Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-07-16
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According to a Goldsboro IN c. letter
of a recent date, George Applewhite, the last of
the Lowery gang, had been arrested, after des-
perate struggle and lodged in jail.
Over 5000 Indians celebrated the birth
day Of our country at Atoka, I. F., the 5th. An
educated Indian presided, and speeches were
made by white orators.
The additional circulation issued during
June aggregated $1,6t5,525; egal-tender notes de-
posted during the same period, $3,OO9,626; adj
dtional circulation issued since June 30, 1874,
S11,6O1 1922; circulation destroyed during the
same period, $9,627 ,O66; actual increase of bank
circulation during the last fiscal year, $1,97S, 1926;
legal-tender notes deposited to retire circulation
during the year, $29,336,732.
The centennial celebration of the as
sumption of the command of the Continental
army occurred at Cambridge, Mass, on the 3D..
The city was deliberately decorated, and speeches,
poems, etc., were made and read by Prof. Pea
body, James Russell Lowell, oliver Wendell
Holmes, Gov. CASTOR and others. In the evening
the city was brilliantly Illuminated and elaborate
fireworks were displayed.
About S10,000,000 worth of bonds have
been sold by the Treasury Department under the
provisions of the act of July IS, 1874 providing
for the resumption of specie payments, and about
S9,0OO,OCO in silver has been purchased for the
purpose of retiring fractional currency.
The Wisconsin State Republican Con-
vention met at Madison on the 18th and nominated
Hon. Harrison Ludington, of Milwaukee, for Gov
ernor, H. L.. Eaton for Lieutenant-G Governor, Hans
B. Warner for Secretary ofState, Henry Baetz for
State Treasurer, John r. Bennett for At
torney- General, Robert Graham Tor Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction. E. w.
Keyes was elected Chairman of the State
Central Committee. The platform approves
President Grants letter relative to the third term
Endorses the National Administration; approves
the policy of international arbitration; favors a
tariff for revenue; advocates the gradual resump-
ton of specie payments; favors legislative con-
troll of public corporations, ETC., ETC.
Mr.. Beecher testified in the Loeder case
on the 18th, and denied all the allegations made
by the accused in his recent affidavit. Price &C
knowledged that he was guilty of perjury and
conspiracy. Loeder plead not guilty. Plymouth
Church, on the evening of the 9TH, increased Mr..
Beecher's salary to 100000 year.
The Minnesota Opposition State Con-
vention met at st. Paul on the 18th, and placed
the following ticket in nomination: Governor,
D. L. Buell.; Lieutenant Governor, E. w. Durant;
Treasurer, Albert Scheffer; Railway Commission
er, j w. Sencerbox; Secretary ofState, Adolphus
Bierman; Chief-Justice, Lafayette Emmett; State
Auditor, NJ Doran; Clerk of the Supreme Court,
A. A. Mcleod. The name "Democratic-Republi-
cam was adopted. The platform favors specie
payment; tariff for revenue only the legislative
control of corporations, etc., etc.
Gen. Francis P. Blair, Jr., died at his
residence in st. Louis on the night of the sth,
aged ffty-three.
Mrs. Stringer, of Cincinnati, poured
kerosene oil into her kitchen stove to hasten
tardy fire. She died after five hours agony.
The Executive Committee of the Ma
tional Grange have decided to remove the head
quarters of the National Grange to Louisville,
XIV. The next meeting of the Grange will be
held in that city on the third Wednesday in No
vember.
Prof. Jenney says the soil in the Black
Hills region is admirably adapted for agricultural
purposes.
A balloon ascension was made by Prot.
Steiner and three companions at Milwaukee on
the Sth with the intention of making an eastward
voyage to the Atlantic coast. Owing to the poor
quality of gas, after being mp three hours. they
landed twenty-eight miles south of their starting
place Another attempt is contemplated.
A strip of land in Chicago worth sew
eral m ilion dollars has just been entered at the
Land Office in Springfield, although it has been
occupied and supposed to be owned for many
years by the Illinois Central Railroad Company.
The strip contains about twenty-five acres and
an immense real-estate lawsuit is among the
probabilities.
On the morning of the 9th, as the Van
dalia passenger train, bound east, stopped at
Long Point, lonely station on the prairie in
Clark County, H., four men boarded the cars,