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VOL. XIII. THREE ^KILLED A Sad Railway Accident Occurs At Charlotte, N. C. SWITCH ENGINE HITS A FREIGHT Capt. W se, Switchman Walter Zeigler and a Negro Coupler Named Jack Goidall, Were the Victims. Charlott.- N. C.. Special.?Thrco n:07i, wi'i--' killed Wednesday night about l'l o'clock at the water tank near tin* Southern Railway crossing at Vatic- droot, in the southeast part ot i ho eit> i-v th - crashing of a switch engine m?.t the rear of freight train No. 73, south hound. Conductor Wise, whose homo was in Columbia, S. C.; Walter Z"igler, a youug white man employed as .switchman and a negro, named lack Goodall, a coupler, were the men vho met death. The negro died almost instantly, his legs being virtually sobered from his body. Capt. W e lived but a few minutes after ho wa taken o th*? Presbyterian Hospital. and young Zeigler expired about an hour bit or there. No one else re c ivod any injuries. The freight is always a heavy train ami it consisted if about fifteen cars. As is generally titc case, the freight, upon leaving the Southern yards short !\ before 10 o'ekx lc. gets up some headway of its own power, anil then is pushed out of the city with the assists:.re erf tlie switch engine. This was dime. The long tine of cars attached to No. 71 hod gained some momentum when ?t nearoil the water tank, at: i the switch engine, with the three ten standing on the manning hoard, it was said, came after it. expecting, of c.i'..me, to make its connection with tl roar of the caboose with case, lint otnething went wrong. Trainmen Mi!(i luai tiia u?a^-uvau ui UH1 f; i Kht engine blow out. and sullenly ::1! Uio brakes became set and the Ions in.iu virtually camo to a standstill, a i'h the swithch engine liearing down ur.ly a short di-daneo away. There v ; not. even time for the three men i<> iuuip to sutet> . The switch engine crashed into the e.'iMior.e, crumpled and buckled it and i- shed the men on the running hoard. A;- :ioc;i as possible. an ambulance was < 1 lrom the Presbyterian Hospital. I'.: I, < apt. Wise was taken away, and In managed to live just about to get there Before be was taken away, by s and err: hoard him say: "Now I'll unit the ?oad for good. All my men have got killed." His injuries were internal and he probably had no idea that In v;a.s hurt so seriously t lint lie was soon b quit the road" for good, and all Through Burning Trestle. VDidhinton. Special.?A passenger Tialu or the Augusta Southern Railroad rar into a burning trestle near Mitchell, <"la.. f?P miles from Augusta, er.n> Wednesday. anil one jnan was lolled a rut eight others injured. The sixty- lot.t trestle was entirely destroyed by fii" fire and the tender, compartment tar and two coaches also were lurned The injured were taken to Mitch'V. where physicians were waiting A'.J f the baggage end mail was saved. The origin of the fire is unknown. " "raffic was resumed by transferring passengers to other trains. The dead man W. S. Shnrlry. white, haggag' ma-t"r. injured internally and died n .n hour. Th-> injured arc: .1. H. Wrrr.r.) ngineer, of Augusta; ('. 1). Davis ondtK'tor. of Tennille. flu.; T. It. Harjif . mail clerk. Augusta: N. S. Nevfls. fireman. Augusta; (*. II. Marks, passeug- . Hillshoro. (la.; Will Jones, colored, passenger. ClinlUcr. fla.; A. J. !lien>'?' Augusta: <1. I. Kelly, a pas* sender Mit< hell, (la. Killed His Son-in-law. Pawnor. (la.. Spc.dul. -Jesse Wall shot and killed Hill Oxford, his son-inlaw, Wednesday night in Oxford's yard. The owner's jury decided that thf killing was unjustifiable and Wall was brought to Dawson in custody of the sheriff. Wall's statement at the inquest s to tin' off" t that he was reprimanding Oxford for neglecting his vile, when Oxfotd cursed liiin and advanted with an open knife, and that he hred to mvc his own life. A knife was found by Oxford's side, unopened, and thie, with the fact that lie was shot in the oae.i. and testimony of eye-witnesses, I' d to the verdict rendered, Both parties were well-know u white men of Ttrrell county. Tunnelers Strike Daylight. Knoxville, Special.?Daylight has gone through the famous Dosset tunnel. on the Knoxville. LaFayette & Jolllco Railroad, and US per cent of the "heading" has been removed. This tunnel has been the great stumbling block in t.ho completion of the new I.ouisvlllc & Nashville line between this city and .lelllro, Tenn. It is now thiught trains ran be run through the tunnel r.ot later than the middle next January. ] .NEWS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY Paragraphs of Minor Importance Gathered From Many Sources. i Through the South. Fredericksburg fair opened with a large attendance. Virginia last year produced 122.410,000 pounds of tobacco. Nettie Hall, colored, was beaten into insensibility by sailors at Norfolk. The clubhouse of the Ragged Island Guuuing Association was burned Saturday night. Eighth district Republicans met ai Alexandria and nominated E. E. Howard for C'oneress. Playius with matches, the r>-year-old son of Joseph Rebill, of Winchester, was seriously burned. Two negroes were killed and three mortally wounded in a race riot in De Soto county, Mississippi. At Charlotte. N. C., Wednesday night three men were killed by a eolliflior on the Southern Railway. Samuel Moran, of Norfolk, is charged with burglary in having taken S'.'i worth of theatre tickets. Sixteen people wore made seriously ! sick in Columbia, S. Wednesday ! by eating poisoned ice cream. Ex-Mayor J. Samuel McCue is to be i placed on trial on the charge of wife irurder at Charlottesville October IS. \t least 1*2 persons were d row no 1. I many bridges washed away and dam, age estimated at $200,000 resulted from a Hood at Watrous, N. M. In a raid on an alleged gambling ' house iu Norfolk a number of promi! net young men were caught by the ! police. Adelaide Thurston, the actress, has started n movement iu Memphis, Tenn., to erect a monument to Dan Emmett, author of "Dixie," who died recently at Mount Vernon. O. It is proposed to raise a sufficient funds by benefit throatrical performances in five South< rn cities with the co-operation if he Daughters of the Confederacy. Washington Happenings. Secretary Hitchcock made public a long reply to charges that the Interior Department is not pushing prosecutions in the alleged land fraud cases. The Panama Minister has tiled with the State Department a protest against the management of affairs in the canal zone. Retires ntatives of labor allege rail: ids are discriminating against their organization in not allowing reduced irites to the San Francisco convention. In his annual report Surgeon-General O'Reilly, of the army, expresses a belief the leprosy is curable. In the North. I The fruit steamer Alleghany arrived ia New York in flames, which were soon subdued. A letter from President Roosevelt was read before the irrigation Congress pi Mandau. N. D. The triennial national convention ot ! the Polish Roman Catholic Church | opened in l'itt3burg. Carlos Frcdriques von lkiiulitz. a I rich young Venezuelan, committed suicide in New York. Thirty-one persons were hurt, some seriously, in the derailing of an iron Mountain train near Vulcan. Mo. The third Rucliaristie Congress ol the Catholic Church convened in St. | Patrick's Cathedral in New York. The Herman liner Kaiser Wilhelm I! J arrived in New York after a narrow ' scape from a collision Monday, bringing ninny uotable prisons. The body of the young womai buried under the name of Martha I^amheer in Hempstead Cemetery. Long Island, was fully identified by her mother as that cf Margaret Lynch. The collapsing of a Moor at the corner-stone laying of the Polish Catholic Church at Adams. Mass.. caused the injury of Bishop Heaven and 11 others, some seriously. The convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, in Philadelphia, came to a close with a great meeting at night. Most Rev. K. T. Davis preached at Old Trinity Church. New York, in the. morning and at St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church in the afternoon. Foreign Affairs. Field Marshal Oyaman is completing his envelopment of the Russian army around Mukden. The Japanese Government established a tobacco monopoly, buying the business of the American Tobacco Company in that Empire. PORT MILL. S. ( WR1 I MR. !>\YXE IS DEAD Anathcr Prominent Character Passes From the Stage of Action C0R1ELY01) WILL SUCCEED HIM The Postmaster General Succumbs to Heart Trouble After an Illness of Seven Days. m Washington, Special.? Henry C. Payne, Postmaster General of the United Stales, a member of the national Republican committee, a stal wart of his paity, with the history of which both "in his home. State and nationally he has been identified lor many years, died at his apartments at the Arlington Hotel at 0:10 o'clock Friday night, aged GO years. Tho death was announced in an official : bulletin issued by the attending physicians, which gave tho causo of death as disease of the mitral valve and dilation of tho heart. Mr. Payne had been in poor health for at least two years, but his last ill] r ess cov ?rcd only seven days, an at! tack of heart trouble last week precipitating the end at a time when after a rest he seemed to have recovered a small measure ef his vitality impaired by years of arduous labor. Death this afternoon tame after near| ly six hours of unconsciousness. The last official caller to inquire aa to Mr. Payne's condition was President Roosevelt, and he had been gone only about ten minutes when the stricken member of his cabinet expired. Sec) rotary Hay had called at the Payne ; apartments a few minutes before the President made bis vudt. Neither entered tho sick room. As Mr. Roosevelt. was leaving, about six o'clock, ho spoke feelingly of Mr Payne to the I newspaper men gathered in front of : the liotel as "the sweetest, most lovable and most trustful man I -ever j knew." Mrs. Roosevelt, aecompnnied ' by Capt. Cowles, was a caller at the , family apartments of the Paynes during the late afternoon. The last day had been one during which practically all hope had been abandoned for some hours. The approach of dissolution began during the noon hour, when the sick man lost | consciousness and no longer reeog! nized those whom ho had attempted j to cheer during his illness by saying i to them that he was all light. When ; Mrs. Payne saw that the end was ! near, she suniomucd iho Rev. Dr. I Dunlap, of St. John's Episcopal j Church, and at her request he road I at the bedside of the dying inan 1 Psalm 150, "Out of the Depths," and then repeated the prayers the Episcopal church provides shall be read at the bed of those about to pass away. Funeral services will be held at St. | John's Episcopal Church, in this city, ! Friday morning, and at 3:15 that afternoon the body will be taken to the Pennsylvania Railroad station and placed aboard the private car of President A. J Failing, of the Chicago. Milwaukee A; St. Paul Railroad, who tin tiered tie use of the car by J t? legraph and announced that it ] would bo here. The remains should j arrive at Milwaukee Saturday even; ing and servives will be held next j Sunday at the All Saints' Episcopal J Church there. A message has been | sent io the III. ilev. (sane L. NicholI son, the bishop of Milwaukee, who is ! now ai a eon v. ntton in Boston, askI mg inm if ho ci'ii ofliciate. Interment | will he at tho Forest Home Cenic: t<ry. Milwaukee. Mis. Payne has e:o pressed a desire that tlie services l*-? as simple as possible. Further plans for tho funeral will be derided o* later. Cortelyou to Succeed Him. Washington. Special.?In succession I to Mr. Payne, tioorge Bruce Cortelyou, l former secretary oi the Department of Commerce and Labor ami now thair! man of the Republican national cone I inittec. will become Postmatcr <!et>j eral. Mr. Cortelyon's appuiimncut as head ; of the Postoffiee Department was doterj mined 011 several months ago by President Roosevelt, when Mr. Payne Indl' rated to the President his desire to retire from the Department on account of the precautious state of his health. It Is tho understanding now that Mr. Cortelyou will assume the duties as Postmaster (irneral us soon as he conveniently can after the close of the : pending campaign, probably. December I 1. In tile .nlei'im flic rcsnonsihilltlcs of I directing the affair-* of the PostnflTice Peixirtnioni will develop on First Assistant Postmaster fleiieral Wynne. Only Outpost Fights. Mukden. By Cable.?There has been a few small outpost fights, but other wise the situation is unchanged. The Japanese cavalry forces are strong in that direction, their horses are ir splendid condition and the roads arc good. The Japanese are also active eastward and have been re-lnforced. Bystander Shot. San Antonio. Texas. Special.? In t street, duel here between J. M. Chlttira known as the Texas Cattle King anc \V. W. Jones, a cattleman and bankei of BteviUe. H. S. 121 well. a travelint man, Milwaukee. Wis., chanced ir raiue and wis accidentally killed. Tin bullet, it is said, was 2rcd from Chit tim'a i.un. Ch;t:!? placed ia jail LvJu DNKSDAV. (K'TOIiKR | PALMETTO CROP CONDITIONS I ' 'otton Pretty Well Gathered in Some Sections?Fall Sowing of Small | Grain. J The week ending: S a. in.. October 3. iad a mean temperature of 79 decrees, which is 1) above normal, and x-ns. with one exception, tho warmest week of the season. The extremes were tt minimum of 39 at a number of places on September "7th and on Oe.obcr 2, and a maximum of 99 at Batesburg on the 29th. The heat records for the last three days of Soplerpber were broken on the 2Sth. 29th tnd 30th throughout the State. Tho rainfall was confined to the Southern counties, and occurred on 'ho 2d, amounting to slightly over an nch in lower Ham well county and to nearly an inch in parts of Hanip;on, but generally it was less than ane-fourth of an inch, and was Insufficient to relieve the prevailing severe drought- there was no ruin In the northern and western counties. The condition <>f late full crops, truck, garlens. pastures and very lato oorn. lias been materially lowered by tbo drought; practically no fall plowing has been done, and cannot be until after a soaking rain. The weather was ideal for harvesting ami gathering crops. Very late corn has been injured by drought, although most of tho corn crop ripeuod tt>o early to be affected, and is now being housed. Cotton opened tepidly over tho whole State, and picking was rushed but has not kept up with the opening, In part owing to the scarcity of pickers. About two-thirds of the crop lias been picked. There is practically no top crop on the stalks In many fields tho bolls are nearly all open. inilicnrltir nriMintiirn it,.. ..?* > portion of the crop. duo t?> excessive heat. ami to drought- Many small bolls are drying up. A continuation of the dry weather and rapid opening will enable the bulk of the crop to be picked this month. Hice harvest is all but finished, although it. was somewhat retarded by high tides in the Georgetown district. The weather was ideal for saving forage crops, and haying is nearly tiuish ed. Late peas are not fruiting well. Minor crops are generally good, and are being gathered. No oats or other small grains have been sown owing to the drought. Note. This is the last bulletin for the sea -on of 1904. J. \V. BAUFR. Section Director, For a Great Fair. t arolinian's are much interested in the elaborate preparations going on for the opening of the Mecklenburg Fair which occurs at Charlotte. N. (\ October 2t>. 27 and 28th. In addition lo the usual features of a fair many special attractions have been arranged for the event of 1001. The displays of farm products, practical lomestics and educational progress will Mirpuss anything heretofore seen at a county fair. Tin* racing will be of un usual merit, as a number of fast horses from all parts of the country have entered. The midway -pure and clean? trill offer its never-failing attractions. Miss Lillian Shaffer, champion lady 'Nfinoul rifiimu i*#' Hio u>/\rl/l will lu? neoo <i:i. also Miss Lottie Jewell from the 1*j ris hippodrome. The riding feats of these two artists will be worth a trip to the fair. In addition to these attractions there will he many other unusually interesting features. The management has secured reduced rates 0:1 all railroads leading into Charlotte. In regard to the tournament, which will he held the tlrst day, rules and regulations were mailed to more than "'J riders and the indications are that | the contest will he the largest ever held I in the Stat". The following prizes have } been offered: First. ?- ">: second, $15; i third, $lu and fourth. $5. Mr. David M. Smith tit" the Charlotte bar, has been selected orator to deliver the charge to the Sir Knights before they enter the contest, j Mr. Jno. M. Craig, chief marshal, is husilv engaged appointing his assistI r.nts ami hopes to have hi list ready I by the end of the week. At the Executive Office, (lov. Hey ward has declined to pardon David Jacobs of Chesterfield county, a white man serving life sentence for murder. Jacobs was on the scaffold with the noose around his neck when Mr. D. H. Tompkins, armed with a reprieve from (lov. Tillman, commuted ihe sentence to life imprisonment. The pardon was requested on the ground ol feeble health, but such is not the prisoner's . ondition. W. I). Hilton of Lancaster, who has served a sentence ;or larceny of live slock, was pardonod to restore his citizenship that he may testify in a trial. Cuffy Nosbit, dying on the chalngang in Marlboro county, was given a pardon for reasons which v ere deemed quite sufficient. ) Caught in a Gin. Anderson, Special.?Clarence Crawlord, a negro employed at the, Exoel> sior Oil mills in this city, sustained . painful injuries by getting his hand I caught in one of the gins, lie was tryr i!ig to clean the saws of lint while the ' gin was in operation. His hand was 1 caught, the rapidly revolving saws - drew in his arm and he received painful cuts oven on his breast. Crawford will probably lose his hand. 12, 15)01. WOKI.1VS FA III. ".ui . na\ exhibit has cost her Slfto fKM?. The i itlcl slrcc is one of llio nnhim , exhibits of tlio World's Fair, i A lino Aurora final skin iloeoratcs liio wall of tlio Montana exhibit. A model of tlio tinnnrinl lnmiin.' nri> serves I Sliinliaina is shown ill the Japan - - (loverniuent exhibit. Austria's exhibit at I lie World's Fa its centres at its official pavilion situated i near the Administration building. A mine tramway forms an interest-, ing feature of the Missouri display in , til" Palace of Mines and Metallurgy. | t'oru sullieieut to reach .".OOO miles, if laid ear to ear, represents the. amount used in the Palace of Agricul1 ture. An interesting exhibit in the Palace of Mint s and Metallurgy is an immense topographical map of Niagara Falls and vicinity. A cross section of a poplar tree SOU j years old is exhibited in the North Carolina sivtion of the Palace of Forestry. Fish and tlame. A gold brick pyramid, seven feet high and three by six feet square at the ! base, is exhibited in the Alaskan building at the World's Fair. In the Covernment's exhibit in Belgium's national pavilion is a case con tainitig thirty live replicas of the seals of old free cities iti Belgium. The World's Fair classification for hares and rabbits provides for seventytwo awards for Belgian hares and for seven awards in each of seventeen sections for rabbits. Paintings and photographs of the biggest geyser in the world, the giant. Waimangu. wfiich. every second day. throws up a v e t body o* boiling water lilt to feet high, are exhibited in New Zealand's section in the Palace of Forestry, Fish and Came. Best Winter Quarters. Washington, Special.? dear Admiral Wise, commander-in-chief of tho Atlantic training squadron. has roecomnu tided ihai tJio squadron spend the greater part of the winter in Pen sacola liar bo i and that vicinity, lie says that the facilities for bout In g and oilier exercises there are good. Ollt<*ials aiv disposed to favor tin recommendation. and if tiiis plan Is followed llio irainiii); squadron would not go to Culebra to participato In the niaiuvuvrf.i this winter. To Receive Death Sentence. 1* inning ham. Ala.. Special.?Sheriff Ilurgin. who went to Tavares, Fla . to identify and bring bark Frank l)un< an. charged with the murder of Policeman D. \\\ Kirkley. of this city, returned with Duncan. Before leaving Tavares. Human was convicted of robbing tin* bank a; l.eesburg, Flu., and given a 15year seut? nee. The sentence was suspended in order to turn hitu over to the Alabama authorities as a death sentence was awaiting him there, lie will be resentenced in a few days. Duncan does not deny his identify. Not Boll Weevil. Covington. <la., Special.?The hugs which mud their appearance in the cotton lit hi. of Newton county are not the M \!i an boll weevil, says State Kui'imogtdi: i William Newell. Some specimen of tlieni were submitted to him. Me mates that they belong to the same genus as the boll weevil, but i!" di.finet from the boll weevil in ntr.nl > of characteristics. There i no r-: or I he says, of their being injur ' r,s io in'ton. Boys Stone Chicago School. Chicay.o. Special.-?With stones and 1 oil; r missels. ;i mob of boys bonibardI i-(l the Hamlin School, near the stock jm.il . A patrol wagon load of police| lie ii oi :i< r I the juvenile rioters, I null.-.11;; ;< >< I'll I illTCStS. Tin- attack wis the culmination oi a it:!..' which started by the pupils ttwI ing to ; report th.it colored teachers 1 had been .: signed to the school. The i K-i; aroused feeling Brtiwmg out of ii p.--. :>(< of colored strike-break i i i in f i i-nt labor trouldes. News of the Day. Judge Parker hold consultations with Democratic leaders in New York. The Democratic State Committee at Wilmington, Del., unanimously recleclcd lion. Willard Saulsbury < hairman. Hon. Hoke Sinitli spoke at Charlotte, North Carolina. Secretary of State Hay made an address of wrh-ome hefote the International iVn<? Congress, which met in Doston. Tfc? Archbishop of Canterbury is exj pectetl In Boston today to take part in I the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church which will open tomorrow: The International Congress on Tuberculosis is in session at St. Ismih. The funeral of Senator George F. Hoar was held in Worcester, and Mr. Hock wood Hoar, son of the dead Senator, was nominated for Congress. Charles F. Kelly, convicted boodlcr made a confession to Circuit Attorne> Folk concerning the "Poodle Combine' n St. Louis. So light is the touch of the native barber in India that ho can shave a customer while u.-lcvy without vvnkiug him. fI NO. 2!l. SEIZE BRITISH SHIP Little Goiiiof Cn At Present in the Far Eastern Struggle rHE JAPANESE BLOCKADERS ALERT Th? Sishan. With a Cargo of Cattfe and Flour From Shanghai to Port Arthur, Captured Off ew Chwang ?Continuance of the Gale in the Sea Compels Inactivity on the Part of the Japanese Fleet?Only ?kir? misehes About Mukden. Continuance of the gale which de-. veloped on the China Sea and adjacent waters on October l precludes aclivo operations by the Japanese licet blockading Port Arthur. The Hritisli Bteamer Sishan. with a cargo of i-ut^c and Hour front Shanghai for Port Arthur, has been seized by the Japanese ott New Chwang. A detachment of the Finland Guards lias been ordered to leave St. Petersburg for the far East. Recent Outpost Fighting. Tokio. !ty Cable. The imperial headquarters issued a report of tluj recent Russian military movements and skirmishes with the Japanese south ot Mukden, as follows: On October 4. a few of the enemy's cavalry uppraacliad the vieiniti of Myangpictuneu, hut OW force drove them off. "The enemy, with a battalion of infantry. eleven squadrons of cavalry and Ave nuns, advanced toward Shalhihutza on October I. and retreated toward Iluangshnn. October In this direction there were also two or three of our squadrons of cavalry, whose outpost lines extended between Nino tonsil an and Wanchieaffen. Tin* Russian infantry heading the column wore Chinese cost times. "On October I, a small body oT th? enemy attacked our (tickets at Pinlnizu and on Mukden road and were reptOsPtl Till* ottctti I hie ildOil on/1 el fl oa behind. All the onomy worn Chinese clothing. "Four squadrons of Russian cavalry came to Sunshutsuitzu, on the Fushim road. October and remnined there until the morning of Oetol?er 5- The enemy's cavalry patrols have been seen soutli of Wulicliies and Lungvvangtu. L>nt t h"> retreated north to l.utoakou, leaving infantry patrols. ' A detachment of the enemy's cavalry, with three guns, advanced toward Shiota) and. taking up a position at Tatal, flre?> -in our troops nortli of Yentai. "The enemy posted at t'hautaii. on the riglit bank of 11??- linn river. has retired, leaving a sina" foree there. "There are no troops of the enemy in the neighborhood of Taotaizu. A. small force of the enemy recently attacked our outnost on the left hank of the Hun river, lint was driven hack." British Vessel Seized. Shanghai. My Cable. The British steamer Stshan. from Hong Kong, has been seized by the Japanese off New Chwang. The Sishan carried a cargo of cult la and flour, intended for Port Arthur. The Sishan is a steel-screw steamer of 1.31.1 tons, and is owned by Thomay W. Richardson, of London. New Orleans to Manchester. London. By Cable.- Manchester'* fight for a diversion of a portion of Liverpool's cotton trade from America uus resulted, according to statement* r-nhlish "\1, in an arrangement with I Jhe I .ey la ml Line and the Manchester liners (limited) of Manchester, whereby the two companies will combine lor the purpose of carrying cotton cargoes lirect from New Oilcans to Manchester. The Ley land Lino steamer Cuban, sailing from New Orlean* .iiMiui. IJM 111 muii ill < M iiMiri, |M 11, 1i. is nildori. inaugurate tlio now departurc and thereafter the two companies? v.ill make alternate fortnightly suitings. Four Dead in Hotel Fire. St. Joseph, Mo., Special.?Four |>ersons perished in :i fire which destroyed the Tracy Hotel, in South St. Joseph. The dead. Tjafayettc Frew, livestock buyei . F. Morton, employe yf stock yards company; Mrs. Anna Weston, of Gentry county. Mo.; unknown man. Hllbert Weston, 1?> years otd, son of the dead woman, is fatally burned. Wm. Simmons was also badly hurt by jump* la* from a third-story window. Unrest Among Chinese. Shanghai. Ry Fable.?Numerous reports received from the interior telling of the activity of secret societies at points widely apart are causing serious uneasiness. It is known ttint the oilh-ials everywhere are displaying great anxiety and are procuring tho most modern arms and munitions of war for the purpose of equipping tho soldiery. There is no certainty as to whether the anxiety of the oflicials Is directed against anticipated risings or as to whether it is a precautionary movement in view of possiblo danger 'rota a successful Japan.