Died. Clifford Milburn Holland, 41, chief engineer of a new vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River at Manhattan; in Battle Creek, Michigan, of heart disease. A day or twoafter his death, a charge of dynamite "holed through" connecting the two ends of the tunnel driven from opposite sides of the river and disclosed them only three-quarters of an inch out of direct line with each other.

Died. Edward Bell, 42, U. S. Charge d'affaires at Peking; in Peking, following a heart attack.

Died. Albert H. Loeb, 56, father of Richard A. Loeb, recently convicted murdered, in Chicago. Mr. Loeb, until lately, was Vice President of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Said The New York Times in. a relentless headline: "Albert Loeb, Father of Franks' Slayer, Dies in Chicago Home Where Crime Was Planned."

Died. Harold M. Sewall, 64, Republican National Committeeman from Maine, father-in-law of Senator Edge of New Jersey, onetime Consul General at Samoa, quondam Minister to Hawaii; in Manhattan, after a minor operation.

Died. James Berwick Forgan, 72, "dean of Chicago bankers," of heart disease; at Chicago.

Died. Frances Hodgson Burnett, 75, authoress of many novels and creator of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), modeled after her own son; at Plandome, L. I., after three months' illness. She was married twice and resumed the name of Burnett acquired from her first husband (divorced) after the death of her second husband, Stephen Townsend. Her first literary success came when Godcy's Lady's Book published a story which she wrote at the age of 16.

Died. Thomas Harbaugh, 75, one of the authors of the Nick Carter Detective Stories and other dime novels; penniless in the Miami County Home, Ohio. He wrote from 300 to 600 thrillers, at the rate of one a week, with pen; later, in the days of the typewriter, he sometimes bettered his speed.

Died. General William Birch Haldeman, 78, Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans; of heart disease, in Louisville. (SEE NATIONAL AFFAIRS.)

Died. Eugene T. Sawyer, 77, one of the authors of the Diamond Dick, the Nick Carter Detective Stories; in San Jose, Calif. (Three others of these authors, all dead within the last two years, were Thomas Harbaugh, John R. Coryell, Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey.)