Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-06-25
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

The census of Madison, just completed,
shows population of 3,763-an increase
of 500 since 1870
DIR. STEPHENS, of Madison, has Sc
cured the contract for the erection of the
new University Science Hall, for 500 ,975.
A DwEILNG-HoUsE on the bluff at
Green Bay was struck BY lightning the
other morning and burned to the ground.
Loss, $4,000.
1 The farmers say that ten days ago
thousands of chinch- bugs could be seen
in all the fields, but since the rain scarcely
one can befound.
~, On the 18th the Chicago, Milwaukee &
u st. Paul Railroad stockholders held their
anInlal meeting at Milwaukee. The
Mitchell ticket was successful
C. G. BARBER 81 Son have contracted to
construct lock near White River on the
Fox and Wisconsin River improvement.
The contract price is $23, 1892
THEL La Crosse streets, which are paved
with sawdust, are declared nuisance, for
they cause a terrific dust in windy wealth
er, and when they are decayed emit an of
fensive odor and are q breeding place of
disease
THE Oshkosh Northeastern announces
that 1t has now become a settled matter
that the next Northern Fair will be held
at Oshkosh and the premium-list is al
ready out and being distributed by the
Secretary, r. d. Torrey.
THE following Postmasters were ap-
pointed in Wisconsin during the week
ending June H. 1875: Frankville, Jack
son County, Seneca V. Perry; New Ha-
ven, Adams County, David A. Larkin;
Valley, Vernon County, Diamond A.
Lawton.
WE LEARN from Assistant State Super
intendent Pradt that the amount Of school
fund income subject to apportionment this
year is 1884, 925 40. The number of
school children upon whom it will be APP
portioned is about 10000; the rate per
capita, forty-one cents. Last year and the
year before it was forty-two cents.-Nads-
son State Journal.
teachers certificates will lie held at Mad
ison, commencing at the time prescribed
by law, namely, the second Wednesday of
August the 11th), 1875, at nine o'clock a.
m. The Board of Examiners for the cur
rent year consists of Prof. s. S. Rock
wood, of Whitewater; Prof. George Beck,
of Plattevile, and Prof. G. F. Viebahn, of
NanitSwoc.
On the afternoon of the 9th, at Mil
waukee, the Wisconsin Grand Lodge of
Masons elected J. P. G. Cattrill, Grand
Master; E. s. Miner, S. G. NJ Chas. J.
Pardee, of Pardeville, J. G. NJ; VIM. M.
Hines, of Fond du Lac, G. T.. John w.
Woodruff, of Berlin, G. s. The Trustees
elected are E. E. Chaplin, of Columbus,
for three years; E. s. Miner, of Neenah,
two years, and d. III. Wright, of Madison,
for one year.
K u. CHARLES WAsHKA, a German, who re-
sided in the town of Bristol, was recently
brought before Justice Lahore, charged
with stealing corn from a neighbours crib.
He was caught in the very act, and was
badly punished by the exasperated farm
er, who had lost several lots of corn, and
was watching for the thief. The suit was
withdrawn, Washka promising to sell his
farm and effects and leave this part of the
country. He has since made good his
promise.
A FEW evenings ago, as a passenger
train on the Northwestern Railway was
going north, near the city limits of Osh-
kosh the engineer discovered man
walking on the track, and though the
whistle was sharply blown he paid no at
tention to it, The engine struck him,
breaking both his legs and injuring him
internally to such an extent that he died
in few hours. The man proved to be
an inmate of the county poor-house,
known by the name of Poney, and was
partially idiotic.
JOHN SEEGAR, a compositor in the en-
ploy of the Milwaukee Columbia office,
while standing on the river dock the other
morning back ofand below the composing
room, received quantity of water in the
face, thrown in sport by fellow-laborer
above, and in endeavoring to dodge it lost
his balance and fell into the water. Ed Mel
lon, an employee of the Vtndtcator office
dove for him several times and the police
dragged the river for three hours before
the body was recovered. He was seven
teen years of age.
THE late disaster to the Schiller, with
tic calamity To Milwaukee, is SunOle-
mented by the loss of the .Vicksburg, tho
steamship crushed by the ice off New
foundland June 1. Mr.. s, Meyer and Mr..
and Mrs. s. Hirschstein, of this city, were
on board the steamer, and are among the
lost. Mr.. Meyer was distiller, formerly
doing business at 206 West Water street.
When the revenue troubles came down on
the distillers he left for Europe. Mr..
Hirschstein managed Nunnemacher &
Worth's distillery. He also left for Eu-
rope when the trouble came. Wisconsin,.
THE State Turner'S Association will
assemble at Appleton on the 10th of July,
which is about month earlier than usual.
On the 10th there will be a business meet
ing of the delegates on the nth of guests,
and in the evening atorchlight procession,
after which social meeting and prize
defamation; the 10Th picnic, prize
turning and garden concert by Bach's
Band and in the evening concert at
Bertschey's Hall and drama at Turner
Hall; on the Goth, festival, procession and
continuation of prize turning, and In the