Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-09-10
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

suspended.
SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS was recently
distributed among the Stockbridge Indians
by Agent Bridgman.
THERE were forty-four deaths in Mil
waukee during the week ending Aug. %,
.ofswhich thirty three were classed as chill
dren 4"
IT is conceded on all hands that moth
ing now will prevent an immense corn
crop in all parts of the State but a heavy
frost.
A NINE-MoNTHs-oLD daughter of w.
w Felchs Of Fort Howard, was acct
sdentally drowned in Jar of water the
other evening.
JACOB REHR, a farmer residing on the
Muskego road, a few miles from Milwau-
kee, had aleg taken off by threshing-
machine few days ago.
THERE are 2,646 boys and girls over
four and under twenty years of age in the
Tenth Ward, Milwaukee. OF this num-
Der 1888 are girls and 1 1868 boys.
MILWAUKEE Turner's were made happy
the other morning by the receipt of dis
patch that their delegation had won twenty
firstclass prizes at the national tourna-
ment in New York.
A SPAN of mules attached to gravel
wagon, frightened by the appearance of
the elephants attached to the hippodrome,
in the streets of Milwaukee, the other day,
ran away and killed John Butler.
ANOTHER mineral spring has been dis
covered in the vicinity of Milwaukee.
This time the waters rise near the quarry
OF Manegold & Schweickhart, in the Me-
nomonee Valley. It has been named the
Menomonee Health Spring.
THE, State Normal School in Oshkosh
has fairly opened for the fall term. The
great popularity of the institution is at
tested by the fact that, large as the build
ing and accommodations are, it has hard
ly seating capacity sufficient for the pupils
that have appeared this term.
MIR. j. III. SHERMAN, proprietor of
large tannery in Racine recently COM
mitted suicide by hanging. No cause can
be suggested for the deed, and he was
cheerfully conversing with friends to tile
moment of entering the shed where his
body was found. In his family there was
the greatest harmony. He was not finan-
Cially embarrassed and no man in Racine
was more highly regarded.
AT a small tavern about nine miles
south of Milwaukee Thomas Mccarthy
~
was found q few days ago lying dead on
the floor, with bullet ball in his fore
head. Entrance was effected, and the
body OF Mccarthy removed to his resi-
dence. August Baumann, proprietor Of
the, tavern, could not be found, and it was
supposed that he fled on commission of
the crime. The place indicated that there
had been desperate struggle between
the men. The walls were furrowed by
bullets and the windows broken by glasses
picked up from the counter. Baumann
was seen in the neighborhood at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, and subsequent
ly returned to the saloon and committed
suicide by shooting himself twice in the
right breast. The men were last seen by
boy at a late hour on Wednesday night,
and were then joking at each others ex-
pense, 1t is supposed that they subse-
quently quarreled, and that Bauman shot
Mccarthy in the heat of passion.
A SHOCKING accident occurred in the
town of Rosendale, eight miles southwest
of Oshkosh, recently. The boiler of an
engine driving threshing-machine explod-
ed, causing death to two men, and seri-
ously scalding two others. The engine
had been run six seasons and was sup
posed to be in good order and safe. VIM.
Owens was feeding at the time of the eX-
plosion, and was struck by piece of
boiler and instantly killed. Henry Perry
was measuring, and being by the side of
theseparator, which was complely wrecked
and set on fire, he was buried under it and
burned to a crisp. Two sons of Mr.. Rees
were terribly scalded, and little ten
year-old son Of Moon, on whose premises
the machine was at work, were thrown
some distance over the fence, but not seri-
ously hurt The engineer happened to be
out of the line of the explosion and was
unhurt. The cause of the explosion was
that the boiler had become too weak to
stand the pressure necessary to run the
machine
THE Supreme Court IN recent opinion
holds that the power of Congress "to ex.
ercise exclusive legislation" over call
places purchased, by the consent of the
Legislature of the State in which the same
shall he - for the purDOSes mentioned in
the 10th clause of Sec. s, Art. I. of the
Federal Constitution, is limited to places
the title to sohicha is gested nm the United
States, with such consent ofthe Legislature;
and even as to such places the jurisdiction
of the State to enforce its laws ard punish
crimes continues until Congress has, by
some further legislative act, extinguished
the State authority and vested exclusive
jurisdiction over such places in the
Federal Courts. The State Legisla-
ture has no power to abdicate the
jurisdiction of the State over places
within its limits, except where the title to
them has been acquired by the United
States The .title.to the. premises occupied
by the " National Home for Disabled Vol.
unteer Soldiers, "tin this State, is not an the
United States, but in corporation created
bN CONGRESS; and although the Legisla.
tureof this State attempted to cede to the
United States jurisdiction over said prem
Uses (Ch 275, p. & L. Laws of 1867 the
Jurisdiction of the proper State courts
over them remains unimpaired A per-
son duly charged before the municipal