Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.


mere jury, Eta Futtcrman. middle
aged spinster, was held for the grand
jury in New York yesterday on q
charge OF homicide She is charged
with killing her father. lssac. SO years
old, and her mother, Rachael. -.
whose bodies were found in their home
on the morning of January I, horribly
mutlated.
The ballot taken by the cJal miners
OF Great Britain. the result of which
was officially declared yesterday after
noon, WAS overwhelmingly in favor OF
a strike for fixed minimum wage.
This action, it is said, will bring about
q national stoppage OF coal mining on
March l..
The reports OF special correspondents
in Macedonia and other parts Of
Turkey describe in the most gloomy
strain the condition OF affairs through
out Turkey generally. The conditions
in Macedonia are said to be even worse
than .hey were under the rule OF Sui
tan Abdul Hamid. There is Il COM
plete absence OF security for life and
property, and the authorities appear to
be unable to stay the ide Of lawlesS-
ness. 1t is slid that simi lar conditions
exist in Northern Albania and that the
first outbreak may be expected to oc
cur in that region. The whole country
from the Aeg can Sea to the Adriatic is
ripe for rebellion.
W. c. Lykeps, 23 years old, depu
Is sheriff, was shot and almost instant
ly killed, early yesterday at st. Joseph,
Mo-. by one OF two ch token thieves he
and Samuel f. Miller. farmer, were
endeavoring to arrest. Within two
hours all Of the farmers OF the neigh.
borhood were out, heavily armed, in
search OF the persons whose identities
are known and vowing 10 lyuch them
/ il they succeed in capturing them.
Eugcne Kelly, the retired banker
and son OF the late Eugene Kelly, at
whose home Cardinal Gibbons, for
years. always stayed when in New
York, and who founded the banking
firm OF Eugene Kelly & Company, one
OF the most prominent banking houses OF
the highest financial district died yester-
day General nervous breakdown with
aiterial selerosis was the immediate
cause. Mr.. Kelly was 53 years old. He
wasthe oldest OF the Papal Knights OF st.
George in the United States--that is,
in date OF creation.
J. c. Ogden, a Christian Church
missionary OF Los Angeles, arrived 10
San Francisco. yesterday with his
family after a 1000 mile journey
through China and Tibet in which all
narrowly escaped death. According to
the missionary be and his wife were
compelled to several times wade
through blood in the journey from
Batang, Tibet, to the French province
Of Tong King, China. The story of
the isolated provinces in Northern
China, is one that will shock the world
once it is told" said Mr.. Ogden. |
was sent 70 Tibet six years ago as 4
missionary. The warlike Tibetans
have takan up arms and are making
the revolution in China as ar excuse
for plundering and pillaging. There
is far more to he feared, rs far as the
missionaries are concerned. from the
TibetanS than there is from the Man
chus and Chinese. -
The terrible conditions prevailing
among the peasantry in Southeastern
Russia are depicted in telegram from
doctor in Orenburg, which is pub
lished in London. The doctor says
that the starving p"asantry in the gov
ernment OF Orenburg, on the River
Ural, owing 70 not having received any
assistance from the authorities, are
selling their children to the khirsese
Nomads, in the government OF Saratov
Many Of the people in the vicinity
have died from hunger and tvphus
and more than 20 per cent OF the chill.
dren are stricken with fearful epid
mic in some OF the villages, while in
other districts The distress il extreme,