March 4.—Cossacks kill nine students and wound many more at Tomsk.
March 5.—The Czar’s action in calling an assembly has little or no influence on the Russian situation, which grows more grave.
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February 7.—Joseph H. Manley, prominent Republican politician, dies at his home in Augusta, Me., aged 62.
February 8.—Rear-Admiral Frank C. Cosby, of the United States Navy, dies at the age of 65.
February 9.—Adolf von Menzel, famous German painter, dies in Berlin.
Chief-Justice Pardon E. Tillinghast, of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, dies at the age of 68.
Henry W. Blodgett, former United States District Judge, dies at the age of 84.
February 11.—Sylvester Scovel, the well-known war correspondent, dies in Havana, aged 36.
February 14.—James C. Carter, leading New York lawyer, dies at the age of 78.