Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1898-07-30

reached Key West Wednesday. was ex-
pected 10 leave for q secret destination.
May 20-The spanish Admiral Cerverss
feet was reported st Madrid to have sailed
from Santiago de Cuba. Ssgssts declared
Spain would fight until an honorable peace
vas obtained.
May Alt was announced that the
monitor Monterey would be sent from
San Francisco 10 Manila.
May 22-The cruiser Charleston sailed
from San Francisco for Manila, via Hon
| oiulu.
May 23-Troops we're embarked on the
transport City OF Peking Of San Francisco
| for Manila. The British steamer Ardsn.
mhor was brought to Key West as q prize.
but afterward released.
May 24-Admiral Cevera's feet was re-
ported bottled up in Santiago hsrbor by
The American fleets. The Oregon arrived
a. Japiter, Fla.
May 25-The President called for 5000
more volunteers. The transports Austria
liza. City Of Peking and City Of Sydney,
with 2 1900 soldiers. left San Francisco for
Manila.
May 26-Commodore Schley reported
By cable that be Was OF Sstisgo and that
be believed the Spanish feet TO be in the
inner harbor.
May 27-It was reported that Cevera,
with the Spanish Cape Verde fleet, was not
bottled up in Santiago, as had been
thought.
MAY 2s-The cruiser Columbia was dam
aged of Fire Island by collision with the
steamer Foscolis, the latter sinking.
May 29-Commodore Schley reported
sighting the Spanish fleet or part OF it in
Santiago hsrbor.
May 30-General Shsiter was ordered 10
embark Is, 900 or more troops at Tampa.
Gntiago Was thought TO be their destina-
ton.
May 31-Spsnish reports we're received
of the bombardment Of Santiago forts May
81 BIZ Commodore Schley. The steamer
Florida reported landing in Cuba on May
&c $50 armed men. with large supplies.
June "details were received OF the
bo~mbardment Of the Santiago forts by
Commodore Schley on May 81, with the
Massachusetts, Iowa and New Orleans.
Moro Castle was injured, and the Spanish
flagship, Christobal Colon, which was near
the mouth Of the harbor, was also dam
aged. No American ship was touched nor
vas any American injured.
June 2-The House Of Representatives
passed 80 urgent deficiency bill, carrying
nearly SIS, zoo. 600 for wsr expenses.
June ~3-spanish reports from Santiago
via Cape Hsitien told Of the bombsrdment
Of Santiago by SIMPSONS and Schley's
vessels, with the sinking Of q Spanish tor
pedo Of the collier Merrimsc, which had
been sent TO explore the channel. Eight
Americans were reported TO have been
taken prisoners.
June Admiral Sampson reported that
Naval Constructor r. P. Hobson, with q
volunteer crew OF seven men, had Oh June
3 sunk the collier Merrimao In the Santi-
ago harbor channel, shutting in Cevers's
fleet. Hobson and his men surrendered
and were made prisoners. The Senate
passed the war revenue bill by a vote of IS
TO %.
June 5-Capt. Charles V. Gridley, Of the
Olympus, who was on his way home from
Manila i'll, died at Kobe, Japan.
June 6-Further bombardment OF San
tiago and the landing Of 5000 American
troops near Santiago were reported. The
House sent the war revenue bill to confer
ence, non-concurring in Senate amend
ments.
June Admiral Sampson reported hav-
ing silenced, on June 6, the Santiago for
tifications without injury TO American
ships. The cruiser Charleston was report
ed as having reached Honolulu May 20.
The monitor Monterey and collier Brutus
left San Francisco for Manila.
June 8~-Spanish reports came Of the
bombardment OF Csimsnera, Cuba, by five
American ships. The sailing of 27,00O
troops from Tampa for Santiago took
place. C~apt.-Gsnersl Augusti, at Manila,
reported to Madrid that the insurrection
had assumed enormous proportions.
June 9-The House agreed TO the con-
ference report on the war revenue bill.
June 10-The Senate agreed TO the con-
ference report on the war revenue bill by
vote OF 43 to %. This House set 5 P. M,
June 15, as the hour for a vote on Haws-
iian annexation. Admiral Sampson re-
ported that since June he had held Gu
antanamo hsrbor.
June 1900 marines from the Panther,
who had landed at Caimaners, Guanians-
mo Bay, Cuba, June 10. under protection
from the Marblehead. were attacked by
Spsnisrds, four Americans being killed
and several wounded or missing. The
Spaniards reiterated.
June 12-It was reported in Washington
that tw%enty-nine transports, with General
Skaters troops, left Tampa for Santiago
de Cuba.
June I3--The President signed the war
revenue bill. The Santiago expedition. OF
over Is. 900 troops, left Key Yves, conveyed
by warships.
June 1~4-Continued fighting at Caiman.
era was reported, two Americans and sew
enteen Spanisrds being killed. 1t was
officially stated that the las. transports for
Santiago left Tampa.
June 15-The House voted TO annex Ha-
wsii, 400 TO 81. The second expedition to
Manila, on four transports. sailed from
San Francisco. News came OF the rout on
June IA OF Spanish forces a, Caimanera,
Cuba. with about 200 killed, the American
less being one Cuban killed and one
wounded. The vesuvius fred her dyna-
mite guns at Santiago forts. for the first
time, with destructive results.
June 16-News came Of a .hird BON.
bardment Of Santiago BY Admiral Samp-