Shooting at Hempstead.
Monday night a row occurred in the "Favorite saloon," kept by Wheeler in Hempstead, in which a man named John Talbert was shot in the head receiving an ugly scalp wound. We were unable to learn any other particulars regarding the affair.
"Shooting at Wheeler's saloon." Brenham Weekly Banner (Brenham, TX), Thursday, December 9, 1880, p. 3, col. 2.
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