Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1885 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

A train on the Grand Trunk struck an express wagon containing George Walsh

and James Miller at Blue Bonnets, Canada, demolishing the wagon and killing both men. Small-pox has been declared epidemic in Montreal by the Iqcal Board of Health. The public hospital contains thirty-six patients. President Cleveland has gone to the Adirondacks for his summer vacation. A dispatch from Au Sable Forks, New York, says: “President Cleveland, accompanied by Dr. Ward, of Albany, passed through hereen route for the Adirondacks. They were met at the depot by the Hon. H. D. Graves and taken to his residence, where a short reception was given, after which the party was met by Paul Smith, who took them by stage to the Prospect House, where the President will spend a few weeks.” Plattsburg (N. Y.) dispatch: “President Cleveland and Dr. Ward have reached the Prospect House, Upper Saranac Lake, their destination. They had a pleasant, uneventful buckboard ride of forty-seven miles from the railway terminus at Au Sable.”

When the wife of Louis Riel, who resides a few miles from Winnipeg, heard of her husband's sentence she became frantic and fled from her house to the woods, where she hid. She was only partially clothed, and m her bare feet, and was nearly dead when found by her friends. So terrible Is the shock she may never recover her reason. In Winnipeg a great deal of sympathy is felt for her and her-children, and a subscription list has been started for them, as they are penniless.

Two hundred Indians are said to be on the warpath between Swift Current and Battleford, Northwest Territory. The transfer of the Bankers and Merchants’ Telegraph property to the United Lines Telegraph Company has been consummated. Under the reorganization the bonded indebtedness will be reduced from $10,000,000 to $1,200,003. One-Arrow, an Indian chief and one of Poundmaker's associates, has been tried at Regina and found guilty of treason-fel-ony. On hearing the result he said: “White man had a big talk all to himself now; wait a little and One-Arrow will talk and tell what he knows.”

Advices received at the Treasury Department from Captain Healey, commanding the revenue cutter Corwin, under date of Port Clarence, Alaska, July 10, report the loss of the barks Napoleon and Gazelle in the ice, eighteen persons perishing.

There were 160 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet's during the week, against 192, in the preceding week, and 237, 174, and 148 in the corresponding weeks of 1884, 1883, and 1882 respectively. About 77 per cent, were those of small traders, whose capital was less than $5,000. In the principal trades they were as follows: General stores, 28; grocers, 23; liquors, 20; clothing, 6; shoes, 6; produce and provisions, 6; books, stationery, etc., 5: hardware and implements, 5; grain and mills, 5; dry goods, 5; bakers and confectioners, 4; hotels and restaurants, 4; jewelry, 4; millinery, 4; manufacturers, 4; drugs, 3; harness, 3; men’s furnishing goods, 3; to bacco and cigars, 3; bankers, 2; crockery, 2.

The transactions of the twenty-six leading clearing houses of the United States last week aggregated $724,424,803 —an increase of 8.2 per cent, over the clearances of the corresponding week of 1884.

Montreal hospitals are completely Ailed with small-pox patients. In fact, there is not sufficient room to provide for the stricken.