The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-07
PASSING
EVENTS

Prince Henry Of Prussia has already
left Germany and will doubtless
steam into New York within a few
days more, which will be the signal for
a grand outburst of international en-
thusiasm. Preparations, as has been
said on previous occasions in these
columns, are being made for the re-
ception of the German prince on the
most extensive scale, and in every
city in the United States, where he
will stop for any length of time, a i
royal reception and welcome will be
rendered him. 1t is thought he will
be given the grandest reception of
any of Europe's royalty that has ever
visited the United States. 1t will be
remembered that President Roosevelt
himself boasts German blood, of
which he is very proud, and it is quite
natural, under the circumstances, for
a most elaborate spread to be made
by the President in honor of one of the
leading German officials
And now comes w. S. Bruce, Scot
fish scientist, who has determined to
find the south pole and to explore the
Antarctic circle in general His ex-
pedition, so it is reported, will leave
England next August and expects to
be gone some two years or more put
ting the entire time in exploring and
seeking for an undiscovered contin-
ent, which is supposed to lie around
the south pole. Remarkable as it may
seem it is as difficult for man to reach
the south pole as it is the north, on
account of the great ice fields sur
rounding it. According to those who
have already visited the southern ice
fields the icebergs are even larger than
those found in the north. There are
already two expeditions now in oper-
alton in the Antarctic circle and the
Bruce expedition will make the third,
and all of them will work in perfect
harmony with each other. Scientists
now believe that there is a continent
around the south pole equally as large
as the United States and to find this
continent as we'll as locate the exact
south pole are prompting the efforts
of these southern expeditions. The
Bruce expedition is being well sup
nil
stay by English and Scottish scien-
lists, and much scientific information
is expected to result from their labors
in that part of the world.
A most sensational Jail break and
recepture of prisoners were reported
by the Associated Press last Satur-
day from Butler, Pa. Two desperate
burglars as we'll as murderers, John
and Ed Biddle, awaiting execution for
murder, escaped from the county Jail
by the assistance of the sheriffs wife,
who had become infatuated with Ed
Biddle and the three fed in the dark
ness of the night for parts unknown.
They, however, were finally captured
by a herd Of detectives and no sooner
had the armed guards of the law
caught sight of the fugitives than they
opened fire on them and riddled the
party with bullets. Both of the Bid
dies have since died and the sheriff's
wife is in a precarious condition and
may also die from the wounds she
received at the hands of the detec-
tives. The remarkable thing of this
escape, however, lies in the fact that
the detectives, after the men had
fallen, shot to death by them, deliber-
ately walked within few feet of them
and emptied the chambers of their
shotguns into their bodies and there
by completed their work of brutality
The average detective is not far re-
moved from the common criminal and
in most cases they have spent large
part Of their lives as criminals and
only quit the business because they
can make it pay better, owing to their
experience in the criminal world, to
assist the law in capturing criminals
and when they commit such acts of
brutality as is reported in the Biddle
case it but proves that they them
selves are still criminals at heart and
will do anything that any other Grim
inal will do. There seems to have
been no more excuse for the detec-
tives shooting the Biddles after they
had been shot to the ground and lay
weltering in their life blood than
there would have been for the shoot
ing of new born babies, and yet the
detectives with deliberation and NAL
ice aforethought did do so. Such is
their life and what more could be
expected of brutes than brutality.
Within the present winter season
four states Of this union have held
regular senatorial elections and two
states have held special senatorial
elections. These elections have re-
suited in the loss of two United States
Senators by the Republican party and
the return to power of a leading
Southern Democrat, who, it was
thought, some years ago had been re-
tired to private life for all time to
come, and who is none other but Ar
thur P. German, of Maryland. The
Legislature of Kentucky elected James
B. McCreary, Democrat, United States