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Died. William E. Metzger, 64, automotive pioneer, co-organizer of Cadillac Motor Car Co.; of heart disease after four years' illness; in Detroit. He attended the world's first automobile show (London, 1895), returned to build & operate the first U. S. automobile retail showroom (Detroit, 1897), help stage the first U. S automobile show (New York's Madison Square Garden, 1900).
Died. Samuel Johnson Poe, 69, Baltimore lawyer, grandnephew of Poet Edgar Allan Poe, eldest of Princeton's famed six footballing Poe brothers; of heart disease; in Washington.
Died. Mary Dickerman Woodin, 85, mother of Secretary of the Treasury William Hartman Woodin; of a paralytic stroke; in Manhattan.
Died, Alphonso David Rockwell, 92, pioneer electrotherapeutist, ardent opponent of capital punishment, co-developer (with two other physicians and Thomas Alva Edison) of the electric chair; of old age; in Flushing, L. I. Dr. Rockwell & colleagues electrocuted 19 animals before their device was tried out, amid nation-wide protest; on one William Kemmler, murderer, at Auburn, N. Y. on Aug. 6, 1890.
Died. Jules Piccard, 93, longtime (1883-1920) University of Basel chemistry professor, father of Stratospherist Auguste Piccard and his twin Chemist Jean Piccard of Wilmington, Del.; in Lausanne.
Died. Adelbert Ames, 97, last surviving Federal general of the Civil War, oldest West Point graduate (Class of 1861), long-time golf partner of John Davison Rockefeller; of old age; in Ormond Beach, Fla. He entered the Civil War a lieutenant, was a 29-year-old major general when it ended. For heroism in the first Battle of Bull Run he got, 32 years later, a Congressional Medal of Honor. Appointed Provisional Governor of Mississippi in 1868, he was sent to the U. S. Senate in 1869, elected Governor in 1873. Reconstruction strife forced him, last Northern Governor of a Southern State, to resign three years later in the face of impeachment proceedings.