March 9.—William Brimage Bate, United States Senator from Tennessee and former Governor and Major-General, C.S.A., dies in Washington, aged 78.
March 12.—Caleb Huse, foreign purchasing agent for the Confederate Government, dies at the age of 75.
March 14.—Henry R. Reed, millionaire sugar merchant, of Boston, aged 62, dies under mysterious circumstances in a New York hotel.
Henry Cyril Paget, Marquis of Anglesey, dies at Monte Carlo, aged 30.
March 16.—Meyer Guggenheim, prominent New York capitalist and head of the Smelter Trust, dies at Palm Beach, Fla., aged 78.
March 17.—Lot Thomas, former Congressman from Iowa, dies at the age of 61.
Charles C. Cole, former Supreme Court Justice, District of Columbia, dies at Washington, aged 64.
March 18.—General Joseph R. Hawley, former United States Senator from Connecticut, dies at the age of 78.
Cyrus G. Luce, once Governor of Michigan, dies at the age of 80.
March 22.—M. Antonin Proust, French author and former member of Gambetta Cabinet, dies at Paris.