Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-02-10
EASTERN NEWS.
Death Of General Winfield Scott
Hancock.
A TEXAS JAiLER ovERPowERED BY
MASKED MEN. e.
Fatal Quarrel Between a Salesman
and a Blacksmith.
A PHILADELPHIA NEWSPAPER MANS WILL
ADMITTED TO PROBATE.
ESPECIAL TO THE sENrIgEL.l
Raid on n Texas Jail-A PrisOneI
CnDtured and Hung.


PARIS, Texas, Feb. 9.-At l O'Clock yes
terday morning q mounted posse of nearly
100 masked men suddenly appeared in
front Of the Jail in this (Lamar) county.
While the cavalcade remained mounted, a
dozen of the party dismounted and knocked
for admittance at the front door. Jailer
Baldwin opened the door and Immediately
two men sprang inside. Baldwin showed
fight and fired his revolver, but the men
knocked his arm up and then choked Bald
win until he grew black in the face. They
broke open the cell and the mob seized r.
T. Garrett, the wounded desperate who
killed Deputy Sheriff Clay Davis. They
dragged him through the Jail and placed
him in a wagon which was standing wait
ing outside, and marched him to the tim
Der three-quarters OF a mile distant, where
Garrett was hung up 10 a tree. His body
was found dangling from q common halter
in the morning. The vigilantes prepared
the attack with great care, guards being
placed on every street leading to the Jail.
The %jailer's wife rang the alarm bell, and
many citizens tried to reach the Jail, but
were pulled up by six-shooters. Garrett
was arrested for disturbing a Christmas
tree festival at Shockley Prairie. Deputy
Sheriff Davis kindly permitted him to visit
his home before going to Jail, w~beTeupon
Garrett seized his rifle and brutally muir
dered the officer when the ~latter's back was
turned. Garrett was afterwards captured
in the woods, receiving fourteen desperate
wounds while resisting arrest. He was
just recovering from h wounds when
Judge Lynch summoned him.
Storey's VIII Admitted to Probate.
CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-Judge Rogers. in the
Circuit Court this morning, decided that
the will executed by Wilbur T. Storey, late
owner of the Chicago Times. in February.
1881, was valid, and directed that il be
admitted to probate. The matter was
heard on appeal from the Probate Court.
The will was contested by the blood heirs
on three grounds-want OF Parliamentary
capacity, undue influence, and that the
instrument was not properly witnessed.
The Court held that the testator was
of sound mind before and after the will
was drawn, and that there was no evidence
OF improper influence, and that the will
Whe AcBoilJ htteSIeu. LIE Will leaves tne
newspaper and the largest portion of the
estate to his widow, Eureka O. Storey.
Counsel for the blood heirs gave notice of
appeal.
A Fatal Quarrel.
NEW York, Feb. 9.-Samuel Z. Thomp-
son, a travelling salesman, had a quarrel
early this morning on Greenwich Avenue
with Alex. Slater, q bartender. Slater
struck Thompson ON the head with his
clenched fist. telling him to the sidewalk.
In his fall Thompson's head struck the
fagstone with a crash. His skull was
fractured by the fall. and he died in the
station house shortly after. Slater said
Thompson struck him in the saloon with
a billiard cue, and that he only retaliated
whom they reached the street. Thompson
was in the cotton business formerly, and
had q fortune of $500, 900, but lost it all
in speou lations.
Death of Gen. Hancock.
New YORK, Feb. 9-3. P. M,-Genersl
Hancock died at 1858 this afternoon.