Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-24

s4,uUu,o00 to S7,000000. One fire enein
was burned and several persons were killed
IHE town of Iowa Falls, Iowa. was yer
| nearly consumed on the afternoon of the 14tf
Forty-five buildings were burned, infiicting
a loss of about $300,OOO.
OFFICIAL returns of the vote cast for tn
Arkansas Constitutional convention foot u,
as follows: Forthe Convention, SO, ,259: agains
the convention, S,6O7. Of the ninety-one del
egates elected, seventy are Democrats ant
Conservatives
AT the intercollegiate regatta held ON the
10Th at Saratoga the Princeton College crew
won the six-oared race, and the Yale boat was
victorious in the single-scull race.
4 THE total losses by the CHICAGO fire Of tbe
18th OF the various Insurance componics arr
said to aggregate $2,3S1 400
| CHICAGO was visited by another fire on the
10th, which broke out at the corner of Mil.
waukee avenue and Morgan street. in the
West Division. Loss not exceeding 100000.
THE Indiana State Democratic Convention
met IN indianapolis on the 18th and organ
lzed by the election of Gov. Hendricks as
President and j. w Nichol with two assist
ants as Secretaries. The President in taking
the chair was received with cheers and spoke
at considerable length upon the prin-
ciples and prospects of the party.
Resolutions were adopted-favoring the
redemption of the $40 bonds in green
backs; favoring the repeal of the law of
March, 1869, which construed the law so as
to make such bonds payable in gold; favorins
the repeal of the National Banking law; fa-
voring return to specie payments as soon as
the business interests of the country will per-
NIT; favoring the adjustment of the volume
OF currency to the commercial and Industrial
wants of the country; opposing mixed schools,
but favoring liberal system of education
for all, black and white condemning what is
known as the Civil Rights bill and arraigning
| Senators Morton and Pratt for their votes in
favor of the measure; favoring the repeal of
the Baxter law and the enactment of suta-
BILE license law which shall protect society and
increase the school fund; favoring retrench-
ment and the reduction of taxes; denouncing
the increase of State taxes by the last Repub-
lican Legislature; demanding such change
in the laws as shall prohibit the use of public
money for private gain; opposing grants of
land or money to railroad or other corpora
County Superintendent of Schools and the
| restoration of the former law in relation to the
appraisement of real estate for purposes of
taxation; demanding that the remaining public
| lands shall be held for the benefit of actual
settlers under the Homestead laws, and de-
manding the equalization of bounties to
| soldiers and sailors. The following nomina-
tions of candidates for State offices were made:
For Secretary of State, j. E. Neff of Randolph
County; Auditor of State, E. Henderson, of
Morgan County; Treasurer, B. G. Shaw, of
Marion County; Superintendent of Public In
struction, j. III. Smart, of Allen County; At
| torney- General, G.. A. Buskirk, of Gibson
County; Judge of the Supreme Court, Horace
P. Biddle of Cass County.
ACCORDING to San Domingo advices of a
late date, three Cubans captured on the coast
of Camaguay had been recently executed on
the gun-boat Neptune while being conveyed
from Nuevitas to Havana
THE Third National Chess Congress, in ses-
sion at Chicago, closed its sittings on the 10th.
The first, second and third prizes were won
by Capt G. H. Mckenzie of New York, HI.
Hosmer of Chicago, and Max Judd of st.
Louis, respectively.
THE Ohio State Republican Convention will
be held in Columbus on the I'd of September
next.
| THE following persons have been elected
officers of the Wisconsin State Teachers Asso-
citation: President J. @. Emery, Fort Atkin-
SON. Vice-Presidents, w. I'll. Chandler Sun
Prairie; s. R. Winchel, Milwaukee,; Miss
Caroline Adams, Platteville; Secretary A. P.
Hutton, West Eau Claire; Treasurer, Geo. s.
Kewes, Racine; Executive Committee, B. M.
Reynolds, Lacrosse; w. D. Parker, James
vile; HI. C. Rowland, East Eau Claire; G.. s.
| Albee, Oshkosh; Samuel Shaw, Madison.
THE United States Treasury gold sold in
New York on the 10Th brought 109.T
| AN Omaha dispatch of the 10Th announces
| the arrival of immense clouds of grasshoppers
at Columbus the day before.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 10th says
quarrel has arisen between Treasurer Spinner
and Acting Secretary of the Treasury Con-
ant in regard to the rules regulating the civil
| service, the former holding that they did not
| apply to his bureau. Mr.. Brstow sustained
his subordinate and Spinner appealed to the
| President.
THE separation of Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton was
announced on the 10th, in consequence of the
latter having espoused the cause Of Mr..
Beecher against her husband.
! GOLDSMITH MAID, on the 10th, at East Sag
inaw, Mich, trotted three straight heats in
2:19s4, 2:161a and PIG, being not only the
three fastest consecutive heats ON record but
two heats the slower of which was better
than the best time ever made by any trotting
/ horse.
| LATE Cuban dispatches report the insur
/ gents in a state of unwonted activity.
/ The towns of Trinidad and Ganyacales
had been occupied by them and they
were closely upon the environs OF
Puerto Principe. Mr.. Lauten, the United
/ States Consular Agent at Manzanillos had
been ordered to leave the island.
ACCORDING to an Oshkosh (Wis.) dispatch
| of the 17th the insurance companies had lost
S251 800 by the recent fire in that city.
/ A DISPATCH from Tisklwa, H., of the 18th
/ says that one-third of the town had been
burned on the morning of that day. The loss
was not stated.
A HAVANA dispatch of the 18th an
nounces the defeat of an insurgent column
| in the hills of Bijaru.
An old lady Of sixty years, Mrs. Jacob VIII,
living at Dayton, Ohio, was burned to death
on the evening of the 18th, while kindling a
| fire with kerosene.
Al DISPATCH from Rawlins, w. T., received
| at Omaha on the 18th, states that on the 18th
| a party of Sioux had attacked a mining camp
at Seminole Gov. Campbell had telegraphed
| Gen Ord for assistance.