OSCAR WILDE DEAD. ENGLISH AUTHOR AND DRAMATIST PASSES AWAY IN PARIS. UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME. RECEIVED INTO CATHOLIC CHURCH ON HIS DEATH BED. He Was One of the Most Remarkable Characters in British World of Letters and Died an Exile From His Native Land.

DUBLIN, Nov. 30.—A dispatch to the Evening Mail from Paris says: Oscar Wilde is dead. The dispatch adds that he expired in an obscure house in the Latin quarter from meningitis and was received into the Catholic church on his deathbed. According to the Evening Mail's dispatch, Wilde died to-day.

PARIS, Nov. 30.—Oscar Wilde had been living in a hotel on the Rue des Beaux Arts, where he had been known for several months under the name of Manmoth [sic].

For some time he had been indisposed. In October he was obliged to submit to a serious operation from the effects of which he never recovered. He died at 2 o'clock this morning at the Maison du Pierier, an obscure hotel, in the presence of Lord Alfred Douglas.

The Journal says it is rumored that Wilde committed suicide.

Wilde's full name was Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie [Wills] Wilde and he was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1856. He was a son of Sir William Robert Wills Wilde, a famous surgeon, and of Jane Francesca, a woman of great culture and known widely in the world of letters. Young Wilde studied at several famous schools and graduated at Trinity college, Dublin, where he took many medals for Greek and English verse.

Oscar Wilde went to London in 1879 and immediately became a conspicuous figure in literary and artistic circles. He was known as the apostle of the esthetic movement, and lectured on art subjects in the United States in 1882. In 1895 Wilde was condemned to penal servitude for infamous conduct. He served two years and upon his release went to Paris where he became a disreputable rake.

Among Wilde's best known literary works are "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "Intentions," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," the tragedies of "The Duchess of Padua," "Guido Ferranti," and the following comedies: "Lady Windermere's Fan," "A Woman of No Importance," and "The Importance of Being in Earnest." The feature of Wilde's dramatic productions is a clear epigrammatic style which is clearly exemplified in "Lady Windermere's Fan," which has been played quite recently in Kansas City.