The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-05-08
1898

ant captnresat Rayamo.
May a0-ansuHgent leader, Jose
Marti. killed at Dos Rios.
May 21-General Gomez and 700
cavalry repulsed at Rios.
November 17-General Maceo near
Santa Clara with 300 men defea' 81
$500 Spanish troops.
December 23-CampOs (1O, 900 mem
meets Gomez $1,000 men) and is re-
pulsed with great losses.
1896.
February 1O-Weyler displaces Cap
tain General Campos.
February 12-Eighteen thousand
new Spanish troops sent into the
field.
February 17-Weyler issues his re-
concentrate proclamations.
March The trocha is established.
April 11-Maceo crosses the troeha
with 5000 men and drives back the
Spanish.
July 9-11-Gomez wins the battle
Of Nsiass after fifty .hours' Agbting.
October 1.-The rebellion up to this
time has cost Spain 2SO million dol
lars.
December General Antonio Ma
Geo killed by treacbery.
December I0-General Ruiz Rivera
succeeds Maceo.
1897.
August SEPremier Canovas Of
Spain assassiaated.
October 2-Weylererecalled by the
Sagasta Liberal RainistEy on pressure
from United States.
November 27-Decree from govern
ment at Madrid granting autonomy
to Cubs.
1898.
January 24-United Statas hattie
ship Maine ordered to Havana on q
peaceful mission.
February 10-De LONE, Spanish
minister, recalled for unwaEranted
personalities rejecting on President
Mckinley.
February l5-The United States
battleship Maine blown up in Havana
harbor and 266 lives leat.
February 17-United States board
OF inquiry on the loss of the Maine
appointed.
February 20-SpRnish cruiser Viz
eaya anchors of Staten Island, N. Y.
FebruRry 2-Spsnish board Of in
quiry reports the destruction OF the
Maine an accident of internal origin.
March s-Emergency bill, fifty mill
sen dollars, for Uaited. States coast
defense passed.
March 2s-The president sends q
message with the Maine report to
congress.
AprifS-6enerai Fitzhugh Lee and
other consuls leave Cuba.
April 1.-THE presidsnt sends q
neAaags to congress recommending
armed Intervention in Cuba.
April 16-War department orders
regular troops, to the coast.
April 16-Intervention resolution
passed by the senate.
April 19-The house passes the in
tervontipn resolution.
April iS-Fhe president prepares
an ultim@tum to Spain demanding
the evacuation of Cuba within three
days.
April 20 The Cuban resolution
signed by the president.
April 20-Spanish minister, Polo y
Bernebe, asks for his passports.
April 21-The United States minis
ter, General Woodford, is given his
passports In Madrid.
April 21-Spain's severance of dip
iomatic. .Eelations held to be dsela-
.Satlan of war,
April 22-North Atlantic squadron
sails to blockade Cuban ports.
April 22-First shot fred when tbs
United States gHnboat Nashville cap
tured tha Spanish c0aat tRadsr Buena
Ventura.
April R2-PreSidentis proclamation
to all nations. declaring the. blockade
Of Cuban ports.
April 23-President's call .isHuad
for 125, 900 volunteers.
April "a Spain's first shot at
United States from masked batteries
ak Mat@nEas on the United sStat@a
9ulboat Foote.
April 2s-President's proclamation
issues on Spanish vessels in United
States ports.
April 9T-Asiatic sQuadPon sails
from Hong Kong to meet the Span
iSh feet at the Philippine islands.
April H-United States cruisers
New York and Cincinnati and moni.
Dor Puritan silence the batteries a
Matanzas.
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