Events
- Timothy "Big Tim" Sullivan, longtime political boss of Tammany Hall, is committed to a sanitarium.
- The Kim Lan Wui Saw Tong is established in New York's Chinatown, eventually declaring war against the On Leong and Hip Sings later that year.
- Joseph DiGiovanni, a Black Hand leader, begins operating in Kansas City. With his brother Peter DiGiovanni they would later control bootlegging in Kansas City during Prohibition.
- Mock Duck is convicted of running a policy game and sentenced to imprisonment at Sing Sing Prison.
- July 15 - Members of the Lenox Avenue Gang including leader Harry Horowitz, known as Gyp the Blood, and top lieutenants Jacob Seidenscher, Louis Rosenberg, and Francesco Cirofici kill prominent New York gambler and police informant Herman "Beansie" Rosenthal. They are later convicted of Rosenthal's murder and executed the same year.
- September - Republican State's Attorney John E.W. Wayman, shortly before his term of office is to expire, officially closes down Chicago's South Side "Levee District". The long-time vice district had been a hotbed of criminal activity for Chicago's underworld, as well as a major source of political power for Chicago's First Ward Alderman such as Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna and "Bathhouse" John Coughlin, since the 1890s.
- October 16 - Frank Costello is again arrested for assault and robbery and is later released.
- October 5 - Eastman Gang leader Jack Zelig is killed by "Red" Phil Davidson on a Second Avenue street car trolley.
- November 6 - Owney Madden is shot by several thugs while at a 52nd Street dance in New York.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)