The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-10-17
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FEUD.
THE FRENCH BTERsoLE WAR RE-
viewed, dNDJUDGE COMBS KILLED.
ne Was 90 Years ola. and was Chattlsg
with an Eversoie Leader when SOME One
shot at Him from Ambush-Two OF the
French Faction Arrested and One Killed.

ne Was 40 Years ola, snd was ChattIag
with an Eversoie Leader when Some One
shot at Hinn FROM Ambush-Two OF the
French Faction Arrested and One KiIied.
Bio STONE Gar, Va, Oct. 10.-The French
Eversole feud has started afresh in Perry coun-
ty Ky. Bob May, an ex-member Of the Ken
lucky Legislature. and one OF the principals on
the Eversolc side, is hero from Hazard. the seat
OF the county and Of the war Judge Josiah
Combs, the fathcr-in-lnw Of the dead Eversoe
leader, Is dead. Tho leader Of the French fac
ton, whose name was Frazer Fulton French,
and two others Of his faction have been arrested
for his murder. and more trouble will follow.
Judge Combs was 70 years old and lived In
Hazard. Early on Sunday morning. two weeks
ngo, he stepped across the street where young
Cash Eversolc and two others were talking,
rife cracked from the corn field just over the
fence and the bullet struck the old man in his
breast and he fell. Cash Eversole wheeled and
saw man with blackened face spring up and
dash through the corn field. lie gays the man
Joe Adkins. At the same time other
Trenches began firing and shouting from
another direction TO divert attention from
Adkins. Young Cash with several others ran
across n little spur and hid themselves in q
ravine Three mon with blackencd faces soon
appeared. who, the Eyersoles said. were Adkins,
Frazer; and Icssi. Field As they climbed
over g bank VIII Martin, boy IL the Evcrsolc
CTONu' .uItu anu hllleu rThNt.T Inc Otner lWO
escaped, but were captured later with Fulton
French In Breathtt county. Adkins IL said to
have escaped. but French and Fields are held.
They are trying to get the county Judge to come
to tho Breathtt line and try them. as they are
afraid to go to Hazard.
Judge Combs died in a few hours. He had
never taken part in the feud. though he was n
man OF wealth and in sympathy with the Ever
sOles, and had always tried to get the Trenches
to trial. II was his influence that was feared
thirty men have been killed in this feul In the
last half n dozen years, II began with the
killing of the head of the Confederate Gam
Drills, a strong Breathitt county family, by the
Union Evcrsoles during the war. Soon the
Gambrlls killed the Eversolc leader, and de-
1884. Then Fulton French came from Virginia
10 Hazard and taught school aud read law with
Joe EvcrsOe. the leader Of the EversOle faction.
The Eversolos were the richest and strongest
family In the county, and they always had u
store in Hazard, which was the Republican
headquarters.
French rented this store from Joe Evcrsole
for year. and opened with his clerk Bob May.
French and May disagreed. and May opened Just
across the street and made his store the Demo-
cratic headquarters Of the town. When Frenchs
year was UP Eversole sent him word that he
must move out. French refused for some rca-
son. and on the day the lease expired Eversole
drove into town with twenty wagons of goods.
moved French into the street, and opened the
store the next morning himself.
That started the war. The Gumbrills took
sides with the Trenches against their old foes,
and May and Eversoe, though political enc
mics, Joined their forces and in time there were
a hundred men on each side. The deadly mu.
alton. ,Sheriffs. lawyers and Judges have been
with the FversOles. French Is said to have
hired many OF his fighters. May has left Haz-
ard. lie says, through fear OF assassination,