Senator Thomas H. Carter, head of the Government commission, reports charges of wholesale bribery in connection with the giving out of awards by the St. Louis World’s Fair officials.
John D. Rockefeller, George J. Gould and other prominent men are reported to be implicated in the Utah coal land frauds.
March 20.—Over one hundred workmen are killed and wounded by a boiler explosion in a shoe factory at Brockton, Mass.
Three thousand men are thrown out of work by the shut-down of one of the Havemeyer sugar refineries at Brooklyn, N. Y.
March 21.—Twenty-seven New England Congregational clergymen enter vigorous protest against the acceptance of a $100,000 gift from John D. Rockefeller to the Board of Missions of that church.
March 22.—It is given out at Denver that the strike and contest over the governorship have cost the state of Colorado $2,000,000.
More than 11,000 immigrants land at Ellis Island, New York, in two days, thus breaking all former records.
March 23.—The Wyoming court decides against granting a decree of divorce to Colonel William F. Cody (“Buffalo Bill”).
The ship with which Lieutenant Robert E. Peary will make another attempt to reach the North Pole is launched at Bucksport, Me., and is christened the Roosevelt.
March 25.—A plan to merge the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Harvard University is made public in Boston.