Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-09-24
THE NEW WORLD.

A Toronto dispatch of the 14th says a
freight train on the Grand Trunk Railroad hao
been thrown ffom the track on the morning OF
that day and totally wrecked. SIEVE al of he
employees wer killed. The ruins of the train
caught fire and large number of cattle were
burned to death
The patent aerial ladder of Mrs. IDA,
In New York, gave way it beiIg
experime, ted with on the 18th and the fremen
mounted on it pre- ipitated dis lance of 100
feet to the ground. Three men were instantly
killed ana three were dangerously if not fatally
injured
1t was reported on the 18th that serious
troubles had arisen Tallahatchie County, Mi s..
but the advice4 on the 18th to the effect that
the vcit ment had subsidized.
In New Orleans, on the 18th, the white
boys of the Senior Glass of the Central High
School dec lined to attend because a colored man
had been appointed professor of mathematics
for that school.
The thirty eighth Annual Convention of
the Illinois Episcopal Diocese began its session
in Chicago on the 14rh. Rev. James DeKoven
sent letter withdrawing his acceptance of the
Office of Bishop to which he had been elected.
The first new fast mail-train over the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad for the Vest left
New York at 4:30 on the morning of the 18th, and
reached Chicago on the morning of the 18th,
making the distance to Chicago in twenty-six
hours. This was merely preliminary trip and
no mails were carried. Several Eastern news
paper men accompanied the train.
On the 10Th, Rev. W. E. McLaren, of
Cleveland Ohio, was elected Bishop of the Epis-
copal Diocese of Illinois, receiving thirty nine
o,,1 ~ ExYn nnf Of
fifty-eight lay votes on the second ballot. His
election was subsequently made unanimous.
Rev. John Henry Hobart Brown, of Co.
hoes N. Y, was, on the 18th, chosen Episcopal
Bishop of the Diocese of Fond du Lac, Wis.
A delegation of Mississippi Republicans
called upon the Attorney General on the 18th,
and urged that official to yield to the demand of
Gov. Ames for assistance to maintain the pubic
peace. Mr.. Pierpont advised the delegation to re-
turn to Mississippi and confer further with the
Governor and ascertain what they could do in
their own behalf.
Mr.. Smith, Commissioner of Indian At
fairs, appeared before the Red Cloud Commission
in Washington on the 18th and emphatically de-
MED the charges preferred against him by Prof.
Marsh.
AT State Temperance Convention held
at GAINESVILLE, Wis, on the 18th, the following
ticket was nominated: Governor, II. G. Tilton
Lieutenant Governor, d. w. Gilflan; Secretary
of State, II. w. Brown; State Treasurer, d. w.
Ball; Attorney General, William Menrce
The Nebraska State Republican Con-
vention met at Omaha on the 18th and nominated
George B. Lake, T. F. CAN'T and Samuel Max
wellEfor judges of the Supreme Court
On the 10Th man calling himself G.
W. Benton was arrested at Muscatine for having
sought to fleece the unsophist icated by inserting
an advertisement in the Chicago Tribune for
Congress mans Clerk, offering So 600 end ex-
penses. His plan was to reply to each applicant
accepting his services, bur requesting him to
send him IS for telegraphing etc. He had re-
celved large number of letters from candidates
Ex-senator Carl Schurz reached New
York on the 14th from Europe.
The Republican candidate for Congress
in tho Fourth Maine District-Gen. Plaisted-is
elected succeed Congressman Hersey, de-
ceased by about 1000 majority.
Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont has written a
letter to Gov. Ames of Mississippi, in which he
gives an extract from a dispatch from Presi-
dent Grant expressing de Ire that the Governor
in his State Def re receiving aid from
the General Government. The President
says So the whole public are tired out with these
annual outbreaks in the South, and agreat many
are ready now to condemn any interference on
the part # the Government" Should peace not
be restored without the issuing of a proclama-
ton by the President he would instruct the COM
mander of the forces to have no child sh play in
the matter, but that he interference should be
such as would deter evildoers.
DistrictAttorney Britton, of Brooklyn, re-
Gently addressed letters to Rev. 81. w. Beecher and
+. d. Moulton, suggesting that a n0G pros. be
entered in the criminal suit for libel brought by
the former against the latter. Mr.. Beecher con-
Cured in the suggestion but Mr. NJ emphatically
demanded trial under the Indictment
The ninth session of the society of the
Army of the Cumberland was held at Utica, N.
Y, on the 18th. Senator Conkling made the
opening speech and Gen. Sherman and Col.
Waterman delivered eloquent orations. Brief adj
dresses were also made by the President, Gen.
Hooker, Gen. Slocum and ex.Gov. Seymour.
Gen. Sheridan was elected President Of the So
ciety for the ensuing year; Gen. 0ist, Core
spending Secretary; Col. Steele, Recording Sec
rotary, and Gen. j. S. Fullerton, Treasurer. The
next meeting will be held in Philadelphia, July
and z, 1876.
A terrible Norther prevailed throughout
le4as on the 18th and nth, and great damage
was zone at various p ints in the State Calves
ton was hooded on the evening of the 18th, and
the prlnclpal streets had from three to five feet
OF water In them. 1t was reported that thirty
persons employed ON the Government works in