The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19

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was found dying of starvation and
illness in dingy room, an examina-
ton of his room disclosing over $4,000
in crumpled bills and bank book
showing deposits of $547.00
In Los Angeles, the worlds lar
gest bible has been completed after
two years of work, weighing HOO
pounds, Containing S048 pages, and
measuring feet across.
In Delaware, mail truck, mistak-
en- for a rum runner, precipitated in a
gun battle in which the truck driver
and a deputy sheriff were slain.
At Joliet, ILL.,, in the State Peni-
Tertiary, in a short-lived uprising
among the prisoners, one convict was
killed and three others wounded, two
of which have since died.
At Fairmont, w. Va, man and a
woman were killed when their auto
mobile crashed into a Monongahela
Railway freight train at Arnettsville
crossing between Fairmont and Nor
gantown.
At Harrisonburg, Va, DR.. John E.
Lincoln, rs, a cousin of President
Lincoln, died Sunday. Tall and angu-
lar, he bore a striking resemblance
to the martyred President.
Francis X. Bushman, formerly
from Baltimore, once a movie matinee
idol, now almost penniless, although
he has earned nearly 9 million dollars,
offers himself for sale to any woman
rich enough to support him in luxury.
At Tarrytown, N. Y, home of John
D. Rockefeller, the aged millionaire,
helped finance a cutoff of railroad,
eliminating the noise of the engines
negotiating steep grade, and cover
ing his private golf course with
smoke.
At Cincinnati, a movable prison
has been added to the equipment of
road, to convey prisoners from Frank
fort, KY, to the Federal penitentiary
at Atlanta, Ga.
At Nice, France, Charlotte Nixon
Nirdlinger, wife of a Baltimore and
Philadelphia theatrical magnate, shot
and killed her husband at the end OF
bitter quarrel.
At Kansas City, Kan, 55-year old
man was sentenced to prison for life
under the States habitual criminal
act, following his conviction for the
possession of quart of whiskey. He
had served three penitentiary senten-
ces for other offenses.
In New York City, Miss Ella V.
Wendell, 80, richest and most seclud-
ed spinster in the city, who very sell
dom left her brown stone mansion,
died recently leaving an estate of
$50 million dollars.
At Washington, it is announced
that President Hoover will embark
this week on a ten-day trip which will
take in Porto Rico and the Virgin
Islands.
At Chicago, Harry F. Atwood,
president of the Constitutional Edu-
cational Association lists the six
greatest American statesmen as
Benjamin Franklin, for preparing the
Constitution; George Washington, for
creating it; Alexander Hamilton, for
ratifying it; John Marshall, for inter-
preting it; Daniel Webster, for his
exposition of it and Abraham Lincoln.
for preserving it.
At Washington, jury returned a
verdict of not guilty in the trial OF
Edward E. Denison, former Repre-
sentative from Illinois indicted for
bringing whiskey and other liquors
when he returned from trip to Pana-
ma in three trunks, one of which was
found in his office.
From New York, it is announced
that in fixing a break in the cable
lines off the cost of Ecuador, it was
discovered the trouble had been
caused by a giant whale becoming en-
tangled in the lines.
At Baltimore, the heavies snow OF
the winter fell Tuesday, cutting tele-
phone communication between Balti-
more and the Eastern shore. Ten
inches fell in "a hours.
At Nashville, Tenn, bill to repeal
the Tennessee antievolution law that
brought on the famous Scopes trial
about a year ago, has been introduced
in the Legislature.
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