2 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, P A, FEBRUARY 6, 1802, BIDDLE BROTHERS DEAD After Desperate Battle Murderers Are Recaptured Near Butler. MRS, SOFFEL SHOOTS HERSELF | The Brothers Fought Desperately, and Were Only Taken After One Was Mortally Wounded and the Other Riddled With Shot. Butler, Pa., Feb, 1 John Biddle, who escaped Allegheny county jail last alded and accompanied by Mrs, H. Soffel, of the recaptured last Friday officers. They were this place and the authorities at Pitts Edward from Thursday, Peter wife warden, was by a posse of traced to near bug were notified. The Pittsburg officers were met Butler by Deputy Sheriffs Rainey and ED Noon and Aaron certain trail when th caping « guilty cor The B ner at J. . nut, five had made a Butler, and afte ov MRS SOFFEL. and only af east turned Pittsburg offi the rear. about eight miles, but out they mad lost telephoning and graphing ahead for fresh horses They reached Mount Che half an hour after the Mrs. Soffel. At this point were awaiting them, and the chase life began anew The two slel cers aboard met the Bide wk the their mistake up time by tele Biddles and fresh horses for ghs, with the eight offi started westward, and and Mrs. Soffel at McClure's barn, two miles from Mount Prospect. The Biddles having learned that they were almost overtake and, taking what they the only chance they had, and met their doom and other officers were Win chester and revolvers of large calibre. 1 shot to kill, and their aini was perfect. The Biddles tried to kill to the last of their string, but not of the eight officers has a wound as the result of the battle When the detectives got to within about 60 yards of the fugitives they opened fire The Biddles promptly answered with shot gun and revolvers, When Ed Biddle fell and Mrs, Soffel saw she was about to be captured she fired a bullet into her breast E4 Biddle got a bullet in the breast les n, considered drove eastward The Pittsburg armed with ay one which penetrated his right lung. John | recover, his wounds, al-' Biddle may though numerous, falling to reach a vital spot. The escape of the officers is miraculous, The Blddles have demonstrated on several occasions that they are good marksmen, and why they should have failed yester day to bring down thelr men is a mystery. After the Biddles fell to the snow. covered ground the ofcers picked up the apparently lifeless bodies of Mrs, Soffel and the Biddles and came back to Butler, bringing the stolen sleigh, patched up harness and worn out horse that the trio had tried so strenuously to get away with toward Canada and liberty. John Biddle died at 7.35 on Satur day evening. His brother, Ed, who had been unconscious practically all day, survived until 11 o'clock, when he, too, went over the great divide, Mra. Sof. fel, who developed symptoms of pneu- monia, bas a chanee for life, and un- less some unforeseen complication sets of a young American girl, and will not ceremonies in, will recover. | taken to Pittsburg and turned over to | ! Harry Biddle, To prevent the demolition of the | eoffins and the mutilation of the bod- fes of Bdward and John Biddle, which in all would follow thelr burial ally, Harry cret plan to dispose of his brothers’ remains without letting the know where or when the interment will take place, A great deal of sympathy for the boys probability if the and | the | | men, i Jail doors were | | | | | at found ! geene is expressed on all sides, and not a few of the female portion of the crowd expressed a desire to see what manner | of a man Ed Biddle was that he should exert such a wonderful influence over | The | and no one got | the | which | and particularly women, closed, in but the doctors, who attended autopsy and the coroner's jury, organized Sunday morning. The verdict of the jury Biddle came to his death by shot fired from a 32-calibre by himself, and that John Bid his death from a gunshot flicted by the officers in of their lawful duty. A lost love letter from Ed Bid his Mrs Kate near the ure, in revolver lle met wound sweetheart, in the of their Saffel, bloody reveals the snow capt | long and careful plot for their escape i letter « | to | making | disc from the Allegheny learly shows the of the gecure the esd Decem (ber county jail hazardous un- infatuated ape of the | 2, 1901, they ons to The dertakings 3iddle Since had been preparat overed CRORE | BRIGGS NAMED FOR TREASURER ] New Jersey Contest Won By Present | Official By One Vote, The Reg join Mr | treasurer | tion pays $6,004 stnut not less than | { OD | full term of ree Years RK YOAr Old Man Perished On Mountain, Wil Pa. Feb 5.-~John Sage known and respected resi keabarre an, a well tent of Red Yen MmMIsSsIDE Ire uary 14, and it is feared the mtain Sagelman was the survivor of a social organization of eight men, the members of which climbed to the of th on the anniversary of t year, which was on Jan and fired three shots from a believed the old man lost and has perished from the this county, has since Jan that he died Rock home mou composed top o club each uary 14 gun. It his way cold in Will Rule In Favor of Schiey, Washington, Fe The president will decide In ti} case that Rear Admiral Schley was in command “under orders” of the American squad ron during the battle of Santiago. This can be sald on the authority of a sena tor with whom President Roosevelt has discussed the case. The phrase “under orders” is intended to let the navy department down easily, but it ia believed that even such a gentle turning down will force Secretary Long's resignation and result in the reorganization of that department, w Schley Poison Suspect Arrested. Trenton, N. J., Feb. b.~Dominick Zorora, an Italian laborer, died at the Mercer Hospital yesterday afternoon, and the physicians belleve that his death was caused by arsenical pol soning. The man before he died, through an interpreter, sald that his wife had given him something which made him sick. The wife was arrest. od last night pending an Investigation. She denies that she gave her hus band any poison. A post-mortem ex amination will be held. | Miss Roosevelt Mr. Reid's Guest. Washington, Feb, 5.-Mr. Whitelaw Reld has Invited Miss Alice Roose velt, eldest daughter of the president, to accompany him to London as his guest when he goes to attend the coro nation of King Edward, It is the pres ent expectation of Miss Roosevelt to avall herself of this opportunity to ' see London, but If she does so she will. have no status save that simply | figure in the coronation in The bodies of the brothers were any manner, spot were known gener: | poston, Biddle has arranged a se. | { and that public | { and Mystic was that BEd | revolver | in- | the discharge | | dle to | woman | THIRTEEN SEAMEN LOST Three Coal Barges and Crews Go Down During Storm, New York, Feb, b.-There is every treason to belleve that three barges, coal laden, from Newport News for have bean losi at sea as a result of the storm of Sunday night, 13 people, comprising the have perished, The barges the Antelope, Belle of Oregon Belle. They were in tow of the tug Richmond, and the finding of a plece of wreckage bearing the letters “0. P. B.” lends confirmation to other information at hand, The Antelope was towed York by the tug Claverton, there transferred to the Richmond, which was to have towed her to New port During the height of the the Richmond's heavy IAWSer snapped and the adrift off Fire Island The tug Richmond Chesapeake and Ohlo Agent fllett, of that « pany, says that Sunday afternoon the Richmond, in command of Captain McConnell, left Libe Island, in New York B with three barges in coal lad ch ha three men des these Captain ed Onk « Captain Har gon and C Belle, Crews, were to New blow towing barges went belongs to the Rallroad com- pany ol on rey Ay tow on barge 1 on bor He r and his mn the b INR on tain Roge mal of 13 the who a Ants M i wile ns arge ope; (1 I's oh persons McConnell, of he iid not give THE MINERS’ CONFERENCE ated Unan New 8S Operators V mously Against the cale, HARRIS MEEK SUIT POSTPONED Witnesses Failed to Appear and Court d Attachments jor A Marshall, John McTighe ant © Walter Lye Nesbitt, John Smith and ot} Pittsburg way. Ward R Bliss, ( ence Wolf. Philadelphia; Lieutenant Gobin, Lebanon, and n Harris Philadelphia newspa per corres; nit Trial o was postpon EF i the H 18T8 Goverr Reve re the case witnesses appear Strike. Feb. & Two hundred North Read ng Foundry terday afternoon was down, as re not enough men left In the shop to keep it going. Several ago t} anagement announced duction cents per day ia wages of employe of this partment to call on the terview Foundrymen Pa nployes of the the Read kK vos closed weeks oe 1 ry e A con manager not mittoe Was app went, bul WAS satisfactory Fatal Coasting Accident. Peoria. lil. Feb. 5.—8ix boys coast ing down a hill last night erashed into | and four of them were | an electric injured, two CAT, of them fatally The police were guarding the crossing, but | coasters | owing to the darkness the were not seen in time to prevent the | accident. The injured are: Richard Day, skull crushed and hurt internal ly, will die; Wallace Markley, hurt internally, will die; Earl Langton, in jured internally; Roscoe Coyle, right leg broken Bill to Increase President's Salary. Washington, Feb «Delegate Wil cox, of Hawall, yesterday introduced a bill Increasing annual salaries as follows: President of the United States, $100,000; vice president, $25, 000; cabinet officers, $15000 each; members of congress, $10,000, Another bill by Mr. Wilcox fixed the salary of the governor of Hawall at $8,000, with a schedule of salaries for various othe er Hawaiian officers, Found Dead in the Street, Trenton, N. J. Feb. 4 "The hody of John Ertle ware discovered yester day In a suburban stroot, with his body frozen and at the same time badly burned. Rirtle's clothes were and was | And a clear ¢ may be there is no ant mar the skin, boils and the sm of blood they render often ny the one the the causes of ing is M ex compiexi blood m dis Disc \ {ical onginated cont is a purely RTE Do not is no experiment in the use of sta 1s ord of « Ae 18 behind it "Ins overy.” nds on red re no evid cine, beds there THYWET wine hott one year and [ee A Spotless Si complexion are desired by every woman and admired by every hidde plied externally ec SETA ski mn thing whi Mm Is wrfectly blood the pois and with the » man, Many a physic al defect n by the aid and art of fashion. But can hide the blemishes which mark The usual cause of eruptions, | ilar blemishes, 18 an For this reason lotions or in never cure the def ie the dis more sensitive ana les impure cone CARE ch will cleanse the pure blood, und ust In cl A | This blood ished by It entirely wnous element HE ROCCO ' ; ery. perpetu LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS BY we ol, th day SURCH OF OF RINT Fa the FlEsT OC} f Boward { CHURCH OF CHRinT ’ Ame a rh ALG eT ATEMENT A™ AL 87 The Farmers’ of Motus Fire Ins In oor charter t of the Lia presente b ARSETS Bills receivable, being premium notes due and payable by me mbers for psurance the past year Cash preminms PBotrowed money Cash In ry EXPENSES Compensation fo direc tote Salary of secretary salary of treasurer Printing. ofhee rent post fav and «tathomery Justices serviees Express on blanks Election bomird state Insurance Report Making nine dupl cates J. M. Kepler on bart J. MM. Wieland on shop H. CC. Campbell on barn R.G.MeCiellen on barn J. 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