Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1898-07-16
TIE WAR In BRIEF.


ordered 20 Havana.
February 9-The De LONE letter pub
lished.
February iO-Ds LONE resigns and biz
resignation accepted az Madrid.
February 15-Destrnction Of tie Maine
in the hsrbor Of Havana.
March Spain seeks 10 have Consul
General Lee recalled.
March s-Csngress votes unanimously
and without debate for . defense fund Of
/ $50, 900. 900.
March 2s-United States Board Of In
quirJ reports that the Maine Was blown
np By sn external mine.
April Il-President Mckinley sends his
| Cuban message TO Congress
April 20-The Government sends is ul-
sinatum 20 Spain, and the Queen Regent
| opens abs Cortes with o warlike speech.
| The Spanish minister at Washington Asks
for his passports.
April ADMINISTER woodford ssks for
his passports at Madrid, and leaves for
Paris.
April 22-wr opens with The Nash
ville's capture Of she Buens Ventura sed
the New York's capture OF the Pedro.
Havana harbor declared in . state OF
| blockade.
April 23-Praident's call for 1850 0
| volunteers.
ArriI 24-Csp.ure Of the Catalina By
| .he Detroit, the Candida BY the Whining
son and The sslurnins By the WinonA.
April 24-Spsin declares war.
April 25-Copgress declares that war
began On April q By act Of spain. States
called upon for their quota OF troops.
April 26-ChAirnan Dingley reports
var revenue bill TO the House. The Presi-
| dent sdheres 10 tbe anti-privsteering
agreement Of the Declaration of Paris.
New York's militia called out- England
proclaims her neutrality and contends
| that war began when Spain gave Woodford
his passports on April 81. Spain appeals
70 the powers.
Aprii I-Ma.anzas esrthworks shelled
and siIenced bJ New York, Puritan and
| CINCINNATI. Steamer Guido made 3 prize
by monitor Terror. Dewey's Asistic
squadron sails from Mrs Bay TO Manila,
and the Spanish feet leaves Manila to
meet him.
April 25-Congress agrees 10 Q naval
appropriation bill Of nearly S47, coo, 600.
Tampa made the point for msssing troops
for the invasion Of Cabs. SPANS tor
| pedo boat Temerario leaves the harbor Of
l DucuOb aIlCcs
April 29-Movemens Of troops from
| Cha,tsnoogs 10 the seaboard. American
feet sighted OF the Philippines. House
passes bill for popular bond issue OF $780,
| OOO, 900. Naval bill passes the Senate,
spanish feet leaves Cape Verde Islands.
| Cruiser New York silences she forts 81
Port Cabanss, Cuba.
April 30-The Paris reaches New York
in safety and the Oregon and Msrietts
anchor at Rio.
May I-Spsnish feet demolished by
Dewey in the Bay Of Manila. Three
spanish cruisers, the Castillo, San Juan
lie Austria and the Reina Cristina com
pletely destroyed and two gunbosts dis
sbIed. Three Spanish commanders and
400 seamen lost, while American casualt;e:
we're trifing.
MAY 2-Commodore Dewey orders Cap
tain.Genersl Of the Philippines to sur
render all his forts. This was refused
Manila cable cut at 6 P. NJ, when Dewey
was bombarding Manila.
MAY 4-The fighting ships of Admira
SIMPSONS feet sailed from Key West, aftel
preparing for q long stay ct sea. The
| Oregon and M~arietta left Bio Janeiro.
MAY 5-Arms for the Cubans wert
landed by the tug Leyden, the gunboa'
Wilmington assisting in repelling tht
Spanish.
NAV s-The French steamer Lafayette, Of
the Compagnie Generslle Trsnsatlantique
tried TO run the Havana blockade sftel
being warned not TO do so. She was cap
,ured by the Annapolis and taken to Key
West, but her release WAS afterward or
dered by the State Department.
MAY 7-Commodore Dewey reported Wis
| dispatch boat to Hong Kong that he had
| taken Csvite fortress in Manila Bay, aftei
DESTROYING eleven Spanish vessels. Hs
reported the Asistic squadron u%ninjured,
and that while the Spanish loss was very
| heavy. no Americans were killed and only
a few men were slightly wounded. Riots
we're reported In Madrid and throughout
Spain.
May 9-The President asked Congress
10 give Rear Admiral Dewey q vote o.
| thanks and commendation, which was
made unanimous.
May 1O-The Spanish Cortes voted the
war credits.
NAV 11-Major General Merritt was or
| dered to the Philippine Islands as Mill
tsry Governor.
May I2-News was received OF the ar
| rival of the Spanish Cape Verde squadron
at Martinique, West Indies. The gunboai
Wilmington. the torpedo boat Winslow
and the auxiliary gunboAt Hudson, while
in Csrdenas Bay, we're attacked by Span
ish batteries and ~gunboats. Ensign Bag
lev and four OF the Winslow's crew were
killed, and the town Of Cardenas was
shelled. An engagement was reported 81
O~ienfuegcs, in which fourteen Spsniardi
we're wounded and the Americans wers
said to have been repulsed.
May 13-Resr Admiral Sampson re-
ported that be had bombarded the forts
at San Juan, Porto Rico. with Q loss oil
two men killed and six wounded, the
American squadron being uninjured. The
Flying Squadron. under Commodore
| Schley, sailed under secret orders from
Hampton Roads.
May 1.-THE Spanish fleet was reported
at Curacao, off the Venezuelan coast. and
Admiral Sampson was of Pusrsa Plata,
| Haiti. The first American report Of the
| Cienfuegos affair reached Key West. and
told OF the killing OF Reagan, 9 marine on
| the Msrblehesd. and the %wounding OF five
| Others, while cutting the cable in Glen
foegos Bay. in email open boats. under
| hot Spanish fire. The Marblehesd. Nash
| Vile and Window took part. razing the
| Spanish defenses there.