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CANADIAN FRUIT CROP THE WORLD'S MARKETS NO EJEPOETS FROM THE LEADING TE_A.DE CENTEES. Were Enveloped and Slaughtered by the Japanese JAFS GREAT VICTORY. A despatch from Tokio says :--The Russian hope of relieving the pressure on Port Arthur by threatening the rear of Gen. Oku. the commander of the Japanese forces investing the Russian stronghold, came end on Wednesday at Teli point on the railroad 50 mile of Kinchau and 35 miles north of Vafangow, when the Russians were outmanoeuvred, enveloped and sweop-ingly defeated. They left more than 500 dead oa the field, and the Japanese captured 300 prisoners and 14 <ruh'k-firing guns. The Russians retreated hastily to the northward. The Japanese eharge that the Russians violated the Japanese flag. Certain officers aver that during the fighting a body of Russian, soldiers appeared carrying a Japanese flag, and that the Japanese artillery, deceived by this flag, ceased firing on that particular body of Russians. Official despatches from tho Japanese commanders made specific charges of this flag violation. Early estimates of the Japanese losses at Telissu say that 1,000 men |w Do mini on Department of Agriculture Issues a Eeport. The fruit crop reports received at Ottawa, (front '-h\y l£4h to Mate do not indicate any marked changes in the general prospect. The amount of bloom now pretty well known, except Edward Island where the se Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese, and Other Dairy Pioduce at Home and Abroad. Toronto, Juris 21.--Wheat--No. 5 white and red outside at 90c on low freights. Spring wheat is nominal at 85c east, and goose at 75c east. I A New Vc Prince Manitoba wheat is_ weaker; No. 1 ;j three-decked >n is j Northern, 91c, Georgian Bay ports- jeral Slocum ntario j No. 2 Northern, at 88c, and No. 3 j Steamboat r that Northern, 85c. No. 1 hard is nom- er's edge of 600 PEOPLE PERISHED Excursion Steamer With Sunday School' Picnic Burned at New York, despatch says :-- The I brought in. Tl Gen- [stretched along the i'Oil i i , 92c. Japa di\ ided i ight <• l tho adv both sides of tho railroad. They encountered the Russians east of Va-fandien and drove them back. At a late hour in tho afternoon the Russians held a line between Tungwan-tiao and Tafangshen. Tho Japanese artillery opened on this line, and the Russians responded. The shelling continue! for two hours, and it was followed ny the advance of the Japanese lino to a position extending from Tungchiatung to Yuhotun. Darkness put an end to the fighting. The Japanese despatched a colun ements of the Russian Japanese scouting vessel ed to have got in touch wi Russian squadron and to have f ed. It probably lost the Russil Oki Island. JAPANESE VICTORY. A despatch to the London naught. Tho r* in also the development so that large crop * of good by no means assu ed as ye APP _ES. In Western and Central Nova Scotia and British where the apple is largely g trees ha*e had a I and early, medium and late all promise a gooc Onions Annapolis mouse, which is U variety in Eastern hoc is likely to gi ve a hea Haldwins and Spie ny other varieties from the severe wi the the Knickerbocker t Co., burned to tho wat-off North Brother Island, entrance to Long Island Wednesday morning, the death through burning ing of at least 600 people, omen and children-, ies of many who leaped infer have not yet been rc-The General Slocum, which argest excursion steamer in ers. left Third Street, East iving on was Lot nv-d i- lit.s f. t S3.fi to $3.7 other is adu'ed, , thousand . the field, the i U-'"'lu.W for The Daily Ohron at Tokio cables t ding that the liw A W AITS CON ITRi 1A TIO N. There is n< day's battle districts of Ontaric growers are looking forward to 1 crops of both early and late 1 ties, while the reports from B: Columbia and Prince Edward I are satisfactory. PLUMS AND TEACHES. Reports indicate a medium cro plums in the Niagara and Essex tricts and a light yield in the of Ontario, except for Japan am Scotia ha full crop, ■ JAP GENERAL tive varieties. Nova cellent prospect the other pro\ medium yields. The growers say th give a light cr -ip. ;ial brands | trade quoted at $4.25 t , bbls. Manitoba flours are steady. No. , 1 patents, $4.80; No. 2 patents, 94.-' 50, and. strong bakers', $4.40, on 1 Mili'feed--Bran is dull at $17, and L1 shorts at $16 hero. At outside [points bran is quoted at $15; and j shorts at $16.50. Manitoba bran in j sacks, $18, and shorts at $19 here. COUNTRY PRODUCE, j Dried Apples--Trade is very 'dull, j and prices are unchanged at 3 to 33 c [per llj. Evporated apples, 6i to 7c tided by Captain William Van j Schaiack, one of the best known ex-> to ouc cu,.£jon boat captains in New York Harbor, who has commanded the at 45c j slocum almost since she was built, I in 1891. The number of excursion-tents uii-|jsts ou board variously is estimated middle ;llt trom t^iOO to 2,500. Straight j Tho steamer proceeded up the East domestic j River, each of her decks being crowd-4.40 in | ed with merrymakers, with bands ing and flags flying. The Slo-had reached a point at the Sun-Meadows, off 135th Street, . the Randalls' Island, when fire broke out in a lunchroom on the forward dock, caused by the overturning of a, pot of grease. A high wind fanned tho flames into instant fury. Efforts to subdue the fire were fu- 1 lie -e a total j \ al orchards will j , with prices •e quoted at md-picked at OTHER FRUITS. A medium yield is all that grow< seem to anticipate growing sections. Strawberries pear to promise an average cro; all districts except, tho fruit belt where many plantations iter-killed badly and the yield light the chief grape-j to $1.75. ip-\ Uav--No. 1 timet) in $9.75 on track, Ton of j ling at $10 to $10.5 I Novs British Colui New Brui Ja] the re ilro to 17c per lb. for were swung to th right and finally converged at on the main Russian position Russians in this position wer disadvantage, but they held i this thro thej ON THE MOVE. the captain, who started to land tho steamer at 134th Street. He was warned, however, that the boat would set fire to lumber yards and oil tanks there, and changed the Slocum's course, heading her for '* j North Brother's Island, half a mile . I PANIC SEIZED PASSENGERS. The flames now hud broken out all 5 | along either side of the steamer and 0 1 were fanned by a strong head wind, Tho passengers, seized with panic, , Irushod to the rear of the vessel to _' [ escape the heat and smoke that were | increasing constantly. Policemen I and deckhands aboard the boat strug-| gled hard to quell the panic, but " j their efforts were unavailing. The wild disorder increased, as frantic 1 | mothers sought to find their children who had been at play about the The' steamer's whistle was blowing for assistance, and tugs and other nearbv craft answered to the call. Before any of the boats could reach tho burning steamer, however, the frantic, women and children began to jump overboard. The boots that were following the Slocum picked --- rried t geney hospital who had been mad rush when tli ripped the improvised c- ying for children from them in the boat took fire, jiwhilc the Slocum burned to the water's edge. At 12.25 o'clock, two hours and twenty-five minutes after the fire was first discovered, she sunk. It is estimated that there were then nearly 100 charred bodies on her decks. Just after the steamer sank the water was black with bodies. Tho tug Fidelity succeeded in picking up eighty-eight charred corpses in Hunt's Cove, off Bicker's Island, and carried them into the Sound. None of these bodies, it is thought, ever bo identified. Heads, legs,, and i are burned off, and not a shred of clothing is left on any of them. What looked like a big hatchway on hich were five or six charred bodies as found floating in the cove at Hunt's Paint, and towed carefully . alongside the Fidelity. The wood was also badly charred, and the bod- HARROWING SCENES IN MORGUE. When the morgue authorities allowed the crowd to.enter the morgue, ensued which was harrowing the In s identifications would be found to have been erroneous, men laying claim to bodies they afterwards discovered were not those of their relatives. the entrance to the charities pier at the foot of East 26th Street, the crowd tried to push past the police, and a riot resulted. At the height of the trouble a man who had learned that his wife was among charred dead, tiled to stab himself. Inside the pier the bodies are ranged in three rows, extending the entire length of the pier, or 150 feet. There is hardly a Germaa family on the middle east side of the city that is not mourning g dead, or injured friend or relative. St. Marks German Lutheran Church contained in its membership practically all of those of Protestant faith within a radius of ten square blocks. The fatal excursion was the event of the n-d'o nd the thesf truggling i of New 1 CHANGED HIS wher it wick i spra, HOG PRODUCTS. i MEN TO ATTACK. Mail from N< from Liao-Yi edly for the ous points the codling moth very | Dressed hogs are unchanged, wit ■nt in previous years. Tho oy-; offerings small. Cured meats are i lell bark louec is said to be good demand at unclvangod prices. W , Bradford, McGarry and Iro- j yuote:--Bacon, long clear, 8 to 8i . Iquois, Ont., and at Pennfield, N. B. 1 per lb. in case lots. Mess pork, $16. , |The curculio is reported be a pest j 5'>; do., short cut. SIS to $18.50. rysburg, Que. A^^rresirond- Smoked meats--Hams, light to m< 5, K, re-jdium, 12'c; do., heavy, Hi to 12c On the Slocum the first, sweep of the flames cut off escape from the hurricane deck, where a great many of the women and children were crowded together, and soon burned away the light wooden work which supported the deck. It is thoughl that the most of those who were on this deck were burned. As the fire increased tho st niggle rolls. 9c. to ; backs, 13 9ic; I stern became frightful 'children crowded ngai rail until it gave .'were push the Women and t the after and hundreds After i steady stream of i or were thrown in-The tugs and small after kept close in families, and had been looked forward to many months. Family parties ol ten or more had been made up, including in many cases the old grandmother, the mother, and the children of all ages, with a sprinkling of those man of the families who could spare a day from their work. GAS AT MEDICINE HAT. ONE and i Feet Half Million Cubic ; Per Day. at, N.W.T., despatch FRUIT IN BRI' > London "Market ." of May 18th, st peakers at the aim S'ational Fruit (in mentioned that h m Mr.a John' We A Medicine Hat, N.V su.vs: On Wednesday mendous flow of natural gas was struck in the gas well which is being drilled by the town for the municipal gas system. In other wells gas was found at 600 feet. In the deep well the first flow was cased out with 4J-inch casing. Two hundred and fifty feet of soft formation was drilled through. For several days the drilling was done in the hard formation, and at a depth of 1,01.0 feet a gusher ..... _.:d rescued iwas struck. A mercury test was ic within reach [made, and it is estimated that, the of those who .well is flowing u million and a half life preservers. • cubic feet a day. This is a wonder-le progress of Iful thing for Medicine Hat. and the ny opportunity Council and Gas Commissioners are sboats or get greatly pleased at the results of their t from under- experiments. The question of doepen- t and men of Pm will be considered. The fading ayed at their j 0 r [his gas flow will ninke Medicine | Hat the manufacturing centre of the 1-- Wheat--luly. d that there j ^, «)'v'( ms of plums „ „' ,. • tho Picking ! ^ *°rthcr TOISON FOR QUININE good deal of Apple BULL UPSET A TRAIN. OVER 3,000 KILLED. CATTLE MARKET. Toronto. June 21.--The da; made a total of 139 laads, v 025 head of cattle, 1,750 she lambs, 1,800 hogs, and 227 ci Export cattle, extra do medium to good 5.00 do cows .................. 4.00 Butchers' picked lots 5.00 do good to choice loads .................. 4.50 do fair to good ...... 4.25 do mixed lots, med- do good cows...... .. rough .............. Butchers' bulls ....... Bulls, export, heavy do medium ........... do light............... , do common ........ ' ';;'<y ; Light bulls .............. thai, leaders, short-keep., recent do good ............... do bucks, per 3.00 2.75 2-50 2.25 4.50 4,00 ... 2.00 ...30.00 . 3.00 it 4.00 ... 2.50 ibed 1 l North Brother Island, 4.50 3.40 3.00 3.00 Body after body washed ashore or brought i; boats, and added to the long on the beach. Fifty-three p< died there while the doctors we tending to them. As the bodies of the living dead were taken out of the v those alive were taken to the hospital on tho island or sent across the river to the hospitals in Manhattan. Here ambulances from almost all the hospitals in tho city, and every sort of convenience which could be found I- chloride 3n. As f * Dr. Gauthic For hours the bodies of the burned and the drowned drifted ashore on the island and between 131st Street and 138th Street, in Manhattan. Some came ashore still alive. Many of these died, while others will covered his mistake he telephoned for a Dr. Mathieu, of St. Roch, to assist |him. In the meantime ho used every effort to gave the unfortunate immi-Igrant, who, however,, died in a few hours afterwards in great agony. The matter was kept quiet, but the facts leaked out when the case was reported to the district coroner, who ordered a postmortem examination. •.AR Tl ENDING SCENES, of North Brother Island ic of many heartrending .he living- and dead were month an i Loudon for last $111,813. esolution passed ny tne cnnauiau Forestry Association, urging that care bo taken to prevent fires along the line of the new transcontinental railway, the Department of Railways and Canals has replied that every effort with this end in view will be made.