The Country At Large

Dispatches from Berlín state that Ocrmany has deelincd to either propose or accept arbitration in the dispute between that country and Spain arising out of their claims to the Caroline i9lands. THE CYCLONE. Charleston, S. 0., and vicinity was struckby a cyclone carly the other morning. Buildings were unroofed and blown down, crops destroyed, and all the usual accompaniments of a cyclone followed. MUS. WALKÜP ARRESTED. The jury investigatingthe cause of the death of Mayor J. R. Wálkup of Emporia, Kansas, returned a verdict finding the deceased came to bis death by arsenical poisoning, and from all the evidence the jury believe that the arsenic was administered to ïiim feloniously by his wife, Minnle Wallace Walkup. Mrs. Walkup has been held for examination. , DAKOTA'S CLAIMS. Gov. Plerce of Dakota, is now in Washington for the purpose of (Hing the census recently taken of that territory. It.is a very complete and voluminous piece of work. The population in round numbcrs is 415,000, of which south Dakota claims 263,000. The total number of farms in the territory is 80,000, varying in area from 6,000 acres down. The chief ooject of the census is to strengthen the terrftory's claim to admission as a state. A NICE POINT. Th case of the sixty paupers who were refused a landing at New York, but vho subsequentiy landcd at Halifax or one of the Canadian p rts and made their way thence into the Uniteü State-, has been laid before the treasury department. Mr. Lyman, chief of the navigation división, says there is no remedy; that tlie pauper immigration law applies to landing directly from a snip and is silent on the question of coming by land. Congress will be asked to legislate on the subject. IOWA RBPUBLIOANS". The Iowa Republican state convention met in Des Moines a few days since. Hon. P. M. Sutton was e'.ected permanent chairman, who made a speech urging the solidification of the party. An informal ballot for Governor was taken, resulting : Larabee 708, Huil 374 ; necëssary to choice 543. Larabee was declared the nominee by acclamation. The ballot for Lieutenant-Governor resulted in a unanimous vote for Huil. For Supreme Court Judge the incumbent, Judge Beek, was renomiaated. A CARELES3 DRU00I9T. Uruggist Amede, of Hoboken, N. J., put up a prescription for the Misses Hulse, daughters of a well known citizen. The prefcription called for quinine. The druggist put up mor pilme, iiieiiexi mormngone 01 tue lauíesüieu. The other cannot live. The druggist fled, but was found a few hours af ter. Hé informed the policeman that he had taken poison. Physicians were suminoned, when it'was discovered that the conscience smitten man had swallowed five grains oí atropia. His recovery is doubtíul. A CHANCE TO GET RICH. The South American cbmmissioners, in thcir report on the Argentfne Republic, say it is an immense and wealthy reglón, the trade ot which is controlled by every other nation except the United States. The government earnestly desires commercial relations with us, and would unite in anyfeasible sehemeto establlsb frequent and cheap eommunication. If our people only knew the vast developed wealth of the country they would floek to it with men and money, and streams of profit would flow on every side. AN IMPORTANT DECISIÓN. An interesting point in connection with the naturalization laws bas .iust been settled Inthe Secretary of the interior in disposing o", the case of Ross vs. Poole. Ross made a preemption filing while an alien, supposing Chat the deel aration of tneintention of his father who had not been naturalized, was sufticient to qualify him as a pre-emption upon attaining his majority. Before he disêovered his error and flled again for the tract Poole made a homestead entry upon it. The eecretary held that the removal of the difqualification eame too late to invalidate the intervening rights of Poole. DAKOTA'S WHIiAT. S. L. Tallmadge, the Milwaukee statistieian is inreceipt of the following report from Jas Bavnes, statistical agent of Uakota: "In :i majority of countles the thrashing is proving a wheat ácreage of twenty-five per cent less than last year and the quality is not (juite so good. Smut is increasinst in the Territory, and is much complained of by buyers. The ie is some wheat that shows injury from heat bv beingj shrivelled. This being true, togethe'r with the f act of there having been somanv storms since my last report and before harvcsl had begun in Northern Dakota, I cannot see how the erop was preserved from serious deterioration in a large section of the northern country. I think we will do well if we get 20,000,00ü bushels thrashed, judging from the present outlooK. HONORINO GRANT. Memorial services under the auspiees of the city government of the city of Mexico in honor of the late Gen. Grant were held the other evening in the presence of all the the chief officials of both the Federal and city governmentand the elite of Mexican society. All the member3 of the American colony were present by special invitation. The prograinrne embraced appropriate music by superb orchestra. a funeral oration by Senator Ramon Prida, an address bv Señor "Tomas Reyes Retana and singing of the "Ave Maria" by Rosa Palacios, the Mexican prima dona. In addition, addreses were made by Senors Andrei Clemente Vasquez, Edwarde Zarate and Anselmo Aifaro. The next rnorning the Municipes Libre, organ of the city jovernment, publishes a portraít o! Gen. Grant, with an eloquent sketch of nis life, while the press generally pay a tribute to the dcad American hero. NO MORE SOFT SNAPS. The action of the treasury officials in ithholdiog the July payments of men said to be illegally employed by the court of Alabama claims will result in a most searching investigation of the institution, and some startling revelations regarding the expenditure of public money are promised. T!ir action of the court oflicers in paying $1,200 a year for an old house which could be bonalit for $1,500 is speeially critieised, as well as the fact that the men named for romoval have held sinecure positiona with big salaries and a vacation ol severa) months each year. All are sons of prominent men. Ex-Postmaster-General .7. A. J. Creswell is counsel of the court for the United StatiS, but it is said he has nothing whateïcto do with the expenditures. The court ad journed several months ago, rot to meet again until October. Theyouug se cetv swells whosi' FROM THE CATTLE COUNTRY. It is stated at the interior ilvpari ment that the order for the removal of the fenees from government land will be strlctly enf orced. An impression prevails amon;; catt'.emen, it is stated, that it will not be, but Secretary Lamar says the military will ba called if necessary to enlorce it. Thè order was issued .'. ug. 14, and a reasonabte time giren lor it ta M eotnplied with. Dlspatches reeeived at the interior department Indícate that the cattlemen who, by proelamation, were ördered to quit the Chey enne and Arapahoe Indian reservation wifh their stock withiti 40 days, the period for such removal expiving Sept. ist, are complytng with it. Thousands of head of stock are now moving, and from cresent indieations the letter and spirit of the proelamation are now belng complied with. Considerable interest has been awakened in tiiis matter by the announcement tlat Gen. li. F. Butler is a larga cattle owner and theproprietor of several ranches. Ben. proposca to su President Cleveland and make a test case, to determine the right of the executive to issue such a proelamation. 11X5 S ÏLVANIA UEMOCJi.lO Y. The Pennsylvania Democratie State Coavention assemhled in Harrisburg Ang. 83. li. P. Allen of Lvcom'n.; was elected temporarv cbairman hy cjlamation. On tak'ng the chair he spoke oí his party belng in posso-sion of the national administration, 'and said that they had a perfect right to present to the public utterances of importance. He éxúogized President Cleye'and and said that the people were now having a higher, better and purer administration thari has been knoivn for many years. Keíerring to the new constitution he said one of the great questions was the regulation of the laws governing ereat corporations. It was a duty to keep them within thp bounds of the constitution He charged the Kepublicans with allowlng tho laws to remain as a dead letter whcu they had an opportunity to enforce them. (!ov, l'attison was highly complimented for his move on the South Pennsylvania Railroad, and the speaker requested that the Governor be fully indorsed and sustained in his course. After the appointment ofthevarious committees and the formation of a permanent organizatíon, a platform was adopted entirely harmon'ous with the principies of the party, Conrad E. Day was nominated state treasurer by acclamatiön, and the convention adjourned. MUEDERED FOK A DEBT. AlbertD. Swan. one of the most prominent and wealthiest citizens in Lawrence, Mass., was shot in the back of the head and killed, by Henry R. Goodwin, on a recent morning. Goodwin gave himse'f up. Goodwin entered the office of the L. Sprague manufacturing eompany, of wliich Mr. Swan was treasurer, about 10 o'clock, President Coburn and the latter being in the office at the time. Goodwin has been in the employ of the Molecular telephone eompany of New York, of which Swan was general manager, and came to the office to claim several thousand dollars which he said was due himfrom thecompany. Af ter a brief discussion Goodwin drew a Smith & Wesson, 33 ealiber revolver, took delibérate aim and shot Swan in the back of the head. Swan reeled and feil to the floor dead. Goodwin then stepoed to the telephone and notifled the pólice station to send an oflicer to arrest him. He stated that Swan had robbed him of all he had, and there was a period in a man's life when he :ould stand no more. He had reached that point and went to the mili to kill Swan and was willing to stand the consequences. He started a telephone business thcre and later sold out to Swan, his partner. He then went to South America as manager of the Bell telephone systcm at Buenos Ayres. He returned two years ago, and has Jately been trying to establish the molecular sj stem in Cleveland. He returned from Chicago but three days ago. Mr. Swan was a prominent banker of Massadhusetts and New York, and was unusually estcemed.