Engaged. Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden, 41, to Lady Louise Mountbatten, 43, cousin of George V. (See page 11.)
Married. Mrs. Dorothy Caldwell Taylor, 35, former wife of Claude Grahame-White, British aeronautical pioneer, to Count Carlo Dentice di Frasso, 47, former member of the Italian Parliament, at the home of Whitney Warren, architect, Manhattan. Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., was present.
Married. Miss Harriet B. Pratt, daughter of Herbert L. Pratt, President of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and Mrs. Pratt, to Lawrence B. Van Ingen, of Manhattan, at Glen Cove, L. I.
Sued for Divorce. Park Benjamin, brother of Mrs. Enrico Caruso, by Mrs. Katherine W. Doremus Benjamin. Misconduct will be charged.
Died. Mrs. Henrietta Baldwin Morris, at Newport, R. I. Her son, Gouverneur Morris, author, hastened from San Francisco to try to save her life by blood transfusion.
Died. Albert Schoensleben (" Al the Milkman"), famous rooter for the Cincinnati National League Baseball Club, after an operation for appendicitis, at Cincinnati. He made a practice of rewarding home-run-hitting Reds with floral pieces.
Died. Hermann M. Biggs, M. D., 63, internationally-known physician, Health Commissioner of New York State. (See page 19.)
Died. Sumner M. Curtis, assistant to John T. Adams, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, in an automobile accident near Denver.
Died. Bert Savoy, of the vaudeville team of Savoy and Brennan, struck by lightning on the sands at Long Beach, L. I. Savoy, female impersonator, introduced the expressions: "You don't know the half of it, dearie," "You must come over," "You should have been with us," and in his babbling, flirtatious conversations with Brennan, referred frequently to a friend known as "Margie."
Died. Wolf, 10, son of Lad and Lady, collies made famous by the stories of Albert Payson Terhune, at Pompton Lakes, N. J. Taking his usual evening stroll, Wolf was near the railroad station when a pariah dog got in front of an onrushing express. Wolf drove him from the tracks, but was himself killed.