- Dec 1 1st White House telephone installed
- Dec 3 Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah, Israel
- Dec 9 Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500
- Dec 12 Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St Louis Dispatch"
- Dec 18 French SS Byzantin sinks after collision in Dardanelles, 210 killed
- Dec 18 John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires, is executed in Pennsylvania
- Dec 26 1st US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia
- Dec 28 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Quod apostolici muneris (socialism)