Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-12
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

RICE LAKE, in Barron County, is clam
oring for graded school.
THEY have commenced numbering oper-
atoms on the Upper Wolf.
THE property exempt from taxation In
Milwaukee County is valued at S., 257, 300.
MORE logs will be put in ON Black River
and its tributaries this winter than for
several years past.
A BOXING club is strongly urged by
some pugilistically inclined students at
the State University.
The realestate sales in Milwaukee
County during the year ending Sept. 30
aggregated, $4,043,245.
j. "A. NORTON, the Milwaukee bank
rupt druggist, was reported, on the LIST, to
be in Alabama, lying very i'll.
A.yEIN of excellent iron-ore eight feet
thick has recently been discovered at
Reedstown, Vernon County.
THE Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce
has Indefinitely postponed a resolution to
establish new grade of wheat to be
S1OWn ttS cAud- NO. l..
PROCEEDINGS have been commenced in
the Supreme Court against the West Wis
consin Railway Company to enforce the
provisions of the Potter law.
THE house of Fl. Boardman, Station
Agent at Neenah, was entered by burg
lars few nights ago and $120 in cur
rency and $50 worth of silver stolen.
RACINE COUNTY gives Taylor sixty-two
majority in the county. Racine city gave
him one majority. The Republicans and
Democrats elect each an Assemblyman.
WAUKEsHA CoUN TY gave Ludington
about 100 majority. The Republicans
elect Senator Blair and Assemblyman
Deet. The Democrats elect VIM. Hardy.
JOSEPH MELowsKEY, brakeman at the
Milwaukee yards of the Chicago Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railway, fell under the
cars on the morning of the I'd, and was in.
stantly killed.
THE thieves who recently broke into the
fur store of Paul Lutz, at La Crosse, and
stole 81 200 worth of goods, were caught
on the goth, and most of the property
stolen recovered.
j. W. JONES, mason employed on
Pierce's building on West Water street,
Milwaukee, fell from scaffolding tho
other day, distance of forty-fve feet,
and was instantly killed.
AN evening train on the Wisconsin Cen
trail Railroad was recently attacked by
mob armed with stones near Green Bay
and badly battered. No cause for the at
tack could be assigned.
WISCONSIN has voted as follows during
past years.
1871 Governor. ..68 500 58,$99 1920 9a7a R.
1873. Governor 81 ,635 66,223 147,S5S 1912 D..
THE Government engineers have finally
reached Depere. They have taken sound
ings and have made a complete and thor
ough survey for the contemplated i'm
provement of the river for navigation pur-
poses.
THE Appleton Crescent complains of the
scarcity Of pork in Outagamie County,
and says butchers will have to import hogs
from Chicago to supply the demand Of
their customers. They are paying from
$3.50 to $40 per hundred for it.
A MAN named Paulsen was instantly
killed at Oshkosh on the list. He was in
the bottom of a well and another man
was engaged in drawing up bucket OF
dirt, when the rope broke, and the buck
ct fell to the bottom, striking Paulsen on
the head.
THE county of Winnebago was carried
by the Republicans at the recent election
by about 200 majority The members of
the Assembly are the same as last year.
one Reformer and three Republicans.
Taylor had sixteen majority in Oshkosh
and the balance of the Reform ticket about
fifty.
JACOB FUCHS, the Milwaukee man re-
Gently sentenced to the Penitentiary for
three years for obtaining money under
false pretenses, cut his throat from ear to
ear at Indianapolis a few days ago. He
had rather die he said than be taken to the
State Prison. Hopes were entertained of
his recovery.
THERE has been a general disturbance
in Milwaukee insurance rates for some
time past, and the excitement was largely
increased on the 30th by the withdrawal
of prominent agency from the Board of
Underwriters This action takes nearly
one-half Of the insurance capital out of
the board.
JOHN CARTER has been sentenced TO
five years. Imprisonment at Waupun for
passing counterfeit money. Carter was
arrested in Milwaukee last May. He halls
from Chicago, where he says he has influ-
entail relatives living. The prisoner is
in the last stages of pulmonary consump-
ton and will not survive his term of i'm
prisonment, if indeed he lives to CON-
mence it.
THE following were the postal changes
in Wisconsin during the week ending
Oct. 80, 1875: tablished-Buncembe
Grant County, William W. Gillette, Post
master. Postmasters ppointed-Brook-
Vile, st. Croix County, William E. Pen
nington; Heart Prairie, Walworth Coun-
ty, Andrew Hansen; Purdy, Vernon Coun.
ty, George A. Little; Rome, Jefferson
County, William III. Lyman.
WILLIAM NOLAN hung himself at the
County Jail in Marinette, the other even
ing. He had started, few days before,
to go to supply station north of Menom-
once and, not returning, squad of men
started out to see what had become ofhim.