Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-10-22
TRNEc NEW WORLD.

The Michigan Supreme Court has just
decided that the State law taxing the liquor
dealing business is constitutional and does moi
ContravGnG the clause in the Constitution pro
hibting the passage of any law licensing the
sale of intoxicating liquors.
An Indictment against ex-State-Auditor
McIlrath, of Minnesota, was tried on the 18th
and resulted in a verdict of not guilty.
President Grant and party reached Chi
cago on the 18th, on their return from Colorado
to Washington.
II. j. Yates (Rep.) was elected Mayor
of Newark, N. j., on the 18th, by majority of
$500 over his Democratic opponent.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th re-
ports everything quiet in Mississippi.
An official statement of the 18th reports
the number of distillories in operation the list
to have been H. with total daily spirit-produc-
ing capacity of lS9, 1888 gallons, increase over
September of forty-fve dstilleries and 1884 gal
Ions daily capacity.
The unfinished Agricultural Hall, on
the National Centennial grounds in Philadelphia,
was blown to the ground on the 18th. Eight la
borers were injured-one fatally and five serious
ly.
Association met at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th
Mrs. Samson, of Boston, was elected President,
and Mrs. John A. Winters, ofDayton, Ohio, Vice
President.
Onthe night of the 18th, in New Orleans,
two white men attacked three colored men,
killing on, MORALLY wounding vther and
slightly wounding the third. They were arrested
and locked up. A mass meeting of the citizens
hnl1 fhn ~ Oh .AI,, lsa
claiming all possibility for the outrage con-
demning all violen ,e and pledging support to the
officers in enforcing the laws were unanimously
adopted
The Massachusetts State Central Demo
cratic Committee have placed the name of John
Quincy Adams upon the ticket for Lieutenant
Governor in place of Gen. Bartlett, declined.
Chas. G. Davis has been nominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the First Massa-
chusetts District
The National Women's Congress met
at Syracuse, N Y, on the 18th. Prof. Maria
Mitchell delivered the annual address.
Strauss, Lehman & Co., large dry
goods house in New York city, suspended ON
the 18th. Their liabilities were estimated ut $500,
COO.
On the evening of the 18th Frenchman named
LaPage was arrested at Suncook, N. H., on sus-
picion of being the party guilty in the Langmaid
murder.
John Bulliner and Allen Baker, two of
the pere ons concerned in the late Williamson and
Jackson County murders, recently on trial at
Murphysboro, Ill.,, were on the 18Th found guilty
and sentenced to twenty-five years Imprisonment
in the State Penitentary
According to an Omaha dispatch of the
14th the Republican majority in Nebr.aska would
be about 10,OOO. The Constitution had been car
ried by very la &c majority.
Returns received on the morning of the
18th from all but three coun les in Ohio gave
Hayes majority over Allen of 3,463. Cary ran
10000 behind Allen. In the Legislature the Re-
publlcans have majority of eighteen-seven-
teen in the House and one in the Senate.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th
denies that the Government had threatened to
acknowledge the belligerent rights of the Cubans
unless hostilities be closed before Jan. 1, 1876
The Ioaoa State Register, at Des Moines,
had returns from seventy-four counties on the
18th, which gave Kirkwood majority of 24,524
for Governor. The Register estimated mis- major
ity in the State at $4,000. In the Senate the Re-
publican majority would be about thirty-two and
sixty in the House.
On the 10Th Hard Money Convention
was held at Detroit, at which resolutions were
adopted declaring against all schemes for cur
Iehcy lhnatlon or any form of irredeemable paper
currency. Letters in favor of hard money were
leao rom senator Christiancy, ex-Gov. Blair and
others' delegates were also appointed to attend
the Cincinnati Convention.