Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-09-01
From Washington.
fCor, dependence of the Alexandria Gazette.l
Washington, ID. c., Sept. l.

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The Treasury Department has re-
ceiyed a check for $500, 600 from the
St. Louis Exposition authorities in part
repayment OF the government loan. The
exposition to date has paid back 81,
4OS. 600, or Il little more than half OF
what was advanced by the government
A fraud order was issued by the Post
office Department this morning against
the Health Appliance Co., G. Backus
and l.. /. Sherod, Of San Francisco.
Miss Rosa Stern, aged % years, the
daughter of Rabbi Louis Stern, OF this
city, attempted suicide this morning at
her home, 1925 Tenth street, northwest,
by cutting her throat and left wrist.
She is at the Emergency Hospital in a
precarious condition. The surgeons
hold out but very slight hope of her re-
covery. Miss Stern has been in i'll
health and deeply dCspondent on that
account.
The Philippine exhibit at the St.
Louis exposition has been robbed by
its employees of a sum that may equal
$25, 600, according to a report to the
Insular Bureau of the War Department
from the chairman of the Philippine
exposition board. The men who were
engaged in selling and receiving tickets
to the Philippine village, have, it is
charged, been reselling tickets and
pocketing the receipts. A Filipino,
seeing one ticket-taker stufing lot OF
tickets into the bosom Of his shirt, ex-
posed the steal. Upon his arrest the
ticket-taker gave the scheme away.
Since new men have been placed at the
gates the daily receipts have increas-
ed 81, 200.
Rural free delivery routes are being
established at the rate of 500 month.
This is record breaking work fer the
Postoffice Department. Those being
provided for now will begin operations
October ]. At that time 1900 routes
will have been established in the first
three months of the present fiscal year.
Despondent because of business trou-
bles, Reuben Sheriflem, 90 years old,
native of Nova Scotia, chief engineer OF
the Great Falls Power Company, COM
mitted suicide this morning by inhallng
cas at the home Of his mother-in-law,
Mrs. f. l.. Bruce, 20l5 Hillyer Place.
Mrs. Bruce is of Richmond, Va Mrs.
Sherifem is in Chicago, where she is i'll.
w. w. Brown, auditor for the Navy
Department, today began the distribu-
ton of the prize money won by Admiral
Dewey, his officers and men, in the
fight with the Spanish fleet in Manila
bay. The money amounts to 1870, 600
and is to be distributed among about
1000 persons. Admiral Dewey gets
$1,000 of it.
The State Department has been Of
fcially notified of the death of DIR.
Thomas Herran, the Columbian minister.
Caught under a falling live electric
wire, Samuel Maloney, a negro, 40 years
old, was instantly killed today while
working on the foundation Of the new
offices of the House of Representatives.
Antonio Germanatti, an Italian laborer,
bit by the same wire, was painfully
burned and severely shocked, but will
recover.
Jacob Pyrab and Samuel Walker fell
into vat of boiling water in the base
ment at the old Postoffice Department
and burned badly.
Matt Thompson, a bricklayer, fell
from the eighth floor of the Mills Build
ing today and was probably fatally in
iured.