Daily Republican., 1886-03-31
NEWS SUMMARY.
ERO NIMo UNCONDITIONALLY
. sURRENDERS-sTRU OIL
the Coronsr's Jaryg Decide THAT s.AGin-
60 Jack" Was Mardered.-
Lynched by a Mob.

Thomas 8. Gay died on Monday. i'm
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, aged 30
years AS naval ensign during the
war, he was one of party of yolunta
who ascended the Cape Fear riye- in =
steam launch to Ply mouth, North earn.
lima, travelling miles within the Con.
iederate lines, and, in the face of q hot,
hre. blew up the ironclad Albemarle.
he was captured and kept In Libby
prison until the end Of the war. HE
snare or the Albemarle prize money
was $23 800.
The steamer Mary Lewis, of tbs
mofgan line, was sunk on Monday
night by collision with the bridge
acroso the Atchfalaya, about q miie
below Pattersonville, La. The second
engiDeer and two colored men were
drowned. The steamer Rarmore. en-.
gagged in saving the cargo and machin.
cry OF the Mary Lewis, exploded her
boiler. Four men were blown over
board and drowned, and four others,
are badly wounded.
Two convicts employed in the laun-
dry OF the Kansas Penitentiary, at
Lsavenworth, have been for several
weeks engaged in making counterfeit
coin. The noulds were accidentally
discovered In the drying room and six
oae OF the men. The counterfeiters
named as accomplices two of the
guards, who have been suspended pend
ing an inquiry.
The Coroner's jury investigating the
lynching Of "Mingo Jack" at Eaton
town, New Jersey, brought in the fol-
lowing verdict last night: "we fiud
that Samuel johnson was willfully
murdered at the Eatontown lock-up ON
the night of March 8, 1886, by being
beaten upon the head with clubs and
Dy hanging by the neck, said blows and
hanging having been done by some per.
son or persons 10 the jury unknown.
At Louisville on Tuesday the Law
and Order Club served notice ON pool
rooms to close up at once, or the pro.
prietors would be prosecuted under the
new law. which makes gambling n.
felony. The proprieto1s say ''they Win
obey the law, but think the recent gam
ling"
News has been received at Fort
Bowie, Arizona, that Geronimo, Chihua.
hua, Mana and Matches, with 30 men
and AZ women, unconditionally sur
rendered to General Crook, near San.
Bernardino, on the Mexican line, last
saturday. Lieutenant Maus is now
bringing the captives to Fort Bowie.
The family of Thomas Rollison, q
farmer, living near East Saginaw,
Michigan, ate wild parsnips on Mon,
day. Two of the children, aged Ave
and two years, died from the effects Of
the poison yesterday, and the mother ia
not expected to recover.
Weakly Ridley and Tobias williams.
both colored, who murdered Daniel
Guthrie, prominent citizen OF Crockett
County, Tennessee, were taken from the
jail at Alamo early on Monday morn
ing and lynched by a mob.
John e Sullivan, professional ba u
ball player, committed suicide al Grand
Rapids, Michigan, ON Monday night.
he had been deaf and mentally un.
sound since falling from balcony tw {
years ago.
| Two three e-story brick buildings in
Natchez, Mississippi, tumbled down
during Monday night. A man was
killed and a woman 30 badly Injured
that she has since died.
An unfinished building on Friend
street, Boston, tumbled down On Tues
day morning, burying the workmen In
the ruins. Six men we're injured, four
dangerously.
George w. Neal, the poundkeeper of
newark, New Jersey, whose illness
from hydrophobia was announced on
Monday. died yesterday after the most
horrible suffering.
Robert 81. Isabelle, ex-Pension
Agent at New Orleans, was convicted of
forgery in that city on Monday. The
jury added q recommendation to
mercy.
In boring wells at the sulphur mine
at Lake Charles, Louisiana, Oil has been.
struck at q depth 1850 feet, and is flow
ing at the rate of 200 barrels daily.
Alderman Douglass was shot dead by
Alexander Manly in q bar-room fight
in Laredo, Texas, on Monday. The
bullet was intended for another man,
Doctress Helen Cummings in Bos-
ton, has been convicted of manslaugh-
ter Sin killing a woman by mixing the
labels ON medicine"
Ten meu were killed and forty badly
injured by q powder explosion ON the
Panama Canal yesterday.