Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-10-01
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

The Omro cheese factory has discov-
cred two of its patrons watering their
milk.
THE lumbermen are making prepare
lions for next winters campaign in the
woods.
THE cranberry crop throughout Wiscon.
sin seems to have been greatly injured by
the frost,
A MOVEMENT is on foot at Madison to
get up at least one more regatta before the
snow flies
THOMAS BURNS, Green Bay saloon
keeper, has been arrested for selling liquor
to Indians.
WISCONSIN has $50 graded schools, three
normal schools and fourth in process of
organization.
The firemen of the State of Wisconsin
will have grand tournament at Racine
on Monday, Oct 4.
EMMETT AND STEPHEN CRANDALL were
out boating near Butte DIES Mortes, the other
day, became intoxicated tipped over and
were drowned.
THE new county of Taylor, created last
winter, has been divided up into four
towns called Medford, Westboro, Chelsea
and Little Black.
The latest Milwaukee sensation is the
reported elopement of DR.. Thomas Hatch
ard, a physician of twenty-seven years.
standing, with Mrs. Cummings.
THE Capitol City was somewhat excited
on the 10th, because on the preceding
night eight houses had been entered by
burglars and about $40O worth of proper
ty taken.
THE unfavorable weather reduced the
receipts of the State Fair materially
about $4,000 less than last year. Some
dissatisfaction was expressed with the
management.
BETWEEN domestic troubles at home
and drink away from home, life came to
be a burden to Frederick Bosth, of Mil
waukee, and so he cut the matter short a
few days since by hanging himself with a
rope.
A MAN named Zwerg, who keeps sa-
loon near Madison, recently shot and
killed q man named Thornton who offered
him counterfeit five-dollar bill in pay
ment of an old score. Zwerg was held for
murder.
A YOUNG man named Tule is said to
have been badly beaten at distillery,
north of Milwaukee, a few days ago, be-
cause he refused a bride and insisted upon
reporting the discovery of quantity of
Illicit highwines.
FL A NINE -MONTHs-oLD daughter of D.
Soper, while sitting at the tea-table at his
residence in Green Bay, the other night,
pulled over an urn full of hottea, scaldipg
herself so severely that she died twenty
four hours after
THE town of Fayette has been sued for
$104 damages by traveller whose car
riage was caught by the branch of tree
while travelling along regular road, caus-
ing his horses to run away and smashing
up things generally.
THE Milwaukee Neaos has changed
hands, Col. Calkins having sold his inter-
est to A. L. Kane for $34, 900, which is a
majority of the stock. Forty per cent. of
this amount was paid in cash and 60 per
cent. in real estate.
FRED MUTH, of Milwaukee, committed
suicide the other evening by hanging him.
self to rafter in his clubhouse. He was
all old citizen of Milwaukee. Unpleasant
relations with his wife are supposed to
have induced the act.
LOUIS HARTMAN, a boy employed IS
messenger at the First National Bank of
Milwaukee, was recently detected stealing
letters and valuable papers. He had been
for some time engaged in the business and
had secured about $500 in small remit
tances and collections on drafts.
AUGUST WAsCH, a sewing machine
agent, shot one Spoilledder, at WauwO-
tosa the other day. Wasch went to Spoil
ledders house to obtain machine on
which payments had ceased. He was re-
sisted, and, as he claims, in self.defense
drew a revolver and fired. Wasch was
arrested and Is held to await results.
E. r. HENDRY, the lessee and manager
ofthe Bethesda Springs, at Waukesha, has
absconded, leaving large amount of in
debtedness. His principal victim WIS
Tyler & Co.'s bank, which had advanced
him $1,000 or $4,000 on apparently value
less collaterals. A run upon the bank
was caused by rumors of this fact and it
was forced to suspend
A cow belonging to an Oshkosh woman
lately happened to be on the track as the
train came along, and she rushed in front
of the train to drive the animal out of
danger. The cow got off all right, but
the old lady didn't. The locomotive
struck her, pitching her headlong into
the ditch, but, as by miracle, not bone
was broken, nor was she even badly
bruised.
ON farms where there are stones too
heavy to be removed it has been the Gus.
tom to dig holes by their side, tumble
them in, and thus get them out of the way
of the pillow. A farmer named Roberts,
near Oshkosh, was burying a stone in this
way the other day, but unfortunately he
dug the hole too near the stone, and it fell
in upon him and injured him so severely
that he died.
Fire was discovered in the beethoven
of the Milwaukee Catholic Cathedral, the
other afternoon, and when the engines ar
rived on the ground the bell.room was in
full possession of the flames. By great
good luck the firemen succeeded in pre-