Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The severest rainstorm known at Frankfort. Ky., in years was that of Monday night. The Gainey bridge, 2QO feet long, on the Louisville mid Nashville Railway, was washed away, stopping traffic on that branch of the road. Conway’s mills and houses, etc., on Benson Creek, were swept it way. People coming into town from every direction brought news of disaster from the heavy rain. A. J. Call and Nettie Call, his daughter, were killed in a shanty-boat six miles east of Huntington, W. Va. Lollie Call will also die and several small children are at the point or death. Etta Robins is in jail accused of the murders. Call and his daughter had their heads severed with an axe and all the children are slashed in a horrible manner. One woman leaped into the river and saved her life. The greatest excitement prevails. No cause is assigned for the deed. Charles Edge, of the Lexington, Ky., firm of Appleton & Edge, dry goods merchants, had a difficulty with Henry Appleton, son of his partner, .J. W, Appleton, and shot the young man twice, killing him instantly. Young Appleton was relieved from a clerkship in the store and abused Edge for having released him. He knocked Edge down, and the latter, upon regaining bis feet, sjiot Appleton twice through the breast. Edge immediately surrendered to the officers. Thomas B. Watts, aged 21, who has been working at a hay camp at Arcadia. Tex., has fallen heir through the death of an uncle to an estate near the heart of Jhe city of New York valued at.518,000,iHXI. His uncle. Thonias B. V\ atts, a bachelor, left his entire fortune without reservation "to his namesake. The-estate consists of money and real estate. Young Wqtts has a mother and brother who are deaf and dumb, and teach school in the deaf and dumb asylum of Virginia. He also has two sisters living iu Virginia and a brother in the Indian territory.