page_title: Josiah Henry Combs
section_title: Media articles
hierarchical_section_title: Josiah Henry Combs / Media articles
caption_attribution_description: English: 'Bad Tom' Smith, confessed murderer of Joseph C. Eversole. He was paid to kill Eversole by Fulton French.
context_page_description: Josiah Henry Combs was a lawyer and judge in Perry County, Kentucky. He was one of the central players involved in the French–Eversole Feud from 1887 to 1894 in Perry County. Combs was assassinated on September 23, 1894 in Hazard, the county seat.
context_section_description: During the period from 1886 when notice arrived of Benjamin Fulton French amassing a private army to assassinate Joseph C. Eversole the public and media followed the twists and turns of the French–Eversole Feud and the various trials, battles, indictments, convictions, re-trials, and death of the participants. This is a list of the newspapers that ran articles about the war in order of appearance:
  First Notice of Feud
  June 30, 1886 Louisville Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky Page 1
  July 24, 1886 St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri Page 8
  July 25, 1886 Topeka Daily Capital, Topeka Kansas, Page 1
  August 24, 1886 The Republic, Columbus, Indiana, Page 1
  August 25, 1886 Wilkes-Barre Record, Wilkes-Barre, PA, page 1
  September 3, 1886 The Hickman Courier, Hickman, Ky, Page 1
  November 16, 1886 St. Paul Globe, St. Paul, Minnesota, Page 1
  The Peace Treaty
  November 22, 1886 Newton Daily Republican, Newton, Kansas, Page 2
  November 25, 1886 Scott Weekly Monitor, Scott, Kansas, Page 6
  November 27, 1886 Phillipsburg Herald, Phillipsburg, Kansas, Page 1
  December 2, 1886 Phillipsburg Herald, Phillipsburg, Kansas, Page 1
  December 2, 1886 Greensboro North State, Greensboro, NC, Page 1
  Assassination of Joseph C. Eversole
  April 17, 1888 Louisville Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky, Page 1
  November 14, 1888 Decauter Herald, Decauter, Illinois, Page 1
  November 14, 1888 Ottawa Daily Republic, Ottawa, Kansas, page 1
  December 2, 1888 St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Page 6
  December 21, 1888 Columbus Journal, Columbus, Nebraska, Page 2
  December 21, 1888 Kingston Daily Freeman, Kingston, NY, Page 2
  December 23, 1888 Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY, Page 1
  December 23, 1888 Galveston Daily News, Galveston, Texas, Page 3
  December 23, 1888 St. Paul Globe, St. Paul, Minnesota, page 22
  December 23, 1888 Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Michigan, page 3
  December 24, 1888 Ottawa Daily Republic, Ottawa, Kansas, Page 2
  December 27, 1888 Worthington Advance, Worthington, Minnesota, Page 2
  January 28, 1889 St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, page 5
  Battle of Hazard
  November 14, 1889 Salina Daily Republican, Salina, Kansas, Page 1
  November 15, 1889 Lawrence Daily Journal, Lawrence, Kansas, Page 1
  November 15, 1889 Times Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana, Page 2
  November 15, 1889 The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, Page 1
  November 15, 1889 Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Michigan, Page 2
  November 15, 1889 Arkansas City Daily Traveler, Arkansas City, Kansas, Page 8
  November 15, 1889 Pittsburgh Daily Post, Pittsburgh, PA, Page 6
  November 16, 1889 Scranton Republican, Scranton, PA, Page 1
  November 16, 1889 The Times, Philadelphia, PA, Page 4
  November 23, 1889 Ohio Democrat, Logan, Ohio, Page 2
  December 21, 1889 People's Press, Winston-Salem, NC, Page 3
  Continuing Bloodshed
  August 10, 1890 St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Page 3
  August 17, 1890 Independent Record, Helena, Montana, Page 9
  August 29, 1890 The Tennessean, Nashville, TN, Page 1
  August 29, 1890 Daily Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas, page 1
  August 29, 1890 Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Indiana, Page 1
  August 30, 1890 Ironwood Times, Ironwood, Michigan, Page 1
  September 1, 1890 Independent Record, Helena, Montana, Page 1
  September 1, 1890 The Tennessean, Nashville, Tn, Page 1
  September 1, 1890 Sandusky Register, Sandusky, Ohio, Page 1
  September 2, 1890 Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, Page 1
  September 2, 1890 Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Michigan, Page 4
  September 3, 1890 Somerset Herald, Somerset, PA, page 2
  September 3, 1890 The Republic, Columbus, Indiana, Page 1
  September 4, 1890 The Onaga Herald, Onaga, Kansas, Page 1
  September 7, 1890 Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, Page 17
  September 8, 1890 The World, New York City, New York, Page 11
  September 11, 1890 The Index, Hermitage, Missouri, Page 1
  September 12, 1890 Big Stone Gap Post, Big Stone Gap, VA, Page 3
  September 19, 1890 Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, Page 1
  September 20, 1890 The Lima News, Lima, Ohio, Page 1
  September 27, 1890 Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois
caption: "Bad Tom' Smith
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