Monday, Apr. 05, 1926
Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Francis Grover Cleveland (youngest son of U. S.. President Cleveland) a daughter, at Cambridge, Mass.
Born. To Jacobo, 10th Duke of Berwick, 17th Duke of Alba, Senator in the Spanish Cortes, 48, and Maria del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, Marquesa de San Vicente, 26, a daughter; at Madrid. The Duke is commonly referred to as the highest grandee in Spain. The retiring U. S. Ambassador to Spain, Mr. Moore, habitually addressed him not as "Jacobo" but as "Jimmy."
Engaged. Miss Emily Smith, 24, eldest daughter of the Governor of N. Y.; to Major John A. Warner, 38, Superintendent of the State Constabulary.
Died. Louis Philippe Robert, Due d'Orleans, 57, pretender to the Throne of France, great-grandson of King Louis Philippe of France, son of the late Comte de Paris, head of the House of Bourbon-Orleans, incorrigible spendthrift, North Polar explorer; at Palermo, Italy.
He was born at Twickenham, England, haunt of Poet Alexander Pope. For decades he squandered huge sums extracted from various titled persons or realized from the sale of his estates. He attempted to enlist in the French army during the War but was refused. Under French law "the privilege of defending the Republic is denied to the sons of families that have reigned over France."
Died. Franz Kneisel, 61, famed Roumanian violinist and composer, from 1885 until 1903 concert master of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, until 1917 director of the Kneisel Quartet, of which the other three original members were Roth, Svecenski and Giese, since 1905 a professor at the Institute of Musical Art, Manhattan; at Manhattan after undergoing an operation for perforating ulcer of the intestines.
Died. Anatole le Braz, 67, "the Bard of Brittany" and famed French professor; at Mentone. (See FRANCE. )
Died. Konstantin Fehrenbach, 74, fifth Chancellor of the German Reich, President of the Reichstag under the imperial regime, a statesman of the first rank in both imperial and republican affairs; at Berlin, of pneumonia.
Died. Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness, 88, famed and discriminating philanthropist, widow of the noted financier who was one of the early partners of John D. Rockefeller in developing the Standard Oil Co., mother of the late Charles W. Harkness (Yale '83) in memory of whom she gave to Yale university a dormitory accommodating 600 students, the Harkness Memorial Quadrangle, mother of Edward Stephen Harkness ( Director N. Y. C. R. R., etc.); at Manhattan, of pneumonia.
Died. Mrs. Rebecca Jane Gilleland Fisher, 94, affectionately known as "The Mother of Texas," 30 times President of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Mrs. Fisher, emigrated as an infant to the Republic of Texas (1836-45). Indians once left her for dead after tomahawking her father.