The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-04-09
THE CANADIAN REBELS.
General Middleton Begins His Ad-
vance from Fort Qu'Appelle.
Personnel OF the Rice Provisional Govern
ment - Tho Fate OF Barrlos, tho
Guatsmalan Pretender, stll
In Doubt.
tina REnELLIoN IN rnE NoRrnwEsr.

THR REBRLLIoN IN THE NORTHWEST.
WINNIPEG, Man, April THE rebels
have most successfully frustrated tho at
tempts of General Middleton TO send REIN
forcements 10 the bosleged garrison at
Prince Albert by tearing up the railroad
track for miles between Medicine Hat and
Calgary and shutting of all commu-
nlcatlon, This might have been expected
and, " the cause OF serious delay In
sending OIL troops, Hundreds Of settlers,
with their wives and children, arc sur
rounded by redskins and unless the army
can be sent 10 their relief at once u nassa'
ere will take place, rs the settlers have no
means OF getting supplies, and must event
ually Yield,
General Middleton began his advance
from Fort Qu Appelle this morning. lie has
about $50 mon,
ST, PAUL, MIMI, April IF, +. Davis
who was In the Duck Lake fight has
reached Qu'Appclle, In q description
Of. tho fight he says that Major Cro2ler
joe Mckay tho Interpreter and Tom
Mckay advanced To-. parley with the
rebels. Chief Beardy seized Tom
McKays rifle and tried 10 wrost II
from him. Mckay resisted, and Beardy
gave the word OF command In
the Cree dialect TO fire Oh them, Joe
Mckay understood II, and ~ tho Indians
fired he empted his reyOlycr In Beardy's
body killing him instantly RIel was not
In the fight but was at the church nj Ba-
touches Crossing, seven miles away, where
ho keeps q guard OF sixty men around him,
Among the rebels killed were two brothers
named Montoeurs, and Dupont, lwdo, Lag
gills and Raphcl,
Rlel has formed Provisional Govern.
ment with himself as President Alexander
Fisher Lieutenant General, Gabriel DumOnt
Commanderln-Chlef OF the forces, and the
following councillors: Jean CnrOn, Maxine
Leplnc, Batrce Fleurl, Alexander Fisher
aud another whose name has not been
Qscertalncd.
Prince Albert has been fortified and tho
Presbyterian Church, IN which many have
taken refuge, IL strongly bRrrlcadcd. The
Queens Own Rifles from Toronto reached
here NJ twelve o'clock last night. They
will DO rushed through with all haste.
General Middleton has now with him tho
Winnipeg Rifles and field bait fy--about
three hundred and fifty men. A and Il Bat,
tsrles, which left here Sunday night reached
Qu'Appelle ut ten o'clock.
Nothing definite IL known OF RIel's force,
many contradictory stories about II being
ailoat II IL not likely that tho rebels will
oppose the Government troops In body
but they may do them much harm by
harasslng sklrmshcrs on the march across
tho pralrcs. Every indication points 10 u
difficult and 0rduous advance from Fort
Qu'Appellc 10 Saskatchewan. The trail In
now In bad state and the teams can not
take heavy loads. The mud ON the road 10
knee-deep In places,
A Fort Qu'Appclle dispatch says;
George White, OF this place ls raising q
force OF hfty scouts TO watch the boundary
between Moose Mountain aud Old Wives
Lake 10 intercept supplies aud fugltlyes,"
AFFAIRS ON THE IsTIIMus.
WASHINGTON, April 7.-Commandcr
Kane Of the Galenn, has telegr0phGd Secre.
tnry Whitney from Colon, under date OF
April y, ~ follows: "N0thlng new 10 70.
port Tho Panama Railroad Company Is
getting ts road In order, Government
troops NrO anxious about their prisoners
J The railroad company and the Galcnn aro
feeding the troops, All are In nocd, There
IN great anxiety among foreigners ut Pa
nnnNn
Scnor Botrcs the Minister from Guato-
malO, has not yet received any information
from Guatemala confirming tho death Of
General BNrrlos, lilo hae received dis.
patches from san Salvador, however, con.
irmlng the report