Engaged. Brigadier General William Mitchell, 42, Assistant Chief of the U. S. Army Air Service, to Miss Elizabeth T. Miller, of Detroit.

Married. Miss Colleen Moore, cinema actress, to John Emmett McCormick, Western representative of Associated First National Pictures, Inc., at Los Angeles.

Sued for divorce. Mrs. Marie Gerke (Marie Prevost), cinema actress, by H. C. Gerke, automobile salesman, in Los Angeles. He charged desertion. She was generally believed to be unmarried until the divorce suit was filed.

Died. Oliver G. Dickman, comic artist (who drew The Life of Reilly in The New York Evening World), in St. Louis, suicide by asphyxiation, on the eve of his wedding to Miss Viola Schubert of St. Louis.

Died. Thomas Ellis Brown, 67, engineer, at Morristown, N. J., of heart disease. He designed the original elevator in the Eiffel Tower (erected 1889).

Died. George W. Kroh, of New York and Philadelphia, husband of Miss Olive Tell, actress, at Asheville, N. C.

Died. Mrs. Winston H. Slaughter (Marie Wainwright), actress, 68, at Scranton, following an operation. She played the part of Josephine in the first American production of H. M. S. Pinafore (1878). She played the part of Aunt Agatha in Captain Applejack (1922).

Died. Sir H. T. Smart, Bart., 70, comic opera and vaudeville actor, known professionally as Charles Archer, at Los Angeles. Preferring the life of an actor to that of a baronet, he came to the U. S. in his youth and went West with the first Pinafore company.

Died. Major Count Ferdinand Esterhazy, alias Comte de Voilement, at Harpenden, England. His death revives memories of the famous Dreyfus case (1894-1906) in France; for it was Esterhazy who confessed to his part in preparing false evidence against the then Captain Alfred Dreyfus. He subsequently fled to England where he has lived ever since in a state of penury. He was referred to once by one of his followers as "that gladly forgotten Esterhazy, the wolf," so odious was his name in France.

Died. T. W. House, 78, former postmaster at Houston, Tex., and brother of Colonel Edward M. House, at Houston.

Died. At Cambridge, Mass., of old age, the Washington Elm, beneath which, on July 3,1775, George Washington first took supreme command of the Army of the United Colonies.