Monday, Jun. 04, 1923
MILESTONES Engaged. William H. Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred G. Vanderbilt by his first marriage, and grandson of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Emily O'Neill Davies, of Manhattan.
Married. Katherine MacDonald, cinema actress, to Charles Schoen Johnson, grandson of Charles T. Schoen, inventor of the pressed steel railroad car, at Atlantic City.
Married. Consuelo Morgan, divorced wife of the Comte de Maupas du Juglart, daughter of Harry Hays Morgan, American Consul General at Brussels, and sister of Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, to Benjamin Thaw, Jr., acting charge d'affaires of the American Embassy, at Ixelles, Belgium.
Sued for Divorce. Alexandra Carlisle, actress, by Dr. Albert Pfeiffer of the Massachusetts Department of Health, who charges desertion. She attended the Republican National Convention in 1920 as an alternate delegate and seconded the nomination of Calvin Coolidge for the Vice Presidency.
Died. Mrs. Mary Howell Beecher, 69, author, descendant of Elihu Yale (founder of Yale University), and through her husband related to Henry Ward Beecher, in Brooklyn.
Died. Mme. Prouchesta Rustomjee, wife of Rustom Rustomjee, of Bombay, former editor of The Oriental Review, in Chicago.
Died. Shuh-shee-ahsh, 68, also known as Curley, a Crow Indian scout, the sole survivor of the Custer massacre, of cancer of the liver, at the Crow Agency, Mont. He was buried on the Custer Battlefield.
Died: Elliott Woods, 58, Washington architect, inventor, scientist, at Spring Lake, N. J. He helped design the Senate and House of Representatives Office Buildings.
Died. Otto B. Halvorsen, Premier of Norway, leader of the Conservative Party, at Christiana.
Died. Lady Constance Lytton, 54, militant suffragist and daughter of the first Earl of Lytton at London. She was imprisoned four times for her militant activities, twice went on a hunger strike, was forcibly fed.
Died. Egbert Ingersoll, 100, a member of the United States Secret Service during the Civil War and personal messenger for President Lincoln and Secretary of War Stanton, at Los Angeles.
Died. Katherine Eager Straton, 15, daughter of Rev. John Roach Straton, of spinal meningitis, at Atlanta.
Died. Edward C. Robbins, 82, former commander of the United Confederate Veterans, at St. Louis. On January 1 he was struck by a bicycle and never recovered.