Engaged. Miss Alicia Patterson, daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of Liberty, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, to James Simpson Jr., son of James Simpson, President of Marshall Field & Co. On the day the engagement was announced, J. Ledyard Smith, rival suitor, obtained a license to marry her. Later he returned it.

Engaged. Joseph Wesley Harper, great grandson of Joseph Harper, founder of Harper & Brothers, publishers; to Miss Constance Garland, illustrator of her father's (Author Hamlin Garland's) books (which are published by Macmillan).

Engaged. Miss Georgia-Appleton, daughter of the late Daniel Appleton, onetime head of London offices of D. Appleton & Sons, publishers; to Livingston Davis, who, during the War was Assistant Secretary to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Married. Congressman Clay Stone Briggs, of Texas, to Mrs. Newell B. Woodworth; near Syracuse, N. Y.

Died. Nicola Sacco, 33, factory worker, convicted of murder; by electrocution in Charlestown, Mass, (see p. 10).

Died. Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 39, fishmonger, convicted of murder; by electrocution in Charlestown, Mass. (see p. 10). Died. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, 53, naturalist, painter of birds; from burns and crushing in a grade crossing motor accident near Unadilla, N. Y.

Died. Elita Proctor Otis, retired actress, daughter of the late William H. Otis, founder of the elevator company; at Pelham, N. Y.

Died. Jonathan Ogden Armour, 63; from heart disease; in London (see p. 29).

Died. Braxton Bragg Comer, 78, onetime (1907-11) Governor of Alabama, onetime (1920) U. S. Senator from Alabama; in Birmingham, after a long illness.