Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-24
News of the Day.

Attorney General Bonsparte has rem
dered a decision holding that disHlIerS
must label blended product Limitation
whisky"
Wilbur Wright yesterday made an
other aerOplane fight far across the
country from Pau, France, With bis ais
ter ss passenger.
President-elect Taft went to New
York yesterday and announced that
Myfon T. Herrick had eliminated him
self from consideration as secretary OF
the treasury.
The STANDARD Oil 6ne case was halted
10 Chicago yesterday because the first
panel of veniremen was quashed, the
court holding that there we're too many
farmers on it.
The New York stock market yester-
day suffered a break which surpassed 10
severity that Of any occasion since the
psnIc days Of October, 1907, aud closed
at about the bottom, with the feeling
highly nervous and semi.panicky. 10
Chicago there was a sharp decline in
what
Mr.. TAFT was the principal speaker
last night in the interest of Hampton
Institute, a. Hampton, Va, under the
suspices Of the Armstrong Association,
at Carnegie Hall, New York. He
pointed TO tie work Of Hampton Insti-
tute In solution Of the race problem and
said he believes the negro is essential to
the south. He said rudimen'al and 10.
dustrial education is wha, is needed.
Later be was entertained with plantation
songs sung by school chorus.
Miss Frances Caspsri, the "disciple
Of Cassie Chadwick" whose mysterious
career hiss bsfiled the police Of B illimore
ard Washington, was yesterday adjudged
insane by jury 10 Criminal Court No.
/ before Justice Gould 10 Washington.
The prisoner was returned TO the all,
where she had been held since July last
on sn indictment for false pretenses,
and will be transferred to the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane IS soou as
the necessary papers can be made out.
Philadelph'a's fashionable women had
the uncommon oppot unity OF seeing two
men fight in regulation Marquis Of
Queensberry style last night at the
Athletic Club, of Philadelphia, where
A. ]. Drexel Biddle spared with jack
| O'Brien, whom he defeated. Mr.. Biddle
is well.known millionaire sportsman
aud society leader. O'Brisn is pro-
iessioDal. Many members of the exclu-
sive circle were there to enjoy the 6silc
conquest Of the bland and agreeable Mr..
Biddle.
With ell the fury Of a woman wronged,
Miss Lizzie Kisse, aged eighteen years,
daughter of a gell-known planter, spraug
from the side Of relatives who had as
sembled in court In Salem, Atk., yes
terday, AID before anyone could reach
her had stabbed ]. w. Jones, whom she
had accused of betIayiDg her, iDAicting
wounds near the heart that caused his
death. This followed the action Of the
jadge 10 sustaining a demurrer fled by
Jones, who had been Indicted on a
cbsrge Of seducing the yO1ng girl. 10
jail she expressed no sorrow for her act.
Senator Rayner succeeded Yesterday
in having the Federal grain inspection
clause stricken out of the agricultural
bill. The republican compromise prop
osition granting authorization for the
re-enlstment aud reinstatement of the
uegro soldiers of the Twenty-6fth To-
fantry, who we're discharged without
honor on account of the shooting up OF
The town OF Brownsville, Texas, more
than tWo years ago, wSs passed by the
S,Date shortly alter 4 o'clock in the
afternoon by a strict party vote of 56 to
&c. Only one democrat, Mr.. Teller, Of
Colorado, who was formerly a silver
republican, voted with the republicans,
The House yesterday passed bill pro-
hibitiug the use of the emblem of the
American Red Gross as trade mark or
| advertisement,