Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-10-15
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

eo5atRacinc have reached adlstance OF l,loO
't'iST I'M 1attgrD Day Saints have been hold
dfngsmeetings lately in Black Creek, Outa-
fi.gamie County, vt; ta.5 s7-a
bs9qMRe AND Mrs. THOMAS KIMBALL, of
81 Neenah, celebrated their fiftieth wedding
ANNIVERSARY on the 9th of October.
O. fAoHILD Of Mrs. Frank Durand of
oaFond tlu Lac, recently fell into pail of
hotzwater and was scalded to death. f.i
aHENRy ROMAN stabbed and killed John
NIagill, at his residence in Oshkosh, few
days ago. He also attempted to kill Mrs.
fdBfagffl. Ts7 ~"
THE machine-shop of M. B. Kelly, at
y, Menasha, was destroyed by fire few
Yumornings ago. causing a loss of about
w,$3,000as o5s .eaa .sa.a 5.z
tod AeBEAR Weighing 2444pounds was killed
'aby ageneral turnout of the country, on
Gen. Rusk's farm, near Viroqua, few
days ago. 8nualE Er@
aaaA MAN named Knowles fell overheard
from the transfer steamer McGregor, at
La Crosse, a few nights since and was
drowned before aid could reach him.
ALEX. Bronson, conductor On a Wis
consin Central freight train, fell from the
81 top of his train the other day and twenty
.s6ye-ears passed over hi M HIS remains
were barely recognizable.
JOHN BALsTEY, of Center, has lately
commenced suit against the town of Black
Greek, to recover damages for injuries re-
e I, INor1< az
the highways, lie claims So, 900.
JOHN H. LEWIS, resident of Madison
since 1910, and conspicuously connected
as United States Marshal under Buchan-
an with the famous~Fugitive Slave law
case of S. nj. Booth, died in that city on
the Sd of consumption, after two months
illness.
A MAN calling himself Charles Daniels
presented at the First National Bank of
Milwaukee, the other morning a counter
1eitrletter of credit for $4,000, purporting
to be from the New York agents of the
Bank of British North America. He was
locked up. .,... So. .<.
ra5A YOUNG nurse girl named Annie Crow
sley in Milwaukee, wa detected the other
night in putting her charge to sleep by
administering chloroform. TWAS discov-
cred that she had been in the habit Of
using it frequently, and, fearing arrest, she
suddenly left the city.
SD WISCONSIN fruit made a very creditable
ashow at the recent meeting of the Amer.
can Pathological Society. Of apples
Wisconsin showed by far the largest va
.T1ety of any of the twenty-four States and
provinces represented, receiving the third
Wilder medal for general display of
fruits. "ggr vqgr ~
LuMB ERTNG will be carried on further
up river the coming winter than ever be-
fore. The Oconto Company has a crew of
men Aengag ed clearing out AIcCauslin
Brook, situated-some sixty miles up the
north branch of the Oconto. They are
also erecting dam on it, preparatory for
spring driving.
JOSEPH BEMIRCH, an insane man,
drowned himself in the marsh between
tile tracks of the Chicago & Northwestern
and St. Paul Roads near Milwaukee the
other evening. He stripped himself of
all clothing and plunged around in the
mud in the marsh until he found sufficient
water to drown himself in. ..f.
Mrs. VAN Corr has finished herrevival
labors at Omro. The whole number of
converts was sixty, of whom forty have
Joined the Ne E. Church on probation.
When she left on the cars Il large number
of converts gathered to bid her good-by,
and as the train moved away all joined in
singing Sweet By-and- By" ANN #
THE recent serious accidents in Wiscon-
SIM caused by threshing machines, have
called attention to the law on the subject,
which is found in Chap. 81 General Laws
of Wisconsin, 1868, and requires, among
other things, :" the two lengths oftumbling-
rods next the threshing machine to be
safely boxed while running" mess b
TI1E other night coupling broke on a
Western Union freight-train, near Oak,
wood on the ST. Paul Road, and several
cars and a caboose were released. A Chi.
cagos Milwaukee &J,St. Paul freighttrain
that was following colided with the re-
leased cars, and d. X. Sweeney, engineer
of the colliding locomotive e, received in
iuries from which he died.
Tine following were the postal changes
in Wisconsin during the two weeks end
ing Sept 25, 1875: Name changed
Wedaunee, Winncbago County, to Pickett
Stations, ,Postmasters appointed Badger,
Portage County, James S. Hascall; Elroy,
Juneau County, Edmund Hart; Fair Play,
Grant County, R, NJ Henderson; Forest
Junction, Calumet County, Thomas Flat
ley; Frankfort, Pepin County Henry
Barber; Helvetia, Waupacca County,
Ashman T. Stevens; Middlebury, Iowa
County, Archibald Campbell,
TIE Grand Gemmandery KnightsTemp
lar met lat Milwaukee on the 9Th and
elected the following officers for the en-
suing year: c. p. WhitI6rd, Grand Com
mander; j. II. Dodge, Deputy COMMAND
er5 g. p. Chapman, Generalissimo; H. S.
Goss, Captain-G General; j. L. Pryor, Pre-
late; Fred Ring, Jr., S. W.; G. A. Buff
ington, j. w. 9. P. Utley, Treasurer; j.
W.GWoodhull, Recorder; Calvert Spensly,
G. StandardABearer; Stephen r. Campbell,
CO Sword Bearer;' r. A. Ford, Grand
Warden; c. D. Skinner, Grand Guard III.
w. Woodruff Inspector General. Com.
mittee ON Foreign Correspondence: j.
W)TNoodhull, w. p. Wing and John
Spence. 500 s>4A es2 e'S>
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