February 26.—A five-million-dollar fire sweeps the river front at New Orleans. Elevators and piers destroyed, entailing future loss of export trade.
February 27.—By the collapse of the second floor of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, of Brooklyn, N. Y., eleven persons are killed and several score injured.
The Alexander-Hyde fight in the Equitable Life Assurance Society is carried into the courts.
After making from $5,000,000 to $8,000,000 in wheat, John W. Gates and his associates throw their holdings on the market, causing a sharp decline.
March 1.—Three New York thieves testify that they have been dividing proceeds with the police to secure immunity from arrest.
March 2.—H. Rider Haggard, the celebrated British novelist, visits the United States for the purpose of studying colonization plans for the poor.
March 6.—A general strike is declared on all the Subway and Elevated lines of New York City.
The Russo-Japanese War
February 7.—A growing peace sentiment is manifest in Russia, and press and public are becoming more outspoken against the further prosecution of a losing war.
General Kuropatkin sends word of a raid in which fifty Japanese were killed.