Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-11-09
News of the Day.

A recess of the Supreme Court oil the
United S .stes will De taken from Novem-
Der Is to November 90.
According to statistics OF the State
Department Germany has jumped into
second place IS naval power.
King Manuel Of Portugal who is on
his way to London to visit King Edward
arrived in Madrid yesterday accompanied
by large suite,
When President Taft returns to Wash
ingtou tomorrow night from his long
Trip, be will be met at Union station by
all the members OF bis Cabinet and for
mally welcomed back to the national
capital.
The greater part OF the time al the
trial of Mme. Steinheil In Paris yester.
day was given over to the testimony Of
experts. On the whole the evidence
adduced favored the woman accused OF
killing her husband and mother. They
made 1t seem almost certain that no mar
cotics had been administered.
In an opinion by Justice Holmes the
U. 8. Supreme Court yesterday decided
against the cou plainsnts in the case OF
the Is, $50 Choctsw aud Ohickassw In
dams who asked for redress for being
excluded from the citizenship rolls OF
these nations when they we're prepared
By Secretary Hitchcock, Of the Interior
Department, on March 4, 1907.
William Hamilton, well-to-do farmer
and a member of one of the most promi.
nent families 10 Burlington county, n.
j.. vas arrested yesterday and held In
t5, 900 bail, charged with being the
masked bandit who locked up the old
housekeepsr In the home of Schuyler
Rainier, his neighbor snd friend, last
Friday afternoon, and then ria3d the
safe OF So, 900 10 cash.
The crop reporting board of the D3-
psrtue nt Of Agriculture in prelimi'
nary report today gives the indicated
total production of corn for 1909 a. 2,
| 767, 316, 900 bushels, sgainst 2,668,
Col, 600 as finally estimated last year,
with the quality as 8l-2 per cent against
500 lsst year. At the present cssh
grain quotations in Chicago, 60 cents a
bushel, this years crop is worth 81
743, 400, $50.
A dispatch received at New Orleans,
last night, claims a decided victory for
the Estrada, or revolution, force 10
NicarsguA at Psso las LSjss, In the in
terror, about sixty miles west of Blntheld.
The town, which was occupied by the
Insurgents, was attacked by 1000 of the
regular, or Zelaya, forces, who were
! repulsed and scattered. Their COM
msnder, Gen. Ohsmmerro, aud 100 men,
half of whom we're officers, we're killed.
II James J. Corbett (uot The pugilis),
who left Boston In 1873, after he bad
been Wrougiully accused OF robbery, will
make known bis whereabouts be will
find q Boston attorney ready to hand
over to him quarter Of million dollars
which was left him by his brother, Will
liam J. Oorbett, who died a fewHdsyH
ago. The son OF prominent Boston
fsmily, Oorbett lived jolly life and
6pslly got into trouble with the Boston
police. Although viDdicssed, be could
not besr the humiliation caused by bis
arrest, aud left the city.
The presidents visit to Florence, s.
O., yesterday, was marked by bis intro
dnction To the famous "pine bark stew"
of the Pee Dee section OF South Caro-
lima. The president has been looking
/ forward to this stew with mingled emo
tious OF pleasurable anticipation and
fear. When 1t appeared as the major
course in the Florence banquet last
night 1t proved to be q delectable fish
chowder, highly spiced aud stewed over
pine bark fire sufficiently long to get
some OF the favor of the pine into the
decoctIon. Tue president said he en-
jOyed 1t.