Events
- The headquarters of the On Leong Merchant Association is moved to N.Y, New York.
- Johnny Torrio, under the alias J.T. McCarthy, opens a saloon on New York's James Street and Walker Street which operates as a bordello. Hiring several former James Street Gang members, of which he was a member as a teenager, as protection he becomes involved in Paul Kelly's Five Points Gang becoming a top lieutenant by the following year.
- Emil Roeski, an associate of the Carn Barn Bandits, is sentenced to life imprisonment.
- February 2 - Monk Eastman is arrested after fleeing from a failed robbery. Without protection from Tammany Hall, he is later sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing Prison.
- March 1 - Harvey Van Dine, a co-leader of the Car Barn Bandits, is executed.
- April 22 - Gustave Marx, yet another of the four co-leaders of the Car Barn Bandits, is executed for a crime spree including robbery and murder the previous year.
- November 4 - Hip Sing Tong leader Mock Duck is wounded in a gunfight by three On Leong hatchet men near his Pell Street home during the New York Tong war.
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