STATE NEWS
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J.H. Farr, editor of the Hempstead Chronicle, was shot and killed on yesterday by James Cloud, a justice of the peace. They were brothers-in-law, and the shooting grew out of an old family feud.
"J. H. Farr, editor of the Hempstead Chronicle, shot and killed", San Antonio Daily Light, Thursday, May 6, 1886, p. 3, col. 2.
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