Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-17
News Of the Day.

The value of the estate left by the late
Senator Hanna is estimated at from 81
600, coo to So, 600, 00O
In several States yesterday was the
coolest day of the season. In some
sections of Pennsylvania the mercury
dropped to 800 below zero.
Chicago is on the verge of the greatest
epidemic of pneumonia it has ever known.
This warning has gone out from the Of
fee of the board of he alth.
William Schmause, aged % years, OF
Baltimore, committed suicide by shooting
himself yesterday after returning from
the funeral of his mother.
A new phase has arisen in the neutral
ity negotiations arising from Secretary
HAYS note by Great Britain asking that
they include the foreign concessions in
China like Wei-Hai-
The Rev. r. G. Tillingham, of Eng
land. returned to New York yesterday,
and sent letter to Bishop Potter, urging
him to drive educators from the Episco-
pal Church in his diocese.
Philadelphia voted yesterday to borrow
SIG, 900, 600 for various public works,
including filter plants, boulevards,
schools, sewers, repairing of streets and
abolition of grade crossings.
Rev. Churchill Satterlee, rector OF
Trinity Church, Columbia, S. G. died at
Augusta, Georgia, yesterday. He was
son of Bishop Henry Y. Satterlee, OF
the diocese of Washington, and was thirty
four years of age.
VIM. B. Rucker, of Louisville, KY,
was shot dead yesterday as he stood at
the telephone talking to his wife, He
was married three weeks ago. Two ar
rests have been made but the evidence
against the men are severely circum-
stantial.
Bishop Kinsolving, of southern Brazil,
who is we'll known in this city, sailed
from Rio de Janiero by the steamship
Byron, on February 2. His family
and Deaconess Maria R. Pitts, who has
been working at Jarguarao, Rio Grande
do Sui, are with him. He should reach
New York by February 20.
Mr.. Paul Turner, chairman of the
general loss committee of the insurance
men, said yesterday that ne could see no
reason for changing his original estimate
that the property loss by the Baltimore
fire was about 1925, 900, 900. OF this
sum the insurance companies will pay
from $50, 900, 900 to 500, 900, 900.
Fire last night in St. Louis destroyed
the four-story building at Fifteenth and
Poplar streets, occupied by the Belle
Hickey Showcase Manufacturing Com
pany, the Goodfell w-Brooke Shoe Man
ufacturing Company and the Willbrandt
Surgical instrument Manufacturing Com
pany. The total loss is estimated at
Sl25, 000
The Honse of Representatives yesterday
adopted the conference report on the
urgent deficiency bill, thus completing
the legislation necessary to give the ap-
preparations effect. Mr.. Littauer, from
the committee on appropriations, report
ed in the House the fortifcation appro-
priations bill, together with report ex-
planning its provisions. The report
states that the estimates on which the
bill is based aggregated S2l, 57S, 1877.
William H. Carson, fifty-eight years
DID, a contractor, who had charge of the
brick work on many big buildings in
Washington during the past twenty-five
years, committed suicide yesterday by
shooting himself He was in the bath
room at his home when he committed
the deed. Intimate friends of the man
are unable to account for his rash act,
but Coroner hewitt was told that his
business had fallen off this winter and
that he had become respondent.