OCR Text |
Show Uuruly Reds. Montreal, 15. Fresh troubles between be-tween the Oka Indians and church authorities is creating Bome excitement. excite-ment. The seminary at St. Sulpice demanded that Protestant Indiahs remove re-move a fence from across the road near Oka village. The Indiana refused re-fused on the ground that it enclosed the pasture, and they bad been allowed to place it there of old. As the serainarycould make no agreement information in-formation was made atSt. Oholastique aud on warrants being issued such was the feeling evinced among the Indians that the authorities ot the district called upon the provincial government for help. Seven policemen police-men and aergeautj were sent up and aided in arresting five of the forty -five Indiana for whom warrants were out. The rest fled and remained concealed in the woods until the constable left tae village. The Indians again assembled, as-sembled, and tbe chief, Joe Onesaku-rat, Onesaku-rat, advised them to reaiat arrest. They armed themselves with rifles, revolvers and knives, their armament beiog completed at noon yesterday, and patrolled the village and defied Iheii people. Towards night many retired, while a lew stood sentry. At 4 o'clock the residing priest at Oka discovered his stable to be in flames, and about thirty armed Indians promeuading around the church. The fire spread, and in two hours the church, priest's residence, granary containing a thousand bushels of grain, stables, coach house and vain-I'.ble vain-I'.ble contents were iu ruins. A library of one thousand volumes, part in the Ionian language, were consumed. con-sumed. The origiit ia supposed to bo incendiary. A rigid investigation will he held into the origin of th fire. |