Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-01-01
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


Burnett County.
Marion Wescott is about to establish the
Burnett County Republican.
Columbia County. =,
PATRICK Quinn. who was charged with an
outrageous assault upon Miss Bauchmann, at
Co1,nhus last fall. has been recently SEN
fenced to two years Imprisonment in the
State Prison.
Dane County.
John Miller and the hired man of DIR. VIM.
H. Fox, both of Fitchburg, were recently
kicked by vicious equines. In the latter case
it is thought the injury is fatal.
Charles Pierstorf, of Middleton, his wife,
five daughters and one son recently narrowly
escaped death by drinking coffee in which one
of the girls had accidentally put the seeds of
st ammonium Jamestown weed.
Fond du Lac County.
Thos Halligan, assistant yard-master in
the Chicago & Northwestern yard at Fond
du Lac, while lately attempting to make a
coupling, was caught between the switch en-
CINE and lumber-car, crushing his left leg
near the knee in a shocking manner.
A young man in Lamartine, named Bruen,
whom everybody in town supposed was good
member of society, recently plead guilty to
stealing horse.
Grant County.
The mines in the vicinity of Wingville are
being thoroughly worked this winter, and
considerable mineral is being raised.
The County Jail is said to be empty, and
the Sheriff is alone in his $25, 900 Jail. The
population of the county ia in the neighbor-
hood of 10000, and the absence of crime is
remarkable.
jackson County.
Tom Smith, who was arrested and brought
to Black River Falls on suspicion that he was
the murderer of James Sern, had his exam
nation few days ago, and was discharged
there being no evidence that he was in any
way connected with the homicide.
Juneau County.
The Northern Light lodge of Masons at
Mansion have elected the following officers
for the ensuing year: Gaines Phillips, w. NJ.
Martin Craig, s. W.; Francis Startling, J. W..
John G. Wetherby, s.; Chester Lyon, T.
Kenosha County.
A man named William Van Patten, living
near Kenosha, was recently very suddenly
killed by the caving in of a clay bank in a
brick-yard He leaves a wife and six chill
dren to mourn his untimely taking off.
Lafayette County.
Capt j. G. Knight, editor of the Lafayette
County Democrat, has been appointed Super
intendent of Public Property.
milwaukee, County.
Some days ago thieves entered the MILL
merry store of Mrs. Burt, corner of Milwaukee
and Mason streets, Milwaukee, and stole a
roll of money containing from $3.50 to $500.
The other day Mr.. Kemmerling discovered
August Schall, of Menomonee Falls, lying by
the roadside in Wauwatosa, terribly beaten
and left for dead.
The Milwaukee brewers are indignant on
account of a damaging rumor set afost by
German newspaper of New York to the effect
that the well water of the city is poisoned by
drainage, and that beer brewed here is there
fore deletrous to the health. The Banner
and the Herald have come to the rescue of
the Knights of Gambrinus, and ridicule the
stupidity of the editors who have no more
sense than to suppose that brewery requir-
ing from 5000 to 5000 gallons of water day
UA""o ACo ouPpllCc IOn well bWcIfC 10 SIX
teen feet deep.
Henry Erring, of Milwaukee, has been ar
rested for paying for housekeeping purchases
in forged paper.
Samuel Brown, one of the old settlers of the
county, has recently died. Mr.. Brown built a
log house in Milwaukee in 1884.
A call, signed by members of the county
bar, has been presented to Chief-Justice Ryan,
asking him to allow his name to be used next
spring as candidate for the place to which
he was recently appointed.
A charter has recently been issued to the
Wisconsin Publishing Company" which
proposes to publish at Milwaukee the daily
and weekly Commercial Times, by a consolida
ton of the Times and the Journal Of Commerce
The little daughter of Fl. Groede, of Mil
waukee, took $40 from his bureau drawer
the other day and kindled fire with it, think
ing it was roll of waste paper.
Outagamie County.
Jacob Phillips recently hired horse and
cutter at Seikmans livery stable, Appleton.
He failed to return on time and he was ar
rested at Richfeld, where he had sold the cut
ter and was trying to sell the horse
Racine County.
The improvements in the city of Racine for
the past year aggregate in value 1927, 900.
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