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IN THICK OF FIGHT WAS MRS. SOFFEL Fleeing riurderers Shot Down By Officers. FUSIUDB WAS MOT AND HEAVY Thrilliiijf and Bloody Termination Of Novel Tragedy at Pittsburg. All 1 hree Fugitives Wounded. A Pittsburg, Pa., special .says: Ed ward Biddle, in jail dying; John Bid die riddled with buckshot and in a precarious condition, and Mrs. Peter i\. SoiYcl, lying in tue hospital with a self-inflicted bullet wound ia the breast, is the sequel of the sensation¬ al escape of the Diddles from the Alle ghuiy juil, aided hy Mrs. Boffel, the. unt of tne jail warden, or. Thursday morning. The* story of the Close of the Biddle tragedy, which came at 5:45 o’clock Friday afternoon, is a thrilling one. The scene was a snow covere d road two miles east of Prospect, Butler county, near Mount Chestnut, and tlie i xact place was at McClure’s barn, where two double team sleighs filled with eight officers, overtook the Bid¬ dles in a one-horse, sleigh, stolen at BerryviHe, ami aL once opened fire* on the trio. The Biddles returned the fire after- jumping cut of the slelgli. Mrs. So if el's wound wa t, thro ugh the breast. Edward Biddle was shot in the V arm. in the breast and in cm k.... John Biddle was riddled with buckshot in the breast and head. It w us only a question of time when the officers who set out on the chase would calc h up with the condemned murderers and their com panion. The Biddles and Mrs. Soffel ate dinner at J. J. Sevens, at Maunt Chestnut, five miles east 'of Butler. T/k Pittsburg officers reached Mount Chestnut not leas than half an hour after the Biddles and Mrs. f*T At this point fresh horses were secured and the chaw for life began, 'j !ie two sleighs, with the eight ofll oers aboard, static.! westward and mot the Biddies and Mrs. Soffel at Chiii ':- barn, two miles from Mount Prospect. The Biddles, having learn od that they wore almost overtaken anti tubing what they considered the only aflame they hud, drove eastward and met their doom. The Pittsburg and other officers v«<■■■■ armed with winchester rifles and revolvers of large calibre.. They shot 'o kill and tluir aim was perfect. The H| toll ‘■'led to J.i 11 to tfie last of their string, but net die of the i)ig r* ofll ccrs hns a wound as the’result o the battle, * >’■’ Woman Fired . at Officers. Whc n the dcteclivhs gut within six tv ya rds of the fugitive;., they opened firc*. The Ridd!c s promptly answered ( w.i.h rfulgiiho and revolvers. Mrs Bo ft’i!, too. stood up in tho sioigh-with n n \ ok or in* each hand and blazed away at her pursuers, When Ed Bid die fell and she saw she was abtnit to be capir.rcd she fired a bullet into her breast, it is < Exit-hod. An esamina t:ou by phy iejaus ■shows Hurt she will recover, as the bullet was deflect.'ll ot mid Hi * wound is com ivcly slight; Th c- .aiu' of the officers is rjjtfae ■Tho fiddles h»v^ dih'.fi’i.Bra l Severn! occasions that u: are good marks H eh and why they should have 'fat -- d on this", occasion to bring down their nien is a 1UV;-, tcry. After the Biddles fell t‘o tho snoTf doverefl grouml the offie ' rs picked up the apparently ' 'Ilf oT* bodies of Mrs. Soffel ‘and the Biddles am! -returned to Butler with the stolen hrh. patched up harness .and worn out horses that tire trio had tried so strenuously to get away with toward Canada and liberty. Mrs. Soffel made a statement after her capture in which she said she be onmo involved in the affair through her sympathy for Ed Biddle. She salt! she now realized hi r mistake and wished she was dead. She said she did! not shoot herself, but Was the first one shot by the detectives. YOU!Its ARE DERELICT. Many Citizens of Alabama >uEject t„ Disfranchisement.’ Under the terms of the new consti¬ tution of Alabama ail persons who fa:’, to pay their poll taxes by February l will be denied the privilege ef voting in the state and national elections this year. If the newspaper Statement are true, not more than or.e-tehtfi or one ighth of the voters of the several counties have taken out their tax re coipts. The new constitution docs r.ot require a citizen to pay poll tax. It leaves payment of the tax voluntary BIDDLES ARE DEAD. Both Brothers Finally Succumb to Fearful Wound*— Mrs. Stoffel Still Lives. A news special from Butler, Pa., says : At the close of a day of Intense xc itement and many conflicting stories concerning the chances fdr life of the wounded Biddle brothers and Mrs. Kate Soffel, the unexpected happon ,:d. Joha Biddle, who until late Sat¬ urday afternoon was the more likely brother to escape present death, suc¬ 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 II 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 life,, and unless some unforeseen com¬ plication sets in, will recover. The death of Jack Biddle was caus¬ ed by the bullet wounds in his abdo¬ men and bladder. Early in the day the physicians thought peritonitis was tlie principal danger in his case, -but internal hemorrhage finally set in and the map 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’ death began to fall upon him and he recognized it, lie became repentant. "[ know,” he said,, “that-toy time is short, and you can say for me that I am a Christian and will die a sincere believer, in God, and hope I have strength enough to say so at tlie last. I know I have taken part in many wrong deeds, but l have never killed any man and was never implicated with any one who did.” TWO-MILLION*DOLLAR BLAZE, Watefbury, Connecticut, is Visited By Fearful t'oiiflagratiou. In the hardest gale of the winter Waterbury, Conn., struggled Sunday night with a fire that destroyed a large area of the business section of the city and threatened co wipe it out entirely. The blaze started in the up holstcry 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 adjoining buildings were reduced in a few hours to smoldering embers, An estimate of $2,000,000 as the amount of the properly loss on build togs and contents was considered conservative by insurance men. The origin of the lire is unknown and it was not discovered until it had gained tremendous headway. At t»:15 p. m. three employes of the Reed & Hughes company were in their store and when they noticed no order of smoke about house, Fifteen minutes later flames were seen to burst with great force from tho window of the third floor, and al simultaneously from the base ’-Rent. Before anybody could send in an alarm the whole interior of the building was a mass cf flames, which f fi rcad rapidly to adjoining buildings. Tlle fire started in a drizzling rain, vtHl lal ° burning to snow with a rap idly rising wind. Losses are given ns follows: ■ W. II. Camp block, in which !ocatc ^ Reid & Hughes’ stare, $7’3: 000; O’Connor block, $25,000: -Green¬ berg & Buckner, $30,000; old Ameri- 1; 1% " u * 1 ' :l rs r - cwn r / Sou. ■ . .N.uliL.w.s Son, clothiers. <*100, * 1 ‘i. Can.*p biOck, in piocess o\. demo Ekcn. $50,000; Now England Eng: in mug Company. $75,000; Franklin 0U: , >, totalIy dettroyod, * 40 000 *‘ ;• ’ ' I'likEvh bath, \\. , G. bchlegel, proprie tor, $20,000: Jean Jacques block, $40, Mrs. W. C. Hannon’s block, occu ri,,, by Aksoi. B o„«, WV 000; George E. Judd block, occupied by LaPalme-Hoffman Company, $35. 000; Ashworth block, occupied by B. C. Church Company, $30,000; Water¬ bary American, loss building. $50,, 000; Schlitz Brewing Company, $30 000; Conloiu Brothers, $50,000; Ed¬ ward McGraw, two blocks. $35,000; Meigs block. $40,000. Whittlesey block. $20,000; Boston Furniture Com¬ pany, $40,000; Bronson block, $35, 000 . diamonds in old shoe. Wife of Now Sec rotary of Treasury Has .stroke of Absent-Mindedness. Mrs. Shaw, the wife of former gov ernor Shaw, missed some of her dia- ‘ monds . ^ Des Moines, ,, . , Ia., _ Tuesday, at She suspected a chambermaid. The former governor immediately had the chambermaid searched, despite her protests, but no diamonds were found. In the meanwhile Mrs. Shaw recalled that she had hidden the diamonds in one of her old shoes. Former Governor Shaw then apolo¬ gized to the chambermaid and gave her $10. Georgia.’.Cullings Brief But Interesting Summary of Happoaings in the State. Governor Offers Reward. by A Goyer a nor 0 Ca5ilcr h for th^an'Vof Isaiah Lawson, who killed Jerry Dent In Burke county several days ago. „ „ , New Djnk Ccte Charter. The B..k or Log&nvltle. .’ located ia I.oganvJIl., r ... Walton county. Georg,a . State Cock r. Tho capitalisation X ,T of Lf the new bank h $25,000. * * Appropriction For Macon. Representative Bartlett has intro¬ duced in the house a bill appropriat¬ ing $300,000 for the purchase of land for enlargement and improvement of the United Sta.ea court and postofllce building at Macon. Judge Blandford Dead. Judge Mark fl. Blandford, a promi nent lawyer and for years a judge on tne supreme bench of Georgia, died at his home in Columbus. Ga„ January Si. The funeral occurred Saturday alternoon, attended by the Cc ffieder ute Veterans and members of the Co¬ lumbus bar in a body. The interment was at Linwoofl. The Columbus bar held a meeCvg amd tool-: appropriate action over the death of Judge Bland¬ ford, who was one of their oldest and most honored members. Competing For State Fair. Savannah and Valdosta will Strug gle against each other to secure the state fair this year. The question will be decided by the executive committee of the State Agricultural Society w'hen it meets in Atlanta on the 12th instant to transfer the presl dency of the society to Mr. Dudley M. Hughes. Savannah and Valdosta are the only bidders for the fair, so far as the correspondence 'shows. It is expected that there will be others later on. however. 4 4$ To Rebury Hero’s Remains. If the plans of those who have the matter in hand are successfully car¬ ried out, the reburial of the remains of General Nathaniel Greene, which now rest in the vault of the Southern bank, Savannah, will be quite an im¬ portant event and national in charac ter. Since the successful search for the remains more than a year ago, there has been considerable doubt as to what disposition should be.made of the relics of the revolutionary general and his son, the latter being found with those of his father. Stolen Bond i urned Down. Governor Candler and Treasurer Parle decided that the Georgia bond for $500 sent to t.he Lowry Banking Company at Atlanta from a party, from Indiana for collection was invalid, and hare declined to pay it. Thor- bond, according to Governor Candler and Treasurer Park, was stol en from the treasury of Georgia,. ia 1364 hy Some Indiana troops. The bond was one of the series issued in 1354, to retire' some seven per cent bonds held by the Central of Georgia bank. .a vital defect was that tho paper did not bear the impress of the gAeat sea! pf the state. * * Big Peach Crop Pror.*iced. State Entomologist W. M. Sccit pre diets that [here will be an unusually making an inspection cf all the large orchards cM 1 *'' S’doit reports that the gab Jose scale has spread badly with in tho past year, but since the owners cf orchards have learned to treat the ^ rees disease is no-longer ’ h f ormer ] y w n the case ' IrL the buds Acco dl ^ t0 Scott are „„m«rous ra the confident that if there is no more ex tremely cold weather the peach output ' In Georgia will be enormous. Brovin Not a Candidate. Hen. J. Pope Brown has spoken re¬ garding his candidacy for governor, and say4 he'will not make tlie race. The announcement of Mr. Brown, which was in a letter to C. R. Pendle¬ ton. editor of The Macon Telegraph, and which letter appeared in an issue of that paper, recalls his former an¬ nouncement that he would probably be in the race. For several months there have been reports that Mr. Brown would not run. But when th ese reports we^e circulated they were stro ngly denied by the ,r:ends of the Pulaski county farmer and rail roa(f comm ^ slOEG r. Privcte business affairs, says Mr. Brown, caused him to reach the con¬ clusion that ,R was best to leave the race alone. His letter of withdrawal is a very strong document, though it lacks the usual characteristic of de¬ clining in fayor of some other candi¬ date as most withdrawals do. The fact that Mr. Brown is no long- or a candidate for governor will be of great interest to handles of Geor¬ gians, who wdre his friends and who would have voted for him. and to hun¬ dred* of others who liked Mr. Drown, but oa account oT the candidacy of others could not have voted for him. * * * . .. _ Stockholder, of the defunct South Grn Mut, f 1 BuhdlQg * Bd Loan cla of Atlanta are ^ receive . another 10 per cent payment from funds now in the hands of the receivers. , ;“ mpkln has signed a„ order allowing this payment. It was shown su<lcienl Hinds In the hands of the rteiiv.rs or the .. association . .. to make , this .., payment . without impairing the rights of any persons claiming priority of payment. fihould these claims be allowed. Ac cording to tho order the receivers, Judge James A. Anderson, of Atlan ta. and M. A. O'Byrne, of Savannah. are directed . . to . pay to . each ,,,,,, stock hold < r. reported by the auditor, 10 per cent upon the amount outstanding to his or her eredit by Auditor Ham monct’s report, which tas been maae the decree of the court. These payments are to be made com:DGnc fng February 25, and in all ecta as directed in tho former de cree made about six months ago, un der which the stockholders were also paid 10 per cent, This second pay ment is to be withheld from all class of stockholders directed not to be paid in the first decree. In the case, of borrowing stockhold¬ ers the payment of the 10 per cent is to go to the credit of each upon his or her indebtedness to the company, and if this payment should extinguish the indebtedness and there should be a balance, the balance will, of course, be paid to the stockholder, * * * . 1 New Attorney General In. Hon. Boykin Wright, of Augusta, took the oath of office as attorney gen eral of the state of Georgia last fcTrtur day morning, and will fill that position until a new official is elected., The oath was administered by Gov¬ ernor. Candler. Mr. Wright proceeded immediately to the office of attorney general where he was greeted by Hon. J. M. Terrell, who turned over the affairs of office to him. Mr. Wright found things in splendid condition. There were no cases on hand, no questions on hand, and abso¬ lutely nothing to do. He says he will have to bustle in order to get business for the place. The new-attorney general was deep ly' gratified’ at*'«the condition in which he .found his new position, and .-cx pressed hisfapprec&tion to Mr. Terrell for bavin® affairs in such splendid shape.' ' The new attorney general will not make Atlanta his permanent home, as he does not propose to be a candidate for re-election. He will probably visit Augusta every Saturday night. There are now three* Wrights in the capitol—Attorney General Wright, Comptroller General Wright, and As sist&nt Commissioner cf Agriculture Wright. The new attorney general thd the assistant commissioner of nculture are brothers. he:.YEMT CiiiiTEP. - •• Pis Jibs, of ins, s, Cannot Accept Atlanta'., inviiaiion. Phlr.ce Henry cf Prussia, who will lOme.to the United States as the per eoaai representative of the emperor Germany, will not include Atlanta * a itinerary. Mayor Mims receiv ^ have- 1 ecc-i^od the kind invitation **£ mayor and council cf. Atlanta Princl Henry, cf Prussia', to visit during his stay in the United - tate s- I hfg to acknowledge grata r ' l ^7 kind thought, which will bo “’seply appreciated by his royal high ^ss, and regret to say that pAc, owing to r ^ °^ a ^ highnes© stay will a, unfortunately H.aty l:ct Atlanta. “HOLLEXBEN.” MNE DIE IN FLAMES. Fearful Holocaust Results In Horning of Italian Lodging House. Nine persons perished in ft fire T hick broke out early Wednesday morning in an Italian lodging house in Fleet street, Boston, Mass. Four other occupants of the house were injured in jumping from win¬ dows. The financial loss was only a few hundred dollars. YVITH TWO-FOLD OBJECT Board eT Trade of New Yerk Pulls Off Annual Banquet. The annual banquet cf the New York board of trade and transporta¬ tion was held Wednesday night. The function this year had a double object in view—first* to do honor to the memory of William McKinley, and, second, to encourage the closer union cf capital and labor. THE SINGERS OF TODAY. Iiow write the singers of today? Alas' and still alas! Three sonnets for the house-rent A love-song for tho gas! t No rest, 'for all the weary— No gentle, kind relief; An ode to pay the coal man, A ballad for the beef! —Atlanta Constitution. According to recent statistics be¬ tween 40,000 and 50,000 pass annually through the prisons of England and Wales. Of this number it is said that seventy-two par cent have been prev¬ iously convicted. “ l was > 50 gorr N to bmar you had Io6t little Mrs. Baggerson. T aan J0Ur one, sympathize with you deep y. ‘ Yds it was awful hard after we d ’ . > ee * » f the tronbie of gettin her througli tne measles and mumps and wl , n , coughA-Chicago Record p p , ^ An Ansrlo-Arntrlcan Alliance. It has been suggested that the only sue cessful plan to avoid any further wars will bo the*formation of an alliance people between be¬ America and Englatid, find many lieve that the day is not far distant when all international differences will be joyfully peacefully settled. This news will be na re¬ ceived bv 1 everybody as tho news that Hos tetter’s Stomach Bitters constipation, positively cures in¬ digestion,“dyspepsia, nervous ness and malaria. Don’t fail to give it atrial. The author ox “An Elegy in a Country Churchyard” esteemed it the acme of hap¬ piness to lie on a sofa and read novels. Tvner’s Dy,speps\i Remedy Cures Irregu¬ lar Heart Aetfon. At Druggists, 53 cents. The worst thing about life insurance is that we never live to enjoy it. /• “Is Worth Its Weight in Gold." “Had Eczema for three years; tried throe doctors and every advertised remedy .without effect jtUTJtried Tetterine. Half a box of Tet terine removed' all signs of the disease.”—C. H. Adams, Columbia, S. C. 50o. a box Ga., by mail from J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, if your druggist don't keep it._ All rivers of Africa hare a marked pecu¬ liarity. -They seek tlie ocean farthest •from their source. Free Delivery of Garden. Fl-*ld and Flower Seeds: fresh, vurir ui eed a d especially adapt od to climate, at bottom prices. Ctt.a'o-ue Cite. Orders $1 or over delivered free In G i., Ada. or Fia.. Ir. pars farmer- to secure the best. A?'»<cs wanted. 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