A KENTUCKY" FUNERAL
Edward Calahan, the feudist, of Lexington, Kentucky, who has been admitted to hospital in a'dying condition, having been attacked and shot by his wife"s family, the Dentons, has since died in the hospital. His funeral was one of the most extraordinary ceremonies ever held in the of Kc'utueky. His body was borne lo the griveyard in Crockettsville, his home, under an escort of a hundred members of the Calahan faction, each man armed to the teeth with, a rifle, two revolvers, and knives, as it was feared that an attack might be made upon the funeral cortege. The temper of the mountaineers is such that an immediate reopening of the C-alahan-Denton vendetta is inevitable, and the feud-ridden district in Tsvea'h : tt Countv will soon echo with the private warfare of tho. feudists. The Circuit Court, which begins to-morrow, will take up the assassination of Calahan, but little food is expected to result from this action.—-'Daily Chronicle's' cone, pond en t, Mav 27.
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Evening Star, Issue 14932, 19 July 1912, Page 9
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165A KENTUCKY" FUNERAL Evening Star, Issue 14932, 19 July 1912, Page 9
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