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


| at Philadelphia on the 2Sth.
| THE Ellsworth monument at Mechanics
vile, NY, was unveiled on the 9th, with ap
| propriate ceremonies.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted by the General
Conference of the M. E. Church South, re-
Gently in session at Louisville, KY, advocat.
| ing the re-establishment of fraternal relations
with the General Conference of the M. E,
Church North.
| A CALL has been issued for convention OF
| the friends of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers
Improvement to meet at Oshkosh, Wis, or
| the oath of June.
A CIRCULAR has been issued to County
| Superintendent by the State Superintendent
of Public Schools of Tennessee, advising that
no more teachers be employed in the State
until Congress acts finally upon the Civil
| Rights bill.
kPRooLAMATIoN was issued by the Presi
| dent, ON the 29th, extending the provisions OF
the treaty of Washington to Newfoundland
ACCORDING to Washington special of the
| 29th the President had requested Solicitor
Banfeld, of the Treasury Department, to
tender his resignation.
THE total internal revenue receipts from
July 1, 1878, to May 80, 1874, were $93, ,1S1,
| O1436.
A DECISION has been rendered by the New
York Supreme Court denying the motion fol
mandamus to compel Justice Davis to sigr
the bill of exceptions in the case of w. M
Tweed.
THE following are the officers elect of the
| Ohio State Editorial Association: j. M
Comfy, President; James A. Estell, of the
Holmes County Farmer, and S. N. Delacourt
of the Hamilton Telegraph, Vice-Presidents
David s. Fisher, of the Lima Democrat, Secre.
tary; Executive Committee, L. Harper, Mount
Vernon Banner; A. j. Mack, Ohio Statesman
C. M. Nichols, Springfield Republic, and W. T.
Bascom, Canton Repository.
AN attempt was made on the evening of the
Doth to rob the Atlantic express car on the
MichigansC Central Railroad, near Three Oaks,
Mich. The messenger shot one of the robbers
dead, but the other escaped with some of the
money packages.
MRS. CHARLES HOOVER, of Toledo, Ohio,
was fatally burned on the morning of the
Doth, while trying to hasten the burning of an
obstinate fire by the use of can of kerosene
oil. Her husband was also badly burned in
his endeavors to extinguish the flames.
THE crusading women of Pittsburgh were
successful in their appeal to the Common
Pleas Court against the judgment of the act
ing Mayor. The judgment of that official was
reversed, and the fines they had paid were or.
dered to be refunded to them.
THE New York State Temperance Conven
tion has been called to meet at Auburn
June %.
SATURDAY, May 80, was very generally OBJ
served throughout the country as Decoration
day. In most localities the graves of Con
federate and Union dead were alike decorated
THE house of Robert Jones. farmer, neal
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, was burned on the evening
of the 3Oth ult., and three of his children
aged thirteen, eleven and nine years, were
burned to death.
A WISCONSIN station-agent of the Chicago
& Northwestern Railroad Company was re-
Gently tried for overcharging, found guilty
and fined one dollar.
Gov. KELLOGG, of Louisiana, has ap-
pealed again for aid for the sufferers by the
recent overflow.
THE resignation of Secretary Richardson
was accepted on the LIST, and Gen. Bristow, OF
Kentucky, nominated as his successor. Mr..
Richardson was nominated to fill vacancy
in the Court of Claims. Mr.. Banfeld, Solic-
itor of the Treasury, also resigned.
MAN named McCullaugh fell from the
bridge on Three Sisters Island, Niagara Falls,
on the 1st, and was carried to the brink of the
falls, where he lodged against rock. He was
subsequently rescued by fellow-laborer, who
tied a rope to his body and was let down by
persons on the bridge to where McCullaugh
was clinging.
THE boot and shoe establishment of M. d.
Wells & Co., of Chicago, was entirely con-
sumed by fire on the morning of the 1st. Loss
$3OO,0OO.
THE public debt statement for the month OF
Nav is as follows: