Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-04-16
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Brown County.

| Brown County.
The case of John w. Arndt against Philip
Lawrence, involving the title to the home
stead of Mr.. Lawrence, in Green Bay, has
been decided in favor of the defendant. The
case has excited great interest, as it was un-
derstood that the question involved in its de
cision affected in some degree the title to a
large amount of real estate in Green Bay.
Three houses in Green Bay, owned by
| Marcus Iverson, John Casey and Peter Sarin-
son, respectively, were burned the other
night Total loss about $4,000.
| Crawford County.
| Wild fowl and pigeon shooting is the popu-
lar sport on the Mississippi at Prairie du
Chen The spring lakes and bayous are full
of ducks and geese.
Chippewa County.
The Union LAUNDERING Company, of Chip
pewa Falls, will adopt the cash system of
paying their laborers the coming season and
settle with them every thirty days.
A disreputable house at Chippewa Falls
was burned to the ground the other night,
and two of the inmates perished in the flames.
The fire was started by neighborhood incen-
diaries, who took this method of getting rid of
| a ne1ghborhoOd dlsgrace
Manitowoc County.
VIM. Menge and Henry Schwitzer have
purchased the Nord,oesten newspaper estab-
| lishment at Manitowoc of Hon. c. III
| Schmidt.
| Milwaukee County.
| A fire broke out in Brodhead's building, No.
427 East Water street, Milwaukee, the other
morning, which before it was extinguished
destroyed property valued at about $4,000.
Edward Hughes, while olnng machinery IN
| the Reliance Mills at Milwaukee the other
| morning, had his right arm caught between
| two cog-wheels and crushed above the elbow
so badly that it was cut off with a pair of
shears 1t was thought he would not re-
cover.
| DR.. B. S. P. Viganne, a Milwaukee Malthu-
sian, has been arrested charged with sending
obscene matter through the mails.
At meeting of the Woman's Presbyterian
| Board of Foreign Missions, recently held at
Milwaukee, an extraordinary scene was wit
messed, originating in a lady donating gold
| ring toward a. centennial memorial mission
| fund. After several emotional speeches the
| ladies commenced handing up their money,
rings, and earrings, taking the jewelry off
their persons, the receiver announcing each
gift in way that intensified the excitement
to painful degree. Over $751 was taken in
money and pledges from twenty five cents to
| fifty dollars each, besides silk, cashmere and
merino dresses, rings, earrings and other
jewelry.
John Schmitz, Milwaukee carpenter, was
fatally injured the other day by falling from
q scaffold on which he was working.
Ozaukee County.
militia company has been organized in
Port Washington, called the Port Washington
Light Guards.
A few days ago the extensive Touring mill
of Henry Thiens, at Thiensyilie. was burned
Owing to the nature of the building and
the imperfect facilities for extiuguishing con-
flagrations, the mill and contents were totally
destroyed The loss is estimated at from
$4,000 to 100000.
Rock County.
A few nights ago Miss Stebbins, about
twelve years of age, who was working for her
board with Mr.. Henry Miller, farmer resid-
ing about three miles west of Beloit, COM
mitted suicide by taking strychnine. No
cause is assigned for the deed.
waushara County.
A fire in Dakota, recently, destroyed the
store of N. B. Prentice Loss on goods and
accounts $4,000; on building $1,5O0 The
records of the town and school district were
destroyed; also a considerable amount in
notes left with Mr.. Prentice for collection.
WfnnebagO County.
A few nights ago house belonging to
Joseph Linsey, at Oshkosh, was discovered to
be on fire. Before it could be quenched the
house was badly damaged. Mrs. Linsey, an
old lady, became excited, and, having disease
of the heart, she dropped dead.