Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-08-20
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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FOND DU LAC will raise 10000 bushels
of tomatoes this year
OSHKOSH is putting on metropolitan airs
She has uniformed her police,
THE Milwaukee police force made 29l
arrests during the month OF July.
A MRS NUTTER is a candidate for Su-
perintendent of Schools in Dana County.
THE average yield of wheat per acre IN
Washington County this year is about
twenty bushels. @ rs sot
CoLEMANs saw-mill was burned at La
Crosse a few nights ago, involving a loss of
$4,000. Over $50 hands were thrown out
of employment ~ s.
THE State Gazette, of Green Bay, has
been sued for libel on account of an article
in reference to an itinerantsewing-
repairer The damages were laid at $4,000
SOME Of the largest oaks in the Capitol
Park are dying out. Three of them have
already been taken out by the roots. STU
perintendent Knight is apprehensive that
he will lose them ALL t-' gig 20" q
A YOUNG man named A. III. Holland
lately from Appleton, was arrested in Mil
waukee the other day on the charge Of
having obtained goods by false pretenses
from certain citizens of the former place.
THE Supreme Court has lately decided
that an open, unliquidated demand for
goods or services, or both where no ac-
count has been rendered and no demand
of payment made, does not carry inter-
est, in the absence of any agreement to
that effect. 4~ ~S> fE
A PARTY of hunters from Green Bay
thought to escape the penalties of the
Game law by an excursion for deer into
Kewaunee County. The sequel was an
urgent Geographic appeal for funds to re-
lease them from the clutches of the
Kewaunee Sheriff. s'5tl
A MECHANIC named Blackman was IA
tally injured in the Packet Company's
mills at La Crosse the other evening.
While at work repairing belt by some
means the belt got caught in moving ma
chinery, throwing him On the machinery,
fearfully injuring him in the lower part of
the body and hips
THE United States Marshal at Milwau-
kee was lately requested by Indian Agent
Bridgeman to remove the Stockbridge In
dians, who were said to be trespassing on
the reservation in Shawano County. Dep
uty Marshal Whitney attempted to CON-
ply, but the Indians resisted him. There
were grave apprehensions of trouble
A SCHOLARSHIPS at Wrightstown,
named Sarah A. Christman, was recently
arrested for assault and battery upon fe
male pupil. The case came to trial and
after the testimony for the prosecution
was in she was dismissed for the want of
sufficient evidence. The affair grew out
of the teacher wishing to have singing in
her school, and this pupil among others,
refusing because they were Catholics and
fearing that Protestant songs would be in
trOduced. i'.t ''
THE discovery was made the other morn
ing that the packing-house of John Fair
long, located ON the lake shore north of
Milwaukee harbor, had been entered re-
Gently by men or boys and an engine
which cost 5000 broken up, probably to be
sold for old iron. Kettles were also broken
and carried off, also one or two scales
One of the latter was found on Walkers
Point bridge, which leads to the suppose
ton that the vandalism was perpehated
quite recently. The packing house has
not been used since the spring of 1874. An
entrance was effected by cutting hole
through the floor of the building.
THE Madison Democrat of the 9th pub
lished table purporting to be the returns
of the late census. Official reports on that
date were still lacking from Adams, Ash
land, Barron, Brown, Shawano, Washing
ton, Waupaca and Wood Counties. Ac-
cording to the Democrats figures the total
population is now 1881, 921, against 1854
GO in 1870, making a net gain of 1873, 251
The returns received at the office of the
Secretary of State vary considerably from
the figures published The State Journal
says the indications are that the census
falls considerably short of the real popula--
ton of the State, especially in the rural
districts.
SIMON FRANK, an Israelite living at
Eureka, shot himself in the heart, at Osh-
kosh, few evenings ago, infiicting a NOR
tai wound. A few days since his wife left
him. On the 9th he inserted in the Osh-
kosh Northeastern an advertisementch
ing A, Lefebre, his father in law, with con-
spring to injure him, and warned all
young men against marrying girls whom
they did not know. The fatal act was
caused by the sudden appearance Of his
wife, whom he supposed to be in Eureka,
and on her refusal to see him he imme-
diately produced. revolver and fired the
fatal shot His wife attended him in his
last moments. .sr
THE Milwaukee Sentinel of the 18th
published crop reports from thirty of the
most important counties in the State, from
which the following facts are deduced ::
Winter wheat, now nearly all harvested,
shows a splendid crop, in many portions
of the State the best ever, known. The
acreage is fully up to the average, while
more bushels to the acre are realized than
was anticipated. Spring wheat will be
more than usual in many places. The
chinch- bug has destroyed whole fields,
but this is compensated for in the excess.
i've growth in other localities. Rye will
be a aircrop. 1t is noticed in the reports
that in some places the chinch-bug has at
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