Death Of A Noted Western Train Gambler

"Canada Bill"died of eonsumption in the County Hospital. His funeral was probably the strangest ever seen in the Charles Evans Cemetery, for there were neither tears, nor women, nor minister about the grave that now holds the remains of a man who (lied penniless in a strange land, but had the name one time of hnving won nearly half a million dollars at three-card monte. Canada Bill's projer name was William Jones. He was on English gypsy, and came to this country seventeen years ago. He was n horse-trader, and tinally b?gan to play at three-eord monte. He drifted into Kingston, Cmiada, where he got the name of Cunada Bill. He operated all over the North during the war, and after the war elosed lie was on the Red river and on tke Miesissippi. He was alwqys dressed in a very elouchy manner, and cared nothing for good elothes or jewelry of any kind. He won thousands of dollars on the Mississippi, iu the disgtiise of a planter. At one time he had a livery stable, and kept 200 negroes at work filcaring swamp land, at the mouth of the Red river. Subsequently he operated at monto on the Kansas Pacific and Union Pacific railroads running out from Kansas City and Omaha. He became infamously known all over the country. All the. tïicks and new points in "monte" wero invented by " Canada Bill." He always traveled as a countryman. He is said to have won thouaands of dollars on the trains, and as soon as he won it he lost it at playing faro. His frieLd8 say that in Chicago alone, in 1874, he won $75,000 in three months, and yet he died penniless, and had to be buried at the expense of an old friend. He was about 40 years of fcge. - Beading (-Pa.) F,agle.