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Died. Major General John Lincoln Clem. 85, U.S.A. retired, "Drummer Boy of Chickamauga"; in San Antonio. Tex. Last Civil War veteran on the active list (until 1916), and youngest U. S. soldier ever to win a sergeant's chevrons. Orphan John Clem joined the Army by stowing away at 10 in a baggage car bound for a mobilization camp at Covington. Ky. He met the Civil War President in 1864, and decided to take Lincoln for his middle name.
Died. Afonso da Costa, Portugal's Wartime Premier; in Paris. His life threatened after he helped force the abdication of King Manuel in 1910, he was ousted by a coup d'état in 1917, again exiled in 1926 while he was President of the League of Nations Assembly.