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Died. Eugene Turpin, 78, inventor of melinite;* of pulmonary congestion, at Pontoise, France. His life was embittered in 1889 when he was falsely accused of treason, a Captain Tripone having stolen his secret and sold his invention to a foreign power. He was pardoned in 1893 and exonerated in 1901. Last week Cross of the Legion of Honor, which he had not worn since he had been accused, was placed on his coffin.
Died. Charles E. Phillips, 79, millionaire cod liver oil man, landowner, eccentric philanthropist; at his home in Swampscott, Mass., suddenly. He was sitting at the dinner table, talking with his two faithful Chinese servants when Death came. His father began buying up cod liver oil during the Civil War. Charles expanded the industry, but rarely talked about it in his later years. He spent his time traveling about the U. S., enjoying the cinema in his private theatre. He rented or bought every famed film, including the banned "Fatty" Arbuckle ones. When President Coolidge was summering at Swampscott in 1925, friends of Mr. Phillips suggested he invite the President to his cinema exhibitions. Said he: "Nup, it's a private show!" He was a bachelor; for 40 years no woman crossed the threshold of his home. There is a story that once he loved the daughter of a Salem shipowner. She refused him, but later hinted that she had changed her mind. Said he: "So have I, Madam!"
Died. William E. Cameron, 84, onetime (1882-86) Governor of Virginia; at Louisa, Va.
Died. Tom Davis, Negro ashman and drayer, after taking an anesthetic preparatory to a minor operation; at Niles, Mich. One day, many years ago, Mr. Davis gave a white boy a job and picked a dog out of an ashcan. Both proved faithful. A few years ago the dog was dead and the boy was rich. Pictures of both appeared in the newspapers because the boy was John F. Dodge who, with Horace E., was Dodge Brothers ("Constant improvement—no yearly models.")
Died. Simeon Eben Baldwin, 87, twice governor of Connecticut (1911-13, 1913-15), great-grandson of Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; descendant of four Connecticut governors; in New Haven, Conn.
Died. Brigadier General John McCausland, 90, Confederate army officer who never surrendered; in a deep sleep at Point Pleasant, West Va. He was blamed for the burning of Chambersburg and wandered as an exile for two years, following the Civil War. Part of this time he saw military service in Mexico under Maximilian. General Grant intervened in 1867, quashed the stigma attached to him.
Died. Lyman Judson Gage, 90, onetime Secretary of the Treasury under McKinley and Roosevelt; of pneumonia, at San Diego.
*"Mother Goose was indeed a goose!" Mrs. Stoner has said.
†Recently, in the daily press, the Harrison divorce was announced prematurely.
**His appendix was on the left side instead of the right, making diagnosis difficult.
*A high explosive made chiefly of picric acid, used to fill shells.