The wife of Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson, Military Governor of the Matanzas-Santa Clara Department of Cuba, was killed when she stepped from a carriage and stepped on a match that had been burning in the street, catching her dress on fire.
I note this due to the absolute tyranny of women's clothing, much reduced in our present era, and due to the bizarre fact that women were so identified with their husbands in an earlier era, I could not learn her name.
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