Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-10


Goth ult. - A4
DURING the past season the mills at
Oshkosh have cut about 75, 000, 600 feet of
q lumber, S000O,0 900 shingles, 100000
lath and 100000 pickets.
AT Omro, on the Goth ult. the Their
mometer stood at fourteen degrees below
zero. The oldest inhabitants say this was
the coolest snap they had ever seen in the
month of November a
81 ZwERG, the man who was charged with
I the murder of John Thornton, near Mad
ison, last September, was tried on the Goth
G-tt ult and acquitted 1t appears that the
shooting was accidental.
THE character of Mr.. n s. Murphy, of
the Milwaukee Sentinel, has been assaileda
&E - by the Commercial Times and now he
comes back with libel suit in which he
claims he has been damaged to the amount
of$15,O0O.
THE following Postmasters were APP
+e., pointed in Wisconsin during the week
j d ending Nov 27, 1885, Anderson, Bur
nett County, Hans Hogestad Monticello,
Marquette County, Miss Julia E. Kelsey;
aa-~,e- Mount Sterling, Crawford County, Fred
erick Cate. a! st /. Hads 7
On the night of the 9th, at La Crosse, a
colored man named Huwerson fatally
stabbed another colored man named
,E ~ Rankin. ~ The latter's illicit relations
with the formers wife are said to have
-rv- prompted the act. The murderer
~ promptly arrested.
On the Both ult., at Milwaukee, No.
wheat which was worked up by the cor
ner to 81 30, fell, after the expiration of
the settling hour to $1041S. There were
b. ~ 1900 900 bushels left on the hands of the
70 ~ ~ market manipuIators to sell for what they
could get. The report prevailed that they
made $25, 900 by the operation.
a., {. . In accordance with the law passed in
rttst 1872 and in view of the fact that the
wing Of the Northern Hospital at Osh-
% Ia kosh has been completed, thereby ncreas-
ing the capacity of that institution, Gov
~ Taylor, Hon. David Atwood, President of
~ the Board of Trustees of the Madison In
sane Asylum, and ID. w. Maxon, Presi-
dent of the Board of Trustees of the Osh-
kosh Asylum, met at the Capitol, few
days ago, and divided the State into two
districts as required by law, and ordered
tr that all insane persons residing within the
limits of the following named counties be
received at the Northern Hospital at
Oshkosh after Jan. l. 1876, SO far as
the said hospital can furnish accommoda-
ton for the same: Ashland, Bayfield,
Brown, Calumet Clark, Dodge, Door, Fond
du Lac, Green Lake, Jefferson, Kenosha,
Kewaunec, Lincoln, Manitowoc, Mara
tLon Marquette, Milwaukee, Outagamie,
Oconto Ozaukee, Portage, Racine, Sha-
wano, Sheboygan, Taylor, Washington,
Waukesha, Waupun, Waushara Winnie
bago and Wood and that all of the insane
persons in the counties of Adams Barron,
Buffalo, Burnett, Chippewa, Columbia,
Crawford, Dane, Douglas, Dunn, Eau
Claire, Grant, Green, Iowa, Jackson,
Juneau, La Crosse, Lafayette, Monroe,
Pepin, Pierce Polk, Richland, Rock, St.
Croix, Sank, Trempealeau Vernon and
Walworth be received in the Wisconsin
State Hospital at Madison. BY Sec. II of
said chapter the admission of patients
from the several counties OF the State
shall be in the ratio of population Of such
counties, but each county shall be entitled
to at least two patients if it should seek to
do So This division is made on the basis
of the capacity of each capital, the capac-
ity of Madison hospital being 800, that
OF Oshkosh being 500
AT MADISON on the goth Hon. John
Turner, of the Mansion Star, and formerly
District Attorney of Juneau County, at
tempted suicide at the Villas House, Just
after dinner of that day. Mr.. Turner was
witness in q case on trial at the Dane
County Circuit Court of Mrs Sarah A.
Ingersoll as. The Phoenix Life Insurance
Company. Last fall, when Mrs. Ingersol
was tried for the murder of her husband
and acquitted, Mr.. Turner was her at
torney. Last summer Mr.. Turner made
negotiations with the Phoenix Insurance
@~zCompany to settle Mrs, Ingerso's claim of
81 900 for $500 He received the $780,
and gave a receipt with Mrs. Ingersoll's
name attached. Now Mrs. Ingersoll
brings suit for the insurance money, and
in her evidence stated that Mr.. Turner
had never been authorized by her TO take
the $500 She swore that her name to the
>. receipt was a forgery. At noon Mr.
Turner left the courtroom and went to
the Villas House to take dinner. He sat
at the table few minutes, but partook of
" nofood lie went into the office and re-
"a manned few minutes then went to a
iewelry store and asked to be shown some
revovers. Looking over several he stated
.asillthat he wanted one not costing much, and
went to gunsmith's store and looked
at some. He found- none to suit
him, and went back to the iewelry
Store and purchased five-shOoer
for twelve dollars He put five loads in
it, and returned TO the hotel and his room.
5 lsT At r' door ouG roNnsd
s. Turner. answered in a low voice, 1" Come
in - but the door was fastened. Groans
were heard in Turner's room, and suspi-
ciong was reused The door was broken
= open and Turner was found on the bed
']+~ with bloody wound in the left breast
directly over the heart, and revolver, the
one above mentioned, at his side. Surgical
.TGf aid was called and it was found that the
ball had entered near the heart and passed
t'' i' downward and outward Much blood had
.u,, been split and Turner was very low. He