The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-06-04
CHRONOLOGY OF THF WAR.



February ei-1nsurrection breaks
out in three of Cuba's six provinces.
March Fourteen hundred adji-
tional Spanish troops sent to Cuba
March 3i-General Antonio Maceo
proclaimed commander Of the insur-
gent army April l3. Flor Crombet, in
surgent leader, killed at Palmerito.
April li-Captain General Cajelln
displaced 10y Jampos
May ll-Battle Of Guantanamo: 400
Spanish kille by insurgents under
Gomez
May l5-lnsurgents make important
captures at Bayamo.
May 19-Insurgeut leader, Jose
Mart. killed at Dos Rios.
May 2l-General Gomez and 700 cav
airy repulsed at Rios.
November IL General Macco near
Santa Clara with 1000 men defeats
. 900 Spanish troops.
December 23- Campos U0 900 mem
meets Gomez 7,0uO mem and is re-
pulsed with great losses.
1896.
February lO-Weyler displaces Cap
tain General Campos.
February Eighteen thousand
new Spanish troops sent into the field.
February IT, Wcyler issues his re-
concentrate proclamation.
March The trocha is established
April il--MaccO crosses the trocha
with 5000 men and drives back the
Spanish.
July oll-Gomez wins the battle OF
ajasa after fifty hours lighting.
October The rebellion up to this
time has cost Spain $3.50, 900, 900
November Heavy losses TO Span.
ish forces in Pinar del Rio
December 4-Gcneral Antonio Ma
Geo killed 10y treachery.
December 10 General Ruiz Reverb
succeeds Maceo.
1897.
August s-Promier Canovas Of Spain
assassinated
October 2-Wcyler recalled by the
Sagasta Liberal minister on pressure
from United States
November 27-Decree from govern
ment at Madrid granting autonomy to
Cuba.
1898.
January "a United States battle
ship Maine ordered to Havana on a
peaceful mission.
February i0-De LONE, Spanish min
ister, recalled for warranted per-
sonalities rejecting on President Nc
Kiuley.
February i5-The United States bat.
tie ship Maine blown up in Havana
harbor and 2GG lives lost.
February IL United States board Of
Inquiry on the loss Of the Maine APP
pointed.
Februrry 2O-Spanish cruiser Viz
caya anchors Oft Staten Island, NY.
February 22-Spanish board Of in.
quiry reports the destruction OF the
Maine an accident OF internal origin.
March - Emergency bill, so million
dollars, FOR United States coast de-
fcnses passed.
March 2s-The president sends a
message with the Maine report TO con-
grcss.
April 0-General Fitzhugh Lee and
other consuls leave Cuba.
April 1.-THE president sends a mes
sage to congress recommending armed
intervention in Cuba
April lj-Wdr department orders
regular troops to the coast.
April 16-The Intervention resolu
tious passed by the senate.
April 19-The house passes the in
tervention resolution.
April l9--The president prepares an
ultimatum TO Spain demanding the
evacuation OF Cuba within three days
April 20-The Cuban resolutions
signed by the president.
April 3O-The Spanish minister, Polo
y Bernabe asks for his passports.
April 2l-rhe United States minis
ter, General Woodford, is given his
passports in Madrid.
April 2l-Spain's severance Of dip
lomatic relations held TO be a declara
tion OF war.
April 22-North Atlantic squadron
sails 90 blockade Cuban ports.
April 22-First shot fired when tn,
United States gunboat Nashville cap
lures the coast trader Buena Ventura
April % Presidents proclamation
to ali nations declaring the blackadC
Of Cuban ports.
April 23-The presidents call ISSUED
for 1875, 600 volunteers.
April 2i-Spain's first shot at United
States from masked batteries at Ma
tanzas on the United States gunboa'
Foote.
April 2G Presidents proclamation
issues on Spanish vessels in American
ports
April 27-The United States Asiati,
Squadron sails from Hong Kong tC
meet the Spanish feet at the Philip
pine islands.
April 27-United States cruisers
New York, Cincinnati and Monitor
Puritan silence the batteries at Ma
tanzas.
April 27-Portugal declines to oh
serve the neutrality law by harborinl
the Spanish heet at Cape Verde.
April 27-The United States Terror
captures the Spanish steamer Guido.
April 9s-United States gun boa
Newport captured the Spanish slooI
Engarcia.
April 2s-Spanish forts at Cabanai
demolished by guns Of the flag shiI
New York.
May Spanish feet under Admira
Montejo defeated and destroyed by
United States squadron, Commodore
Dewey commanding.
A man named Allea, living in Shaw
nee, attempted to kill his wife, last