Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1885 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Notwithstanding the predictions that the Canadian Government would not earn’ out the Sentence of death passed upon the eight Indians concerned in the Frog Lake massacre and other outrages during the rebellion, the entire squad was hanged by the neck at Battleford. Northwest Territory, on the 27th of November. Three others were condemned with the eight, but the sentence was commuted, 1 and Dressy Man and Charlebois, the Indians who killed a crazy squaw, were respited. Since the

sentence of death was passed upon the redskins they hod been constantly attended by priests. They all confessed their crimes and expressed their indifference as to their fate. Wandering Spirit, who belonged to Big Bear’s band, who was known to be the worst Indian in the Northwest, was responsible for the Frog Lake massacre, and when talked to by the priests he remained defiant, and frequently said if he had the chance again he would do the same thing. .... The total number of failures in the United States reported to Bradslreet’s last week was 225, as compared with 234 the previous week, with 237 in the like week in 1884, 232 in 1883, 186 in 1882, and 115 in 1881. The total number of failures in the United States from Jan. 1 to Nov. 27 was 10,086, against 10,171 in a like portion of 1884 (a loss of 85), as compared with 8,816 in 1883, with 7,049 in 1882, and with 5,447 in a like portion of 1881. ...A subscription list has been opened in Montreal to raise funds for the benefit of Reil’s family.* It is designed to secure co-operation to other parts of Canada aiid the United States. The steamer Idaho, from Sitka, Alaska, has arrived at Victoria, B. C-, and brings wonderful tales of the richness of the Cassiar gold fields. The report of the Government officer who visited the Granite Creek mines is published. He states that he saw S4OO taken out of a rocker in a single afternoon, and several claims are yielding from $250 to S4OO a day. The steamer Idaho brought $70,000 in gold dust from Douglass Island.