Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-07-23
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


THE State funniest was held at Apple
ton, commencing on the 10th.
THE clover yield in the central and
southern portions of the State is unusually
heavy. y
GREEN BAY is at present promised
repetition of the incendiary experience of
last summer.
THE Madison wooden mills were dam
aged by fire the other day to the extent of
about $4,000.
THE State Fair will be held at Milwau-
kee this year, commencing Sept. 6, and
lasting five days.
Four villages have recently been laid
out in Barron County-Rice Lake, Bar
ron, Sumner and Shetac.
A BOY twelve years old was recently ar
rested in Fort Howard for burglarizing
the store of Bruce & Co. #stat
MARATHON COUNTY has hermit. He
lives alone in hut near Wausau, and be-
longs to the Smith family.
A THREE-cARD monte man has been
sentenced at Green Bay to fine of 500
and thirty days Imprisonment.
A BETTER class of buildings is being
erected on Main street. Oshkosh in place
of those recently destroyed by fire.
THE people of Caldwell Prairie are Of
fering big bounties for the killing of fnll-
grown wolves during the month of July.
A MAN named Louis Stripe was run
over and fatally injured by Wisconsin
Central passenger train at Sherman re.
Gently.
THE Madison Journal says it is believed
that Bishop-eIect J. S. Shipman, of the
Fond du Lac Diocese, will not accept his
election.
THE sailors at Milwaukee refuse to ship
for the prices offered in the grain trade,
being $3.50 to $1.75 per day, and are on
strike for So
THE twenty-third annual session OF the
Wisconsin State Teachers Association will
be held at Eau Claire on the 26th to 30th
of the present month
MILWAUKEE, Racine, Green Bay and
La Crosse are fighting for the Peniten-
tary. La Crosse claims to have 300 men
who ought to be in it.
A BOAT containing fishing party cap
sized at the foot of Seventh street, Racine,
the other evening, and man named John
Longfellow was drowned.
THE prospect for the cranberry crop at
Berlin is the best ever known since the
cultivation of the ugardevouring terror
of boarding houses was begun
CAPT. ERNEST F. HERzBERG, who shot
his brotherin-l law, Charles H. Ramien, at
Milwaukee last May, has been sentenced
to the State Prison for five years.
Hon. GEO. F. WHEELER, Hon. r. FL.
Hotchkiss and Hon. Aaron Walters have
been appointed commission to appraise
the damage done by the Neenah dams.
JOHN ANDERs, while lately engaged at
work on the old Catholic Church in APP.
pleton, was struck by a large piece of fall
ing plaster and quite seriously and proba-
bly, fatally injured.
REV. A. G. BARRY, formerly State SUI
perintendent of Public Schools has been
appointed a sort of Universalist Bishop,
having supervision over all the Universal
list parishes in Wisconsin.
A WARRANT was issued on the 18th for
the arrest of Messrs. Nunnemacher &
Wirth, proprietors of the Kinnikinnic dis
tillery at Milwaukee, charged with hav-
inc defrauded the Government out of $16,-
92O11 during the month OF May.
Hon. HENRY STEVENS, an old and prom
inent citizen of Racine, and formerly a
State Senator, committed suicide few
nights ago by hanging himself to tree
on the premises of Hon. T. D. Morris,
near that city, with whom he was spend
ing the night. Temporary insanity.
THE crops in the eastern portion of the
State are looking we'll and promise good
Weld this autumn. Corn is little back
ward but if the fall frosts hold off as late
as last year there will be better yield
than for some years. Wheat is heading
out full and thus far is free from weevil
THE rapid and unexpected advance in
wheat is squeezing some ofthe Milwaukee
pretty lively for collaterals to meet the
calls made on them for margins. 1t is
said that the firms of Ball e Martin and
Geo. l. Jones q Co. have suspended and
that other failures are likely to follow.
A sHREwD Wisconsin school-teacher
during the past year has had general
information class" whose studies con-
sisted of half-hour's reading of the daily
newspaper. 1t is said that the plan has
worked admirably, as the scholars are not
only well posted upon current affairs, but
they show greater proficiency in all their
studies since the class was organized.
A STATE DAIRY FAIR will be held in
Milwaukee, Sept 6 to II, under the
auspices of the State Agricultural Society
Very liberal cash premiums and silver
medals are offered. Forpremium list and
for blanks for making statements, and all
needed information relative to the Dairy
Fair, address d. W. Curtis, Secretary of
the Dairymen's Association, Fort Atkin-
son.
IN the fire in Oshkosh, May, 1874, the
residence of Thomas D. Grimmer was
burned 1t was insured in the Hartford
Insurance Company for S. 1000, which the
company refused to pay, on the ground
that the property was not worth the
amount Mr. Grimmer commenced suit,
and it was carried into the United States
Courts, and finding there was no escaDe