Published Every Thursday. Volume 6. ) Worth the ) S YOUR SAVINGS ARE WEL?. \ WHEN YOU BUY RELfABLr/ JEWELERY.X r It wears and gives pleasure for years and is£ \ always worth the price paid for it. Our manyX 112 years of business at the same stand with the same 112 \ principles of keeping nothing but reliable jewelery/ Q is a testimonial of what our goods stand for. } 112 We intend that this store shall be first in yourC } thoughts when that buying reliable jewelery ques- J \ tion come up. Our prices have reached thesbottom C \ scale, they can nowhere be made lower'for the ✓ S same grade of goods. \ • Always Ready for Repairwork. J ) Nothing but the best in repair work leaves our J \ hands. To get values come here after them, Very respectfully, r } RETTENBURY, i J DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELER. C, , Coles y DUSHORE, PA. Preparation for Winter should include a call here. jfuntaces. Nothing like them for house warming. Is your spare room a winter terror ? Putin our new improved furnace and live in comfort. Kblumbino* i Have it done now. Thi6 is the time for exammmg •the plumbing. We'll make the best time and do the beet work for you. ■ Marfcwarc. Special low prices prevail here. No danger of infer iority. Our hardware line is as good as can be made. Steam Fittings, Stoves and Ranges, Farm Tools, Etc. (Seneval 3ob Tided;, Bicycle "(Repairing. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLI AM SPORT, PA. MID-WINTER CLEARANCE SALE. This means a saving on a good many articles that you have either a present or future need for. SILKS. TAILOR-MADE SUITS. One lot of Fancy Silk for Waiste, in A tow Lidies' Tailor Made SnitH in stripes and corded eflect, ali good colors, good colors with full flounced skirt* ind for 50c, the regular price has been 75c to neat duckets nt one third and one half oil 87c. the regular price. One lot Fancy Waist Silk. large part FLANNEL T^AISTS. of them this season's styles, worth 90c to An ., SKOr | t . H ]ot of Ladies' French $1.25, sale price 1 5c. these are only a Flannel Waists all new this season, in few of the s.lks reduced. o]l , reMe da, cardinal, etc. DRESS GOODS. Your choice at one hall the market price. Suisse ai. M '" d „ HOUSEHOLD LINEN . 2 pieces 45-inch all wool Grey Serge ' lx l ' s ' I leai hid I able Linen, and 2 pieces 50-inch Suiting, have ben .jual'ty, for 20. _ 75c now 50c One lot lull bleached All-Linen, good 'one lot of plain and mixed French "Xtc quality, for .l.issale 40c. Dress Goods in brown, navv, greens, blue 1 "bUac'ie. l 1 able Linen,which , „ . ... " . , . . we have considered a bargain at 50c, greys and fancies. 42 to 48 inches wide. how These have been 75c to $1.25 all go now extra heavy, very At ' TTTT'Da " eHI l li,,,l Tns, our fiOc qualitv for 50c. r UKb. 70 inch Half Bleached Damask, was A leading furrier has consigned to us 75c now 07c. to be closed out, a large line of medium _______ A _ and fine Marten and Fox Nock Scarfs UNDER\A/EAR. and Boas, which we can offer you at Men - 8 F|lll F | eeced shirts and Draw manufacturer s prices We mention one erß _, fl on |v_the shirts are item-a Marten Scarf with a cluster of ,| oll |,| e breasted, drawers re enforced,were 8 tails tor $8.50, worth at least one-halt 8ol(1 as ~ | eai|(l| . for fj(k „ ow 39c to cloße more than that. tox Scarfs 44, 60 and ouL Urgo men como and see them. 80 inches long, rur Jackets to close out . , , at 112.50, worth S2O. „ A , lot o( s. Ladies and Childrens Underwear u» broken sizefl, will l»e closed COATS. out at a great reduction, Ladies' and Children's Cloth Coats. < >ur entire stock of Men's, Ladies'and Jackets, eto., will be closed out at a Children's All-Wool Underwear 10 per great sacrifice. Cent 0,1 thu regular price. The Shopbell Dry Good Co. Republican News Item. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LAPORTE. PENNA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1902. F' JRST NATIONAL BANK OK DUSHORE, PENNA. CAPITAL - - $50,000. SURPLUS - - #IO.OOO. Does'a'Oeneral Banking Business. B.W. JENNINGS, M. D. BWARTS. President. costlier J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATfORMKYH-AT-LAW, Legal Kusincps attended to in ctiin and adjoining countie* _A PORTE, p A. £ J. MULLEN, Atto r n e y-at- La w. LAPORTK, PA. orrica in poijrtv hijildik« If RAR COURT HOURK. £ J. BRADLEY, ATTORNET-AT-LAW, Office Building, Cor.Main and Muncy .Sts, LAPORTE, PA ] H. CRONIN, NOTARY PUBLIC. OTPICS ON MAIN STItBKT. DUSHORE, PA COMMERCIAL HOUSE."" AVID TEMPLE, Prop. LAPORI'E . A This larg.t and we l l nppointcd house is the must popular hosl*iry in this section LAPORTE HOTEL. P. W, GALLAGHER, Prop. Newly erected. Opposite Court Mouse square. Steam beat, bath rooms, hot and cold water, reading and pool room,and barber shop; also good stabling and livery, T J. KEELER. I ■ Justiee-of-the Peace. Otticein room over store, LAPORTE, PA. Special attention given to collections, All matters left to the care ot this office will be promptly attended to. HOTEL GUY. MILDRED, PA. R. n. GUV, - Proprietor. Newly "furnished throughout, special attention given to the wants of the travel ing public. Bar stocked with first class wines, liquors and cegars. The best beer on the market always on tap. Rutes Reasonable. LIME At the OLD OPP KILNS 112 Located near Hughesville.'jj ""This is the purest lime on the ridge. We will compete with any dealer on car load lots delivered on the W. &N. B. R. R. with our own cars, giving purchaser ample time to unload. All correspondency will receive prompt attention. Address, A. T. ARMSTRONG, SONESTOWN, P/. R>j? ? ?"? • # 112 IT'S WORTH WHILE to step in and absorb a little General Knowledge that is to be found in a really down to date General Store. Price Reduction on Closing out Goods now on lExmßiWoNl ?????? ? ? ? STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. All answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. HilLigrove* Pa. IBIW lIIiOWJK 11811 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. —Edward anil John Biddle, who escaped from the Allegheny county jail last Thursday, aided and accompanied by Mrs. Peter H. Softel, wife of the warden, was recaptured last Friday by a posse of officers. They were traced to near this place and the authorities at Pitts bug were notified. The Pittsburg officers were met at Butler by Deputy Sheriffs Rainey and Noon and Officers Frank Holliday and Aaron Thompson. The officers were certain that they were on the right trail. It was only a question of time when they would catch up to the es caping condemned murderers and their guilty companion. The Biddies and Mrs. SoffeLate din ner at J. J. Stephens at Mount Chest nut, Ave miles east of Butler. They had made a detour of the town of Butler, and after going several miles cast turned north and then west. The Pittsburg officers, only a few miles in the rear, took the wrong road for about eight miles, but when they found out their mistake they made up for lost time by telephoning and tele graphing ahead for fresh horses They reached Mount Chostnut not less than half an hour after the Biddies and Mrs. Soffel. At this point fresh horses were awaiting them, and the chase for life began anew. The two sleighs, with the eight offi cers aboard, started westward, and met the Biddies and ' Mrs. Soffel at McClure's barn, two miles from Mount Prospect. The Biddies having learned that they were almost overtaken, and, taking what they considered the only chance they had, drove eastward and met their doom. The Pittsburg and other officers were armed with Win chester rifles and revolvers of large calibre. They shot to kill, and their aim was perfect. The Biddies tried '„o kill to the last of their string, but not one 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 opeued Are. The Biddies promptly answered with shot gun and revolvers. When Ed Biddle fell and Mrs. Soffel saw she was about to be captured she flred a bullet Into her breast. Ed Biddle got a bullet In the breast which penetrated his right lung. John Biddle may recover, his wounds, al though numerous, failing to reach a vital spot. The escape of the officers is miraculous. The Biddies have demonstrated on several occasions that they are good marksmen, and why they should have failed yester day to bring down their men is a mystery. After the Biddies fell to the enow coverod ground the officers picked up the apparently lifeless bodies of Mrs. Soffel and the Biddies 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 groat divide. Mrs. Sof fel, who developed symptoms of pneu monia, has a chance for life, and un less some unforeseen complication sets In, will recover. A great deal of sympathy for the boys 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 vaat he should exert such a wonderful influence over men, and particularly women. The Jail doors were closed, and no one got in but the doctors, who attended the autopsy and the coroner's jury, which organized Sunday morning. The verdict of the jury was that Bd Biddle came to his death by a revolver shot flred from a 32-callbre revolver by himself, and that John Biddle met Ills death from a gunshot wcund in flicted by the officers in the discharge of their lawful duty. A lost love letter from Ed Biddle to his sweetheart, Mrs. Kate Soffel, found in the snow near the bloody scene of their capture, reveals the long and careful plot for their escape from the Allegheny county jail. The letter clearly shows the hazardous un dertakings of the infatuated woman to secure the escape of the Biddies. Slnco December 2, 1901, they ha 1 been making preparations to escape. The discovered epistle tells how Mrs. Sof fel carried the saws to the cells of the Biddies. it manifests the extreme enamoratlon of Mrs. Soffel for the murderer and burglar. It clearly shows the wonderful influence Ed Biddle had over Mrs. Soffel. Mre. Soffel fell ia love with Ed Bid die in November. The burglar soon realized hie ,>ower over her. It was not long until he started to write love letters to her. Mtb. Soffel fell madly In love with Ed Biddle, and about the early part of December he proposed a plan of escape to her. She concentcd •to lend htm her aid. Between De cember 14 and 16 they had completed kll arrangements to escape from the {fall. Then they learned of the gov ernor's respite. After this Ed Biddle almost persuaded Mrs. Soffel to fly with him and his brother. The con tents of the letter show It was origi nally agreed that Mrs. Soffel was to leave the city for Canada on the eve of the boys' escape. WATBRBURY SWEPT BY Flßti Flames Destroy Business Section of City, Cauftlng 92,000,000 Loss. Waterbury, Conn., Feb. 3. —The most disastrous fire In the history of Watefbury broke out in the heart of the city last evening and caused a loss of 92,000,000. A. large section of the business part of the city was wiped out. The Are originated in the upholstery department on the third floor of the store of the Reid & Hughes Dry Goods Company, at 108- 11*12 Bank street. The flames were not discovered until they had gained tremendous headway. When the Are department reached the scene flames were issuing from every window of the building, and it was evident that the structure was doomed. The first building to catch from the Reld ft Hughes Company store was a tall structure to the rear and westward, occupied by the Salva tion Army barracks and a Turkish bath. A moment or two later the fiames leaped hack to the eastward across Bank street and wiped out the Ryan * Fltzmaurice black, Cannon & Webster's drug store, Davis' cigar store and the store of J. B. Mulllngs ft Sons. They burned rapidly through to South Main street, jumped across that street, shriveling up the buildings like paper. At the same time the flames caught the Masonic Temple and traveled from the Salvation Army building to the rear of the Franklin House, on Grand street and the entire block, consisting of seven or eight handsome flve-Btory buildings, with 30 tenements and the large and commo dious headquarters of the Waterbury American were destroyed, 9*' The militia was called out to pre serve order. There was serious talk of blowing up buildings to prevent the spread of the flames, but the Idea was abandoned. The local flre-flghters were assist ed by men and apparatus from Hart ford, Torrlngton, Bridgeport, New Haven and Naugatuck. $900,000 FIRE AT NORFOLK Atlantic Hotel and Several Other Large Buildings Destroyed. Norfolk. Va., Feb. 1. —A heap of smoking ruins Is all that remains of the Atlantic hotel, the massive Colum bia office building, which adjoins the hotel; the Albemarle Flats and a block of stores in the centre of the city. The conflagration, one of the great est In the history of Norfolk, broke out shortly before daylight yesterday morning, and when Anally subdued over $900,000 worth •of property had been destroyed. The flames started In the Columbia, six stories high, which is the largest but one of Nor folk's ofllee buildings. Shortly after the flro was discov ered over 1,000 gallons of whiskey stored in the building exploded with terrific force, tearing out the front wall. The firemen were driven back by the explosion, and before they could get a stream of water on tho flames the entire building was afire. Hardly 15 minutes later the north wall, which was over 75 feet high, fell In, completely annihilating the home of the Virginia Club, which ad joins the building on the north The flames soon spread to the flve story Albemarle apartment house, op posite the Virginia Club, which was quickly destroyed, and then to the en tire block facing the Atlantic and riin-.'ng from Plume to Main Btreets. Within an honr this block was en tirely destroyed. Pennsylvania Will Get $600,000. Washington. Feb. 3. —The committee on appropriations concluded the con gld-ration of the urgent deficiency ap propriation bill. Provision for Prince Henry's visit and the coronation mis sion was made, but the amounts are not Anally settled on. The committee also has decided to recommend the payment of the interest claims of such states as advanced money to the United States during the civil war and are able to show action by the court of claims. Pennsylvania, by this decision, j will be benefited to the extenf of $600,000. Submarine Boat Launched. Elizabeth City, N. J., Feb. B.—The submarine torpedo boat Plunger was launched at Elizabethport on Satur day. The vessel was named by Mrs. Myron T. Herrick, of Cleveland. The new boat glided off the way 6 easily and was towed out Into the stream by the twebeat -ttrU i.25 fr - Year TRIED TOjMH NBO Chester Murderer Had a Narrow Escape From Mob. EXTRA GUARDB AT CITY JAIL Mob Tore Down Gate to Jail Yard, When They Were Met By Officers With Drawn Revolvers—Mayor Ad dressed Crowd. Chester, Pa., Feb. 3.—Albert West, the negro, who shot and killed Police man Mark Allen on the street here at midnight Saturday, was captured yes terday afternoon In a stable at Darby, and he narrowly escaped lynching by an angry crowd when brought to the jail here. Policeman Allen, while patrolling his beat shortly before midnight, saw We3t. and a colored woman quarreling. The woman screamed murder and ran from West, and the policeman placed the lat ter under arrest. The negro quickly pulled a revolver and shot Allen in the leg, breaking the bone, and as ha foil to the sidewalk West stood over him and fired two more shots into his body, death resulting shortly after. West es caped, and an all night hunt by the en tire police force failed to locate him. A trolley car conductor informed the police that a negro answering West'a description had ridden on his car to Darby yesterday morr.ing, and two po licemen upon going to this place found West hiding In the manger of a stable. When covered by their revolvers, the negro begged the policemen not to kill him. The news of the capture of the murderer preceded the arrival of the officers with their prisoner, and when they reached the city hall in a car a crowd of 2,000 persons was In 'waiting. Cries of "Lynch him," "Kill him," made the wretch crouch in the bottom of the car, and when he was brought out on the platform there wa« a rush and a number of persons struck him with umbrellas and canes, while an ef fort was vsade to get him away from the policemen. The negro was hustled Into the city hall, and the crowd, seeing that It was Impossible to reach him in the narrow corridor, ran around to the court yard in the rear of the build ing. The big rate vras barred, but a hundred shoulders wer& placed against it and it was torn down, and the mob rustied~in with yells of "Lynch him." The city jail stands in this court yard, and, fearing that a rush would be made in that direction, Chief Leary placed a platoon of police in the driveway, and the officers with drawn revolvers quailed the crowd with a grim deter mination to prevent a lynching. The crowd sullenly retired, but si plot was soon made for a second onslaught, and it was necessary to place some of the leaders in custody temporarily to quiet the crowd. Mayor Jeffeila placed a chair on the sidewalk, and. ad dressing the crowd, assured the angry men that justice would be done, and urged his hearers not to place anything in the way of an orderly procedure of law. The crowd still lingered, and an nightfall found the street still packed with people, extra guards were placed at the city hall. Poliaeman Allen was one of the most popular men on the force. He was 33 years of age and unmarried. AWFUL MINE ACCIDENT Dust Explosion Kills 10f Miners at Hondo, Mexico. San Antonio, Tex., Feb. S —One hun dred and six miners killed, and SO bur ied under debris is the fearful record made by a dust explosion at the Hondo mines in Mexoco. At the time of the explosion there were ItSO miners at work in themine, all of whom were en tombed by the shaft being choked up by falling earth and stone, loosened by the explosion. Eighty-five dead bodies have been recovered. Every mule in the mine was L.iil";l, three dead ones being taken troui t a debris yesterday. The work of Soar ing away the wreck in order to fc*t ■ the bodies is being rushed as rarUly as possible, but there 1s no ho;>c li.ut any of the 106 men will be i-esciic 1 alive. 1. The explosion occurre.-l in mino Mo. 6, and was occasioned by striking a gas pocket. Refused Vaccination and Was ?!:ct. Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 3. —A speci;>l from Marion, N. C., gives the derails of the shooting of -a man who to be vaccinated, by Deputy Shori 112 Watkins. The man had hoen ar raigned before a magistrate and after the trial got Into an altercation wit i the deputy, who shot him in the head. He Iras alive at last accounts, but will probably die. Petitioned the Pope. Nlles, Mich., Feb. 3. —Catholic cler gymen in Michigan and Indiana h:- .u petitioned the Pope to confer the title of "monsignor" on Rev. Father M. Rasklewicz, of Otis, Ind., tfie oldest priest in Indiana. At present there U no divine with that title in this sec tion of the country. Numbcr3B
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