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TAINS COLLIDE IN FOLEADINGARKETSCONDENSEDEWS ITEMS
Twenty -Five People gilled on the Quebec
Express.
A clrcpalch from Rutland, Vermont,
says. 'Twenty -live persons wore killed
ttllel thirty injured in a wreck on the
-41ltRoston and Moine Railroad at West
(.n►uuur, sixty miles north of here., at
4.:ee
o'clock on Sueday morning. Il
y. ,. a head-on collision between a
is • gilt and passenger train, the latter
1. ;lig bound from Quebec for Reston.
1 he innj•:r!ty of the kilted were Ftenctt-
(:unadians.
t
the conch of the pn'st neer (rain, the
conch ire ineediitely behind the baggage
era.. The (i cupaiits of this conch were
fee the most. part French-Canadians
Icon(' ter Manchester, Nashua and Lo-
well to work in the mills, and en route
from Sherbrooke.
The accident occurred in n sparsely
Fettled section, and there were no
places to care for the injured. With
the arrival of the wrecking trains a
The ceu'e of the accident, according lot of the injured were hurried to (;an -
to it statement given out by the rain card. 'Tw<i more s'r•iously injured were
nee' c,tlle:els here, %vas the nnisun(1: r- talon to the hospital at Hanover.
Blending of orders sent to the crew of
the freight. An original order had
been issued. giving this freight a clear The occupants of a combination
right of way north out of Cannon, but stroking car and sleeper on the rear
lies order was rescinded by a seeonel o! the train escaped with only a si►ak-
one, which called for the freight taking inc up. Thor'e in the first coach be-
e siding at Canaan and allowing the bind the baggage car were all killed.
p►ssettger train the right of way. In This car crumpled like paper when
Softie unexplained manner the orders telescoped by the baggage car and en -
were confused, the freight crew getting gine, and eec ipe for the occupants was
Ihc• first one and going on through i mpos.sible.
Oilman, while the passenger train got 'these on the train that escaped in-
n clearance from White River Junction, jury at all rend many of those slightly
Vt.. on the north. The two trains carne t.urt pitched ,in and worked hard in
together in n dense fog. Su thick was doing all that they could for the in -
lee fog= that the engine crews of both jurcd that were pinned in the wreck.
trains say they did not get sight c f A fire that started in the wreckage was
tech ether until they were only 200 quickly put out, and also women
feet aped. worked heroically in ch<l►ping and
Bath engine crews escaped by jump- tearing ri't the wreckage In an effort lo
ing, the engineer of the passenger train release the injured punned in the debris.
&ci rni►ting his ankle. Both trains were l'hc wrecked passenger train lett
gong at high speed, the freight on a White River Junction at 3.45 o'clock in
ekiwn grade of fifty feet to the .mile. Fie morning. She was 45 minutes late.
The impact was terrific. The engine flet being behind time is responsible
of the passenger train telescoped the,fir the shifting of the orders. 'I he
tr.ggage car, (lily coach nod part of a freight train was on time. The col -
invoking cnr. The engine and six cars lieion occurred on a straight stretch of
of 111; freight were piled in a heap, track. glad the morning b3.'n clear,
NEARLY AL1. CANADIANS. the engine crews would have seen each
tether and very likely the wreck would
The• greatest loss of life occurred in haeve leen averted.
A1.t. K11.1 -ED IN ONE COACII.
KILLED Ill' 1.1‘E s'I REET \\ Intl:.
Wire and Children Saw Harley Hill
Meet Death.
A despatch from Niagara Falls, Ont.,
Rays: Harvey 1lill, foreman of the muni-
cipal electric light plant. canoe to his
death on Saturday night in an umic-
c< rentable manner and under particular-
ly sad circumstance . Ile had taken
his wife and three children for u drive,
and Coining to one of the pole boxes on
Ferry Street, in the a oiiIh end of the
city, he saw that the light was out. tie
alighted to adjust it, and ns he raise('
hip- hand to the pole, his wife and chit-
dren were startled to see hire fall, and,
on going to his assistance, they were
iir•rror-stricken to find him stone dend.
There were no marks of electrical burn-
ing on the body, and it is poycible that
leis death was clue to heart failure, but
the generally accepted eupposition is
that some high voltage wire land come
in corlfact with the incandescent light
wire. giving it a voltage sufficient In
cause death. The incandescent circuit
carries only 150 volts. which in Melt
UklIld nut cause a fatuliiy.
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are. err ,•-
('1111:1' \I0It1:N(; t W:NTS hF::fteE.
Ge•rnt:ray'. War in South Africa is
About Ilter.
A despatch from Perlin says: News
,from South Africa rt ceived on \Ved-
oe'.sdny is to the < (Net that the rebel
chief, \torongn, apple d 'o the Governor
k• be included in the treaty of peace
recently made nt lionrlehvarts. The
(;. %Cruor replied that he was Willing,
e•r:►t ided Mot•eng a Wo111(1 give up his
wi apots and live peaceably in his own
country. This news has relieved the
Ve,vernrnent, as it is ahvnys tseesib:e
that \Iorenga's presence in the vicinity
of (:ape CA 'lolly will lead to coutplica-
tains tyitlt Great Britain.
\. IIl•:.t l (:iROP SITTERS.
--
Recent 1'rosl, (lave tame Much i►amatge
in the West.
A despatch from Winnipeg says: The
situation in regard to 11►e crop of the
(:rinadirur \Vest is criti^nl, and extremely
hard to pronounce upon. There have
been three heavy frosts during the past
week, but these have not 1►cen general
tl.ixiughout the entire \Vest. Northern
Allelic! and Northern Saskatchewan
Wive suffered most severely, owing to
the large percentage of extremely heevy
craps in these sections. Speaking gen-
erally it will be impossible to esthnnte
the damage until the actual thrashing
returns are at hand.
In justice to those fanners who still
hold n cansideral:le amount of lust year's
v. haat, it should he stnted that the Inst
frosts have reduced tho prospect for
good milling wheat from the crop of
1907 at Iea.st thirty -flue per cent.
NI'( :11 11M IN 'r111: NOR'111.
A-e-erti..n of `tir\eyor \\'orl.tnef in
\en Ihern Ilnl:ario.
A despatch 'rem 'Toronto says: "'Hain
has Is'en so excessive that everything
13 full of wider to overflowing," writes
Tithes. Fewcett, of Fort William, to the
Survey Department. ile has teen en-
gaged in surveying blocks 1, 2, 3 rind
4 of the territory cin the "Soo" hrnnch
of the National Trnnseonlinental Itail-
W.�y, wtikh comprises n part of the
land grant from Ontario to the (;rand
Trunk Pacific 11911w -fly. Each block e:t
land Ls 18 miles long by 6 miles wide.
The pnrly has been continually tvad-
tng; in writer in places that are t,snr I -
:y solid ground. Of the character ef
!h• Innd in question. the surveyor says
Boit block No. I is rolling nncl heavily
mineral' on the Inst six mile's. Block
No 2 is tnc.stly tirnhcri(1 with spruce,
terntrack, birch. poplar and pine.
PAPRNESE PRPfRS
Convinced That Canadian Government Can
Protect Aliens.
A despatch from London says: An
(le which appears in the Jiji Shimlwo,
..t 'C• Lo. :ty-: "itegjret lois already been
aseel 1•3! the (:ane bean Government,
ee. uplcd with a+sauranccs That rue'neui .':
c. ill be taken t, present similar dent in tutu:c. A Royal message has
even been a►e nt to the Dominion nu-
th ritiees with r'•fereece to the matter.
.A : !hie turni-h.-s the clearest evidence
II:at the Japanese have sympathy in
&leant gt*trl••rs. \I'rre►ver the power
of the Dominion (i<,vernrnent over in-
&skitral Slates i.e: greater Than that el
the Washington (;oternmcnt, and the
Canadian police are ;core efficient than
San Francisco's. 'f here is thcreferee
every rcuse,n to believe that the Wilted
r•e/eel:lien will be given to our coin-
petriots tit Vnnceuvt'r. '
The hlochi Shimbun urges the ne-
cessity of taking effective steps for the
per•.•feet:on of Japanese abroad. Th.,
lv ktritnin is gratified al the tact that
lht
Japanese. youths and men. have
*tan" Ihtrnsteiv(es cap►av(' et self -dr -
fierce in whatever corner of the world
they alias le, and expresses apple ciat•
lien elf the nllituelce ret the ilrilieh nu•
ILcrilie e end newspapers. The cairn -
tree trio net': of the n+ob-
Liug is received is mainly traces bie
BREAD.STUFF'S.
Toronto, Sept. 17. --Ontario Wheat --
No 2 while, 87c to 88e, outside.
Manitoba \\ heal -No. 1 nerthurtt,
$1.05}4 to' 31.06.
Corn --No. 3 yellow, 72c to 7'►c; N... 3
mixed, 74e.
Barley --No. 2, 5531,c; No. 3 extra,
5334c to 54e; No. 3, 50jac to 51c.
Uals---M:it tt l a No. 2 white, 4Gc to
41c on truck, at elevator; No. 2 mixed,
45%c.
Peas --Nominal at 75e for No. 2.
iiye-No. 2 nominally, 70c.
Flour -Ontario very sleing;; 90 per
cent. patents in demand of $3.15 to
$3.50; Alanitebu, first patents, 35.25 to
5.e,.4l); seoonds, $4.60 to 34.80; strong
bakers', 34.60 to 34.70.
Mtilfeed--Bran, 322; shorts, $24 to
$15. outside.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
The butler market is first. with prices
about the carne as a week ago.
Creamery, prints .... .. .. 23c to 25c
do solids .. .. .. .. .... 2Ic to 22 ;c
Ui.iry prints .. .. , . .. .. 21c to gra:
do solids .. .. .. .. .. .. IOe to 20c
Cheese -Large quoted at 12%c and
twins at 13c in job lots here.
Poultry - Live chickens quoti:1
from 9c to 1lc, and hens front 7c to
R.
1'olatocs-Market is steady at 65c t•)
tee' per bushel.
Baled flay -('rices steady at $14 10
415, int car lots on tra&lc here.
PROVISIONS.
Dressed flogs --$9.25 for lightweights
and $8.75 for heavies.
Pork -Short cut, $22.75 to 323 tor
b.,rrels; mess, $20 to 321.
I.ar(I,
(11-Firtierces, 122c; tubs, 12Xc;
leails12yc.
Spoked and Dry Salted Meats -Long
clear bacon, 11c to 11 4c for tons and
cases; barns, mediuru a and, light, 15c to
1534e; heavy, 14Xe to 15c; backs, 16'/1
!.� 17c; shoulders, 10%c to plc; tolls,
11 j;c; out of pickle, lc less than smoked.
M0NTtlE:\1. MAI;KE I's.
Montreal, Sept. 17. -Tho local flour
market is strong. Choice spring wheat
patents, $5.50; seconds, 34.00; winter
whieet patents, 34.65 to 34.75; straight
tellers, 34.25 to 54.35; do. in bags,
$1.95 to 32.10; extras, $1.65 to 31.75.
Ther,) is a stronger feeling in the
market:- for oats, and prices further ad-
vanced yet per bushel. Sales of car
keg: of Manitoba No. 2 while were
t:,r.(l0 at 50%c to 5tc per bushel, ex -
store.
The butter market Ls firm at the re-
cent ndynnce. '!'here is no improve-
ment in foreign demand, rand only job-
bing local trade is passing in choice
ter,wnships creamery at 2234c l0 223 c.
1'rice'e; in the local cheese market r.r•e
bring firstly mninti fined at the recent
advance. Fittest western at 12%1: W
12 %c, to'nshipss at 14e to Ilk•.
Provisions-Rnttels short cut mess.
tt'a2 to 322.!0; half -barrels, $11.25 to
$i1.75; clear fat baae•k, 323.511 to $24.50;
long cut heavy mess. $20.50 to 321.50;
half -barrels do.. 3(0.75 to 311.50; dry
salt long clear line<tn, t0c to 1131c; bar -
rets plate beef, $11 to $16; half -barrels
(io., 37.50 lo $.4.25; barrels heavy mess
heel, 310; half -barrels do., 35.50; cont -
,.c 111141 lard, IO%c to 10%e; pun', 11%c
to 12X.1; kettle rendered at 13c to
13Xe; hangs. 1.23‘c to 15)4c, according
la size; breakfast bacon. t le to 1531c;
Windsor bacon, 15c to 1514c; fresh kill-
ed abattoir (tressed hogs, 89.25 to 39.50;
alive, 33.35 to $6.50.
BUFFALO MAIIKE'r,
Ruffnto, Sept. 17. -Wheat - Spring.
Na 1 northern c.i.f.. old, $1.10%,; new,
81.99%; No. 2 red. 99c. Corn -firm;
No.. 2 yei'ow. 72%c; No. 2 while, 08Xe.
Ont -s --Firm; No. 2 while, 513;c; No. 2
mixed, Sir. Barley -Nominal.
NEW YOi1K \\ III•..VF \tARKI•"r.
New York, Se:e. 17.--\Whent -- Spot.
t,aarket easy; N 2 red. $1.01%; No.
? red. $1.02,'•;; f.o.b. allonl; No. t north-
ern Duluth, 81.11'; f.o.b. afloat; Nu.
2 bard Winter, $1.02% f.o.b. afloat.
1.1\'1: STOCK MARKETS.
Toronto. Sept. 17. --Trude was good
rind prices of cattle were steady at the
Weston Markel toelny.
lining was ntemt steady in export
-elle. Prices were steady al $1.90 to 35
f, r gesiel; $5 1.► t5.2 5 for choie'c, and 84.50
I•� S1.00 for nne(liunt and light.
1'i •keel ',Mete rs' cattle. $4.50 l0 $5;
fair to wee' ' ntchers' collie, $3.75 to
$1.50; ro,mmen Incl -hers' wows. $3 to
gond cow. $3.25 lo 33.75 tier cwt.
Light Mockers were dull at $2.75 to $3
fwr cwt. lleavy feeders sold at $.4 to
$4.!00 per ewt..
Grain -fat lambs were cosier nt I5 to
65.50; and export ewes Bold at a; 10
c;.10 per cwt.
11 'es were 10 cents lower. I'rlces
y. • + e : selectee e $6.15, and lights end
gats. $5.00 per cwt.
to Japanese conlldenoe in Brita:h fieencl-
-Itip and jliSlic.'. III\i11 e Note I'\411 :1►.
sin ►\\ INT; III:It r;lnt)I) \\ 11.1..
The Morning fest rt11:'irls aunetit the (In nnrir,.t tar Protection From firms,'
ilatemeet Ihnt Jaapatt would %011111111r -
Hy !ly limit immigration into Cantata: "In
thus refraining from demanding her :\ eh'sl'at -h fit nt iAond:.n says: :\d -
1e unel of flesh Japan is showing her t tees ferret i.uckttoty si:rlee that the inel-
g,eod.will in n more' convincing way (lents nt Bellinghnrn and Vine:urtver have ketal two years to reconstruct the
f ..icing t, friendship ter a kindred na- 'rl:en'nrlflre}. aWrtihe1nt eearl e tehe n1erndglgitnifl thnin llfrItelhe ttrT'heekcdSta1.nirdtakr,n oUigth(eiuQiutIc►cc
ny !►hraidsgea.
p-
ti+an another x)'<r tt•tieh, while ex-
etcry Kum' guaranteed by treaty." f•.vernmrnt to take effective ncnsur'i p!clfor it writ of sup•rer.us to prevent
I , protect their cnuntrynen in fhe
li<n. hnLitually claims two pounds for l'.e l'nile,l Stake Government front pro-
Altltl\,\I.S OF JAPANESE. tinilc(I Stales and Cnttada, (e'e dnig to collect the Ilse of $29.219,000.
:1 despatch froth (Illatta says: H.' (►n acaount of the nlna•o't re►rnplete
perkreaeivecd nt. the Department. ref ill .tiuctitn of the pastures near Cscrt-
'T: udte and Conine toe show that during Mr. T. A. Snider has been niy,a,intc(f herrn, Mich.. by grasslieppete. the milk
tee month .,f August Ih a Japnncs.' ar•- (:crtnly 'frensurer of llaldirnnnd, supply is se ri.•tt-ells threatened.
tttala at Victoria were 390, of when' Hematitic' immigt•ants we're An attorney Was charged in a ('hi -
;VA Wert' tante+, Of 1htsffie Ir)t2 pnracced- brnrtght to Ontario by the Church Army cng,"(' (iour l tltee other day with acting for
tea 1•► the lin:ted Stales. In addition this year. loth c ur t t inn t and defendant in a
I. the n?, ve there were 226 arrivals Mr. hamar (irecnwooel. NI.P.. before case which was being pi'le'd.
elm did not lend. being (n mute to the Iti•' Empire Club. Toronto. t1►t'akine on Worry over imprisonment on a false
Unites! Sttates; three cn Role 10 other Int•' Japnneee Irr►uhle. ndviaed l:rtnndinns diorite of hurglnry changed black heir
parts ai Canada. and three en route to
to rely upon the Wilk!' F►�relltn Sicrce. t• while in n few wicks in the case► of
othor countries. During the first ACV- lacy, I:laers. \\ , 1:4'4' (11 1-cub:ana, \li:hr-
err days in S'p►tenttee'r 3',+f, Jap+nnrs.e nr` Thneugh the omi elen of the world Karr•
rater at Victoria), 102 of whom painted- "life'' in a special act passed ley the "[tie htke survey s:c'nmrr General \\rl•
4.1 to the United Steles. Ninny more city of 11•tntrral the for oralien is Laps`+ reports the discovery of a wreck
en under advisement with the lineal- eempelted to refund $25.000 wrongful- In Ihirly-six 1.4s1 01 "at". two miles
welkin nuth• reties and may go to the ly c•ellect.'d in taxes from the me in. nerih-east of Colchester light, near lie -
United Slates. surattce opmpanics. trod.
HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER THE
GLOBE.
Telegraph Briefs From Our Otvn and
Other Countries of Recent
Et cuts.
CANADA.
The annual report of the C. P. It.
stows gross earnings of 372,217,000,
Francis Saute, ag'e'd 73, was caught
setting lire to buildings in Hull.
.Three Iheusund passengers Irani
tur•upe amt (el at Montreal on Saturday
Gats receipts alt tho "Toronto Exhi-
bition sl'u'e(! an increase of 31,700 overhist year.
pu(c:al tit \k,ntreril has advanced an -
ether 25 cents, and is now 37.25 per
n.
Montreal's new jail is to cost 3790,-
000 Slat Will be finished ill ltvu ycarS.
Fire losses in New York city, from
1,11 causes, annually amount to nearly
610,000,000.
F. Bodnar of \onda, Sask., shot his
little boy who stvas asleep tit the grain,
taking Bien for a wildcat.
Henry Drake, a Dorchester farmer,
was fined $25 and costs in London fur
telling adulterated milk.
Kosk Meroski, a young Polish domes-
tic at Winnipeg, was seriously burned
by the explosion of a can of kerosene.
The C.P.R. will build a million -dollar
deck at Fort William arid make it the
finest inland slipping port in the world.
The by-law to provide 3781,171 for the
extension of the Toronto waterworks
system was carried by a majority of
80s.
Ilenry Pilan, aged twenty-six years,
wie killed at Montreal on Saturday
while playing baseball, being hit by a
thrown ball.
Toronto milk producers, at a meeting
held on Saturday, decided to advan:e
the price of milk to $L60 per can for
the six winter months.
The Ontario Railway Board advise~
rnunicipalitiis not to borrow phoney for
local improvements at the present ex-
cessive rales of Interest.
In celebration of the 148th anniversary
of the capture of Quebec, Earl Grey on
Sature4ty decorated the treenuntent to
Wolfe and \luntcahn un the Plaints of
Al latrin .
Smugglers have adopted a new game
in the 5t. Lawrence. They drop cigar;
c.ver the sides of ocean steamers into
waiting boats, and so evade] the cus-
toms officers.
GENERAL.
Chinese Iroops Lt Hunan have routed -
the insurgents, killing over a hundred
31 (hent.
Four men from the United Stales
cruiser Cliatlanoogo were mobbed by
Japanese at ilakodate.
China has appointed a commission to
report on the rottslitutional system • f
Great Britain, Japan and Germany.
Representatives of the five Central
American republics met in Washington
to arrange a besis for a permanents
pence.
A Russian statistician has estimated
the number of victims of the disorders
in Russia nt 47,020, of which number
:9,144 were killed.
LUSITANIA HKES RECORD
Average Speed Per Hour Still Held by
the Raiser William II.
A despatch from New York says: A the bay for the new Ambrose Channel.
new steamship record between a Euro. dug especially for vessels of n.ere than
Kan 20 feet draught. cr more than 6 o feet
1 port and New York teas made by K
in entering the port u1 New
' in length. and which she wiil Le the!lie Cunard Line's new giant turbine tree',
ship, the Lusitania, which arrived here Yofirstrk.to
cn Friday. The Lusitania left Queens- FROM !.AND TO LAND.
l.•wn, the tictirtst trans-Atlantic port to
New York, at 12.10 p. no, Sunday and The explanation of the apparent con-
urrivtel of[ thea Sandy !look Light'ttlp 111+•1 in the statement that while the
tut 8.115 a.tn., Fr1Aey, rnaking the tune 1.t utauia has made the speediest pas -
few the trip 5 days and 54 tninurtes. alge fteur land to lapel. she has not
This is 6 hours and 29 minutes betterbeeken the ipce 1 record. lies in the lac)
111811 the previous Queenstown New that she travelled over the stiorteeet
Yerk reeoord of 5 days 7 hours and 23 course, the distance ft>vm c�uthanrptoit
minutes, held by the Lucania of the 10 New York being 2,1328 nil:es, Whitt; title'. while the Lusitania hus
trona New Yerk to Cherbourg, tho coo
made a newrecord[or the ileac a pes- travelled by the Deutschland, when sho
senger is actually on hoard ship, she made her fastest run, is 3,034 mi1es.
has not beaten the average speed per In 1003 the Deutschland made the
hour record, boll' the Kaiser Wilhelm voyage from Cherbourg to New York
11., Which lies made 23.58 knots iier in five days eleven hours and fl-
hour from New York to Plymouth, end cur iiilnuteds over a course of 3,0
lite D:•ut-rtiland. with u record of 23.51 miles at an average speed of 23.1a
Riots per hour to Plymouth, have been knots.
better time. The i.usitania's speed per PILOTAGE FEES.
hour on her maiden voyage is estirnat-
eel at 22.87 knots per hour.
GAILY BEDECKED.
The new ship was decked with flags
and bunting when she made her ap-
pearance off Sandy Hook on Friday
morning. her four big red funnels tend-
ing color 10 the picture which was mar-
red by the prevailing haze.
Her passengers lined tho railings
and crowded the different decks of the
large vessel, waving handkerchiefs and
Arnor:ecan and Brinell flags. The ma-
rine obsservi►tot•y stations on shore dip -
peal their flags in salute, other vessels
in the lower bay blew their whistles
In greeting and the Lusitania blue en-
sign was constantly lowe're'd and raised
uquitt in acknowledgment of the recep-
tion given her. She steamed slowly up
Thre wa.s roach speculation yester•
day as to tvhurn the honor of piloting
the big liner would fall, for there is to
be no partiality shown, and the men
roust go out in their turn as the liters
come in. The piloter fees will un-
doubtedly be the largest ever paid,
ranging from 8161, should the liver
show a drought of thirty-three feet, to
$167 for a draught of thirty-four feet.
1.U`ITANIA'S I.06.
The log of ttte Lusitania gives her
lime of passage as 5 days and 51 miu-
utes, and her time of arrival off the
Sandy Hoek Lightship as 8.05. Her av-
erage speed Was 23.01 knots per hour
and the day's runs were 5 miles,556,
575. 570. 593 and 483 to the lightship,
a total distance of 2.782 miles.
After watching a sheriffs officer carry
his belongings to the street in Boston
for non-payment of rent, Walter 11.
Brown went buck into the house, drank
px ison and (tic(!.
Crazed with a desire to attend funerals
which she herself caused, Miss Adelaide
Kerizek, aged 28 years, has been send-
ing poisoned candy through the mauls
to people in Racine, Wis.
.A committee of prominent education-
ist;: fmnt ,New York have reported that
after investigation they have estimated
that about one-third of the school chil-
dren in the country are buffering from
physical defects.
('1►l.l.l'tl►N AT (:%14.%.
\\:al+a-.tt 1'reieght I:r:►'ha', Into (tear of
5Ic:t tlittU Train.
A despatch from l:lryugn says: A west-
- tenni' Melbas!' freight train, running
held, smashed into anulher Wabash
ham standing near Cayuga station on
Friday morning. The latter train was,
waiting while the engine got water.
Engineer Elliott and Fireman Me\tul-
14 n of the light train jumped and re-
ceived serious but not dangerous injur-
ies. The locomotive Was badly crip-
pled. The caboose and two cars of the
wailing train were smashed info kind-
ling wood. The advancing train had a
ciearance order to .S1. 'Thomas, and Is
UNITED STATES.said not to have been flagged. Wreck -
ler gang. from St. Thomas anal Niagara
Caught between the lies, a horse held hae' the 'rack clear 1 noon. The train
til. a Irani for two hours at Fisltkitl cn.i►loyecs are 51. .1 einns sten.
1 ending!. N. Y. -_ -_
tIrs. I•+al•e'lli' I.'. Brinkman, the widow
of a \\ atcrloo veteran died in Wrestling -
tee a tew days since.
A Ilavars paychol.agist has Invented
1• ce,np►tc' of little machines which are
ul,lc to detect falsehood.
:\ Belhngton. Wash., than married
seven Wivcs 10 get even with a woman
Whet had once 'tonged him.
While riding in 11 wagon on the way
to be rnnrrieo, Eduard ilarnes. of Ilot
Sp.ring,s, Ark., tons killed by lightning.
Eight nurses and a woman clerk at-
ir.cltod to the staff of Government Hospi-
tal, New York, aro victims of typhoid
fever. •
'fhe Court of Common Pleas at Phila-
delphia de'lared PennsyltTrain's two -
cent fare law unreasonable and uncon-
stitutional.
On account of the surplus supply of
copper in the l'ade'd Sltttee the Atniel-
g}.eninte(1 Company will close its mine at
Butte, Mont.
In a quarrel over n pig. the Bev. John
Grunt. a Metheeliet I►u'tor, letilc I the
Bev. Marlin Green, Ilapti-tt, at Galiewae,
Ark.
.\ t;rrntnn chemist at a:oluinti s, 016•e,
h ►, diseotered an nnti•leoxine that we1
h:•t diphtheria germs in the Irving; hu-
man organism in three minutes.
Mrs. (,nrrie \laces. n p•t•►tesslonal bnl-
keinisf, fell n itseisand feet from it pur.'-
Clin % at Ikon, N. Y.. on latut'd:ay,
Heel lead every bone in her body dy broken.
The President of the Phoenix Bridge
(',.rnpaany tin, emu diet it will rcgl.tre al
GIREA'1' BRI'TAiN,
English dealers have increased the
prig of chocolate four cents per pound.
The annual report of the British Lun-
acy Commission shows a disquieting in-
crease in insanity in -Great Britain.
The new airship designe(1 for the Bri-
tish army navigated ngainst wind Mow-
ing fifteen miles an hour at Farnborough
03 Tuesday.
AI 1' \I hI:h III' 111 1.1.1)114,.
kine •lora Lad Is .eltno't kilted While
in It:athirttl.
A despatch fir. rat Kingelon says.
f e urtee n -year --old Edward \!c(;amnion
went in 8\\intnting here on Monday
eflernoon, and being ntlatked by a
btilldog tit fhe• writer. sustained serious
injuries. The leo. Way becoming ex -
'assisted in hts efforts to light off the
ni►irmnl when a couple of icnitentinry
guards in n prison tower half it mile
away happened to notice the struggle
tltr•►uglt their long-distance glasses,
jienpcel into n boat arid despatched the
dog with their rifles nt close range. At
the hospital it was found that the boy
hal been fearfully 'Alen and his life
was despaired of for a time, but to.
(lay the physicians Ilritrk he will re -
c, ver.
A POWEitFUL BLAST.
Rock Hurled Fite Hundred Feel Kills a
!Miner at Cobalt.
A despateh from (obeli says: Ott
Thursday while working on the Nipis-
sing property 1►n Auelrian named Janeiro
Kuorlc'r, was battered down by a rock
sent up by a blast on the right of way,
of the Kerr Lake branch of the T. & N.
0. Raitread construction work, which is
being done by contractors. About 3
o'clock in the afternoon workmen on Ito
railroad set off a blast to remove a
slump. The blast must have been
beery, as an eye -witness waw the stump
teeter' into the air at least 251) feet At
the same time n ro:k was thrown 500
feet to where Ktorter wales w•;rking on
the scaffolding of the shaft house holt
is being- constructed over the Kendall
vein. The blow felled the Au'lrian, the
'cund being inflicted nn inch met a
quarter shove 'be eye. f)r. Ilat't tit Co-
I,all relieved the man's pain by raising
the skull off the brain, but ha• died at 5
o'clock. Ile was a single roan and had
ro relations in Canada.. 'lis parents aro
boor living in Austria. He wigs twenty‘
two years of age and had been workin3
for the Nipissing only a week.
I101ttteet' see 11'i'! 11► 1111IN.
!!asked Ake' Heid 1 p Great Northern
in Montana.
A despatch teem 51. f'nul snys: The
Co al Northern Oria'nln1 Limited Irvin,
N.. 1, which lett St. Paul Tuesday
teeming. was held up ley two !retake,'
r,:en near Rexford. Mont., early •,n
Thursday nr erning. The robbers crnwled
et er the tender rind, at the point of
their guns, commanded the engineer to
stop the Irvin. The robbers kept up a
cc.ntinunl fusil!n(le with their guns to
1e. rrify the passengers. They then went
liming!' lh.' mail cnrs and robbed the
sacks of a larg quantity of registered
hail. Then they went in'o the express
car. which carried an overflow <•f nnnil,
t reggnge rind express, aril containrvl a
regular Through safe. After exploding
three dynamite charges the safe was
opened and Pitiful t.► to empty. On
(0 ding the safe cnipty the highwaymen
tr.Ire(' themselves to the registered
mail. and nfler firing a parting volley
disappenreal. A reward of 85,000 6 of
feted for their capture.
ETTING DOWN TO FACTS
Evidence in the Quebec Bridge in•
vestigation.
A despatch from Quebec says: 'Hy Ouimct and f.nfrnnce, who I..tefae4
bridge commis -ion nn Thurselny got ilea one of the pintes of the sloe ..1 the
(town to the inve;sligalic►n in earnest of anchor pier woe tent, will 1•.' awn -
the causes of the disaster. At the after- regard. One witness testified that this
neon seise oil several survivors of the waa net so, but that it was simply
occident were exonrined, and ittnong the crimped.
new features br•tug*ttt out was the nilega•The verdict of the (i;rr,ncr'9 jury
tion Ihrir another chord in the super j Y was
strt.clure was bent. Eugene I•ajeun hinme top nono �htyrt'elay. not anedx ►c' lM''i n�
nP<<e, one of the suniyors, leslifie(1 act sufficient evidence had been heard to
cam -
there was a bend in one of the canti-
lever
fix responeibilily. The Government cam -
lever urines of about two inches, but
mission. twwectr, intend tofull
there was nen break or crack, This i` the the matter. g`' Y into
first time any defect in this part of the
structure was spoken of. in addition to Three mere hodies were recovered pie
the witne.-yes s'imnx,nc.I the cf,mnatssion Thursday bean the river. One was itk'n-
wily K•. 1.► the Isiapital to etamine the lifted ns that of Joseph llinrl, M.,ntreal.
victims still confined there The com- One is suppnwl to i•e that of ward.
naitsae•n will also go to New York to (:row nest from the t,ridge some lime he.
eanrnine Theodore Cooper, consulting fere the accident, and the third as us.
identified.
e stgancer.