< ? * BOTH LEGS FROZEN STIFF Awful night of Aged Man Near Fremont. Wundera Outside in Night. An aged man named John Fedora , who lives at Ottumwa , la. , and his young son , Fred has portions of tbeii bodies frozen near Leavitt , several miles northwest of Fremont , Nebr They were'travelling to Wood Lake , Nebr. , where Mr. Fedora has a son and daughter. The two were to change cars from the Union Pacific to theElkhorn at Fremont , but for some reason were carried past to Ames They got off the train there and. as the hour was early , were forced to walk around with the temperature at thir teen degrees below zero , in order to keep warm. The father was found lying helple-s In a feedyard neai Leavitt , some time later , both his legs having been frozen stiff. The boy was close by , and his bad been bitten by the frost. Neither of the iair had been able to secure any shelter , as the depot was locked ap and people were not yet astir for the day when they arrived at Ames. They had walked along the road to ward Leavitt until they could go no further. Mr. Fedora and his son were taken to Fremont during the day and are being cared for there. The Cherry county relatives of the two have been Informed of the affair. PALL RESULTSN DEATH foe Harvester at Adhland , Nebr. Almost Instantly Killed. A man by the name of Kelly , work ing on the Armour ice house fell from the runway last night and was so bad ly injured that he died in a short time. Became from Omaha and it was hia first day at work. He slipped on the runway and fell twenty-four feet , striking a cake of ice and rebounded , several feet in the air. He was a single man , coming from Omaha , but his relatives , if he has anv , have not b en found , and he will * be buried in the Ashland cemetery. A coroner's inquest developed the fact that in attempting to turn a cake of ice into the proper room his feet slip ped and he fell off the platform under the guard rail. The fall was twenty- four feet and crushed his body very badly. The coroner's jury decided that no blame attached to the com- pany for the accident. IN FEAR OF MOB ti Alleged Wyoming : 31urderer a Cravr- lortl. N Chadron , Neb. Sheriff Tubbs o Natrona county , Wyoming , is in Craw ford with Chas. Woodard who is charged with the murder or Sheriff Eioker. The sheriff is on his way to Oasper. It is believpd the sheriff and his prisoner are being shadowed by friends of the murdered sheriff who' will attempt , should the opportunity presenb itself , to lynch Woodard on his arrival at Casper , or en route there tomorrow. The train leaves Casper at 0 o'clock tomorrow. Woodard fears a mob. Sheriff Tubbs stated that all neces sary precautions to prevent a lynching are being perfected. He is confident that the law will be permitted to take its course. He admitted that there was a slrong feeling against Woodard In Casper and Natrona county , aud he realized that when he arrived there with the prisoner an a'tempt might be made to lynch Woodard , but he thought cooler heads would persuade Kicker's friends to let the law take its course. The sheriff was asked if he feared an attempt would be made to take the prisoner off the train en route. He refused to say anything , only that all necessary steps should be taken to prevent this. "DICK" GOULD THREATENED Brother of Cashier Arrested nud Harried off to David City "DicK" Gould of Bellwood , Neb. , cashier of the Platte Valley state bank , has been placed under arrest. He was taken to David City on an evening freight train. On his way to the depot he was followed by a large crowd of the depositors of the bank. He bore up bravely until he reached the depot platform , when some one in the crowd called for a rope , when he jumped Into the train with all possi ble speed. The crowd pushed its way onto the train and it was with diffi culty the angry men were driven back earthquake In Olympic * According to a report which has jnst f cached here , an earthquake and iand- ilide occurred in the Olympic moun tains in the western portion of Jeffer son county , Washington just prior to the big storms of last week. The news was brought here by a passenger ar riving from down the itraits , who stated that Indians report thata num ber of earthquake ihockg were felt , which were followed by a crashing ools . * MURDERS SAFELY LANDED. The Tragic Sequel to Pittabniff Pa. Jail Delivery Edward Biddle and John Biddle , who escaped from the Pittsburg , Pa. jail , have been captured and are in a dying condition , and Mrs. Peter K. Soffel is lying in the hospital with a self-inflicted wound in the breast , is the sequel of the sensational escape of Biddle brothers from the Alle gheny county jail , aided by Mrs. Soff- el , the wife of the jail warden. The story of the close of the Biddle tragedy , which came this afternoon , is a thrilling one. The sr.ene was a snow covered road two miles east of Prospect , Butler county , near Mount Chestnut and the exact place was at McClure's barn , where two double team sleighs , filled with eight offi cers , three of them Pittsburg detec tives. John Roach. Albert Swinehart and Charles . jcGovern , met the two Biddies in a one-horse sleigh , stolen at Perrysville , and at once opened fire on the trio. The Biddies returned the fire after jumping out of the sleigh. Mrs. Suffers wound was through the breast. Edward Biddle was shot in the left arm , in the breast and in one leg John Biddle was riddled with buckshot in the breast and head. The officers were armed with Win chester rifles and revolvers of large caliber. They shot to kill and their aim was perfect. The Biddies tried to kill , to the last of their string , bub not one of the eight officers has a wound as a result of the battle. When the detectives came to with in about sixty yards of the fugitives they opened fire. The Biddies prompt ly answered with shotgun and revol vers. Mrs. Soffel , too , stood up in the sleigh witha revolver in each hand and blazed away at her pursuers. When Ed Biddle fell , and she saw she was about to be captured , she fired a bullet into her breast. An ex amination by physicians shows that she will recover , as the bullet was de- flcted by her corset and the wound is comparatively slight. Ed Biddle received a bullet in the breast which penetrated his right lung and probably will end his life before morning. John Biddle may recover. , his wounds , though numer ous , failing to roach a vital spot. The escape of the officers is miracu lous The Biddies have demonstrated on several occasions thai they are good marksmen , and why they should have failed today to bring down their men is a mystery. After Ihe Biddies fcri to the snow covered 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 upj harness and worn out horse tbac the trio had tried so stren uously to get away with toward Can ada aud liberty. GRAND JURY STILL GRINDING. Investigation or St. Louis Crookedness to Be Thorough. When the grand jury of St. Louis , resumed its investigation of the sub- burban bribery scandal today T. 0. Kimball of the Suuran railway , who was examined yesterday , was the first witness called. With his aid the ex amination of the books of the sub- uran was continued , in the endeavor to find proof of the payment of the $135,000 placed in the safe deposit boxes. The grand jury will remain in ses sion until a late hour Saturday night. Even then its wor' : will not be completed and a heavy burden of in vestigation will fall on the next set of grand jurors impaneled. A subpoena has been issued for Chauncey Ives Filley , formerly chair man of the republican central com mittee. REFUSES A SECOND TIME Governor Yatos Will Not Honor South Dakota Requisition Today for the second time Govern or Yates of Springfield , 111. , refused to honor a requisition from the gov ernor of South Dakota for the extra dition of John Stowe , , now under ar rest in Chicago , and wanted in Wab- ertown , S. D. , un a charge of obtain ing sfgnatures to documents by false pretenses Gordon Retaliate * . J. W. Eller , attorney for Police Judge Gordon commenced suit today to restrain the city treasurer from paying salary to Mayor Moores , of Omaha , on the ground that the may or had not taken the oath prescribed by the constitution and therefore he had never legally filled the office. A similar objection was made to the payment of $1,600 back salary to Judge Gordon last week and the nit filed today is a retaliatory SURRENDERS TO THE POLICE Fram Justice for Twelve Yearr Gives Up. Kansas City , Feb. 3. ftollins Bing- aam , a member of one of the first families of Missouris has surrendered to the police at Dallas , Tex. , and asked to be returned here to standtrial on the charge of forcing deeds to prop erty in Kansas City twelve years ago. Bingham has been a fugitive from jus tice since November , 1890. His where abouts was made known to County Prosecutor of Hadfey , to whom he sent a letter offering to surrender. Bing- ham , according to his letter , is penni less and ill. Officers will leave for Texas tonight to bring him here. Rollins Bingham before he fled from Kansas City was prominent in politics md was a leader in society , lie is the s m of Gen. G. C. Bingham , artist , writer , politician and one of the best Known men in Missouri. Bingham forged the name of his step-mother , securing $20,000. He had spent his money recklessly in speculation and in ither ways Bingham , in the course of his letter , id mils the forgeries and makes the unusual statement that he committed i hem to save his stepimother's prop erty. He says : "She was defendant in a suit that as a lawyer I knew must , followed up , go against her and make her poor. I never had much myself really , but was so anxious 10 save her that I thought probaHy I could by some coup make a great deal of money so that a judgment against her would not cripple her. SIX THOUSAND THROWN OUT Complete Shutdown Follows Strike in Woolen Mills. Providence , ft. L , Feb. 3. A strike of the double loom weavers at the Riverside mills of the American Woolen company today , following a strike of the Weybossett mills weavers some time ago , caused the issuance of orders to close all the mills of the com pany in Providence and vicinity until further notice. The general shutdown throws six thousands persons out of work. The mills affected by the order are : Providence worsted , Riverside , Weybossett and Man ton mills. The strike at the Riverside and Wey- bossebt mills was caused by dissatis faction over the two loom system. GROWING WORSE EACH DAY Wrecking of JUllu-ood Bank About Complete. David City , Neb. , 3. As the exam ination of the boks of the Platte Val ley State bank at Bellwood progresses the condition of the bank becomes more and more deplorable. Bank Ex aminer Hartwell has expressed the opinion that the assets will not pay 5 percent to the depositors. Up to this time aooutlSO notes have been presented and found in the bank that are forgeries. During the last two days holders of notes and securi ties residing in the east have been ar riving , and so far , without a single ex ception , these papers are found to be all forged. Some of those forged ap parently were secured by mortgages on Butler county real estate , whicn show on their face that they were filed indexed and recorded , giving the book and page , all regular in every way with the name of the county clerk at tached to the certificate of record , etc. All of those that have examined the records discover that the mortgage and certificate of filing and recording are also forged. Certificates of deposit are being presented every day , but the bank's records do not show that any such certificates were ever issued , but the holders deposited the money and all they have is a worthless piece of paper. In addition to the forged notes , mortgages and time will only tell what else a large number of drafts are being reported protested Feveral widows residing in and near Bellwood , who had a few dollars , per haps left them by their husbands as life insurance , have lost every cent of their money. Some of them had left their money with A. H. Gould for in vestment for them which he failed to do , but speculated , it is charged , on the board of trade , and the widow's mite is now , presumably , in the Chi cago wheat pit. R C. Gould , brother of A. H. Gould assistant cashier of the defunct bank , who was arrested yesterday afternoon , was brought to this city and lodged in jail. The complaint filed against him Is similar to the one filed against the cashier , with the addition of making and verifying false statements to the state banking board , and with having knowledge of all the forgeries commit ted by the cashier , A. H. Gould , as being an accomplice in all of the srooked transactions He has , i t is al leged , confessed his guilt , and now oc cupies a cell in the county jail. From ihe best information obtainable one or two more arrests will follow in a very short time. Jail-Breakers Rearrested. Wilber , Neb. , Ftb. 3. On the er- piration of their thirty days' sentence Dillon and Bennett , the jail-breakers who were recaptured at Fairbury , were again arrested on complaint of Sheriff Sawyer on the charge of aiding Frank Thomas , the alleged Friend burglar , tq escape. Before County Judsre Hendee this forenoon they en tered a plea of guilty and were sen tenced to thirty days' imprisonment and to pay a fine of KEPT OUT CROWD OF CURIOUS SEEK JAIL WHERE BIDDLES LIE. Tragedy i the Sole Topic Caused Death of Edward Riddle , Uut Bullcto of Offl- eort * Killed His Brother Priest Scores Man-Uuntor. Butler , Pa. , Feb. 4. The terrible fate of the Biddies is the sole topic of conversation here today , and a cur ious throng of people have heen defy ing the storm , hanging about the jail entrance in vain attempts to get in to see the bodies of the dead murder ers. 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 that he should exert such a won derful influence over men and partic ularly women. The jail duors were" closed all day and no one got in , but the doctois who attended the autopsy and the coroner's jury. Even news paper reporters were excluded from the inquest , which was held in the jail , and nothing concerning their deliberations could be learned till late in the afternoon. Coroner John L. Jones conducted the inquest. The testimony of all the officers concerned in the capture was taken , except that of Rob Ray , the Butler policeman , who is ill. The testimony of Dr. R. B. Greer , who was one of the doctors who attended the Bid dies , and Sheriff Thomas R. noon , was also taken. The verdict of the jury is that Ed Biddle came to his death by a revol ver shot tired by himself , and that Jack Biddle met his death from a gunshot wound inflicted by the officers in discharge of their lawful duty. WHAT AUTOPSY REVEALS. Under the instructions of Coroner Jones , an autopsy was held on both the Biddies. The evidence secured bears out the statements that the Biddies intended to kill themselvs rather than be taken alive , and that Ed succeeded in iiis attempt , while Jack failed , though his life was forfeited. Dr. Bricker gave out the following statement after the autopsy : "Jack Biddle had two gunshot wounds on the right side in the re gion of the liver , the bullets passing up and around the body , and did no damage. They were removed on Sat urday. A bullet wound was found in the roof of his mouth , but it was slight and would not have caused his death. This wound was inflicted by himself , with the evident intention of committing suicide. 'His right arm was shattered by five bullet wounds and the radius broken in the upper third. The wound that caused his death was made by a bullet that passed throuirh the cresfc of the illiuiu on the right side and passed back through the kid ney , causing hemorrhage. "In all Jack was suffering from nine wounds , but excepting the one that penetrated the kidney none of them would have been fatal. Ed' s terrible sufferings were caused by a bulleli wound that struck him on the left breast about an inch and a half to the right of the nipple and passed down between the fourth and fifth ribs to the left of the heart and through the lung. This wound was made by Ed himself , the powder marks being visable on the skin. Death was caused by hemorrhages and the man suffered untold agony to the last breath. Another wound found on his body was on the same side , about an inch from the left nip ple , but the bullet struck the fourth rib , passed under the skin and did no damage. Both bullets found in Ed were thirty-two calibre , and in the opinion of the doctors who held the autopsy there is no doubt that he killed himself. " After the autopsy the bodies of the Biddies were taken in charge by an undertaker , who prepared them foi burial. Arrangements are being made to take the bodies to Pitsburg tomorrow. PASTORS REFER TO TRAGEDY. The pastors of nearly all of the churches in Butler took occasion to day to refer to the sensational capture Friday of Mrs. Kate Soffel and John and Ed Biddle , who died in the county jail last night. Rev. Father Daniel S. Walsh , rec tor of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church , who ministered to the Bid dies in their dying hours , spoke touch- ingly of them to the members of his parish in both masses this morning. He spoke briefly on their statements given out and said it was for every person to decide for themselves as to the innocence or guilt of the men. Rev. Samuel Cronin Wett of Sfc. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran church , in his sermon spoke at length of the criminal history made in Butler county in the past few days. Ha criticised severely the woman , whom he held responsible for the whole affair. "The Biddies and Mrs. Soffel made a vain flight from justice and retribution swiftly came upon them. The blindness of the infatuation of bfaii woman in leaving her beloved tasfeand and helpless children , SUN SHOWS KUINS FIRE ATWATERBYRY BURNS FAR INTO THE DAY. .Evidence of Jncendiaxliim Burning of Seoville HOUMJ Tno to Firebugs Sol. < lmn Aid In Prenerving Order Flames btartin Cellar , Watcrbury , Conn. . Feb. 4. The sun rose this morning on a blackened and smouldering mass of ruins that marked the main business section of the city. There is a very strong suspicion that the fire which completely de stroyed the Seoville house , burning thousands of dollars worth of furni ture , appoinments and personal ef fects , and imperiling many lives , wjis the work of an incendiary. The fire originated in the pool and billiard rorrn in the bnscmcnt of the house , on thefurther side from the burning district. The room was locked up and no one was supposed to be there. ISo fire was kept in the room , all heat being supplied from a boiler in another part of the building. Mana ger Truman said at the police sta tion , while the fire was still raging that he had not the slightest doubt it was of incendiary origin. ! No one could be found no explain its origin and the authorities have been quiet ly investigating. The fire came so close on the heels of the big conflagration that the thousands of spectators who witnessed it were thrown into a more compl te panic than the original fire caused. The flames had only begun to die out along Bank. Grand and South Main streets , at 4 o'clock. , when flames leaped upward , as by magic and peo ple feared the city was doomed after all. The call was rung in promptly and the engines that hurried to the scene turned their attention mainly to preventing the spread of the flames. It was evident that the ho tel was doomed and If the fire had reached the adjacent bindings , there would have been very little hope of saving the center of the city. liURNSFAll INTO THE DAT. The fire burned far into the day and was not exinguishcd entirely un til evening. The scene about the city toda } was only little less remark able than that of the previous even ing. Thouasnds of people stumbled around the icy streets and with the greatest difficuty were restrained by teh militia and police from venturing within the danger linos. A tangled network of wires on Bank and South Main street greatly hindered the work of extinguishing the last flames and clearing away the wreckage. A revised list of losses and insur ance is very difficult to obtain at this time. Few know just what the loss was on their buildings and stock. It is believed thai when the truth is known the figures tel.'gniphod this morning will not be far from the correct estimate. The remarkable feature of the fire was undoubtedly the absence , so far as known , of loss of life. Two men who were asleep in the Scovillehouse , Charles Y. Kent of the JTolmcs , Booth & Hayden company and mem ber of the board of education and the second cook , a German , were reported missing , but both have been located. The rebuilding of ruined structures is only a question of time. Tempor ary quarters have been secured by all the firms. Many have already tele graphed for new stocks and will re sume business immediately. The American publishing company is among thp heaviest losers , the build ing being entirely ruined , but the paper was issued in an abbreviated form tonight. There has been more or less disor der about the streets today , but the police have been very active and the mliitia have been of great service in handling the crowds. The streets were piled with household goods and strewn with small articles thrown from the windows. Some of this propberty was confiscated by passers- by , but the amount of theiving was small compared with the opportun ities offered by the confusion. The number of injured was very small and in all but one or two cases cases the injuries were slitiht. The streets are rapidly being cleared and the trolley service will scon he re sumed. BARD NIGHT FOR FIREMKM. Rarely have firemen been obliged tc contend against worse conditions than hose which prevailed in this most disastrous conflagration. The wind was blowing a gale and the cold was intense. It secerned at one time as though every structure in the heart of the city would be destroyed. Charged "With Swindling. Chicago , Feb. 4. James B. Agnew , who claims relaionship to the well- knonw Philadelphia family of that name , is under arrest here charged with swindling physicians in Illinois , Iowa , Michigan , Minnesota and Wis consin out of small sums of money. He is charged with having fiaudu- lently obtained cash subscriptions to a Chicago medical publication with which he had no business conneec- tion. Agnew came to Chicago from New York. NEBRASKA NOTES A creamery is to be started Memphis. The Tilden Citizen has stared 1 * on Its tenth year with every sign of prosperity. The Frontier Monthly is the nam4 of a bright magazine , the first nnm-t her of which has just been issued at Bloomington. While engaged In a friendly boxlnf match J. A. Bailey of Springfioli fell and broke both bones of his right' leg just below the knee. Albert Johnson , who works In th * mill at Arcadia became entangled 1m the shafting and was seriously in jured before the mill was stopped. The Iragest mortg ige of real estate * ever recorded in Cum ing county wast placed on file this week. It was given ! for $110,000 by the Nebraksa-Iovval Creamery company to F. TJ. Davis , trustee , and covers numerous pieces of property in that part of the county./ The question of building a new , courthouse is being agitated in Saun- dors county. Many of the peopl think the old one has served out itn day of usefulness and that the pub lic records should be better protected' ' as well as the county offices betted housed. ThePlatte Valley State bank at Bellwood closed its doors which cre ated considerable excitement among- the citizens especially the depositors , . The bank is now in the hands of a state bank examiner. A. H. Gould , cashier , is under arrest , charged with forgery. Two pupils of the Lea school in Pierce county became angry at th teacher , C. D. Loudermilk , and pro ceeded to give him a thrashing. Al though the teacher weighs 200 pounds the boys were equal to the task , but they wili have to answer for their fun in county court. About fifty Uemaha countj farmery held a meeting at the court house at Auburn to form a society for mutual protection from petty thieving. TbV farmers of that county have suffered consideribly of late from this class of depredations and it is proposed to go after the offenders in earnest. / The citizens of Tilden are making a move to have the name of the eor poratiou changed from Burnett t * Tilden. Several years ago the town was known as Burnet , but the post > office depatrment changed it to Til den to avoid confusion owing to thq similarity of the name to an older town. The incorporated town has continued te be known as Burnet , however. 1\ Considerable excitement was caused at Papillion one day last week by tha evident intent of a stranger to kid nap Miss Mayme Lillie , a student of the high school. A stranger called for her and said that he had a good position for her in Chicago and that the girl's mother had been seen and consented to have her go , but that it was nceeessary to take a train which left immediately. The suspicions oi the principal of the school wera aroused and he advised an investiga tion to which the girl consented. Th stranger took the alarm and skipped. The main part of Crab Orchard was destroyed by fire , the origin of which has not been discovered. The bank of Crab Orchard , A. O. U. W. hall , .Richardson Mercantile company , F. M. Sharrett hardware company , post- office and numerous smaller build ings were ruined. The loss is esti mated from $30,00 to $50,000 ; partly covered by insurance. The fatality among horses in the noithern part , of Platte county dur ing the last ten days or two weeks has been quite alarming , the disease being something with which the vet erinary surgeons seem wholly unabla to cope. County Superintendent L. H. Leavy , of Columbus , visited four * ken schools in the village of Humph rey , Cre ton and Corniea last week , in each district making inquiry among the farmers as to the loss ol horses , and in this way learned thai twenty-two men had had forty-seveq fatalities from the strange disease which manifests itself in at least some cases in blindness and loss of consciousness to pain or insanity , tht animal plunging into barbed wira fences and not being repelled by se- vere cuts , but with the coming out of cold sweat quickly dying One seem ingly significant fact mentioned by $ farmer and corroborated by Ms. Leavy's subsequent observation , it that the half dozen farmers in tha county supplied with flowing wells are free , not only from this diseast among horses , but have also been fret during recent years from cholera , among hogs. Citizens of Hebrsasa City will rain a fund of 53,000 to pay the expense * of sinking a well in search of coal , oil or gas. Hon J. Sterling Mortom subscribed S300 , 10 per cent of tht amount needed Business men of that city will subscribe the remain der. The well boring machinery i § already on the ground and activt work will be begun at once. The first test is to be made in Nebraska Gitp * * Tfthia OM mile of the city