Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-09-03
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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mitted suicide at Milwaukee by cutting
her throat
THE hunters find the prairie-chickens
throughout the Stato uncommonly plenty
and good.
CHARLES MARTIN wasrecently killed by
the caving of clay bank in Kratz' brick
yard, Wauwatosa.
A FEW days since Clara LEM was
drowned near Humboldt, by falling into
an uncovered we'll.
THE freight warehouse of the Wisconsin
Railroad Company at Fort Howard was
burned the other night
CHARLES SANDERS house, on Eleventh
street, Fond du Lac, was burned to the
ground few nights ago, involving loss
of $780,
A SEVERE and in many places killing
frost visited Wisconsin on the morning of
the 22d, killing the vines pretty generally
and the corn in some sections.
KITTY QUINN, aged thirteen years, was
burned to death the other evening, at Mil
waukee, by her clothes taking fire from
contact with the kitchen-stove.
CHARLES HnDEBRANDT, the late Vii
lage Treasurer Of West Bend, Washington
County, the State Journal says, is de-
taulter in the sum of $4,061.T
A SAD spectacle was presented on the
streets of Madison the other afternoon by
a boy about fourteen years old appearing
in beastly state of intoxication.
AN Oshkosh runaway horse ran into a
store, tearing himself loose from the vehi-
Gle, which he left at the entrance, and,
passing through the store lengthwise,
umped through rear window.
AYoUNG man arrived in Madison, Wis,
the other day, accompanied by his intend
ed bride, but after hunting all through the
town for minister they were obliged to
go on to Milwaukee to get the knot tied.
THE saw-mill and several adjacent
dwellings at Mill Centre, about ten miles
from Green Bay, were burned to the
ground a few evenings ago, involving
the loss of property valued at about $780,
900.
THE census returns of Shawano County
were received at the office of the Secretary
of State few days since, showing popu-
lation of 6,635, Of whom 3,548 are males
and 3,048 females. This makes the ag.
gregate population of the State 1896, 600.
A GENTLEMAN just returned from trip
up to the head-waters of the Chippewa
River reports that the fires in the woods
have already injured over 100000, 900 feet
of standing timber in that vicinity to
such an extent that it will have to be cut
during the coming winter to save any con.
siderable portion of it.
THE following Postmasters were ap-
pointed in the State during the week end
ing Aug. 81, 1875; Clam Falls, Polk Coun-
ty, E. E. Gregg; Colburn, Columbia
County, Henry Meyer; Greenleaf, Brown
County, Philip Snyder; Little Sturgeon,
Door County, John M. Burnett; Poygan,
Winnebago County, Philip Larson.
THE committee of the State Agricult-
ural Society appointed to investigate Sat-
Clark's charges of misappropriation of
the society's money by Gov. Taylor when
he was Marshal of the State Fair, had a
meeting at Madison the other day, but
some witnesses wanted by Clark were
not there, and the examination was finally
postposed till December.
Col. VIM. A. BUeH, Postmaster at Ber-
In, died lately of consumption. the de-
ceased was in the army during the war,
holding the position of Captain in the
Fifth Infantry, and subsequently that of
Colonel of the Thirty-seventh. He re-
ceived wounds which made him cripple
for life. He represented the district in the
Assembly in 1865, and had been Postmas-
ter since 1866.
THE other evening the tugs Starke
Brothers and F. w. Maxon had a race for
Che schooner Ardent, in the bay off Mil
waukee The Maxon reached the schooner
first but the Starke Brothers was so close
behind that she struck the Maxop in the
stern, driving the latter's bow against the
Ardent with such force as to crush the
latter's side and cause her to ell with
water in a few minutes
A GERMAN named Antoine Leopold, re-
siding az Appleton, committed suicide the
other evening by shnotIng. lie was some
what demeuied, and. haviag asen so3 ~
hv smother party said he would shoot
himself No attention was paid % hts
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