Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1898-07-09
THE WAR In BRIEF.


| resignation accepted at Madrid.
February 15-Destruction Of Tie Maine
in the hsrbor OF Havana.
March 5-Spain seeks TO have Consul
| General Lee recalled.
March ~S-Congress votes unanimously
| and without debate for Q defense fund OF
| $50. 000. 900.
March 2s-United States Board Of In
curry reports hat the Maine vas blown
| op BY 90 external mine.
April 11-President Mckinley sends his
Cuban message 10 Congress.
April 20-The Government sends its Ill
timssum to Spain, and the Queen Regent
opens the Oortes with . wsrlike speech.
The Spanish minister ct Washington asks
April 2i-Minister woodford asks for
his passports ct Madrid, and leaves Tor
Paris.
April 22-war opens with the Nash.
| ville's capture Of che Buena Ventura and
the New York's capture Of the Pedro.
| Havana harbor declared In a state oil
| blockade.
April 23-President's call for 125,00O
| volunteers.
April "a Capture Of the Catalina by
the Detroit, the Candida by the Whining
ton and the sa,urnina by the Winons.
April 24-Spsin declares war.
April 25-Congress declares that war
began on April 81 by act Of Spain. States
| called upon for their quota Of troops.
April 20 Chairman Dingley reports
war revenue bill to the House. The Presl-
dent adheres to the anti-privateerine
agreement Of the Declaration OF Paris,
New Yorh's militia called out. England
proclsims her neutrality and contends
that war began when Spain gave Woodford
ibis passports on April 81. Spain appeals
TO the powers.
April 27-MAtanzas esrthworks shellet
and siIenced by New York, Puritan ant
Cincinnati. Steamer Guido made Q priz'
by monitor Terror. Dewey's Asiati,
squadron sails from Mrs Bay 70 Manila
and the Spanish fleet leaves Manila Il
meet him.
April 2S-Congress agrees 70 q nava
appropriation bill of nearly SAT ,000, 900
Tampa made the point for massing troop
for the invasion of Cuba. SPANS tor
pedo boat Temerario leaves the harbor O.
Buenos Ayres.
April achievement Of troops from
Chattanooga to the sesboard. American
feet sighted of the Philippines. Hous'
passes bill for popular bond issue OF $500,
0OO, 900. Naval bill passes the Senate
spanish feet leaves Cape Verde Islands
Cruiser New York silences the forts q
Port Cabanas. Cuba.
April 3O-The Paris reaches New Yorl
In safety and the Oregon and Marietti
anchor at Rio.
May l-Spanish fleet demolished b,
Dewey in the Bay Of Manila. Three
Spanish cruisers, the Castillo, San Juar
de Austria and the Reina Cristina com
pletely destroyed and two gunboais dis
sbled. Three Spanish commanders Ant
400 seamen lost, while American casualtieI
we're trihing.
May 2-Commodore Dewey orders Cap.
tain. General OF the Philippines to sur.
render all his forts. This was refused
Manila cable cut at 6 P. NJ, when Dewe,
was bombarding Manila.
May 4-The fighting ships Of Admira
Jampson's feet sailed from Key West, afte
preparing for 5 long stay ct ses. Tn
Oregon and Marietta left Rio Janeiro.
May 5-Arms for the Cubsns wer'
landed by the tug Leyden, the gunbos
Wilmington assisting in repelling tn
Spanish.
Nav 6-The French steamer Lafayette. o
the Compagnie Generalle Transatlantique
tried 10 run the Havana blockade sfte
being warned not to do so. She was cap
tured by the Annapolis and taken to Ke.
West. but her release WAS afterward or
dered by the State Department.
May 7-Commodore Dewey reported vi
dispatch boat to Hong Kong that he hs'
taken Cavite fortress in Manila Bay. afte
destroying eleven Spanish vessels. H
reported the Asistic squadron uninjured
and that while the Spanish loss was yer,
heavy. no Americans we're killed and onl,
. few men were slightly wounded. Riot
were reported In Madrid and ~throughou
Spain.
May 9-The President asked Congress
TO give Rear Admiral Dewey Q vote o
thanks and communication, which Va
made unanimous.
May lo-Ths Spanish oortes voted tn
war credits.
May 1i-Major General Merritt Wa or
dered to the Philippine Islands - Mill
tary Governor.
May l2-News Was received OF the ar
rival Of the spanish Cape Verde squadron
At Martinique, West Indies. The ganboa
Wilmington, the torpedo boat Winslov
and the auxiliary gunboat Hudson, Will
n Cardenas Bay, were attacked BY Span
ish batteries and gunboats. Ensign Bag
ley and four Of the Winslow's crew wer
killed, and the town Of Cardsnas wa
shelled. An engagement was reported .
| C~ienfuegos, In which fourteen spsniard
we're wounded and the Americans wer
said to have been repulsed.
May 1S-Rear Admiral Sampson re
| ported that he had bombarded the fort
at San Juan, Porto Rico, with Q loss o
two men killed and six wounded, tn
American squadron being uninjured. The
Flying Squadron, under Commodor,
Schley, sailed under secret orders from
Hampton Roads.
May 1.-THE Spanish aest was reported
81 Curacao, off the Venezuelan coast. and
Admiral Sampson was off Pusrts Plata
Haiti. The first American report Of thu
Cienfuegos affair reached Key West. snd
told OF the killing Of Reagan, q marine on
the Marblehead, and the ~wounding OF five
others, while outing the cable in Glen
fuegos Bay. in small open boats. under
hot Spanish fire. The Msrblehesd. Nash
Vile and Window took part, rszing the
Spanish defenses there.
May 15-The Flying Squadron rsAched
Charleston, 8. O. Rear Admiral Dewey
reported the capture Of the Spanish rev.
enue cruiser Of Manila, and that he could
still hold the bay.
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