Born. To Rogers Hornsby, champion batter of the National League (baseball), a son; in St. Louis.

Engaged. Miss Isabel Rockefeller, grandniece of John Davison Rockefeller, to one Frederick W. Lincoln Jr. His sister, Miss Florence Lincoln, married William A. Rockefeller, cousin of Miss Rockefeller, in 1918.

Engaged. Miss Kitty Kiernan of Longford, Ireland, onetime fiancee of the late Michael Collins, to General Felix Cronin, Irish soldier. Three former fiances, all soldiers, have met violent deaths. The first, a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was shot in her father's inn; the second and the third (the famed Collins) were shot during the summer of 1922 by Irish Republicans.

Married. Ernest du Pont, Wilmington powder man, to Miss Anne Thompson, Johns Hopkins Hospital nurse; in Raleigh, N. C.

Divorced. Marjorie Sutherland (Marjorie Daw), cinema actress, from Albert E. Sutherland, cinema director; in Los Angeles. She charged desertion.

Divorced. Francis X. Bushman, 40, cinema heman, by Beverley Bayne, cinema actress; in Los Angeles. She charged desertion.

Divorced. Alexander Koness, by Mrs. Koness, nee Czolgosz, on grounds of cruelty in that, for spite, he told all the neighbors that his wife's brother "had killed a President"*; in Los Angeles.

Died. Charles W. Halsey, 48, President of Rogers-Peet Co., famed men's outfitters; in Bronxville, N. Y., of a nervous breakdown. A graduate of Princeton, he obtained a job in 1898 as dbseryer for the U. S. Weather Bureau in New York, obtained later a job as clerk in Rogers-Peet, rose to the Presidency.

Died. Lieutenant General H. H. Maharaja Sir Madho Rao Scindia, 49, ruler of Gwalior, India; in Paris, after an operation (see COMMONWEALTH).

Died. Pierre Louys, 55, French novelist and poet, author of Aphrodite (of which more than 300,000 copies have been sold since 1896, not including translations) ; in Paris.

Died. Lue Gim Gong, 70, Chinese-American fruit expert, credited with having originated two of the best-known varieties of grapefruit and oranges in the world; in Deland, Fla. Aged 12, he came to the U. S., was adopted by two wealthy Baptist women, was converted. He inherited from these women an orange grove in Florida, began his experiments. He worked in seclusion, held prayers in his private chapel. Others benefited by his researches and Gong died a poor man. Said Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor: "The orange growers of the United States should build a monument to his memory, and doubtless they will do it."

Died. James W. Ellsworth, 76, financier of the Amundsen flight and father of Lincoln Ellsworth, com-mander of one of the planes in that flight; in Florence, Italy, of bronchial pneumonia (see SCIENCE).

Died. Camille Flammarion, 83, famed French astronomer and author; in Juvisy, France (see SCIENCE).

Died. Edward P. Judd, son of Norman Judd who, in 1860, nominated Abraham Lincoln, at the National Republican Presidential Convention; in Seattle, Wash.

*The court asked: "Was what he said about your brother true?"

"Yes," answered Mrs. Koness.

Her brother, Leon Czolgosz, 28, brown-Iiaired, smooth-shaven Polish anarchist, had heard Emma Goldman speak, had been fired by her doctrine that "all rulers should be exterminated." On Sept. 6, 1901, dressed like a respectable young mechanic, carrying a revolver wrapped in bandages about an appar ently injured hand, he entered the Temple of Music at a Buffalo Exposition. He stood in line to shake hands with President William McKinley. At the appropriate moment, he fired two shots. Police and Secret Service men saved Czolgosz from slaughter by the crowd. Eight days later, McKinley died and 45 days afterwards, Czolgosz, unrepentant, felt 1,700 volts of electricity pass through his body at Auburn prison.

Said he: "I killed the President because he was an enemy of the good people -- the working people. I am not sorry."