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Show PEACE AT LAST. The Sot,,rlou Ha.lt,l.l-M. fo,- u.l En.le.l and Peace is spelled H iin a tap lIi viiMi iuN. W. Va.. Sept. ft.-The famous HatfieM-Mcfoy feud is at an end. Two nu n were seen on our streets yesterday conversing together til a fneudly manner. One was a brother-in-law of old man McCoy, the other a son-in-law of Anse Hatlield. They spoke freely of iho famous feud, and said thai by common consent it would be allowed to cease. All concerned con-cerned have gone to work, and propose to live quietly. A number of the members mem-bers of both factions are still under indictment in-dictment for murder and lesser crimes, but will nrobably now not be troubled by the authorities. The feud has been in progress nearly twenty years, and in that time at least a score of the Hattields and McCoys have been murdered. Onlv one member mem-ber of either side has been 'legally punished. pun-ished. That was Cap" Hatlield, who was hanged at I'ikeville, Ky., some months ago for the brutal murder of Alma McCoy, a young girl, whom he shot down as she w;rs trying to esesipo from her father's house.'which the llat-lields llat-lields had lired. |