The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-06-21

was drunk all the time up to bis death.
| He was penniless, and hung around
saloons begging drinks. Yesterday after.
hoon he went to the Auzera house, where
an abandoned woman gave him a dollar,
with which he bought something to eat
and paid for bed This morning
chambermaid went to his room, and as she
could not rouse him, secured duplicate
key, opened the door and found him dead.
A doctor who was called in, said there
were appearances of morphine poisoning,
but no trace of the drug could be found.
WILD EXcITMENT.
DENVER, juno IA special from Ell
Paso, Tex, says: A freight crew, which
arrived here this morning over the South
ern Pacific road reported tfat when they
arrived ST Sepor station, just this side of
Lordsburg, N. NJ, at 2:30 this morning
they found the town in the widest eX-
cltement over the arrival OF a cowboy
who had just reached there barefcoted,
and his feet covered with cuts and
blisters from having run ten miles from
ranch north of Sepor, where he and ten
other men were camped. He stated tnat
| at 10 o'clock last night band of Indians
| surprised them and shot them down as
the men jumped out of their blankets to
escape. He thought there were about
thirty Indians in the band. The cowb
had been in bed but short time when
the attack was made. Some of them
were armed, but did not have their guns
handy not expecting to find the Indians
on the warpath in that section. He saw
three men drop, and thinks that the rest
shared the same fate. A posse was CT
ganlzed at Lordsburg and one at Deming
this morning to go and hunt the Indians
ANOTHER SUICIDE AT SEATTLE.
SEATTLE, June 17.-Joseph G. Thornton,
a young attorney, who came to this city
from Logansport, Indiana, about May Is,
committed suicide late this afternoon by
hanging himself to a bedpost with sheet,
in his room at the New England hotel,
on Front street. No reason is known for
the rash act, as he had money in the bank
and was quite prosperous. On his person
were found letters of introduction to ex-
Senator w. H. Calkins, of Indiana, now
of Tacoma, Hon. Judson Applegate, of
the same city, and Others. There was
also letter from his father, who is an
attorney somewhere in Ohio. 1t is known
that Thornton was graduate of Yale
college and very highly connected.
RAvAGEs OF THE STORM IN DAKOTA AND
PENNSYLVANIA.
HURON, S. d., June 1s.-Reports from
the northwestern part of the state con-
corning last nights wind and rain storm
indicate that 1t was more severe than any
storm this season. An inch and quarter
of rain fell here, but no wind or hail.
At Faulkton two cars loaded with rails
| were blown from the track. The rain was
heavy.
At Red6eld an Episcopal church was
lifted from its foundation and badly
damaged.
A regular cyclone occurred near Leb--
anon, In Potter county, and swept things
clean for several miles.
Valentine Som was killed and John R.
English fatally injured.
Houses from two or three miles apart
were demolished. The storm travelled
lasted several minutes.
There was cloud burst near Apo
mattox, Potter county, which flooded a
large area, nearly filling Cheyenne geek
| and killing much stock.
Three members of the family of Will
liam McElroy and five members of the
family of George Wagner were drowned.
CLOUD BURST AND LOSS OF LIFE.
EIKLAND, Penn, June 1s.-Last night
two clouds met just above Osceola, few
miles from here, and deluge of rain fol-
lowed. The waters of Holden brook rose
rapidly to an unprecedented height and
flooded all the lowlands along the banks.
Nearly twenty buildings were swept
from their foundations and carried down
stream until they reached the trestle of
the Fall Brook railroad, where frightful
jam was formed.
The trestle of the Addison & Pennsyl-
vania railroad was carried away.
Tannertown is in ruins. Many houses
were carried away and people rescued at
great risk. The only lives known to have
been lost are those OF Mrs. Tr1pp and Miss
Mary Thompson, of Osceola, who were
drowned.
FIVE MEN DROWNED,
TORONTO, June 1s.-A washeut was re.
ported on the Canadian Pacific last night