Events
- A gang war breaks out between the Hip Sing and On Leong Tongs over illegal gambling in New York's Chinatown.
- New York Black Hand leader Giuseppe Morello is arrested for counterfeiting and sentenced to three years. Released in 1902, Morello establishes a system where counterfeit $5 US dollar bills would be printed in Sicily and smuggled into the United States.
- Ignazio Lupo, known as "Lupo the Wolf", arrives in New York.
- Charles Umbriaco arrives in New York later joining the Black Hand under Giuseppe Morello and Ignazio Lupo.
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