Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-06-05
THE NEW WORLD.

On the Goth Atty. Gen. Sloan furnished Gov
Taylor with an opinion maintaining the con-
stitutionality of the Railway law OF Wis
consin. On the 1st solicitor of the Chicago
g. Northwestern Railroad Company caused
papers to be served on the Attorney-General
of Wisconsin and the Railroad Commissioners,
notifying them that an injunction would be
applied for in the United States District Court
for the Western District of Wisconsin, to re-
strain them from instituting any proceedings
or taking any measures for the purpose OF
executing the act of the last Legislature regu-
Iating railroads. This action was brought in
the name of the creditors of the Chicago u
Northwestern Railroad Company, who claim
that their securities are weakened or destroyed
by the law.
A CALL was issued by the Democratic and
Reform members of the last Michigan Legis-
lature, on the Goth, for mass convention, to
be held at Lansing on the 9th of August, to
take steps to ''secure the organization OF
party on a basis of live issues, and for res
toration of purity and craftsmanship to the
high places of our State and National Govern
ments."
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE buildings
were recently burned at Central City, Col.
Loss $780, 900.
LATE advices from Rio Janeiro are to the
effect that another rebellion had broken out in
Paraguay.
ADMIRAL SHUBRlCK, the senior officer on
the retired list, died at Washington on the
27th. He was eighty-three years old
of into
affairs of the District of Columbia concluded
its labors on the 9th.
THE following are the officers of the Illinois
Press Association for the ensuing year,
chosen at its recent session in Chicago: Pres
ident-George HI. Scroggs, of the Cham
paign Gazette Vice-Presidents-D. L. Phil
lips, Springfield Journal; Mrs. Myra Brad
we'll, Chicago Legal Nears; 7. E. Woods, Mat
toon Journal Recording Secretary Cadet
Taylor, Wenona I1,der. Assistant Recording
Secretary-C. N. Whitney, Princeton Herald.
Corresponding Secretary-C. P. Richards, Du-
quoin Tribune Treasurer. w. Clinton,
Polo Press. Executive Committee w.
Bailey, Princeton Republican,; j. B. Bradwell,
Chicago Legal Ne,us; FL. L. Clay, Carrollton
Gazette
A CALL has been issued for State conven-
tion of Independents to be held at Topeka,
Kan, on the 9Th of August, for the nomlna-
| tion of candidates for State offices. Calls are
also to be issued for Congressional conven-
| tions in the various districts. The Democratic
| State Central Committee and the Executive
| Committee of the Farmers Reform organiza-
tion unite in the call.
THE following are the officers of the Grand
Lodge of Good TempIars for the current year:
Right Worthy Grand Templar, Col. John j.
Hickman, of Kentucky; Right Worthy Grand
Counselor, Joseph Molins, of England; Right
Worthy Grand Vice Templar, Mrs. Matte
Mcclellan Brown, of Ohio; Right Worthy
! Grand Secretary, w. s. Williams, of Canada;
Right Worthy Grand Treasurer, j. K. Van
Doom, of Illinois,
A LATE Washington dispatch says that
other departments beside the Interior Depart
ment have suffered in the sale of their printed
/ questions for civil-service examination. The
market price of these questions appears to
have been $25 set.
JOHN EDGAR THOMSON, President of the