Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-02-20 | Page 43 | Czarina Has Had Mental Breakdown

1 MM. BREAKDOWN Jt Is Said That She Does Not' Recognize Members of Her Own Family. BY GEORGE PEASER. Special Cable to Tho Tribune. ST. PETERSBURG, Fob. ID. While it Is no longer attempted to conceal tho farf lliot !h(V tv.itrnu l ri vmv s?rfr rr-n- man It Is extremely difficult to get any accurate Information as U just what is tho matter with her. That It is a general gen-eral physical breakdown Is certain and that there has also been almost a complete com-plete mental breakdown Ut probable, in some quartors it is said hor majesty has so far failed mentally that she recognizes recog-nizes no one. not even her Immediate, family. I understand her physicians havo recommended a long .sea voyage as likely to be of 8?oiriv-heuolit for her and that the esar will :-hortly take her nnd their children on a cruise In tho Imperial yacht, perhaps as far as tho Mediterranean. Trouble Over Religion. Telegrams from New Bokhara, a. Russian Rus-sian town in rontral Asia, report scrl- ous collisions on religious grounds between be-tween Sunnis and Shiahs. There havo been several casualties on either side. Soveral Persian shops have been plundered plund-ered Tho instigators of the disturbances arc said to be Sunni students who move in bodies through the streets. Becking for Shiahs and Persian officials. The killed number about a hundred. A large proportion of tho Inhabitants have shown themselves to be in possession of TJerdan rifles and revolvers of various patterns. Russian guards havo been postod over Russian buildings, banks and the railway rail-way goods offices at Old Bokhara. Enthusos Russian Audiences. Albert Spalding, the young American violinist, continues lo enthuse his Russian Rus-sian audiences, his entire series of concerts con-certs In that country being a succession of artistic triumphs. After his debut at Warsaw, Mr. Spalding's next engagement engage-ment was at St. Petersburg on January 23. where he played at a very grand concert con-cert In tho "Salle Noblesse." ns one of the soloists. Mr. Spalding has a further engagement In Russia at Moscow and lator on will play In Berlin. Mr. Spalding's Spald-ing's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Spalding Spald-ing of New York, accompanied him on his Russlun tour as far 33 St Petersburg. Peters-burg. Somo Growsomc Figures. Russian newspapers publish statictics showing perceptible decrease In the number num-ber of punishments for political offenses lust year. but. tho figures are grewsomo enough. Thero were 1135 persons condemned con-demned to death, against 1050 In I00S. and the executions numbered 5-13, against 7S'-'. Exiles to Siberia and other distant parts of tho empire decreased from 10.-16G 10.-16G to 2200. Tho total number of political offenders deported la estimated at 13,-060 13,-060 against 10,527 in 100S. Russian Tobacco Crop. The Russian tobacco crop was materially materi-ally affected in 1000 by tho late and cold spring, especially tho finer grades, the cultivation of which is Increasing, whilo the cultivation of the common varieties is decreasing. There were fewer plantations planta-tions cultivated than in 100S. a corresponding corre-sponding decrease in area and a largo falling off In product. 1908 tho plantations, planta-tions, small ones predominating, numbered num-bered 3I1.0C6. with an aggregate area of 165.762 acres and a yield of 103.613 tons. For 1003 tho figures arc 331.157 plantations, planta-tions, aggregating 147,540 acres and yielding yield-ing SS.200 tons.