Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-22
FEUD BREAKS OUT.
rive IIIIled and Three Wounded in
Kentucky-Result of Fam
lily Row In Pennsylvania.

Louisville, KY, July 1s,-A special to
the Courier-Journal from London, KY,
tells of a report reaching there of the
outbreak of another feud in Clay coun-
ty, by which five men lost their lives
Monday. The dead are said to be: Rob
ert Philpot, Ed Fisher, Aaron Nor
ris, Jim Griffin and Hugh Grif-
fin. These fatalities resulted from
pitched battle fought near Little
Goose creek, three miles from Manches-
ter.
The feud dates back nearly two
years. On Christmas, 1897, James Phil
pot was killed by Aaron Morris, but
before he died he shot and killed Will
liam Bundy, friend of Morris. The
Morrises and Griffins were closely af-
filiated.. Since then, the feeling be-
tween the two factions has been very
bitter, and it has been aroused recently
by the WhiteBaker hostilities. The
Philpots, who are the strongest faction
in, the mountain, numbering about $50
voters, openly espoused the cause of
the Bakers, while the Griffins took sides
with the Whites.
The story that reaches here from
Manchester is to the effect that Bob
Philpot was arrested Monday morning
by Deputy Sheriff Wash Thacker.
While very circumstantial in other re-
spects, the report does not show clearly
the origin of the trouble nor give the
reason for Philpot's arrest. 1t is said
that while Thacker was taking Phil
pots bond, the latter was shot from be-
hind by q member of crowd that had
| gathered. This precipitated a general
fight with winchesters and revolvers,
which was participated in by George,
Granville, Robert and Peter Philpot
and Ed Fisher on one side, and Aaron
Morris, Hugh, Jim and Green Griffin on
the other. The battle began at about
nine o'clock and ragged fiercely for ten
or fifteen minutes When it was over
it was found that the five men men
toned above had been killed outright,
three of the belligerents were serious
ly wounded, while Pete Philpot was
the only one on either side to escape in
jury.
Granville Philpot is said to be one
of the most seriously wounded. He is
union veteran, having lost leg at
Stone River. He is an eX-member of
the Kentucky legislature, and is said
to have killed three or four men. Ed
Fisher, who is reported dead, was an
other man with several hicks in his
cane. He was but 90 years old, but was
said to have killed three men.
Nearly every man in Clay county is
armed and on horseback, Fastening to
either one side or the other, carrying
and going for news and protecting each
others homes. Lights were flashing
from housetop to housetop Monday
night and the conch horns were bow
ing signals from hilltop to hilltop, con-
veying information that could be I'M
derstood only by the clan for which the
message was intended.
Pittsburgh, Pa, July 1s.-A family
feud is responsible for a shooting af-
fray at Milesville, near Monongahela
City, the result of which is one woman
probably fatally wounded, another in
serious condition and a man with two
bullets in his body. The wounded are:
Mrs. Stella Davis, aged % years, shot
twice through lungs, will probably die
Mrs. Sarah Weddell, aged % years, head
and face badly cut, condition serious
John II. Sickles, shot in arm and hand
The trouble occurred Sunday morning
when Mrs. Weddell, who is the wife OF
a wealthy farmer in Forward township
was visiting neighbor, Mrs. Behanna
AS Mrs. Weddell was leaving the Be-
hanna home she was met by her step,
mother, Mrs. Alice Davis, who, it is
claimed, began abusing her.
The two women have been bitter enc
mics for several years, and their wordy
duel was loud enough to attract quite
a crowd of men and women, whom Mrs
Weddell claims attacked her with rocks
She then returned to Mrs. Behanna's
house and secured a revolver. Stand
ingin the doorway, she fired point blanl,
into the crowd. Her sister-in-law, Mrs
Stella Davis, who was one of the at
tacking party, was shot twice through
the lungs, and John II. Sickles, Mrs
Weddell's uncle, received one bullet in
the arm and one in the hand. He sue
ceeded in disarming the frenzied WON.
an, and then, it appears, the crowd
composed mostly of women, rushed up.
on Mrs. Weddell and beat her unmerci
fully with rocks taken from the rail
road ballast. She was finally rescued
and placed in jail.
KILLED BY HIS PLAYMATES.