The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1889-12-28
rIELEGRAPEIC.
SEATTLE MANS SUDDEN DEATH

sFATTI.E MANS SUDDEN DEATH
TACOMA, Dec. 20.-John j, Bernsie
of Seattle, was discovered de3d IN h
room at the Fife hotel late last nigh
He had taken his shoes and coat off, an
apparently lain upon the bed. Apoplex
; was found bv the coroner to be the cans
| of his death, He was gentleman
scholarship and in good circumstance;
Friends from Seattle have taken charg
of the remains.
FIRE IN TACOMA.
TACOMA, Dec. 90. l A. M.-The ST
James hotel, new three story and base
i ment structure at the corner of Ninti
street and Yakima avenue, caught fire II
| some unknown way on the ground foo
at IL so last evening, and was totally
4 destroyed, with the two adjoining build
ings, one being the residence of Professo
! Gault, principal of the city school.
! The insurance is $4,000 on the hotel
/ belonging to Mellenb brook. 1t is estima
ted that $4,000 of property has been con
! sumed.
WALLA WALLA, Dec. 10.-Wesley
| Fields, pioneer, brother Of Simon Flet-
! cher Fields, of this vicinity, was gored to
death by bull yesterday at his home in
Fields hollow, above Wailsburg. He
was chairman OF the county commission
ers of Columbia county and highly re-
spected.
NASTY DAY IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK. Dec. 20.-New York was
enyeloped in one of the most disagreeable
fogs to-day the city has seen in Inany
years. IL was verltable Scotch mist,
cold, clanmy and suggestive of pneu-
mona. During the day the city has been
III twilight haZiness, and tonight the en-
tire absence OF electric lights, combined
with tie denscness of the fog, makes the
main thorou Cultures disagreeable spec
taclc, while the side streets are almost as
dark as pitct.
The impediaments offered to travel are
greater than has been observed before,
elevated trains running far behind time,
while the entrance to Brooklyn bridge
has been in state of blockade all day.
While travel was at its hight on Brook
lyn bridge broken coupling caused a
collision near the Brooklyn terminus.
The conductor of the coiliding train re-
ceivcd severe injuries. The passengers
became parlc stricken, and several ladies
ti.inted.
FIGHTING WITH STONES.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 2O-At 10 this
morning word was received at the police
station that general fight WAS in pro-
gress at the corner of Fourteelth and
Wyoming streets. A squad of police
men has;ened there and found forty or
fifty men fighting with stones, clubs and
improvised weapons of all kinds. The
mCb fled az sight OF the officers.
The fighting was caused by the refusal
of Contractor McNeely, laying the grade
OF The Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska di-
vision OF the Rock Island read, to pay
his men this morning. Six men were |!
badly hurt. No arrests were made.
THE SECRET DIED WITH HIM. J
HELENA, Mont. Dec. 2O.-The suicide
of j. c. Mcdonnell at the Grand Central |
hotel yesterday recalls the Moore tragedy
of February, 1885, details of which arc
still fresh In the minds of the public.
The dead bodies of William Moore and
his wife were found in their house on the
Benton road, each riddled with bullets.
The tragedy was not witnessed, as far as
known, and the theory at the time was
that the couple had quarreled, appealed
to firearms and killed each other, or that
possibly one killed the other ard then
committed suicide. The mystery attend
ing their death, however, was never
cleared up. Pr. and Mrs. Moore had
lived unhappiIy for some time prcvioua
to the tragedy, and the woman's inf deity
10 her husband was the subject OF COM
mon talk.
The object OF the faithiess WIfe'a afec-
ions was school teacher at Dearborn,
v hom many people thought knew more
,f the tragedy than he cared to tell.
That teacher was j. G. Mcdonnell, the
nan who suicided yesterday. So the last
actor In the most awful domestic tragedy
ever enacted in Montana has passed out
IF the world, adding by his unexplained
lct of seif- destruction another mystery to
hat already connected with the Moore
tragedy.
THE IDAHO AFLOAF.
VICTORIA, Dec. 20-The steamship
Idaho, which was wrecked on Rosedalc
.eef, was washed from her position by
he gale of last night. She drifted up
he straits and was picked up by the
small tug Alert, which attempted to tow
lcr to this port. High winds and tide
prevented. and the Idaho drifted towards
Race rocks.
The ALert succeeded in keeping her off
he reef, and later steamed for Victoria.
The tug LOrne left this evening in search
If the Dcrslict.
JUsTIFIABLE HOMICIDE.
SPOKANE FALLS, Dec, % The jury in
.he case of Mrs. lone Skeels who shot
Ind killed her husband, Charles W. Skecls.
n this city the first day of March, brought
u verdict of acquittal after beng out
iorty eight hours. Previous to her mar.
.iage with Skeels. Mrs. Skeels was known
IS 'Brohcho Liz" She met Skeels in the
TGur d'Alene mines. Skeels at that time
lad wife and two children. He became
mitten with "Broncho Liz" and induced
ler to dress in male attire and accompany
i'm to his fathers farm where he intro
luced her 70 his family. She worked on
he place as a farm hand for several
months without her seq being discovered.
Skee.s then sent her to Choteau, Mont,
#here he followed her. Subsequently he
secured divorce fiOm his wife and mar
led '.Broucho Liz at Moscow, idaho,
January 2, 1888. He again sent her TO
where she remained until Feb
'uary last, when she joined Skeels in tins
,ity, where he was in business. He be
gan paying attentions 10 other women,
md ON the morning of March l his wife
earned he was in a building known as"Ac-
.ors' Fiat" where he had spent the night
with frankie Howard, variety actress.
Mrs. Skeeis armed herself gi,h pistol,
md proceeding to the building enticcd