Saturday, Mar. 03, 1923
Married: Edmund Hugo Stinnes, son of "Hugo Stinnes, of Germany, to Margarete Herrmann, daughter of a former actor at the Royal Theatre, Berlin.
Married: Deputy Finzi, Italian Under Secretary of the Interior, and Signorina Clementi, neice of Cardinal Vamrutelli, dean of the Sacred College, Rome. The witnesses were Premier Mussolini, Gulielmo Marconi, the inventor, and Prince Colonna. Gabriele d'Annunzio was also to have been a witness but failed to arrive in time.
Sued for Divorce: Mrs. Elizabeth Fae Furness, an American, by Thomas Furness, brother of Viscount Furness. Maurice, the dancer, is named as corespondent.
Died: Theophile Delcasse, 71, French statesman, Nice, Italy. (See page 9.)
Died: Musammat Rukka, 25, widow of Ganga Din Ahir, 28, Italy, India. She committed suttee on the funeral pyre of her husband.
Died: Charlemagne Tower, of Philadelphia, 74, for six years Ambassador to Germany under President Roosevelt.
Died: Thomas W. Shaw, 91, London, Ont. He was the last survivor of the Light Brigade, which in 1854 made the famous charge on a Russian battery at Balaklava in the Crimean War. He was wounded in the charge and nursed by Florence Nightingale.
Died: Mine. Ben Nishimoto, 103, Kyushu Island, Japan. Her funeral was attended by 93 of her direct descendants; five children, 19 grandchildren, 57 great-grandchildren, 12 great-great-grandchildren.
Died: King Khama of Bamangwate, 87, Serowe, Bechuanaland. The son of a witch-doctor, at 12 years of age he became the protege of David Livingstone, the missionary-explorer. He was converted to Christianity, became king of the Bamangwate Nation, declared religious freedom, abolished slavery, prohibited the use of liquor. To enforce the latter decree he banished white men from his domain.
Died: Mrs. Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan, 84, widow of John A. Logan, Union General in the Civil War. It was she who conceived the idea of Memorial Day, which was first declared by her husband as Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1868. After her husband's death in 1886 she wrote several books on the Civil War, and made a valuable collection of war souvenirs in memory of her son Major John A. Logan, Jr., killed at the battle of San Jacinto in the Philippines, 1898.