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Died. Julian Hawthorne, 88, author, only son of Nathaniel Hawthorne; after long illness; in San Francisco. He was a childhood playmate of Louisa May Akott & her sisters, whose antics are described in Little Women. After brief experience as an engineer he started writing, proved more prolific, less talented than his father. His novels (Garth, Archibald Malmaison, Dust, David Poindexter's Disappearance), popular in the '90s, are forgotten today. When he was 67 he was sentenced to a year and a day in a Federal penitentiary for writing the prospectus of a worthless gold mine in which the public lost $3,500,000. He was paroled after a few months.
Died. William Thomas Gardner, 90, Civil War veteran who, lacking newsprint, printed a wallpaper account of the fall of Vicksburg (now a collector's item); after a long illness; in Freeport. L. I.
Died. Winks, Presidential setter pup: on the White House lawn, from concussion of the brain, after running into an iron fence while romping with a bull terrier belonging to a Secret Service man. Winks's most famed feat was the consumption of twelve plates of bacon and eggs, laid for breakfast in the servants' dining room of the White House.