Engagement Denied. Ellin Mackay, daughter of Clarence H. Mackay, to Irving Berlin, millionaire songwriter (see Page 19).

Married. Dagmar Dahlgren, dancer, eighth of Pugilist Kid McCoy's nine wives, to Alexander Kipper, her vaudeville partner; in Los Angeles. He is her third husband.

Died. Miss Caroline M. Merrall, 60, sister of Walter H. Merrall of Acker, Merrall & Condit, famed grocers; in Manhattan, of a fall from a window.

Died. The Right Rev. Dr. Hubert Murray Burge, 62, Bishop of Oxford; in London, England. He was considered the probable successor to the Archbishopric of Canterbury when that post should become vacant.

Died. Warren S. Stone, 65, famed Labor leader; in Cleveland, of Bright's disease (see Page 3).

Died. Julius Kruttschnitt, 71, retired Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Southern Pacific R. R.; in Manhattan, of heart disease. He started in the railroad business measuring ties, insuring their conformity to the company's standards. Often chided for being too "finicky," he still stuck to his requirements, and was rewarded for his precision by being made roadmaster. Eventually, as fourth Vice President of the Southern Pacific, he came under the eye of the late E. H. Harriman, railroad king, became the latter's personal representative. After the death of Mr. Harriman, he became head of the Southern Pacific.

Died. Mrs. Mary Cole Walling, 86, "first woman to to address the U. S. Senate"; in Louisville, Ky. After the Civil War she made a lecture tour of most of the Northern states, speaking on the conditions in the South and the need of Reconstruction. In Manhattan, Mrs. Walling was introduced on a lecture platform by Horace Greeley as the "greatest woman speaker of the age." By a special resolution passed by the Senate in 1886, she was allowed to appear before that body and deliver a Reconstruction address.