Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1914 — MOST PRETTY HOME COSTUME Cruel Act of Warfare. [ARTICLE]

MOST PRETTY HOME COSTUME

Cruel Act of Warfare.

One hundred years ago General McClure. learning of the disastrous remit of the American campaign In Lower Canada and fearing his own force would he attached fcy the British resolved to evacuate Fort George and abandon the country. This he accordingly did, with all his troops, and with such precipitancy that he left behind his tents add stores. His retreat was accompanied by an act that has left an indelible stigma upon hia name. The frost bad set in early and severe. The snow lay deep upon the ground. Yet at 89 minutes’ notice, of 189 houses In the Canadian village of Newark, he fired all save one, and drove 400 helpless women and children to seek shelter In the tog huts of the scattered settlers, or in the bark wigwams of the wandering Indians.