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

ruled that the books OF the Chicago beef
packers mutt bs produced in New
jersey.
Mrs. George E. Pickett Wss the guest
Of honor at les given by the Daughters
OF the Ooniederacy yesterday afternoon
at the Acorn Club. In Philadelphia.
Republican members of the H use
have been instructed by Representative
D8ight, of New York, the majority
"Rhip", to be in their seals next Tnet-
day, prepared 10 vote on the admiuistra
ton railroad bill.
Supposed earthquake shocks we're felt
st Atlantic City today. Two distinct
ibancea, lasting tn. few seconds
took place. They we're heavy enough to
shake windows bot no damage was done.
At Kansas City yesterday nurse
testified at the trial of DR.. Hyde,
vino is charged with poisoning Colonel
Swope. that the accused gave girl some
candy and that she developed typhoid
fever.
The Grand Duchess Elizabeth, who Is
the widow of Grand Duke Sergiu, and q
sister of Empress Alexandrs, took the
veil of Lua yesterday. She will devote
herself 10 the hospital OF the Womsn's
Refuge, which was founded after an
assassin killed her husband with bomb
on February II, 1905.
A woman who gave her name SO Rene
Fostar vas arrested 10 Baltimore yester-
day On the charge of robbing mea on the
street,, into whose arms she fell as II in
faint. George Foster, her hpsLSand,
was arrested st Pimlico En-. 10 his DOS.
session was found. q diamond pin, which
the Wop'an Ia said ID have stolen from
one Of the men.
Mr.. Willoughby Newton Smith,
prominent lawyer and formtr newspaper
man, died yesterday morning at his
home in Bait more, alt:r long illness.
Mr.. Smith had been in bad health for
abtu: l7e years. Born in Winchester,
Va, Mir. Smith was 60 years old. The
body will be taken to Winchester, for
intermen!t.
Before the S:ats convention of Oolored
Presbyterisns Thursday night Bishop
billiard OF Columbia, So, vino advocated
liberal educSt;op for the negro, declared:
81 Wart to see the negro brought to q
high standard along every line. When
Jack johnson and Jsfties meet in Gall.
fo'nia, hope Jack stops jeff les 10
short ORDER" The convention broke
int, up.oarous applause.
The bill authorizing an additional
jp 1ge for the federal circuit, embracing
Virginia, The Oarolinss, Maryland and
Wet Virginia, Is on the House calen-
dar. with no prospects OF its early past
age, although advocates of the measure
say it will become Law at this session.
1t got through The Senate without:
serious opposition, but it was detained"
10 the House committee on Judiciary for
somtt;me,
After SIT ,cking Ger ain statements in
Attorney General Wickersham's tun.
mary oil the CLAWS case, during cross-
examination of the witness before the
Ballinger-Pinchot investigation COM
mit.ee yesterday, Attorney Brandeis,
counsel for L. 2. CLAWS, threw cut a
broad suggestion that ths document hst
b,en dated 70 months earlier than it
had been prepared, in order to make it
appear that President Taf!'a letter 0!
vlnd!catio on to Secretary Billiugar had
been based on alleged facts it con-
tsiued.
Walter A. Seymour, a New York
salesman, who lived near Mount Yer
non, n. Y, vas killed by an electric train
a. the Mou:t Vernon tt,tion yesterday
evening. Hs wa waiting for local
train TO go to Pelham, when an express.
csme along on tbs local track. Say
mour, 1t is said, was standing close to
the edge OF The platform. The tuction
OF the train as it rushed by drew him IN.
der the wheels and he was ground to
death.
Four men were killed aud fcu, others
badly injured Ia a wreck on the B 6
-Four Railroad at Sanford, ten miles from
Terra II auto, yesterday morning. Train
No. &c, composed of ak empty cara, wss
en- route from the st. Louis terminal t.
Indianapolis. When 1t reached San
ford it dashed st great speed through
an open switch into a csr on the aide
track, In which was eleeping nine man.
beers OF an il t'rlocking stitch construo
ton Grew. The car was smashed into
kidding wood. The men sleeping Gu
The car we're terribly maDgled. Three
were taken Gu! dead, and one died ia
hosplial two hours later.
The populace OF Moscow Is celebrat-
ing with Te Denms line recovery of the
diamond ornament stolen Wednesday
night from the imsge OF the Virgin In
the Uspen'ki Cathedral, in the Kremlin,
and The arrest OF The thief. The mis-
creart turned ont ID be an eighteen yesr
old lad. After stealing the ornament
which Ia valued at hundreds OF thou.
sands of rubles, the boy hid under an
altar In the cathedral, hoping eventually
to escape. A Gordon OF soldiers has
been kept about the cathedral since the
crime was committed aud the lad, find
ing 1t impossible to escape their vigil
ance AID after suffering terribly from
thirst, came out yesterday aud surren
dered.