Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1887 — A Famous Correspondent Gone. [ARTICLE]

A Famous Correspondent Gone.

In the death of George Wallace, Mon treal correspondent of The Toronto Mail, Canadian journalism loses a man that did much to lift it out of a rut of dead commonplace almost inconceivable to an intelligent American. "Wallace had quite an exciting time in California away back in the fifties. When the Australian gold fever broke out he was one of the earliest pioneers, and is said to have furnished Charles lleade with some of the material for his interesting romance “It Is never -Too Late to Mend.” He made a large fortune, but lost it by the smashing of a Belfast bank. When gold was discovered in British Columbia he went to that then almost inaccessible country and established a newspaper in the mountains, which he sold to the miners for 81 per copy, realizing another forturte, which he promptly lost as soon as he returned to civilization. Making a fresh start in Canada alter some experience in Russia and New York, he became city editor of The Montreal f Star, succeeding the late George T. Lanigan. He shook up Montreal in a few weeks and had The Star covered mountains deep with libel suits. He fought abuses with a vigor never before known, and while he succeeded in making himself man most feared and hated by the rings of politicians and plunderers of the city he proved too heavy a load for The Star to carry. He undertook the management of the Academy of Music, and failing in it settled down as the correspondent of The Mail. He was also Montreal correspondent of a host of . American newspapers. —Albany Argus.