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burned. causing loss of 100000.
Convention: American Association For
the Advancement Of Science met in
Boston.
B. Disasters: About 30 lives lost by the
breaking Of levee at Shawncetowr.
Ills.
s. Fires: At Vicksburg. Miss. the r:o ssi
Opera House and other properly ibuta-
ed; loss, S125. .000
shipwreck: British ship Marlborough
lost in midocean: Is sailors drowned.
l. Spanish War: Representatives Of Great
Italy presented joint note to the
president.
Obituary: Margaret Mather, the act ress,
at Charlestown. W. Va: ag.d 49,
y. obituary.: Gen. James Ronald Chal-
mers. q noted leader in Forests Con-
federate cavalry corps. at Memphis;
aged 6S.
II. Spanish War: The presidents mes
sage asking power TO intervene in Gu
ba submitted to congress. Gen. Lee
testified before the senate committee
on foreign relations
II. Fire: AT Charlestown Mass: dust ex-
plosion started flames in a grain ele-
vator: loss 100000.
Gen. Joaquin Crespo. ex-president of
Venezuela. killed in battle.
10. Obituary. Prof. Jules Marcou. fa-
nous geolpsist, at Cambridge. Mass;
-,
thor. In New York city.
Spanish War: The Cuban Intervention
resolutions passed congress; ultima
tum sent to Spain.
20. Spanish War: Senior Bernabe, the
Spanish minister. took his passports
and left Washington for Canada
Fire: spurgeon's tabernacle in London
destroyed.
n. Spanish War: u 8. Minister Wood
ford given his passports at Madrid.
SIMPSONS squadron bioekaded Cuba,
First marine capture of the war, the
gulf of Mexico.
Obituary: Gen. E. c. Walthall, noted
ex-Confederate and U. 8. senator from
Mississippi. in Washington: aged Ct.
q. Obituary: Richard Smith, prominent
western newspaper man, in Cincinnati; +;
aged II.
q. Conventions: American Society of Re
ligtous Education met in Baltimore.
"A. Spanish War: The president called for
125cOo troops.
Is. Spanish War: Declaration by the Unit
ed States that war began April q.
cathedral destroyed; loss, $3.50 900.
2S Spanish War: Spanish ateamer Pan
anna captured of Havana by the II. 8.
lighthouse tender Mangroue. England
proclaimed neutrality and declared
that the war began April H.
q. Spanish War: At Matanzas Admiral
SIMPSONS vessels bombarded Spanish
forts. Spanish steamer Guido, from
Spain with sinews of war for Cuba,
captured by the U. 8. monitor Terror.
q. Spanish War: Cervera's squadron
sailed westward from the Cape Verde
islands.
the Asiatio feet. defeated the Span
iards in Manila harbor, Philippine is
lands.
Fire: At Augusta, Ca: loss. $500, 1000. by
the burning Of an elevator and ware
house.
s. Spanish War: French steamer Lafa-
yette captured by the blockading fleet
off Havana.
8. Convention: Southern Baptist conven-
tion opened at Norfolk.
8. Hundreds Of Italians shot down by the
troops during bread riot in Milan.
.. Fire: The Elms hotel. Excelsior
II. Fires: At Ballardyaie, Ma. Mass s.t stock o,
stored wool valued at $2soooo burned.
In Philadelphia deaths and property
loss of $225ooo at the burning Of toy
store.
L. Spanish War: First U. 8. officer killed
Ensign Bagley, on the torpedo boat
Winslow at Cardenas. San Juan, Por-
to Rico. bombarded by Sampsons war
ships.
Fire: In Chicago a grain elevator and
other property burned; loss. $1.2ooooo.
Is. Spanish War: Cervera's squadron
reached Martinique. in the West In
dies.
II. Accident: workmen killed and II
severely injured by the collapse Of
walls in a building in New York city.
Shipwreck: IL sailors drowned of the
coast Of Wales by the wreck of the
x British steamer Renholm.
1b Fire: At Muncie, Ind; loss. s2sb 900.
Obituary: Edouard Remenyi, the noted
violinist. in San Francisco: aged 6S.
1s. Fire Disaster: At La Providence, Cam
ada, st. Hyacinthe Auxiliary hospital
burned; many lives lost.
II. Accident: In Boston an elevator fell,
killing workmen.
1S. Fire: At Attleboro, Mass, the business
section destroyed; loss. over 81, 900 900.
Cyclone: Illinois Michigan and Wiscon-
sin visited: 81 deaths. ~
10. Obituary: Gladstone. at Castle Hawar-
den: aged 50.
a Obituary: Edward Bellamy author OF
t99k,ng @h,nngas BACKYARD s, EQUALITY" etc.,
shipwreck: 81 passengers drowned by
the sinking Of the Alaska schooner
Jane Grey off Cape Flattery
Is. Spanish War: Second call for volun-
teers: 5000 asked for.
Shipwreck: British steamer Mecca sank
Sporting: Jeddah won the English Derby.
26. Spanish War: Largest secret expedi-
tion Of the war landed on Cuban soil
by the steamer Florida.
q. Obituary: Madeline Vinton Dahlgren.
we'll known writer. widow Of Admiral
John A. Dahlgren, in Washington.
Sporting: Ornament won the Brooklyn
Handicap.
81. Spanish War: Commodore Schley,s
fleet engaged the forts at Santiago and
one warship in sharp duel.
Obituary: Baron Lyon Playfair. distin-
>tinguished English chemist. political
economist. ciyi! service reformer and
narliameptaFlaR in Londoai aged TO-
JUNE.
l. Fire Disaster: 1000 houses at Pesha-
wur. India, destroyed.
Obituary: Thomas w. Keene, actor, in
New York city; aged IS.
Transmississippi States exposition OPEN
ed In Omaha.
g. At Santiago harber Lieut.: r: r Hob
into the chdhlel and sank her
s. Obituary: Capt Charles v. Gridley.
:" commander Of Dewey's flagship Olym-
pia. at sea. of Japan
T. Thomas y. kooker, 4 veteran Tribune
man. died in New York: aged s..
10. Spanish War: 600 marines under Col.
Huntington landed at Guantanamo
bay and hoisted the stars and stripes
on Cuban soil.
II. Spanish War: Attack upon Col. Hunt
ington's marines at Guantanamo; DR..
John Blair Gibbs and marines killed.
II. Convention: International congress Y.
N. c, A, in london. ~
u. Financial: Collapse Of Letters wheat
'"' deal.
Spanish War: Gen. Skaters expedition
sailed for Santiago.
u. Obituary: The noted English painter.
PpEns 4oaes. in tondoN; aged as.
10. Fifesi Pnsinesa portion OF Park City. 1
- Utah. destroyed; loss. 81 ,0o0, 900.
n. Marine Disaster: so drowned at the
launching Of Engand's battleship ALI
bion at Blackwell. on the Thames.
Convention: Biennial meeting of the
Federation OF woman's Clubs opened
at Denver.
p. Spanish War: Ahatter.s troops landed
I at Da!quiti. herr santiagd.
.. Fire: At Lincoln. Neb.; loss. $20o. .00o. s,
Sporting: Cornell defeated Yale and
Harvard IN the varsity boat race at
New London; time, 2am. 1885,: Ysls's
time, 24Ha. .2s.i- AarVard's. s4m. SIS.
q. spanish War: Heavy skirmish Of Gen.
Young.s brigade with Spaniards at Las
Guasirnas; near Santiago.