Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Chattanooga (Tenn.) special: “The killing of George and Frank Taylor,at Oakdale Junction, Tenn., on suspicion that they were burglars creates the most intense excitement. It develops that the deceased were nephews of Col. Blackburn, one of the leading criminal lawyers of Cincinnati, and steps are now being taken to prosecute their murderers to the full extent of the law. The evidence is now clear that the young men were merely traveling through the country, and \ were innocent of any crime.” An insane young man at Peru, Fla., cut off the top of his mother’s head with an ax, and was acquitted by the Coroner’s jury. He became rational the instant the crime was perpetrated... .During a heavy fog at New Orleans the steamer Castle Craig refused to obey her rudder, and swung about until she had done damage to five other vessels amounting to $70,000.,... Mr. Edward E. Brown was discovered in prison at Jacksonville, Fla., uuder the name of C. J. Hoyne. He is wanted in Boston to make good shortage in estates to the amount of $40,000. He was once a prominent lawyer in Boston, and gained considerable reputation as associate counsel with Benjamin F. .Butler in the famous Tewks- ' bury almshouse investigation. His whereabouts have been conceh^T for some years.