It was American Labor Day.
The 1899 Hague Convention went into effect, binding those nations which had entered into it, which the US had not.
The South Carolina African American Capital City Guards, while giving an exhibition drill in Charleston, reacted to the watching crowed being stormed by white horsemen, with a few members even fixing bayonets. The incident would lead to their disbandment.
Numerous policemen were injured, and three killed, when a power line fell onto the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department's call box circuit.
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