaries during the winter
will not exceed 10000, 900 feet, against $780,
100000 in 1878 and 240, 900 in 1874.
Considerable excitement prevails in Black
River Falls, growing out of the fact that a
child resembling Charlie Ross has been left
by strangers with family resident there.
Jefferson county.
ID. W. Kellogg, prominent citizen of JEFF
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noon He was out in his stable, attending to
his horses, when he was taken suddenly ill.
In his endeavors to reach the house he at
tracted his wife's attention. When she came
to his assistance he had reached the steps
leading to the house, where his strength
failed and he fell back into his wifes arms
and expired.
Charles Beard, Fort Atkinson druggist,
recently attempted suicide by taking five
grains of morphine. There was woman in
the case.
Ia Crosse County.
James Langdon, an Alderman and prom
inent business man of La Crosse, died very
suddenly few days ago from rupture of
the cranial blood-vessels. Twenty minutes
before his death he was enjoying excellent
health.
Marquette County.
The barn belonging to Mr.. Ed. McCaffery
of Packwaukee one of the largest and best
in the county, was burned, with all it's con-
tents, the other night. Loss about So, 500.
Milwaukee County.
Lisa Schaffner, of Milwaukee, was run over
and nearly killed the other night by two
drunken men in buggy.
The boiler-shop of the Milwaukee iron
works was burned on Christmas morning.
Loss $500.
train on the st. Paul Railway took fire
spontaneously in Milwaukee the other morn
ing. Before it could be extinguished seven
cars were damaged to the extent of about
$500.
The length of the paved streets in Milwau-
kee is 1907 miles,
Pole named Raczck was killed and
another man fatally injured at Milwaukee,
the other day, by the fall of clay bank under
meath which they were working.
The annual statement of the trade and com
merce of Milwaukee for 1874 shows the re-
ceipts of wheat to have been 1861, 444 bush
els; shipments, 22,352, ILL., flour, receipts,
1865 barrels; shipments, 2,20S, AIS; lum
her, receipts, 141 ,404 200 feet; lath II, 103, $685.
shingles, us, 0S7,000; cattle, receipts, 20,925;
live hogs, 237,007; dressed hogs, 1905.
There are 1873 teachers employed in the
Milwaukee public schools.
Farmer John Gusal, of Town Nine while on
his way to Milwaukee with pair of steers,
recently, was terribly and fatally wounded nv