Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-06-04
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

having camp-meetlng.
THE Berlin cranberry men expect to
ship 10000 bushels thisseason.
THE Wisconsin Catholic Temperance
Union meets at Green Bay June 8 and g.
AN eel forty-two inches long was caught
in Lake Mendoza at Madison, recently.
Col. THEODORE CARRNeToN, Of Bay.
field, died recently from Cd SSsstion of the
lungs. -
The stagnation in the vessel business al
Racineiis described by the Ad0Ocate as un-
precedented. III
Mrs. JOAN REARDoN recently died at
Montello, at the remarkable age of 103
years. 1~
SEVERAL insurance companies have
withdrawn from Oshkosh, and others
threaten to follow
THE Boscobel Dias says the winter
wheat crop never looked better at this sea-
son of the year than it does at present.
A LITTLE girl named Augusta Nurn-
berg was found drowned in an old well on
North Point, Milwaukee, the other day.
THE Badger State Rectifying Company
establishment at Milwaukee has been
closed and seized on orders from Wash
ington. ~
G. p. KIEwERT, of the firm of Kiewert
Bros, Milwaukee, distillers, has been ar
rested for the alleged violation of internal
revenue regulations.
ACCORDING to the New Richmond Re
patbl5ca1o, at least 1000 trees have been
planted at that place this spring, and still
the work goes bravely on.
= LOUIS KNULL, young man employed
in Milwaukee woodward, had his neck
broken the other day by the fall of a wood
splitter he was placing in position.
On the Goth of June Father F. X.
Krautbauer will be consecrated Bishop OF
the Diocese of Green Bay by Archbishop
Henni, at the Milwaukee Cathedral.
THE Milwaukee Sentinel says scarcely a
train arrives from up-country that does
not bring a newly-married couple, bound
to spend the honeymoon in the metropo.
lis. *
st. Patrick's Church, in Racine, was en-
tered by burglars few nights ago, and
money to the amount of 500 and yalua
BILE watch taken. t5ll
NEARLY all the leading mines in the
Marquette iron range that ship ore by way
of Escanaba have resumed or are about
to resume operations. Prices rule very
low yet, but there is a prospect of a slight
revival before the season is ended.
INFORMATION from the hop growing re-
gion of this State indicates a favorable
prospect for the coming crop. Notwith-
standing the backwardness of the season
the plants have made good start and are
growing vigorously.
THE Alma Express says: "The company
are doing a smashing business at Beef
Slough. They are turning out about
100000 feet of logs per day, and are en-
ploying about $40 men. The water is at a
splendid stage for operation"
DURING a recent Sunday the burning
rays of a mirror set fire to paper in a Mil
waukee show-window and came near in
7volying serious consequences. A passer
fortunately saw the blaze and called for
help and thus prevented what might have
been large confagration.
THE Appleton Times says: "We un-
derstand that Col. D. G. Houston has his
plans for his work on the Fox River about
perfected and ready for submission for
bids from contractors. The amount to be
expended on the Fox River this season is
100000. Work will be commenced in
very short time.''
THE Wisconsin River has been great
source of speculation among engineers, as
to how to secure the bottom against the
constant shifting of the sands. The As
sistant General Manager of the st. Paul
Railway has hit upon an expedient that
would do credit to Lesseps, or any other
man"-it is to lath and plaster the 6ottom-
Evening Wisconsin,.
The Wautoma Argus says: Mr.. BudI
Burr, of the town of Oasis, has on exhi-
bitiOn the stuffed skin of pig born this
spring, which has but one head, but two
bodies from the shoulders. 1t has two
ears in the usual place for these organs,
and another on top of its head. 1t has
eight legs and two complete outfits of in
testines and other internal organs.'
IT is understood that George @. Erskine,
Collector of Internal Revenue at Mil
waulIee, and Levi Hubbell, United States
District Attorney, have been removed, and
that Capt. j. M. Bean, of the Milwaukee
Iron Company, and Gen. F. G.. Winkler,
respectively, have been appointed to fill
their places. Ex-ChiefJ Justice L. F.
Dixon has been retained by the Govern
ment to assist in the prosecution of the
Milwaukee whisky cases.
Two MEN recently entered the office of
the distillery of Louis Rindskopf, below
Bay View, and, after examining the books,
carried them off. Mr. Rinksdopf at
tempted to prevent them from leaving his
office, and was shot at for his pains. The
intruders represented that they were
revenue officers, but inquiry at the Gov.
eminent offices developed the fact that no
one had been detailed for the work, and
that the books had not been received
MtJacaukee Times.
The programme for the Wisconsin Ed
itors' and Publishers Association to be
held at Milwaukee on the 22d of June,
contemplates the devotion of Tuesday, the
2Sd, to business proceedings, and the
evening to a social reception and dance
Wednesday to trim to Racine NV steam