The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
one MAN KILLED
IN GAY BREATH|TT
But Election Was More Peace
able Than Expected
OLD FEUD is REOPENED
Demosthenes Noble Is Killed by Til
den Banton After Blanton Had
Been Wounded-Jackson Gets
Rowdy at Night.
OLD FEUD is REOPENfD

Jackson, Ky, November 2.-Predictions
made ON the streets early today that
only man or two" would be Killed
during the voting in Breathtt county
were justified at noon in the Spring Fork
precinct and in a dramatic manner. Here
Tilden Blanton, with a left hand shot.
instantly killed Demosthenes Noble, after
Noble had crippel Blanton's right ara
with a bullet.
Noble, according TO Blanton, had pre-
yiously put a pistol to the breasts of two
of Blanton's brothers. Noble was a men,
Der of a powerful feud party and a re-
lation to Judge Hargis, and complications
are expected. Blanton, whose father was
democratic candidate for county attorney,
was acting as challenger and his story Is
that Noble was induced to raise dis
turbance by discounted republicans. The
shots were fired while Blanton was lean
ing out of the window of the voting
place. He was carried into Jackson to
the home of his father and there tacitly
arrested. Blantons father is the famous
Breathtt county character, who last year,
on horseback, took the ballots to Crock
make the trip for fear of an assassin
bullet
When Blanton Arrives.
When Blanton rode in, wounded, the
soldiers of the Cynthana company <ere
marching through jackson past the town
polling place and on to No. precinct in
the county, where trouble was feared
The troops winding through the narrow
mountain roads, the equestrian couriers
dashing in on foam-hecked horses and
seeing that all was quiet at the various
polling places, the wild looking country
people riding muleback into town for the
disorderly night every one in jackson pre-
diets tonight-all these scenes We're in
strange contrast to the pacidity with
which the voting in the town proper was
carried on.
From Charlottesville. where Captain Sans
and his q Lexington soldiers are on
guard, came the word:
"Quietest here in history"
Two opinions obtain among the town
people. One is that the presence of the
soldiers prevented bloodshed and destruc-
ton; another 1t made votes for the DEM
ocrats, because Judge Adams had called
for troops when there was no need The
attitude of the soldiers in strictly re-
framing from anything that appeared like
attempts to in>>ence the voting, however
silenced much of the clamor that greeted
their arrival.
Democrats Claim Victory.
Tonight the democrats claim victory.
The loudest of the partisans leaving for
their pistols and gave their clan whoops
| as they vanished into the inky night
Telephone communication with Crock
ettsville, the seat of Ed Callahan, inter-
rupted this morning, was re-establshed
tonight. bringing the news that the cleo
ton was the quietest in history. The mi
litia will leave Crockettsville for Jack
son tomorrow morning.
Circuit Judge Adams however, who had
them called, expects to hold them here
until the mountain counties send in their
poll results
For an hour tonight the firing of heavy
calibre pistols was so insistent and dang
erous that the Cynthiana troops were
called to the courthouse. One shot fired
on principal street entered a dwelling
and sang within an inch of the head of
Mrs. Arthus Henry. a member of a party
of prominent Jackson people, and broke
up the gathering. Mrs. Henry is a cele-
brated eastern Kentucky land owner and
mine developer.
At 10 o'clock the shooting had partly
subsidized. A dynamite bomb was set off
at the store of Mich Grain, one of the
most active republicans in the county
and brother of a candidate. 1t did little
damage, however. The mob then gradu-
ally began to dispense.