Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-23
News Of the Day.

phCkets mutt pS piouuCeU iu NJ"
Jersey.
Mrs. George E. Pickett was the guest
Of honor ct tel given by the Daughters
OF the OonfedersoY yesterday afternoon
at the Acorn Club. In Philadelphla.
Republican members OF the II use
have been instructed BY Representative
Dsigbt, Of New York, the majority
"Nhip", to be 10 their seals next Tuet-
day, prepared 10 vote on the adminlslrs
ton railroad bill.
Supposed earthquake shocks were felt
st Atlantic City t1dsy. Two distinct
disturbances, lasting Ia. few seconds
took place. They we're heavy enough to
shake windows bat no damage was done.
At Kansas City yesterday a nurse
testified at the trial of DR.. Hyde,
who Is charged with poisoning Colonel
Swope. that the accused gave girl some
candy and tba! ahe developed typhoid
fever.
The Grand Duchess Elizabeth, who Is
the widow Of Grand Duke SsrgIu, and
sister Of Empress Alexandrs, took the
veil Of a Iul yesterday. She will devote
herself 10 the hospital OF the Womsn's
Refuge, which was founded sftsr an
assassin killed her husband with bomb
on February IL, 1905.
A woman who gave her name SO Rene
Fo,tsr was arrested Ia Baltimore yester.
day on the charge of robbing men on the
stutt,, into whose arms she fell as II In
a faint. George Foster, her hpsL,aud
was arrested st Pimlico En11 10 his DOS.
session was found a diamond pin, which
the Honso ls said to have stolen from
one Of the men.
Mr. Willoughby Newton Smith,
prominent lawyer snd formtr newspaper
man, died yesterday morning at his
home 10 Bait more, aitr long illness.
Mr.. Smith had been In bad health for
sbcu, FIVE years. Born In Winchester, |
Va, Mir. Smith was 60 years old. The
body will be taken to Winchester, for
interment.
Bsiore the Stats convention Of Oolored |
Presbyterisns Thursday night Bishop |
billiard Of Oolumbis, So, who advocated |
liberal educs ton for the negro, declared:
al wart to see the negro brought to
high standard along every line. When |
Jack Johnson and JtAdes meet 10 Gall, |
forDia, | hope Jack stops JEFF les 10
short ORDER" The convention broke
int uproarous applause.
The bill authorizing an additional
Judge for the federal circuit, embracing
Virginia, The Oarollnss, Maryland and |
Wet Virginia, Is on the House csleu-
dar, with no prospects OF Its early past
sge, although advocates OF the measure
say 1t will become law at this session. |
1t go! through the Senate withcu!
serious opposition, bat 1t was detained"
10 the House committee on Judiciary for
somt time,
After sit licking certain statements 10
Attorney General Wickershsm's tun.
msry Of the CLAWS case, during cross
exsmiustou OF the witness before the
Billinger- Piuchot invest cation COM
mittee yesterday, Attorney Brandeis,
counsel for l.. p. Claws, threw cut a
broad suggestion that tbs document had
been dated NO months earlier than 1t
had been prepared, In order ID make 1t
appear that President TafPs letter OF
vlndIcat'on to Secretary BIlllngar had
been based on alleged facts 1t con.
lgiued,
Walter A. Seymour, q New York
salesman, who lived near Mount Yer
DON, N. Y, wss killed by az electric train
at the Mouit Vernon tt,tiOn yesterday
evening. He was waiting for a locsl
train to go to Pelham, when an express
came along on thu local track. Say
mour, 1t is said, vas standing close to
The edge of the platform. The tustion
Of the train as 1t rushed by drew him IN.
der the wheels and be was ground to
death.
-Four men we're killed aud four others
badly Injured 10 q wreck on the Big
Four Railroad at Sanford, ten miles from
Terra Hiute, yesterday morning. Train
No. &c, composed of ak empty cars, wSs
20 route from the st. Louis terminal t.
indianapolis. When 1t reached San
ord 1t dashed 1t great speed thn ugh |
10 open switch into csr on tie aide
rack, In which was sleeping nine men,
,srs OF an IL t,rlockIpg switch coustIuo
Ion crew. The car was smashed into {
wood. The men sleeping Gu
he car we're terribly mspglsd. Three t
we're taken tu. dead, aud one died 10 a !
iOsplial two hours later.
The populsce OF Moscow Is celebrat-
pg with TIE Dennis the recovery of the @
Iismond ornament stolen Wednesday | e
light from the Imsge Of The Virgin 10
he Uspenski Cathedral, In the Kremlin.
nd the arrest OF The thief. The mis- o
rssrt turned ont ID be an eighteen yesr J
Id lad. After stealing the ornament
'hIch Ia valued at hundreds OF thou. O.
spdS OF rubles, the boy hid under 50 q
liar In the cathedral, hoping eventually d
D escape. A Gordon OF soldiers has Il
cen kept about the cathedral since the y
rime was committed and the lad, find- ia
,g 1t impossible to escape their vigil "
nee srd after suffering terribly from o
iirst, came out yesterday aud surren-
cred. lO
Expulsion OF Jews.