The Country At Large

Rlel's partner in the rebellion- Chief Poundmaker - has been found guilty of treason-felony and genteneed to thrée years in the penitentary. DEMOCRATS OF IOWA. The Iowa Democratie eonvention vas held at Cedar Rapids, Aug. 19. They denounced prohibition amendment, indorsed the administration and nominated a fusioon ticket with the Greenbackers. GEROMINO CAPTÜRED. Geromino, the Indian Chief, whose bloody raids through Arizona hav"e causeel bis name to be a synonym for all that is l'earful and devilish, has beeñ captured, togetlier with three of his wives, and his camp destroyed. maxwell's sensational stories. The report published a few days ago that Maxwell, the supposed St. Louis murderer, had confessed that he killed Preller, and that chloroform was the means, is now emphatically denied by Maxwell. He refuses positively to state the nature of hia defense. LIVE9 LOST AT SEA. The British bark Haddingdonshlre, from Astoria, Oregon, for Liverpool, was wreckad on the roeks 40 miles north of San Francisco. The vessel is a total wreek, and all on board with the excaption of one sallor and a cabin boy were drowned. The cargo was valued at $80,000. WATCHMAN SMOTHERED. A flre broke out in the Bell Telephone Company's Works in Montreal a few days ago. The flames workcd up through the prenïises of the Bank Note Company, causin a damage estimated at $80,000, a;ainst which there is a full Insurance. A watchman named Bradley in the Bank note eompany's premisee had fallen asleep and was smothered. BURNED TO DEATÜ. There was a fatal fire a few days ago at Hoxton, a poor and crowdid quarter of London. Owing to lack of room it was impossible for the firemen to work effeetively. There was a terrible scène when a lodging house full of people took fire, and in spite of the gallant efforts to rescue the inmates a man and two children were burned to death. A MTSTERlOüS MUKDEÜ. Ilon. J. R. Walkup, mayor of Emporia, Kansas, died very suddenly a few days since, under very suspicious cireumstances. A post-mortem examfnatlon revealed the prenenee of arsenic in his storr.ach. His young w fe, aged 18, has been arrested on suspicion. The couple had been married but one mouth, and although he was many years her senior, llved apDarently very happy. THE QRAXT FAMILT. The Grant family will leave Ml. McGregor the flrst part of September. Col. Fred. Grant will go to Chicago to altend the rcuuion of the array of the Tennessee on September 9. He will then return to work on bis iather's book. Mrs. Grant and her daughter Mrs. SartorJs, will go to West Point for 10 days and will then join Jessie Grant at his faim" Mrs. Sartoris expectsto sail for England ibout October 1. The family will all join Mrs. Grant in Ne-sr York in the fall with the exeeption of Mrs. Sartoris who will remaiu in England. MISSISSIPPI DEMO0RAT8. Democratie state conventioa of Mississippi re-nominated Gov. Lowry on the flrst ballot over Darden by a vote of K0 to f.2 aud Lieut. Gov. Shands over Inze by 150 to 90. By a rising vote resolutions were adopted expressing apprciation of the honor conferred upou the state by the appointment to the cabinet ''of that illustrious patriot, honored and belovcd by Mississippi, Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar;" and declaring that in the policy of the president, so far es disclosed, the convention "see not only nothing to condemn, but everyth'ng to inspire confldence." A PHYSICIAN'S CARELESSNESS. 4 One of the most horrible cases of surlering on re! ord is reported from M Keen, 111. On the eth of thif. month Davie Black, aged 11, was thrown trom a horse and had his arm broken in two places. An unsk Uful phvsieiau set it leaving oac of the bones protruding through tbc flesh. Mortiflcation set in, and soon sprend to the child's s'joulders aad body. The mortified arm was left exposed to the flies by some means, ani worms began working at the flesh of the living boy. liter suffering the most awful a on'es fcr tive days and havine: bis arm nearly eaten a'.ay by the worm?. thü sufferer die.i and the remaiñs buried at once. The surgeon has been warned to leave the country TUE Kl'-KLÜX. There ia intense excitement at Dalton, Ga., over a visit paid that p'ace by a baud of Kuklux. There were 50 uien, v.ell disguised, who entered the city shortly aftcr midnight. They visited a house of iil-farae owned by Mrs. Jane Kidd, and the woraan and six of her boarders were dragged from their beds, an;l each one was given" 60 lashes. Some of the womeu are in a critxal con Jitioa and may die The band tien went to Ü6 house ot Torn Carver.anot.fi thief ord beat hta to deatb a,fter him for hal! an üo.ir. Another (colored) man named Ar.nislu.-id was so terribly beaten that he will die. The mob tien notifled several persons to leave th(lace at once, or they would be killed. No clew can be had as to the identity of any ot the band. JORDAN'S ÏECÜLIAR METIIOD. The écheme of Treasurer Jordán to brlng $5,000,000 of silver from New Orleana to Washington 13 mild playfulness to what it is discovered he has beendoing in the wav of transporting gold from San Francisco and Carson City to New York. Large amounts of gold have been ticd up in 50-pound bags and thrown into United States mails to take the chances of getting across the continent safely. There has been no insurance and no extra precaution against robbery in the regions notorious for lawlessness, and in some places for organized train breaking and wrecking. The San Francisco papers got wind of the latter and published an account of it and Treasurer Jordán becamc frightened and save up the use of mails for freighting gold. The insurance on what he shipped in this way would have brought the cost oi transportaron within 15 cents a thousand of what the express companies charge. ANTICS OP A MADMAN. A terrible case of dranken madness occurred in Salem, Ind., recently. Fred Berkey, Ir., a son of one of the leading citizens of the place, while intoxieated, appeared on the streets and began an indiscriminate fusilade. He flred nine shots, aiming at whoever happened to be in range. Laura Klerner reeeived two balls, one in the wrist and one in the shoulders; William McClanahan was shot through the hand; W. S. Percise sustained a flesh wound in the thigh ; Jordán Payne received a ball through the body just below the heart and will probably die. Payne, when shot, was in a buggy Vlth a companion. Dragging Payne fromthe buggy, Berkey compelleu the other man to drive on and attempted to escape. Finding this impossible he placed a pistol to bis head and fired. The ball took effect, and the voung man died in fifteen minutes. No cause Is known for the bloody work exeept that Berkey was completely maddened by the liquor he had swallowed. NOT CITIZENS. The interior department has been informed by Inspector Gardiner, who has been assisting the Indians and half-breeds in the vieinity oï the Turtle Lake, Dak., reservation, in taking up homesteads on the public lands, that the local land office at Devil's Lake 8 receiving homestead filings on lands in that locality from half-breeds as citizens. The inspector has been instructed that Indians and halfbreeds are not citizens, and can only become such under special laws enacted therefor by congress. Tney can take homesteads only as Indians and subject to the restrictions as to alienation provided for in the Indian homestead law. ]f they secure patents for homesteads without such restrictions, many, if not all of them, will soon part with the lands and again take refuge upon some r.scrvation as a charge upon the government. If the Indians patent their lands under the Indian homestead law they cannot part with them for a period of twenty-five years. SEQUEL TO AN ELOPEMEXT. John Wood shot and wounded William Bradley near Trenton, Ont., a few days ago. Bradley and Wood's wife eloped together last spring, hauling up at Detroit. Wood followed them ïnlJune, and after imprisoning them allowed hls wife to aecompany him to her former home where, it is reported, she made an attempt to poison him a few weeks ago. Bradley also returned. The next day Mrs. Wood, whb is the mother of 12 children, met her paramour. Wood being suspicious, followed with a rifle. He carne suddenly upon them near Bradley 's home, and he raised the rifle to shoot bis wife first, but she held up her ehild to shield herself ana cried for merey. Bradley sprang behind a tree calling to Wood not to shoot and at the same instant discharged two shots from his revolver. Wood turned on Bradley and shot him in the 6houlder. Bradley ran for the house. Wood firing two shots without effect. Bradley is still alive and is expeeted to recover. Woed gave himself up to the authorities, but owing to the circumstances he was advised to enter complain t against the wounded man, which he did and returned home. HISTORIO SHIPS BURNED. Fire broke out on the old war vesssl Colorado, lving off Plum Beach, near Port Washing ton, L. I., the other night. The ñames spread from the Colorado to the following ships, all ot wmen wore Durnea to tnc water s rage ana eunk: Minnesota, Susquehanna, Congress, South Carolina, lowa, Lotta Grant and Fair Play. All, with the exception oí the last two, formerly belonged to the United States' navy. They had been eondemned and were bougtit f rom the government by Stannard t Co. . who were to break them up for the old iron and planks they could get out of them. The flre broke out on the forward deck of the Colorado where men were at work burning up planks to get the iron spikes. Among the ships burned were several which were famoas in history. The Minnesota and Congress, frigates, were engaged in the immortal flght with the confedérate iron ciad Merrimac. "The Congress was sunk; but afterward raised. The Minnesota was saved by the arrival of the Monitor. The 6teamer Colorado was also a famous ship, and the Susquehanna was not without renown. One of the singular and touching incidents of the fire was the faet that the Minnesota's mammast feil across the Congress, and the two famous ships vent down locked together in death as they always will be in history.