Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1889 — THE HARLAN COUNTY WAR. [ARTICLE]

THE HARLAN COUNTY WAR.

Jadge Lewis and His Army Overtake Howard and Kill Six of His Followers. News reached Pineville, Ky., Friday night by reliable parties that Judge Lewis came up wit|i Howard and his followers Thursday, on Martin’s-Fork, and. killed, six of Howard’s adherents without losing a man. Three of the men killed were named Hall, one was named Whitlock, but the other two names were not learned. Judge Lewis and fifty well-armed men took dinner near the camp of J. P. Meyer & Co., on the Lonisville k Nashville ex tension, about thirty miles beyond Cumberland Gap, last Friday. Men who spoke principally with the Judge say that he is determined, and will never quit his chase until Howard and his party are all killed or driven from the country. Both parties are being reinforced daily, and more bloodshed is expected. It is thought that Howard has gone to Virginia, but is expected -to return. The best citizens of Harlan county are joining Lewis, and with such a determined leader there is no doubt the law and ordefr party will come out victorious, and break up the gang that has been a terror to all eastern Kentucky for the last twenty-five years.