February 24.—The New York State Factory Inspector finds immigrant boys who are virtually made slaves and compelled to work twenty hours a day without pay.
Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi, employs troops to protect from lynching a negro accused of having assaulted a white girl.
Frank H. Monnett, ex-Attorney-General of Ohio, reaches Topeka, where he will assist in framing a case in the Supreme Court to oust the Standard Oil Company from the State.
The plan for mutualizing the Equitable Life Assurance Society fails, and the war between the Hyde and Alexander factions goes on.
The Vanderbilt interests purchase a majority of the stock of the Boston & Maine Railroad.
February 25.—Wall Street sees a wild day on the stock market because of a reported merger of the New York Central and Union Pacific railroads.
Independent crude oil producers and refiners of Kansas, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana unite to fight the Standard Oil Company.
A two-million-dollar fire sweeps Hot Springs, Ark., causing several deaths.
Richard Croker, former chief of Tammany Hall, sails for Ireland.
The Engineering Committee of the Isthmian Canal Commission estimates that a sea-level canal can be constructed for $230,500,000, and that the time occupied in building it will be ten or twelve years.