Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1886 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mrs. Riel, widow of. the Canadian rebel, died at St. Vital, Ont., last week. Nova Scotians are preparing to seize some of the American mackerel catchers when they arrive. A cablegram states that the council of the Clydesdale Horse Society of Great Britain and Ireland has decided to present valuaA mob at Toronto, Ont., stoned street-cars, wrecking between thirty and forty of those vehicles, and causing the wildest uproar. No person was dangerously hurt. The Knights of Labor helped in quieting the rioters, ble medals for competition at the show of horses to be held under the auspices of the American Clydesdale Association at Chicago next September. The publication at Halifax, N. S., of the opinions of public men at Portland, Me., in regard to the fishery dispute, has caused much ill-feeliug. A leadiug man at Halifax says the “barbarous” treaty of 1818 is in existence simply because the United States would not appoint a commission to modify it. Mexico has granted a concession to the Governor of the State of Durango for the construction of a railroad to unite the City of Durango with the Mexican Central Railroad. John R. Bartlett, a well-known American author, is dead. The American Baptist Home Mission Society finished its work at Asbury Park, New Jersey, and fixed Minneapolis as the next place for meeting. A great mass meeting was held in New Orleans in support of the cause of home rule in Ireland. Governor McEnery presided. Governor Dawes presided at a mass meeting at' Lincoln, Neb., favoring homo rule for Ireland