Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-10

On the list Hon. Eugene Hale declined the
Postmaster -Genera1ship.
THE National Banks have been called upon
for statement of their condition on the Goth
ult.
CHARLES F. CONANT was, on the lst, ap-
pointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr.. Conant halls from New Hampshire.
OVER 600 clerks had been discharged from
the departments at Washington up to the Cd
THE Arkansas Constitutional Convention
has been carried by a majority estimated at
60,O00
sofa and Northwestern Iowa seem to agree
that the grasshoppers are rapidly destroying
everything green in that section.
On the LIST inst. the Iowa Republican State
Convention met at Des Moines. The follow
ing nominations were made: Hon. L. ID.
Young, Secretary of State; Capt. P. G.. Christy,
State Treasurer; B. R. Sherman, Auditor;
David Secor, Register of the State Land Office;
NJ E. Cults, Attorney General; E. F. Holmes,
Clerk of the Supreme Court; J. s. Runnels,
| Supreme Court Reporter. George G. Heber-
ling, of jackson, was elected Chairman of the
State Central Committee Resolutions were
adopted-favoring free banking and return
to specie payments as speedily as consistent
with the material and industrial interests OF
the country, insisting that the obligations of
the Government shall be paid in specie; de-
claring that the power to regulate Interstate
commerce, whether by railroad or water high
ways, vests in Congress, and that that body
| should legislate so as to prevent eXtortlon,
and that it should provide for the improve
ment of the great natural waterways; that
the State has power to regulate railway trans
portation within its own limits, and demand
| ing the enforcement of the State Railway law;
favoring appropriate legislation for the
full and equal protection of all citi-
zens; congratulating the party on the
| $27, ,060 900 reduction in the estimated ex-
penses of the General Government for the
current fiscal year; demanding the election
of President and Vice President by popular
vote; favoring modification of the Patent
laws; commencing the position of the party
in instituting Investigations of corruption in
office, and favoring the submission of an
amendment of the Constitution extending the
right of suffrage to women to the people for
| their decision.
THE Freedmen's Bank of Washington, and
| its branches in various sections of the coun-
try, went into liquidation on the I'd.
Mr. WILLIAM MCCORMICK, of New York,
who recently died of hydrophobia, was bitten
by dog which, it has since been ascertained
was not mad, and the statement is made that
the bite of any dog may induce the complaint
THE recent statement that reduction of &c
per cent. on through Western freights from
New York had been determined on is denied
on the authority of a dispatch from New York
on the I'd.
CHRISTINA Ross, while replenishing vapol
stove, few days ago, accidentally spilled
some gasoline. An explosion followed, which
so severely burned Miss Ross and Minnie
Brammer, her fellow servant, that they died 8
few hours after. This occurred at East Cleve
land, Ohio.
ACCORDING to q Des Moines dispatch O
n the 1st the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railroad had determined to obey for the pres
ent the new Railroad law of Iowa, although
they deny its justice and constitutionality.
THE Coroner's jury'on the Mill River disaste
have rendered a verdict In it the Legislator
is censured for Indifferent legislation, the mill
owners for their parsimony, the engineers fo
/, blind and obscure directions, the contractor
for poor work and the County Commissioner
for accepting botched piece Of work, tina
| was so manifestly insecure and lily done.
Hon. MARSHALL JEWELL, United State
Minister to Russia, has accepted the positio
of Postmaster General rendered him by tn
! President and will return to this country i
August next. Pending his arrival First Al