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On last Saturday afternoon Thomas
BEAVERS shot and killed instantly his father, Alex, better known as "Big Alex"
BEAVERS at his home in Crockett's Cove. The circumstances, as reported are
that BEAVERS came home late in the afternoon from Berwind, under the influence of liquor, and began to abuse
and mistreat his wife and threatening to cut her throat with a knife, also to abuse and attack his daughter, whom
he kicked several times. He was finally induced by the son and daughter to leave his wife alone, and he went out
on the front porch, and again began to curse and abuse her, and reaching through a window near which Mrs.
BEAVERS was sitting, attempted to cut her throat with his knife
and would have succeeded had not Mrs.
BEAVERS seen him in time to get out of his reach. The more the
members of the family tried to quite him the worse he grew, and seeing
nothing could be done to save, probably the lives of the entire family from injury or death the young man seized a
shot gun and shot him, the charge taking effect in the abdomen. BEAVERS lived only a short time. Young BEAVERS made
no attempt to escape, and an officer brought him here and lodged him in jail. Another home wrecked and ruined
by liquor.
The MCCOY estate of California which was so much talked of last fall, is
still the daily topic of conversation in West Virginia and bordering counties of Kentucky. A.N
WARREN of North Fourth Street, Ironton Ohio, claims to have received a letter from one of his cousins in this ???? relative to this
matter, stating that he and his attorneys had been searching the ???? and had found that Walter, William and Ezekial
MCCOY were brothers to Andrew, James and Lewis MCCOY. The above Lewis
MCCOY is the grandfather of A.N. WARREN. The letter also stated that the family
history had been fully traced to the present heirs. A letter from a West
Virginia MCCOY also accompanied the above mentioned letter, which stated that
MCCOY had recently returned from a trip to California and had found out for
himself that the estate was really in existence and a very large one. Several law firms of West Virginia are
corresponding with some of the heirs, even enclosing blank contracts asking them to become their clients.
Bluefield Telegraph.
Mr. T.W. CECIL, who has been in Tazewell for the past five weeks, left on
Tuesday for his home in Indianapolis, While here Mr. CECIL was busy most
of the time looking after business interests in Buchanan county. He left
to his many friends the pleasant hope of his return in the near future.
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