The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-08-25


April 5.-Consul General Lee recalled.
April 10.-Consul General Lee leaves Cuba.
April 11.--President Mckinley sends n mes
sage to Congress recommending armed In
terventlon In Cuba.
April 15.-Army ordered to mobilize.
April 16.-Senate bellIgerency resolutions
passed.
April 1S.-Congress votes against Cuban rec
Ognition.
April 1g.-COngress passes resolutions de-
manding the withdrawal of Spain from
Cuba.
April 20.-Queen opens Cortes with war
speech. Government announces its oppo-
sitiOn to privateeriug. President signs no
tifcation to the nations of Intention TO
blockade.
April 21.-Our Minister at Madrid, Gen.
Stewart L. Wooaford. Informed by the
Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs that
diplomatic relations between Spain and
the United States are terminated
April 21.-Presideut Mckinley cables our
ultimatum to Spain, demanding reply by
April %
April 2I-Senor Polo Bernabe, Spanish
Minister, receives his passport and leaves
Washington.
April 22.-Crulser New York. Sampson S
flagship, captures Pedro. 1000 tons, fif-
teen miles east OF Havana.
April 22.-Cuban ports blockaded by the
American squadron.
April 23.-The President issues his procla-
nation calling for $4,000 volunteers.
April .. tSunday).-A Spanish decree de-
claring war against the United States was
gaZetted at Madrid.
April 25.-COngress passes a resolution de-
claring that the state of war existed from
April Il
April 26-Recruiting volunteers began in
New York City.
April 27-United States vessels lombard
Matanzas.
April 21.- Seventh Regiment declines to en-
list.
April 2S-Commodore Dewey's fleet sails
from Hong Kong for Manila.
April 2o.-Spanlsh squadron sails from Cape
Verde for the West Indies.
April 29.-New York shells Cabanas forts.
April 29.-U. 5. cruiser Yale Paris) arrives
in New York
April 30.-Commodore Dewey's squadron ar
rives CT Manila.
April 3o.-Flagship New York fires on Span
ish cavalry sharpshcoters off Havana.
May 1.-U. S. cruiser Topeka arrives at New
York from Falmouth.
May 1.-CommOdore Dewey's squadron de-
stroys the Spanish fleet at Manila.
May Gable from Manila to Hong Kong
cut by Commodore Dewey.
May 4.-Battleship Oregon and gunboat
Marietta sail from Rio Janeiro
My I.-COmmOdore Dewey Informs State
Department of the seizure of Cayite.
May 9.-Congress thanks Rear Admiral
Dewey.
May 1O.-The Gussie expedition sailed from
Tampa.
May 11.-Ensign Worth Bagley and four of
the crew of the torpedO-bOat Winslow
killed by a shell from the Spanish forts at
Cardenas.
May 12-Admiral SIMPSONS squadron
bombards the forts at San Juan, Porto
Rico.
May f2.-The Spanish Cape Verde fleet ar
rives at Port de France, Martinique.
May 12.-Gussie expedition repulsed.
May 13.-COmmodore Schley's fleet sails
south to meet the Spanish squadron.
May 14.-Spanish Cape Verde fleet sighted
of Curacao.
May 15-Rear Admiral Dewey reports on fall
of Manila.
May 15.-Sagasta's Cabinet resigns.
May 15.-Spanish torpedo-boat destroyer
Terror disabled at Port de France, Mar
May 15.-Spanish fleet leaves Curacao.
May 15.-Gen. Merritt ordered TO the Phil
ippnes as Military Governor.
May 15.-Gov. Black authorizes reorganiza-
tion of disbanded Thirteenth Regiment
May 1I.-Sagasta's new Cabinet announced
at Madrid.
May 1S.-Ninety thousand troops ordered
to mobilize in Chickamauga.
May 20.-Spanish fleet arrives Mt Santiago
de Cuba.
May 22.-Cruiser Charleston sails for Ma
nila.
May 23.JTroops A and C arrive at Camp
Alger, Falls Church, Va.
May 2i-The Spanish fleet is bottled up at
Santiago.
May 25.-Three transports with 2,5SS men
start for Manila.
May 2J.-President issues a call for 10, 600
more volunteers.
May 26.-Oregon arrives In Key West.
May 26.-One of Spain's cabinet ministers
said the country was willing to accept "an
honorable peace"
May 26.-Commodore Schley is in touch with
the insurgent leaders
May 26.-Ninth and Sixty-ninth regiments
of New York arrive at Chattanooga.
May 26.-Florlda expedition landed without
opposition near Guantanamo. Cuba
May 21.-Spanlsh scout ships chased by
American warships near Key West.
May 29.-Commodore Schley reports the
trapping of Cervera in the harbor of San
tago de Cuba.
York. having been in collision with the
British steamship Foscolia, which sank
May 30.-Troops embark at Tampa for Ha-
yana.
May 31.-Rear-Admiral SIMPSONS fleet
bOmbar1s forts of Santiago de Cuba
June 1-Transports for Manila arrive Mt
Honolulu. Hawaii and the Boys in Blue
become the guests of the city.
June Monitor MOnGdnOck ordered to Ma
nila from San Francisco.
June 2.-Spain again appeals to the Powers
to intervene.
June 3.-American squadron bombarded
Santiago de Cuba.
June 4-Licut Hobson sinks cruiser Merri-
mae in the mouth of the harbor of San
tiago de Cuba.
June 6.-Cable communication between San
tiago and Hayti ceased at midnight.
June 6.-Fortiications of Santiago de Cuba
reduced.
June 7.-Amercan squadron bombards and
silenres batteries at Santiago.
June Monitor Monterey and collier Rru-
tus sail for Manila.
June S.-Assault on Notifications of Guam
tanamo Bay.
June 9-House agrees on war revenue con-
ference report.
June 10-Admiral Sampson reports he has
held Guantanamo harbor since the 9TH.
June 10.-Senate agrees on conference re-
port on war revenue bill.
June 11.-FOur Americans at Caimanera are
killed in fight with the Spaniards.
June 13.-Thirty-two transports with Shaf-
ter's troops sail for Santiago.
June 13.-President Mckinley signs the war
tax bill.
June 1.-Two Americans and several hun
dred Spaniards killed in a battle at Cal
manera.
June 15.-Second expedition sailed from San
Francisco for Manila.
June 1J.-Great destruction results to San
tiagO forts through the use of the dyna-
mite guns ON the Vesuvlus.
June 1T.-Spanish squadron sailed from Ca
diz and passed Gibraltar.
June 2o-TranspOrts with Gen Shafter's
troops arrive of Santiago.
June 22.-Part of Shafter's troops landed.
June 2:'-Balance Of troops landed without
accident
June 23-Admiral Camaras Cadiz fleet ar
rivcs Mt Island of Pantelara
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