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18 THICK OF FIGHT
r WAS MSS. SOFFEL
Fleeing flurderers Shot
Down By Officers.
FUSiLADE WAS HOT AND HEAVY
Thrilling and Bloody Termination
Of Novel Tragedy at Pittsburg.
All Three Fugitives Wounded.
A Pittsburg, Pa., special says: Ea
ward Biddle, in jail dying; John Bid¬
dle, riddled with buckshot and in a
precarious condition, and Mrs. Peter
L. Soffel, iyiug in the hospital with
a self-inflicted l^tnlet wound in i,he
breast, is the sequel of the sensation
a! escape of the Biddies from the Alle
giieny jail, aided by Mrs. Soffel, the
wife of the jail warden, on Thursday
morning.
The story of the close of the Biddle
tragieiy, which came at 5:45 o clocn
Friday afternoon, is a thrilling one
The scene was a snow covered road
two miles east of Prospect. But.er
county, near Mount Chestnut, and the
exact place was at McClure’s barn,
where two double team sleighs filled
with eight officers, overtook the Bid
dies in a one-horse sleigh, stolen at
Perryviile, and at once opened Are on
the trio. The Biddles returned the
ire after Jumping out ot the sleigh.
Mrs. Soffel s wound wa sthrougn
breast. Edward ... Biddle was shot , . in
the left arm , in iu tne nit, , breast . and auu , in .
cne leg. John Biddle was riddled
with buckshot in the breast and head,
It was only a question of time when
the ofSeers who set out on the chase
would catch up with the escaping
condemned murderers and their com¬
panion. The Biddles and Mrs. Soffel
ate dinner at J. J. Stevens, at Maunt
Chestnut, live miles east of Butler.
Tne Pittsburg officers rcached ,
Mount Chestnut not less than half an
hour after the Biddles and Mrs. Sof
fel. At this point fresh horses werp
secured and the chase for life cr .
The two sleighs, with the eig ^ t offi
cers aboard, started westward and
met the Biddles and Mrs. Soffel at Me
Clure’s ,barn, two railea from Mount
Prospect. The Biddles, having learn
ed that they were almost overtaken
and taking what they considered the
chance they had, drove eastward
and met their doom.
The Pittsburg and other officers
were armed with Winchester rifles and
revolvers of large calibre. They shot
to kill and their aim was perfect. The
Biddles tried to kill to the last of their
string, but not one of the eight offi,
cers has a wound as the result of the
battle.
Woman Fired at Officers. |
When the detectives got within six- j
ty yards of the fugitives they opened j
fire.' The Biddles promptly answered
with shotguns and revolvers. Mrs
Soffel, too, stood up in the sleigh with
a revolver in each hand and b'azed
away at her pursuers. When Ed Bicl
dle fell and she saw she was about
to be captured she fired a bullet into
her breast,'it Is claimed. An examina
tion by physicians shows that she will
recover, as the bullet was deflected
by her corset and the wound is com
narartvelv cBrht
The escape of the officers is mirac
nlous. The Biddles have demonstra
ted on several . occasions . that ... they
good , marksmen , , and . why , they
are *
should , . have failed , „ . on ... this occasion ,
to hring dpwn their men is a mys¬
tery. Aft<?r the Biddles fell to the
snow covered ground the officers
picked up the apparently lifeless
bodies of Mrs. Soffel and the'Biddles
and returned to Butler with the stolen
sleigh, patted up harness and worn
out horses Hhat the trio had tried so’
strenuously to get away with toward
Canada a»d liberty.
Mrs. Soffel made a statement after
her capture in which she said she be¬
came involved in the affair through her
sympathy-for Ed Biddle. She said she ,
now realized her mistake and wished
she was dead, She said she did not
shoot herself, hut was the first one
shot by the detectives. V
AT JACKSON’S Oi.il HOME.
Admiral and Mrs. Sch'ey Make a Visit
to the ‘•HermiHiKt*.’
A Nashville, Team, special says:
Admiral and Mrs. Schley braved the
cold Sunday for a visit to the tomb of
Andrew Jackson. The trip to the
Hermitage, twelve miles out on the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railroad, was made in a special train,
The party was taken in charge by a
committee from the Ladies’ Hermitage
Association and Escorted to the old
brick church where Jackson worshiped
and where services were held, After
wtxrds the historic mansion and tomb
were visited.
C1DDL E5 ARE DEAD.
Both^Brolhers^Finally Succumb to
St°ffel Still Lives,
A news special from Butler, Pa.,
At the f “? ° f a ay ° F intea3e
■ucmcLt t ana many conflicting n .tones
concerning the chances for life of the
wounded Biddle brothers and Mrs.
Kate Soffel, the unexpected happen
ed. Joka Biddle ‘ rto until iate Sat
p.day aiternoon . was the more likely
brother to to esoanp escape Present n-pBent death death, sue
cumbed , , at 7:35 p. m.
His brother Ed, who had been un
conscious practically all day and who
was considered a dying man Friday
night, survived until 11 o’clock, when
he, too, went over the great divide.
Both men died without apparent suf
fering at the close.
Mrs Soffel, who developed symp
toms of pneumonia, has a chance for
1 ife, and unless some unforeseen com
plication sets in, will recover.
The death of Jack Biddle was caus
j ed by the bullet wounds in his abdo
men and bladder. Early in the day
tiiC paySicians thought peritonitis was
the principal danger in his case, but
internal hemorrhage finally set in and
the man bled to death in a short
while
As long as he was able. Jack was
extremely talkative and was at times
boastful. But as soon as the shadow
o f death began to fail upon him and
he recognized it, he became repentant.
“I know.” he said, “that my time is
short, and you can say for me that I
am a Christian and will die a sincere
kehever in in God and « j hope . . I T have
strength enougn to say so. at the last.
1 r-nnw nnow T i hnvo nave tnimr, taken part no-t in ;
wronr " 1 uteus, out t I nave nQr never r. w i killed i uicu >n j
aily man and was never implicated
" ita one who.did.!L
T WO- IIIL LION- DOL LA It IIL A Z E,
Waterbury, Connecticut. Is Visiled
By Fearfnl Conflagration.
In the hardest gale of the winter
w / . ° r Ury cnn struggled Sunday
’ ->
ni Skt with a fire that destroyed a
large area of the business section of
the city and threatened to wipe it out
entirely. The blaze started in "the up
hoistery department on the third
floor of the store of Reed & Hughes.
dry goods company, Nos. 108 to 120
Bank street, and that store and many
adjeining buildings were reduced in
a few hours to smoldering embers,
An estimate of $2,000,000 as the
amount of th*> un niuitr
ings and contents was considered
conservative insurance men.
The origin of the fire is unknown
a R u it was not discovered until it had
gained tremendous headway.
At 6:15 p. m. three employes of the
Reed & Hughes company were in
tkeir store and when they left noticed
n ° ordor of smoke about the house.
Fifteen minutes later flames were
seen to burst with great force from
tJ; e window of tho third floor, and al
niost simultaneously from the base
nient. Before anybody could send in
an alarm the whole interior of the
building was a mass of flames, which
spread rapidly to adjoining buildings
The fire started in a drizzling rain,"
and late rturning to snow with a rap
id * y rising wind,
Losses are given as follows,
W - H> ( amp block in which was
° catedReid 3 “ re ’
f berg 00 -' « ^ C Buckner « naor blo $30,000; . c ^ ^ 2 n a ’°° old d ’ Ameri- lrcen ‘
-
- a » Charles Miller owner $35.
0G0 ’ Joh f oa block IdO.OOO; Jones
Morgan “ & Co., ’ colthiers, v»0,000; J.
B. Mulhngs & Son,, ’ clothiers, ’ $100,- .
000; Camp block, , , , In process of demo
lition, $50,000; Now England Eng”.
neering Company, $75,000; Franklin
house, totally destroyed, $40,000;
Turkish hath, W. G. Sehlegel, proprie
tbr, $20,000; Jean Jacques block, $40,
000; Mrs. W. C. Bannon’s block, occu
pied by Anson Sellew Company, $75,
.000; George E. Judd block, occupied
by LaPalme-Hoffman Company |S5.
000; Ashworth block, occupied by B.
C. Church Company, $30,000; Water
bury American.- loss building, $50, t
000; Schlitz Brewing Company,. $30,
000; Coelom Brothers. $50,000; Ed
ward McGraw,.two blocks. $85,000;
Meigs block. $40,000; Whittlesey
block> $20,000; Boston Furniture Com
pany, $40,000; Bronson block, §35,
'
000.
STRIKE OF BRIEF DURATION'.
(Tgarmakersand Employers at Tampa,
Florida, Reach Agreement.
A conference between a committee
of the officers of the American Cigar
Company in Tampa, Fla., in whose
factories the recent eigarmakers'
strike was begun, was held Sunday.
An agreement was reached by tvhich
the strike has been called off. The
strikers did not get their entire de¬
mands, it is said, but a compromise
for the present was reached, ihe ex
act conditions of the agreement, how
ever, have not been given out for pub
ffcatioa.
SCORES LOSE LIFE
EXPLOSION
-
Another Hine Horror Oc
curs ,n Mexican Coal Pit.
__
nyrn UVtK A * H^KfcD Hfiynnrn fcNTOMBLD CWTrtMprn
*
° ut °‘ a ot ■«» Supposed
Dead ,, , Eighty-Five ... , ^ ... Bodies
are Recovered. a,
”
.
A special from Eagle Pass, Te~a~,
says: A dust explosion in the 1 j
min „ in Mo _. ~ *' caused a
* u
ttrn e * oss °* an< * S rea t damage
to the mine.
Eighty-flve dead bodies had been re¬
covered from the mine at last &c
counts and, as there were one hundred
anc^sixty miners at work in the mine,
the death roll may go far over one hun
dred.
T , „ of*■ tl19
termitius of a ro^ b"snch HrtnJZ
nternational Eag^ about one
mlles from Pass
The latest fromTho information received in
San^Antonio if Hondo Mexico
mine explosion P u shows K -^ ous to *° hkve have been been
f JL y as ? erions ? at first reported
*r
’T'VY?* t0ta ® £ 1U G min ® rs at
IC 11 ne v *. ltn t5l . e explpsiqn .
^“ r * d T ° f are dead The
’
^ V1Cb “ s are Mexicarts
bemg.-at L Work in '77- the mine. Americans
E maIe Jn the mQe ,..... was ^Ue'd
three dead . ones being . . taken from the
uGbris Sund3,y, FIig worlc of clGcirin^
awa/the wreck jn . order , to get .to
bodies is being rushed as rapidly as
possible, but there is no hope that any
of the 106 men will be rescued aliXe.
The explosion occurred in mine No.
6 and was occasioned by striking a
gas pocket. The min’e is the property
of tha»Coaqi*ita Goal Company, R. M.
McKejmey T - . being . ihe ,
The names of the victims have not
yet keen learned. The loss to the own
ers of the bnine is very heavy. '
SHAW INSTALLED.
Secretary c » . -
Gage Leaves Office and
'His Succcyse*•>’*«•: «s-Ju. ta l|y
AVIt ( i i n->X’, i 1
At 10:30 i Febni-ry u in- the
presenoo iji-• «s’ vi j ■ e> : . t i u,jvri> “ **-
treasury cti f la .oi In i ■> 'cu; i'-Dolli
vor and ne> . No. .5] n- t dega
tion in the K> s ;.n Vk-gress,
and oth.er frienv.,, . - rmcL ■ Governor
Leslie M.’ Sha'w, al d IoWa, loV/a, took took th^ the’ pre- pre
scribed oath of ojffce as secretary ______*____ of
the treasury, succeeding L. J. Gage,
The retiring secretary was among the
first to grasi hisjh si nd P nd s he did
so said: -
“Mr. Secrdary, I hori’gratulate you
and wish foryouf administration the
Highest possble degree of success.”
'Secretary Siaw responded:
“.{ thank y<u, ^ir, most sincerely
- and if. my sucest shall be anything
like th^Lof m predecessor I shall be
fully satisfied.’
The' new ail t\e retiring secreta¬
ries then ree'eved all of the officials
and clerks in »e freasury building to
the number of ver2;000.
Secretary Gge las the love and
respect of thenffieiais and clerks of
the departmen to a remarkable de
gree, as was slwn in their leave-tak
ing. Many eyi were wet and voices
trembled as thrhief they had known
and loved so wl xms grasped by the
hand probably r tie last time.
Secretary Ga remained in confer-.
ence with hisuccessof an hour or
more aad thetleft the department
He wall go to’lor Ha for a rest of
two three mths ,
j>|KJ> Gf TAKVif i»S.
Chaffee Sends { »W>fails of «*,. 1 ,
#„roh.K-I, - a
General Cbal has carnet t. .be
war departmenj rj Lid ior: o the mao-h
of Major Wall hi; n r' -
across Samar. - is the fi-t up ,r
count ot the ,fc h . and . e u 3 a lAie
0 f terrible suffig p.ad hardship.
The ten mis* men. ac mdlng to
the rep ort, prfcly died o. s’e a
ticA< j
tXCVML'Ms N() ;
Money (.’fven to>orgi(v Tro<i i'll.
l ay )ory Rent.
There will Vo encanMirae
the Georgia /ftroops th! • «
less each reg\-- . desires to^‘,
$1,800 that will allowed it by
state for armor.nt and supplemt
it to a sufficien|tent to hold an cn
campment for fci days.
This was dec! Monday at a con¬
ference in Allot between Governor
Candler, AdjutaGcncral J. VV. Rcb
ertson, AssistaiAajutant General
Phill G. Byrd I Inspector General
W. G. Obear. I
RESISTLESS GALES
^ At * antiC C °
Destruction of Property.
A New York special says: The gale
* hich swept the coasts of Lon S Island
and New Jersey has brought
and disaster to sailors and craft,
Reports c£ loss o£ ^ ^ confmed
tr> ‘° 1,16 e " d ° f T I ‘° Dg T , . • Whon , “
comes news’tnat several bodies have
^ een washed u , ashore. It was not known
up to late Monday nifht from what
vessels the men who lost their, lives
ccme from. They might have been on
elther the barges towed by the tug
Richmond, reported as passing with
out toW( block island, bound from
New York for Newport, or the tug
Guba. which passed Block island two
hours later, which left New London,
Conn., Saturday for Newport News
and was returned without tow.
The screw of the American mer
Chantman , . ' Schepp „ . ' a f^ngged , . . ship ,
which went ashore on Long beach,
Long island shoals, early Sunday
morn i R S. were in peril all day.
LaLer reports .say they are all
the stranded vessel, though the dan
S er ^ denth has been lessened owing
to the sli S ht abatement of the storm.
A westerly gale was blowing at the
ra ^ e sey enty miles an hour when
the Schepp struck, at 3:30 o'clock in
the morning
ZZ . , p , Kctl .
Mm. Ide ff * n l Thn VViff
raad e vain V1 • na attempts f to snoot A the life
lines over the ScTepp/bfit their efforts
^ weie not-successful.- They ,,,, then ,, tried . ,
Iduncli »nQ.lif ii» Q 0 D03.t,_LuL ; too,
provq^l , impossible . _ ... . to . the high .
owing
seas.
The crews of the seagoing tugs,
John F. Brewynd and E.' S. Atwood,
had a very narrow escape.,from going
to the bottom wit htfteir crafts Sun
day afternoon. Nothing was known
of their plight until the arrival Mon
day of the German .steamer Barcelo
na, the crew of which rescued the tug
men. The tugs .Sad been delivering
provisions to the stranded steamer
Cavotrr, affhore at Long -beach. Long
island, and were proceeding , back to
this point.
’When the gale struck them the
waves began to wash bver therq, not
only sweeping off everything movable,
fntoSfffi:b h oxL bo “f-e a v;r^S
-"Vi: tUg were in imminent dan
S cr ddath for over two hours.
Th e tugs were- absolutely helpless
and gradually sinking when the Rar
celona hove in sight and took the B
half-frozCn ha!f-frozCn crews - aboard. Within
h-jlf half an V,. hour after, this the two fugs
went to tfie. bottom with the dunnage
of the, men.
The storms in the northern and
,
western part of Ne\v‘ York -state; have
played havoc -with, the schedule of
through trains due to arrive a’t * the
Grand Central station. * ■
• SUBJECT t(»A> DHtlOATE.
I’e|Mibliean’s Discuss Hedat tion of
SonlLi’s Representation.
A .Washington special says: For
three hours Monday nignt the republi
cans of the house discussed, in caucus,
various plans and policie-s looking to
the'reduction of the representation of.
ae solunern states in congress, or.
SOm f.' ederad su P erv ision of .southern
f ‘‘ CCliOUS - sdutherh republicans
11 consress ap sa^d strongly against
ca,tins the assentation., saying
0!;3 tl ‘* ' L t ^ ‘" cm wpuIt ® or J be e leading the principal republicans suffer
° nor ^ k . agreed with them ahd
stiff Others were opposed to any agifa
tion ' The final outcome of the discus
sion was a rathe/ general indorsement
of the proposition to have a commit
to « of eleven to Investigate conditions
M ie different states-and report their !
A - ” i » the caucus. Without how
e '• r. . -. a -„t r .iii 3 propo. !
si , i V 11 ... for i oe
wet a, • • - :■
A M n« .» R',v . •, ,t,
.lad. nv a». , , :>. n r , n
eral se- ions a Net/ Ye-. Mouda
the Pobruar grand^W *
irveBtigah me New fors - on ti e . ool
lisicn a:,d r.x .‘i.'i.'p n the sutnvay
avt..ue and Forty-first street.
aLER IS '
Objects Hong
h Colored '«
*.this. white Miss.,
/nvirted at ' ~t terra
.lit >urt ale. a the ne
s, fo s e • fr of the
brothers. was ECU
r < xt mont .1 along wik.i
0» es the social equallt;
quest. said that he does not ob
ject to befi , hanged, but he does ob
ject to being hanged alongside of a ne¬
gro, and he asks the sheriff to erect
a special scaffold for him. Mathis’ re
quest will probably be granted and a
special and separate scaffold erected
TEfj singers op
H ow writ, the singers Tod lY
Alas! of '
am still ton d£y?
Three Sonne, alas:
A love-song f " ge hou,®.^
f
gas!
N ° rest for all
An ode'topa^t*
A ballad for —Atlantal; the lit man -
According to -J^^utl*
<»«“ «•»»» recen ~
*"« 6W» ,
through the prisons a Ea annual
Wales ' Of u this tnis nilE1 mm e?j. Slan,t n <i aa
centsoi 13 ,
seventy-two , per ‘^e S£ dd th,
iously convicted been d
- ■' > LOsf> *'
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as so sorry to hea
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' rs .- '
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^ you deep,, ' 1 "a
j. gs, It was awful nardv
been to all the trouble- of r r w e'
through tne measles and up' he
whoopin’ cough.”—ChicaptV* »ai
Herald. Tcrd
It has An been Anj;lo-American suggested Alllai Ce J \
eessful plan that tho
to avoid anv farther n
be the formation, of an allianea »5l
America lieve that and the England, and many dfetaiK,,! J3T
day is not far 3
m emationa! differences will he p<i
settled. oeiyed by Tina e>fervbody news will the be as joVJr 3
as nows tht 4, h
tetter s btoma-h Bitters posithely' e
digestion-Tdyrpet«ia, and constipation giveitij]
ness malaria. Don’t fail to
Churchyard” The author esteemed ox “An Elegy it ihe in a C.J
pmess to lie sofa" acme t
on, a and rea'd novea.
lar Tyner's Heart Dysnepr-'w ltemedv Cures Ig.
Action. A-t Dpupists.'Sa cead
The worst thing aboiif life insurance
that we never live to enjoy it.
“Is Worth Its Weight in Cold.”
“Had F.ezema for three years; tried
lioetors and every advertised
effect, till I tried Tetterine. Half a box
terine removed all signs of tht disease.”
H. Adams, Columbia, 8. C. 50c. a ‘ box
mail from J. T. Shup trine, Savannah,
your druggist don’t Keep if. ’
All rivers of Africa have a marked
They seek the ‘ ocean
(rom their source.
Fron I)-ll«erv of e*eil FWG and FI ,J
F-eedB: fresiv. tMiar in 1 a’ll eapeeially mil
«' Onlerf 1 b ittofn price*. C^lalu,u»;l Aid
#1 --orover delivered free In CD , A./J
Fla ir, pa vs farther- to secure the best.
Paul 'CldhTid-* Co, BsrtleKii., I
The industrious burglar is genen
doing something, even if it’s only time.
*1^ n «■ a o tllAVlki B-JWNlC * r ' fey AW
A Chicago Society lady, in
Letter to Mrs. Pinkhain saj
“ Dear Mrs. Pixeuam : —Of all i
{f ra teHxl daru^hters to whoig you ■
fj^thSTl 111 Uud U ’ none are
* life „'hap
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MISS BONXIE DELANO.
i until illness camo upon me
a P ^ ‘ Son; ^dually
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^ anty menstrna could net
general health failed; I languid
joy my meals ; I became frequex .
nervous, with griping pains
^the groins
ic ian whK^iWwithout any 1 ] '
provement. fine day he said.—
Lydia JPibLliaBJ’ Beroedie*- month l
did, thank God*, i‘t the next built
better ' »'-d gradually fS.
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