October 4, 1900 (Thursday)
- U.S. Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan denounced the administration of President William McKinley for permitting slavery to exist in American territory. "We fought then", said Bryan of the Civil War, "for the adoption of a constitutional amendment that provided that no man could own a slave, and yet before the Philippine war is ended we have the Sulu treaty, which recognizes slavery."
- Died: Charles Alexander Mentry, founder in 1876 of the town of Mentryville, California, was stung by a bee and died at the age of 54. Without him, the Los Angeles County town steadily declined in population and was abandoned by the 1930s, with the exception of Mentry's house.
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)