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The collision is said to have been made by a. misunderstanding of orâ€" ders for the southbtmnd train exâ€" tra; to .take a switch near Kingsâ€" land. The motormen of the two cars did my. 313.96 time to set the on the Fprt Wayne & Wabash Val- ley line on Wednesday. The wreck occurred seven miles north of Bluff~ ton at a sharp curve. The-cars in collision were a northbound local car crowded to the steps, and a, southbound extra car from Fort Wayne. They met while both were running at_high speed. 'A despatch from Fort Wayne, Indiana, says: Fortyâ€"two passenâ€" gers were killed and seven were seriously injured in a, head-on col- lision between two interurban cars Trolley Cars Crash Together in a Head-0n Collision. .v FORTY-TWO WERE KILLED Three Men Arrested at Oak Lake' Manitoba. A despatch from Brandon, Man, says: 'i'nree men, giving the names of James Carlson, John Newton and Dan Welsh, arrested at Oak Lake on Wednesday, had in their possesâ€" sion the greater part of $4,000 worth of jewellery stolen from a store in Hamiota the previous night. The men are apparently frofessional burglars, and are be- ieved to be responsible for most of John Sims, a New Brunswick Her- mit, II-a‘d Feet Shot Ofl‘. A despatch from St. John, N.B., says: To bleed to death far from human habitation was the fate of “John the 'L‘rapper” a. few days ago. John Sims for the past sev- en years had lived in a small hut near Lepreaux and existed by hunting and trapping. He is said to have a, wife and daughter at Livâ€" erpool, but he shunned‘company and no one knew anything of his ante- cedents. Wednesday a, boy who sometimes took him pnovisions went to the hut, to find him sitting bolt upright with both feet shot off and quite dead, with his Tong rifle across his knees. He had bled to death, with no chance of summoning aid. Cholera Talg'mg Fearful T011 in Russian Provinces. A despat-ch from St. Petersburg saysteThe figures available at the Sanitary Bureau show that, during the present cholera epidemic there have been 191,076 cases, with 88,â€" -716 deaths, throughout the coun- try. On Friday Khaba-rovsk, spat of the General Government of the Amur and capital of Primorskaya Province, Siberia, and Nikolavsk in the same province, were officially declared to be within the cholera. zone. In the week ending Sept. 17 thereswas a total of 4,412 cases and 2,071 deaths. In the last six days there have been 301 new cases and 83 deaths in this city. In the week previous there were 339 cases and 136 deaths. "What the Dominion Interior Department’s Agents Report. Harvest; began generally about the first week in August, and has continued favorably, most of the grain now being in stocks, some stacked, and thrashing in progress. The weather just, now is rather un- favorable, but rain and frost have done no harm. Some farmers have In spite of the very early spring,‘ the long dry spell through the sum- mer, and the late heavy rain, grains, roots and fruit promise to be a. paying crop, though not so good as last year. Through the dry summer months it was feared that crops would be a. failure, and in some places bush fires rag‘ed and caused much alarm. In August, however, heavy rains set in and changed conditions for the better. THE CROPS ARE A SUCCESS A dospatcli from Ottawa, says: According to reports on western qonditions sent by the agents of the Department of the Interior to the Superintendent of Immigration, the crops this ygar are after all a suc- c-ess. 191,076 CASES, 88,716 DEATHS. TRAPPER BLED TO DEATH. WITH STOLEN G 001) S. ‘brakes when they sighted each other. The heavily-loaded north- bound car was crushed, and the bodies of the dead and injured were strewn on either side of the track amid the wreckage. The screams ».of the injured men and women following the crash of the cars brought the neighboring farm- ers to the scene. Conductor Spil- ler, of the southbound car, was un- hurt, and ran back toward Kings: land and flagged a car which was approaching the wreck at full speed and would have plunged into it. Wrecking cars and physicians were rushed from Fort Wayne and Bluff- ton, and the bodies of the dead and the injured were convede to hos- pitals in: the two cities. tile- baralysis. First Victim of Infantile Paralysis Discovered. A despatch from Niagara Falls, 01111., says: Infantile paralysis was discovered in the city on Friday. Four-year-old Hazel Manley is the first victim. St. Catharines and Chippewa both have cases of infan- g0ttawa Girl Sentenced to Prison for Attempted Suicide. A despatch from Ottawa says: A case of suicide in the Ottawa police station was averted on Wedâ€" nesday morning only by an over- dose of poison. Rose Eyr, a young domestic, was given nine months for having stolen from her mis- tress, Mrs. Ogilvie, a, $150 dress and then sending it, to a. laundry, where it; was ruined. As soon as she was sentenced' she swallowed three bichloride of mercury pills. The does was too powerful, and acted as its own antidote. Several Guests Barely Escaped With Their Lives in Hotel Fire. A despatch from Schreiber, Ont, _says: A Finnish girl named Patmi was burned to death in her bed and several guests barely es- caped with their lives,- when the King Edward Hotel here was burned to the ground on Wednes~ day night. Miss Moore, an elderly woman working in the kitchen as helper, was burned severely and may not recover. A French girl named Cadet was badly hurt when she jumped from the second-story window. The hotel was owned by‘ John King of Fort William, and was fully insured. - the‘ numerous burglaries that have terrorized western towns for sev- eral weeks past. They were ar- raigned here and remanded for a. week, as other members of the gang are still at large. The men under arrest are heavily shackled and under a. special guard. All the mines are working double shift, and dealers have plenty of coal and wood on hand. Farmers have not yet begun to lay in their winter supply, but them is abso- lutely no fear of any shortage, and the outlook for the coming winter is bright and promising in every way. Market prices are high, and there is a, good demand for all produce offered; some new wheat has been sold. Farmers seem to have plenty of money, and no complaints are heard. Transportation conditions are satisfactory, there being plenty of cars to take the grain to the ele« vators, and roads are good. SWALLOWED POISON PILLS. The demand for farm hands has been good and ‘still continues. In many places men are impossible to_ get. \Vages average $20 to $45 per month and board, or $2 to $3 per day and board for very good men. Railway men will be required for some time yet at excellent wages. DREAD DISEASE AT FALLS. begun ploughing and discing for neigt year’s crop. GIRL BURKE!) TO DEATH. Tor’onto, Sept. QEâ€"PYime butch- ers’, stéers and heifers sold at LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, Sept. 27~â€"-Ste»ers sold at $5 to $5.75 for choice stock; cows, $4 to $5.40; bulls, $3 to $3.- 75; sheep, $3.50 to $4.25, and lambs $5.50 to ‘ $6; hogs sold around $9 to $9.25, and sows $8 to $8.25; calves brought- $3 to $12. Buffalo, Sept. 27.â€"Wheat -~â€" Spring wheat, firmer; W'int‘er stronger. Cornâ€"No. 3 yellow, 57 3â€"40; N0. 4 yellow, 563-40; No. 3 corn, 561â€"40; N0. 4 corn, 551â€"40 all on track, through billed. Oatsâ€" No. 2 white, 380; N0. 3 white, 371-40; N0. 4 white, 361â€"40. Rye-~- No. 2, on track, 771â€"20. Minneapolis, Sept. 27â€"â€"Wheatâ€" N0. 1'hard, cash, $1.121-2, N0. 1 Northern, cash, $1.111â€"4; Septem» ber, $1.08 7â€"8; December, $1.111â€"2; May, $1.15 3â€"8. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Sept. 2’7.â€"Oatsâ€"â€"No. 2 ECanadian Western, 40 to 401-20; ‘No. 3, 381-2 to 390; N0. 2 white; 391â€"20; No. 3 white, 381â€"20. Bar- leyâ€"No. 4, 491-20. Flourâ€"ManL toba, Spring wheat patents, firsts $5.80; d0., seconds, $5.30; Winter wheat patents, $5.75; Manitoba wheat patents, $5.30; straight rol- lers, $5.25; (10., in bags, $2.50 to $2.60; extras, $2.15 to $2.25. Feed TOntario bran, $20.50 to $21; Onâ€" tario middlings, $22; Manitoba bran, $20; Manitoba shorts, $22; pur-e grain mouillie, $31 to $32; mixed mouilli‘e, $25 to $28. Cheese â€"~Western, 11 to 111â€"40; easterns 105-8 to 110. Butterâ€"Ohoicest, 241-2 to 25c; seconds, 231-2 to 24C. Eggsâ€"Selected stock, 23 Lâ€"2 to 240; No. 4 stock, 19 to 191â€"20; straight receipts, 19c; No. 2 stock, 130 to‘ 14C. Rollsâ€"~Smoked, 151-20; medium and light hams,' 19c to 191-20; heavy, 180 to 181â€"20; bacon, 190 to 200. Green meats out less than smoked. Smoked and Dry Salted Meatsâ€" Long clear bacon, tons and cases, 150 to 15 1-20; back-s (plain), 200 to 21c; backs (pea-meal), 201â€"2c to 21 1-20. Wholesale quotations :â€" Pork -â€" Short cut, $30 to $30.50 pep barrel; mess, $27.50 to $28. ‘ Lard â€" ITiercés,‘ » 141-20} tubs, 142-20} pails, 14573â€"4_c;3strocks steady. Potatoesâ€"75c per bag. (hit of store and 65c to 700 in car lots. Honeyâ€"Strained honey, 9c to ICC per 1b. in (SOâ€"pound tins; 5 to 10 pound tins at 91-20 to 101-20; N0. 1 comb honey at $1.75 to $2 per dozen; No. 2 at; $1.50 per dozen. Cheeseâ€"1114c ‘per pound for large and 113â€"40 per pound for twins. ~ Bean‘sâ€"$2 to $2.10 per bushel for prignes, angl $2.15 fql‘ handâ€"picked. COUNTRY PRODUCE. ‘Butterâ€"Local wholesale quota- tion-s armâ€"Creamery prints“ 250 to 26c; do, solids, 24c to 250; sepâ€" arator prints, 230 to .240; dairy prints, 21c to 220; do, solids, 200; inferior (bakers), 18c to 190. Eggsâ€"~Selects, 24c and 250 per dozen. Millfeedâ€"Manitoba bran, $20 per ton; shorts! $22 per ton, track, Toronto. Ontario bran, $20 per ton; shorts, $22 per ton on track; Toronto. * Ontario Flourâ€"New winter wheat flour, for future delivery, $3.65 to $353)"?! buygr‘s’ bags, at the mills. Manitoba, Flourâ€"Quotations at Toronto areâ€"First patents, $5.90; second patents, $5.40; strong bak- ers', $5.20; 90 per cent, Glasgow. freights, 293. UNITED STATES MARKETS .Barleyâ€"New at 48c to 52c out~ 814:9, ajccprdilxg to quality. Oatsâ€"~Canada, western, N0. 2, 390; No. 3 Canada, western, 370 at lak-e ports, for immediate ship- ment; Ontario No. 2 white, 330*“) 34c outside; N0. ‘3 white, 320 to 330 outside; 35c to 36c on track, To- ronto. Peasâ€"N0. 2, 79c to 800. Ryeâ€"No. 2, new, 670 to 680 out- side. Prices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Sept. 27-Ontario Wheat â€"â€"No. 2 winter wheat, 900 to 92C, outside, according to looation. Manitoba, wheatâ€"No. 1 northern, $1.06; No. 2 northern, new, $1.- 041â€"2; 0101, No. 2, 1 cent higher; No. 3 northern, $1.021~2 at lake ports for immediate shipment. THE WORLD'S MARKETS REPORTS men um LEADING mam-z CENTRES. ‘ PROVISIONS. of pickle, lc A dcspatch from Toronto says: Having arrived in London in excelâ€" lent. shape, a, consignment of On- tario peaches, grown at Jordan Harbor, are now on sale on the Covent Garden Market. The fruit was select-ed and shipped from the Government Experimental Farm at- Jordan Harbor by Mr. P. W. Hodgetts, head of the fruit branch of the Department of Agriculture. On Wednesday Mr. C. C. James, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, received a cablcgram from M. N. B. Colcock, Ontario's agent in London, stating that the peaches had arrired in fine condition, and were being eagerly sampled by dealers. The London newspapers have commented very favorably on “Several shipments of early ap- ples have been made to Great Bri- tain during the past month. Our inspectors report some shipments in ordinary cars arriving at Montreal in a heated, over-ripe, and even rot- ten condition. In view of‘the ar- rangement between the department of agriculture and the railways, whereby shippers may obtain iced cars at ordinary rates for the car- Brisk Demand for Fruit from Jordan Tomatoes Will Sell Well. GNTARIU PEACHES IN LUNDUN A despatch from Ottawa, says: J. A. Ruddick, dairy and cold stor- age commissioner, reports as fol- lows concerning appl‘e shipments from Canada: Shipments Have Often Arrived at Montreal in a Rotten Condition. APPLE EXPORTERS SUM] The Canada ‘Str‘éevaompany will build a, four hundred thousand dol- lar mill at Hamilton. Serious Charge Against a. C. P. R. ’ Brakeman. 1 A despatch from Regina, Sash, ‘says: Charged with attempting to chloroform a. lady passenger on C. P. R. eastbound train, No. 2, on August 8 last, William Patrick Lynn, is O. P. R. brakeman, was on Friday committed to «stand his trial by Magistrate Hefferan at the barracks of the Mounted Police. The victim of the alleged offence, Mrs. Blanchflower, was travelling with her husband, Assistant Payâ€" master Blanchflower of the British navy, from Vancouver to Mont- real, and, according to the prose- cution, was occupying a berth by herself when the attempt to chloro- form her was made somewhere beâ€" tween Medicine Hat and Swift Cur- rent. $5.50 to $5.80; medium from $4.50 to $5.25; choice cows from $4.50 to $5.25; common and medium from $2.50 to $4; heavy feeders and short-keeps from $5.25 to $5.75; stockers from $4 to $5. Choice milkers and springers, $60 to $90 each. Sheep and lambs were too plentiful and declined about 15c. Lambs ranged from $5.85 to $6.15; sheep, ewes, from $4.40 to $4.75. HOgsâ€"â€"$8.75 f.o.b. and $9 fed and watered. ’ ........... , "we. Lat/INCA, wan one of the party who discovered the body. They have been searching for her continuously since her dis- appearance. Just who is the per- petrator of the dastardly deed is a mystery, the only clue being that it is remembered that on the day of her disappearance, she was seen in conversation with a strange man. It was a gruesome sight which A. d-espatch from God-erich says: On Tuesday of last week, Elizabeth Anderson, a. 16 year old girl, disap- peared from her home. On Sunday afternoon her mutilated body was found in the cellar of a deserted house on the outskirts of the town. Wesley Anderson, her father, was BRUTAL MURDER 0F A~[1}IB‘Li Found in a Cellar With Her Throat Gut ‘ From Earto Ear. CHLoROFORM 0N PILLOW. A representative of one of the' leading commission houses of Lon-p don is now at Jordan Harbor for: the purpose of gathering informawl‘ tion, concerning Ontario’s fruiN wealth. The tomatoes grown in thei Niagara district have been a reve- lation to him, and he says that ifl they can be offered for sale in Lon-zr don in the same condition as they? are sold on local markets, tamaa toes will be in great demand in" London. ‘ Peaches have been shipped from South Africa to London with great; success, and Mr. James is of the.‘ opinion that at least five thousand baskets will be shipped from On- tario to London this season. the enterprise of the departmentu and thq excellence of the fruit. apple grower in Canada, and it is about time that the careless, slip- shod operator should be given to understand that he has no right to jeopardize the interests of an im- portant indusfiry in thiS'irrespon‘ éibl-e manner.” riage of fruit intended ,for export in cold storage, it is amazing that such a complaint can be founded on fact. Some of the oldest ship- pers are the worst offenders in this respect. The direct loss for such neglect or ignorance falls on the shipper» or owner, but the indirect loss from injury to the reputation of Canadian apples reaches every A despatch from Ottawa says: As an. automobile belonging to Mr. Edmund D. Shepperd was proceed- ing down Sparks Street on Wed- nesday morning, a tire exploded. A part of the rim was hurled across the sidewalk through the plate glass window of a. nearby. store. Fortunately no one was struck. PIECE OF RIM BROKE WINDOW Automobile Tire Exploded Will Visit Various 0vcr-seas Do- minions Next Autumn. A despatch from London say-8‘; The Prince of Wales and Prince Al-‘ bert will probably tour the world next; Autumn, visiting the principals Over-seas dominions. Remains of Victims of Quebec, Bridge Disaster Recovered. A despatch from Quebec says: The Quebec bridge disaster was brought back to the memory of the community very vividly by the tangled debris of the massive steel structure giving up some of the reâ€" mains of those who perished in the fall. The body of Frank Karley,‘ a, Caughnawaga, Indian, has been found this week and identified, and the remains have been forwarded to his relatives for interment. The provincial police have been notified and will help the local po- lice _in an effort; to locate the mug- derer. They consider the chances of bringing the guilty person to jus- tice very slim. greeted the party of searchers,, when they entered the open door of the cellar‘of the deserted hou;2.. In one corner lay the nude body of the girl, with the exception of shoes and stockings and one glove. Hat and clothing were scattered about the floor. The body was a terrible sight to look at. The throat was cut from ear to ear, the wound{ having the appearance of being done with an axe or similar instrument. PRINCE OF WALES COMING. GIVING UP THE DEAD. Street in Ottawa.