The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20
MISCELLANEOUS.


A train on the Grand Trunk struck
an express wagon containing George Walsh
and James Miller at Blue Bonnets, Canada,
demolishing the wagon and killing both men.
Hog cholera is assuming serious pro-
portions In the Canadian Province of On
tario.
Smallpox has been declared epidem-
&c in Montreal by the local Board of Health.
The public hospital contains thirty-six pa
tents.
Two engines attached to a Grand
Trunk passenger train ran of an open bridge
into the weland Canal at Merilton, Ontario,
one of the engineers being killed, two other
train-men dangerously hurt and number
of persons injured.
President Cleveland has gone to the
Adirondacks for his summer vacation. A
dispatch from Au Sable Forks, New York,
says: President Cleveland, accompanied by
DIR. Ward, of Albany. passed through here en-
route for the Adirondaclks. They were met at
the depot by the Hon. III. ID. Graves and taken
TO his residence, where n short reception was
given. after which the party was met by
Paul Smith, who took the m by stage TO the
Prospect House, where the President will
spend few weeks" Plattsburg On. " dis
patch: president Cleveland and DIR. Ward
have reached the Prospect House, Upper
Saranac Lake, their destination. Tney had
a pleasant uneventful blackboard ride of
forty-seven miles from the railway terminus
at An Sable
When the wife of Louis Riel, who
resides few miles from Winnipeg. heard Of
her husbands sentence she became frantic
and fed from her house to the woods, where
she hid. She was only partially clothed, and
IN her bare feet, and was nearly dead when
found by her friends. So terrible is the
shock she may never recover her reason. In
Winnipeg n great deal of sympathy is felt
for her and her children, and subscription
LIST has been started for them, as they are
penniless.
Two hundred Indians are said to be
on the warpath between Swift Current and
Battleford, Northwest Territory.
The transfer of the Bankers and
Merchants Telegraph property TO the United
Lines Telegraph Company has been consum-
mated. Under the reorganization the bonded
Indebtedness will be reduced from $40,
900 TO s1,2J0,0O).
Ohe-Arrow, an Indian chief and one
of Poundmaker's associates, has been tried
at Regina and found guilty of treason-fel-
ony. On hearing the result he said: "white
man had big talk all to himself now; wait
little and One-Arrow will talk and tell
what he knows"
Advices received at the Treasury
Department from Captain Healey, COM
manding the revenue enter Corwin, under
port the loss of the barks Napoleon and
Gazelle in the ice, eighteen persons per-
ishing.
There were 160 failures in the United
States reported TO Brddstreets during the
week, against I92, in the preceding week, and
237, ia and 14S in the corresponding weeks
of 1884, 1883, and 1882 respectively. About
II per cent. were those of small traders,
whose capital was less than $1,000.
In the principal trades they we're
as follows: General stores, %; grocers,
%; liquors, 20; clothing, 8; shoes, 8; prod
uce and provisions, 9; books, stationery,
etc, 8: hardware and implements, 8; grain
and mills, 81 dry goods 8; bakers and con-
iectioners, 4; hotels and restaurants A. jewell
ry, 4; millinery, 4; manufacturers 4; drugs,
8; harness, 8; mems furnishing goods, 8; to
bacco and cigars, 81; bankers, .; crockery, 2.