Milestones

Engaged. Miss Paulina du Pont, cousin of former Senator du Pont of Delaware, to J. Simpson Dean of Atlanta, intercollegiate golf champion in 1921. (Representing Princeton, he beat Sweetser of Yale in the final.)

Married. Louis Wolheim, 43, villain and hero of many stage and film dramas, including The Hairy Ape, to Miss Ethel Dane, 37, actress, in Manhattan. Wolheim was at one time an instructor in mathematics at Cornell University.

Died. John W. Rainey, 42, Democrat, Congressman from the 4th Illinois district (Chicago), of pneumonia. He had the shortest biography in the Congressional Directory --just his name--not even his political party.

Died. John Howard Parnell, 79, older brother of Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish statesman, in Dublin. He came to this country in 1873 and began one of the first successful peach farms in Georgia. On the death of his brother, he returned to Ireland and entered Parliament. He married at 63, and is survived by a son.

Died. Sir William Robertson Nicoll (pen name Claudius Clear), 72, for 37 years editor of The British Weekly, at Hampstead, England. His paper (a Free Church organ) numbered among its contributors John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Besant, Henry Drummond. A friend of Lloyd George, Sir William gave him active editorial support during the war.

Died. Scott R. Hayes, 57, youngest son of the late President Rutherford B. Hayes, of brain tumor, at Ossining, N. Y.

Died. Raphael Lewisohn, 55, celebrated painter and step-brother of Adolph Lewisohn, New York financier, in Paris. He was a member of the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts.

Died. Rear Admiral William S. Cowles, 76, U. S. N., retired, at Farmington, Conn., where he was born. He served in the navy for 45 years prior to his retirement in 1908, commanded the gunboat, Topeka in the Spanish American War, was naval aide to McKinley, was in command of the Missouri when it had a collision with the Illinois and when thirty-three men were killed in an explosion (he was cleared of responsibility in both cases) and was an official representative at the coronation of George V. He was divorced from his first wife in 1880 and fifteen years later married Anna Roosevelt, sister of the then Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt of New York City.