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Receives Lindbergh
PEKING, May 31 (AP). -- The Northern authorities made official announcement today of the wholesale withdrawal of the Northern forces from the front owing to reverses in Honan.
Supreme Court Justice Tierney approves settlement whereby 4 trustees of estate distribute more than $16,000,000 among 6 heirs; approves payment of $2,703,635 in fees to 50 lawyers
Entertain Capt Lindbergh in London
1927Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (born 1860)[†]
Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders and, despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just days before the death of her older sister Emma.
1927J. B. Bury, Irish historian, philologist, and scholar (born 1861)[†]
John Bagnell Bury was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire. He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin (1893–1902), before being Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of King's College, Cambridge from 1902 until his death.