Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1899 — THOMAS BAKER KILLED. [ARTICLE]

THOMAS BAKER KILLED.

Pr ncipal in Kentucky Fued I* Shot from Ambush. Thomas Baker, principal in the famous Howard-Baker feud, was shot from ambush and killed near his home at Winchester, Baker was alleged to have said there were four men in Clay County he was going to kill, after which he was willing to be hanged. Baker has a great number of friends, and the bloody war between his faction on one side and the Howards and Whites on the other is expected to result in other murders.