Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-02-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The body Of a 19-year-old girl wa
found yesterday frozen in the ice
mile from shore on Jamaica Bav
Long Island, between Canarsie anc
Barren 1slsnl, New York city's gar
bage crematory. 1t is believed to be
that OF 3 young woman who on Sat
urday tried to hire Canarsie teanster
to drive her across the 4 mile stretch
of ice to Barren Island Unsuccessful
ia obtaining a conveyance, the girl
started to walk, aud when last seen
was q mere speck on the slittering ice.
It is believed she met her death by
falling into an open lead in the ice and
drowning.
"Perpetual motion" has claimed
another tragedy. At an inquest on
the body OF Hans Edgar Friese, who
shot his wife and then himself in Lon
don on Saturday, the evidence showed
that Friese had the mania Of inven-
tion," aud had been trying 10 solve
the problem OF perpetual motion.
Friese spent all his money 10 making 4
machine. wlricn vas a failure.
Three million persons in central
China ale on the verge Of starVation,"
read a statement received by the Chi
nesc famine relief committee. OF which
Bishop David Greer is chairman IN
New York Yesterday. Last summer
the worst Hood in 40 years destroyed
the crops in an area OF $4,000 square
miles. Many have already died OF
hunger. and unless prompt relief is
given, multitudes OF men, women and
children must perish. No harvest can
oe expected until May. Until then
the famine will be growing daily more
acute.
President Taft speaking at the an
nual Lincoln dinner of the Republican
Club in the Waldorf Astoria, in New
York, last night renewed bis attack
upon the progressive faction" OF the
Republican party. He referred to the
leaders OF the progrcssves as emo
tionaists or neurotics," and character
lied them as extremists who would
hurry us into condition which would
find no parallel except in the French
revolution or the bubbling anarchy
that once characterized the South
American republics" The President
then entered vigorous defense of his
own administration aud included all OF
the Republican administrations siEce
President Lincoln.
On the eve OF the arrest Of tile rAen
indicted in tho dynamite conspiracy
cases it was reported in Indianapolis
last night that the number OF dcfene-
ants would be "a. The arrests may
take place today. Manv officers in
one labor union and one officer in
two other unions are believed TO be in.
volved.
When Urish Brown. n well-known
farmer of the vicinity OF Unity. Mont
gompry county, Md, went to spring
near his home Sunday morning Tor 7
bucket OF water. he was Mortified TO
find the dead body OF his niece. Mrs. |.
Florcoce Dill, lying partly in the spring
With the head and the upper portion
Of the body covered by the water:
Late Saturday afternoon Mrs. Dill
STONED at the Brown home for Il few
minutes, and when she left started to-
wards the hone Of another relative near /,
Nv. She went down path leading TO
the spring. Just before the spring is
reached the path is down steep grade,
which has been icy for several weeks.
It ia thought that as she approached
the spring Mrs. Dill slipped and fell and
rolled into the spring in stunned con-
dition and was drowned.