Engaged. James Stillman Rockefeller, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller, to Miss Nancy Carnegie of Pittsburgh and Boston, grandniece of the late Andrew Carnegie. He was Captain of the Yale University Crew which won the 1924 Olympic championship.

Married. Miss Frances Lowden, daughter of onetime (1917-21) Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, to

John B. Drake Jr., son of John B. Drake, Chicago hotel man (Blackstone, Drake) ; in Chicago. Married. William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, 29, champion pugilist, to Mrs. Ida Estelle Peacock (Estelle Taylor), cinema actress ; in San Diego. In procuring the license, Mr. Dempsey gave his occupation as "business man," Miss Taylor her age as 26 (probable age, 32). Died. Julius Fleischmann, 53, famed philanthropist, sportsman; in Miami, Fla. He dropped dead of heart disease while engaged in a game of polo. Son of Charles Fleischmann, founder of the famed Fleischmann Yeast Co., Mr. Fleischmann was elected Mayor of Cincinnati when he was 28, was reflected for a second term in 1903, was asked to run for a third, was three times thereafter a delegate to Republican National Conventions. He owned a large yacht, was a member of several yacht clubs, a polo player, onetime owner of a string of celebrated racehorses, one time part owner of the Cincinnati Base ball Club. Died. Mrs. Katherine Bowlker, 66, sister of President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, of Amy Lowell, poet; in Boston, of a fall from a fifth-floor hotel window. She was married twice, her first husband being a first cousin of the late Theodore Roosevelt. Died. Thomas W. Lawson, 67, frenzied financier, called "the world's greatest speculator"; in Boston, after an operation for diabetes. When 17, he ran away from school, in five years had made--and lost--$60,000 in speculation. He bought copper stock for 75c, sold it for $60 a share, won a new sobriquet, "the Copper King." Died. Oliver Heavisicle, 70, last year awarded a gold medal by the Society of Electrical Engineers (London), as "the greatest living authority on electricity"; in Devonshire, England, of a fall from a ladder. He was obscure, frequently destitute, a recluse in his cottage. His death notice was to many the first intimation of his existence. Died. John W. Alden, 77, direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden, famed Pilgrims; in Duxbury, Mass. Died. Baroness von Vetsera, 78, mother of the beautiful Countess Marie von Vetsera, who, in 1889, was found dead with Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in his hunting lodge near Vienna; at Payerbach, near Vienna, where she lived in seclusion. Died. Edmund Plummer, 93, last of the boys who suffered under Schoolmaster Squeers, immortalized in Nicholas Nickleby; in London, on the 113th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth.