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# WISCONSIN NEWS. Gov. Rusk has commissioned Anthony C. Kellogg, captain; O. H. Peters, first lieutenant, and James M. Moore, second lieutenant, of the Fond du Lac guards. President Arthur, who was invited to be present at the state fair, to be held at Madison in September, replies that he will attend on returning to Washington from the Yellowstone expedition, if public business will permit. Dr. Edward A. Birge, of the Wisconsin university has recently revised Orton's Zoology and receives deserved praise for his work, in the last number of Harper's Magazine. Damage to crops by bail, amounting to from one-eight to one-quarter of the crop, is reported from Dane, Dunre, Manitowoc, and Marquette counties. Articles of incorporation have been filed with the secretary of state of the Kessier Electro-Chemical Manufacturing company, Milwaukee, whose purpose is the manufacture of leads and experimenting on various inventions. The capital stock is $500,000. G. Bode and Charles H. Haskins are among the incorporators. At Madison, Annie Pitman, an eight-year-old daughter of Mrs. W. G. Pitman, was badly burned about the head, arms and breast from the flames of an oil stove. The Milwaukee & Northern has contracted for the building of its line to Marinette and Menomonee. The new road is to branch from the main line at Noquebay, and run southeast to the objective points, the distance being about twenty-two miles. It will first enter Marinette, and then cross the river to Menemonee. Cobb county, lost $10,000 and several residents by the storm. The state board of charities and reform, resolved to remove the chronic insane from the poor houses of Sauk and Pierce counties to the Dane county asylum. The chronic insane of Iowa county will be placed in the Grant county asylum, while those in Lafeyette county will be removed to Green county. Several ancient Roman coins have been dug from the ground near Oshkosh. Miss Belle Clay of Wantoma, committed suicide by taking two ounces of laud-anum. The case of the state of Wisconsin vs Ferdinand Bredenfeldt, for the murder of George C. Larkin by shooting him in the neck, some months ago, at Butler, in a saloon row, was ended at Ashland recently, the jury bringing in a verdict of manslaughter in the third degree. The valuation of Milwaukee property this year will exceed that of 1882, according to the assessor's books, in about $5,000,000 greater sum than the valuation of 1882 exceeded that of the previous year. The banks in Wisconsin during business under the state law have made their semi-annual report to the state treasürer of their condition the morning of Monday, July 2. There are thirty-five such banks, with an aggregate capital of $16,160,431; deposits, $14,647,163; specie, $308,760; cash items, $253,978; United States currency, $1,162,780. Total liabilities. Charles Pettona, a veterinary surgeon and old resident of Fond du Lac was found dead in the alley back of the American house in that city from intemperance. During May and June nearly 30,000,000 feet of logs were delivered to the sawmills at Wausau. The Episcopal church, at Eau Claire which has been without a regular pastor for some time, has tendered a call to Rev. C. S. Starkweather of Superior City, which has been accepted. He will have pastoral charge after the first of September. At Balsam Lake, Polk county, for fifteen years there has lived an old man called Capt. Simmons, who was found dead the other day with a deep cut on his head, probably the result of an accident. P. Olson and family and another family have gone from Washington Island to Utah, where they have joined the church, Olson becoming a preacher. A report started for a joke caused a run on the First National bank of Appleton, $40,000 being drawn out. The bank is in first-class condition. The Jefferson county fair managers have offered $100 for the best broom-brigade drill, to take place during the county fair. At a special meeting of the Eau Claire Sportmen's association the sum of $300 was appropriated to compensate six patrolmen in various parts of the county to keep surveillance and report offenders of the game law, particularly in regard to the slaughter of prairie chickens. Milwaukee Wisconsin: A Mrs. Schroeder, the wife of a farmer living about two miles north of Manitowoc, was killed by lightning. The husband and a child were also severely injured. The damage to the town of Cobb, Dane country, is estimated at $10,000. About twenty buildings were damaged more or less. Seven persons were buried in the wreck of the O'Neil saloon building, Mrs. Kelly of Ridgeway, a sister of Mrs. O'Neil, was killed. James Fox had two ribs broken by the fall of another building. At Hingham, Baldwin & Delavan's touring-mill was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, with entire contents. About twenty feet of the dam was carried away. About four miles from Hingham, the brick building, 20x30 and two stories high, used by the sisters of a Catholic school located at that point, was struck by lightning and burned to the walls. The sisters were absent at the time. Articles of association were filed recently with the secretary of the state as follows: Strossa De Viterbos Convent of Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Le Crosse, whose object is to establish female academies, elementry schools, orphan asylums, hospitals, etc., all of which shall be under the control of the convent. Milwaukee-Pineville Lumber company, Pineville, Polk county, with a capital stock of $250,000, divided into 2,500 shares. The object is to conduct a general lumbering business. The incorporators are Phineas B. Lacy, J. E. Glover and Garrett Lacy. F. G. Mandt Manufacturing company, of Stoughton, whose object is to manufacture wagons, carriages, buggies, etc.; capital stock, $250,000; incoaporators, Forge G. Mandt, Thomas Beattice, James Morris, Jens J. Marel, H. M. Tustor, T. C. Lund and G. T. Mandt. Rev. C. O. Maltby does not like the climate of southern California, where he recently assumed pastoral charge, and is back again with his family. He will probably be recalled to the pulpit of the Baptist church at Madison. Willie Goss, ten year old, was com