Justice Kelly, of the New York Supreme Court, orders trial of the suit brought by Hon. W. R. Hearst against the Gas Trust.
March 14.—Nineteen persons are killed in a New York tenement house fire.
The war in the Equitable Life Assurance Society is settled by the factions agreeing on a plan to mutualize the company.
The Mormon Church excommunicates ex-United States Senator Frank J. Cannon, of Utah, because of editorials in the Salt Lake Tribune, of which Mr. Cannon is editor.
March 15.—A bull market in cotton is started by Daniel J. Sully, one day after he is released from bankruptcy.
Andrew Carnegie declares that a Pan-American railroad would be more effective for defense than all the battleships we can build.
March 17.—Secretary of State John Hay sails on a European trip in an impaired state of health.
President Roosevelt addresses the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in New York, after the largest St. Patrick’s Day parade in the history of the city.
March 19.—Twenty-four men are killed in a mine explosion near Thurmond, W. Va.
The Panama Canal Commission issues a long statement denying charges made against the body relating to the sanitation of the Isthmus.