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Meanwhile most observers recalled with only praise for the murdered Kevin O'Higgins how he had restored police power and the majesty of justice within the Free State???putting down with impartial severity all rebels, many of them his personal friends. The spleen which Kevin O'Higgins engendered by this necessary severity was vented last week very typically by one Father John Dooley of Corpus Christi Church, Manhattan. Said Father Dooley of Kevin O'Higgins...
...Ways and Means Committee, able, wealthy, polished, impatient of loose thinking as of myopic finance. He spoke on "State and Local Taxation." The third politician was not chosen from the Republican ranks, is not in the arena of national politics although standing in its doorway?the Governor of a state???Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland...
...came to New York in 1882. He came also with a suitcase full of writings, including some by Horatio Alger, and an idea for a juvenile magazine. He came with a promise from a banker in Maine?the 28 years since his birth had passed in that State???that he could have $2,500 on call for the publication of his juvenile. A Maine boy who had preceded Munsey to Manhattan had promised another $1,000. The promised capital was called for, but was deaf. Dismayed, Munsey took his idea to a publisher and with unexpected suddenness, The Golden Argosy...
...just outside Eden was very simple. There were only two favorite sons, Cain and Abel, and one got the other's scalp. It has never been so simple in Indiana. There have been from primeval times many great sons?always more than there was room for in one little state???and one took another's scalp only to have his own taken in turn, and that is part of the reason why the white settlers got the state so readily. But the coming of the whites did not change conditions much...
Died. Cornelius Cole, 102, oldest ex-U. S. Senator; in Los Angeles. He was a placer-miner in California in '49, knew well the bravest days of the Golden State???the stagecoach, the pony-express, the vigilantes. Lincoln's friend, he heard the Gettysburg address, was with the President on the day of his assassination. He was one of the twelve who organized the Central Pacific Railroad; the last of that stern company of senators who impeached President Andrew Johnson...