Engaged: Mrs. Nora McMullen Mellon, 44, divorced wife of the Secretary of the Treasury, to Arthur Lee, 30, until recently proprietor of a small art store in New York. Secretary Mellon divorced Mrs. Mellon in 1910 for desertion.

Engaged: Mrs. Blanche Estabrook Roebling, of Manhattan, to Colonel Arthur O'Brien, Assistant Secretary of War under Newton D. Baker.

Married: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, of Manhattan, and Miss Marie Norton, in Paris.

Married: Reginald Vanderbilt, brother of Cornelius Vanderbilt III, and Gloria Morgan, daughter of the American Minister to Holland, in New York.

Sued for Divorce: Mrs. Sara Carroll Field, sister of Mrs. Honora Palmer, by Stanley Field, nephew of the late Marshall Field. He charges wilful and persistent desertion.

Sued for Divorce: Mrs. Delia J. Akeley, by Carl E. Akeley, both noted African big game hunters, in Chicago. Mrs. Akeley filed a cross bill to her husband's. Both charged desertion.

Died: W. Bourke Cockran, 69, member of the House of Representatives from New York, in Washington. (See p. 2.)

Died: James M. and Jesse A. Ide, pioneer collar manufacturers, at Troy, N. Y. Both brothers died suddenly, within nine hours of each other, each without knowing of the other's illness.

Died: Mrs. I. V. Taylor (Ida Vernon), actress, 80, in Sheldon, Vt. Her first part was in A Midsummer Night's Dream, played at the Boston Theatre in 1856. She was a friend of Edwin Booth, who left her a legacy at his death. Later she played with Mrs. Fiske and William Hodge. Her best remembered plays were East Lynne, which she played for 120 nights in Richmond, and The Two Orphans.

Died: George Shapley Downing, 36, assistant superintendent of the Argonaut Mining Co., at a hospital in San Francisco. He suffered a col- lapse from his extreme exertions in the attempted rescue of 46 miners entombed in the Argonaut gold mine last September.