Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1898 — Victims of a Feud. [ARTICLE]

Victims of a Feud.

Middlesboro, Ky., April 9. —A special to the Herald from Manchester says: A. B. Howard, ex-sheriff of Clay county, and his son Will were waylaid and killed. Howard is very prominent, A terrible feud has been raging between the Philpots, Bakers, Campbells and Howards for the past year. Twenty men have been killed during that time, mostly from ambush. A reign of terror exists in many parts of Clay county.