Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

In the famous Kate Townsend will case, Judge Houston, of New Orleans, has rendered a decision decreeing the will of Kate Townsend in favor of Troisville Sykes null and void, because Svkes was guilty of ingratitude, he having killed Kate Townsend, and thereby forfeited all benefits under the will, and giving judgment in favor of the State of Louisiana, decreeing the State to be the heir-at-law of the deceased... .Unknown thieves entered the grocery store of Paul Justice, situated two miles from Memphis, Tenn., beat out the brains of Justice and his wife, robbed the store, and escaped. An> is asked by the Governor of Louisiana for sufferers from the ravages of storms in the parishes of Rapides, Grant, and Catahoula. Until the collection of taxes in Louisi-. ana next fall, the State Treasurer has arranged withjaine banks in New Orleans to advance all the funds needed to pay interest on the consolidated four per cent, bonds. The $3,000,000 estate of the late Thos. H. Blythe, of San Francisco, is. claimed by Mrs. L. C, Hitchcock, of Waco, Texas, a daughter by the first wife... .Moonshiners in Elliott County, Kentucky, to spite a citizen who opposed unlicensed whisky, burned his house, the church which he attended, and the dwellings of some of his neighbors. A party went gunning for the incendiaries, killed two of them, and buried them where they fell.