Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1898-09-10
THE WAR In BRIEF.

February 9-The De LONE letter pup
lished.
February iO-De LONE resigns and bis
resignation accepted at Madrid.
February 15-Destruction OF tie maine
in the hsrbor Of Hsvans.
March Spain Seeks 20 have Consul
General Lee recalled.
March s-Congrsss votes unanimously
and without debate for 9 defense fund OF
$50. 100000.
March 3s-United States Board Of To-
auiry reports that the Maine was blown
MP By g. external mine.
April I-President Mckinley sends bis
Cuban message 70 Congress.
April -0-Ths Government q its bl-
timasum 20 Spain, md the Queen beseas
opens the Oortes with . vsrlike speech.
The Spanish minister ut Washington ssks
for his passports.
April Administer woodford Asks for
his passports a. Madrid, and leaves for
Paris.
April 22-war opens With the Nash
vills's capture Of the Bueas Ventura snd
shs New Ysrk's capture Of ths Ps4re.
Havana hsrho declared IN 8 sne OF
blockade.
April 2s-Presidsnss call for i25,oo0
volunteers.
April 24-Cspture OF the Catalina b.
The Detroit, the Candida by the Whining
ton and the Ssturnins By the Winons.
April 2i-Spaia declares war.
April 25-Congress declares that war
began on April q BY act Of Spain. States
called upon fer their quota OF troops
April 26-Chstrnzn Dingley reports
war revenus bill to ihe House. The Prssl-
dent adheres 10 the anti-prlvsteerlng
agreement Of the Declaration CT Paris.
New Yort's militia called out EngiAnd
proclAirn her nsztrAlity and contends
that var began when spain gave Woodforo
his passports on April Il. Spain Appeals
70 the powers.
April 27-MAtanxxs s~srthvorks shslled
and siisaced by New York. Puritan and
Cincinnati Steamer Guido made . prize
By monitor Terror. Deweyis Asistie
squadron sails from Mrs Bay 20 Manila
and the Spanish feet leaves Manila 20
meet him.
Apyu z5-Congress agrees 30 q naval
appropriation bill Of nearly S5sOo0sOO0.
Tampa made the point Tor nAssing troops
for tue invasion Of Gaia. SPANS tor
psdo boat Tsusrario lsaEes the hArbor a
Buenos Ayres.
April z9-Movenenf Of troops from
C-h.ttxnoozs 10 tie seAbeArd. American
fess sighted OF ths Philippines. House
passas blIi for popular bond issue o. $780,.
o0G, 900. Naval bill passes the Ssnais
Spanish HsesIssvss Cape Verde Islands
Cruissr NeE York siiences the forts 81
PORT CSbanss. Cuba.
April 50-The Paris reaches New York
In safety and ihe Oregon and Marietta
anchor 81 Bio
Nay I-SP4nish feet demolished BY
Dszey in the Bay Of Manila Three
Spanish cruisers. ths Castillo. San Juan
Dc Austria and the Rsins CristinA com
pletsly destroyed and two g1nbosts dis
kblsd- Three Spanish commanders and
400 seAnen lost, while American casualties
were triding.
NAY 2-Coumodore Dewey orders Cap
ssis General OF the Philippines TO sur
render al his forts This was refused
Manila cable cut al 6 P. N, when Dewey
vas bonbkrding Manila
May 4-Ths fighting ships OF Admiral
Sanps0n's hess sailed from Key West,stter
preparing for : long stay 81 sea The
Oregon and Marietta left Bio Janeiro-
May 5-Arms for the Cubsns were
landed by the tug Leyden. the gunbost
Wilmington assisting in repelling the
Spanish.
Nay 6-Ths French steamer Lafayette, Of
ths Conpagnie Genersiis Transatlantiqus,
tried 10 run the Havana blockade after
being warned not 10 do so. She was cap
tured by she Annapolis and taken 70 Key
West. bat her release was afterwsrd or
dered BY the State Department.
May 7-Comnodore Dewey reported via
dispatch boat 10 Hong Kong that he had
taken Cavite fortress in Manila Bay, after
DESTROYING eleven Spanish vessels. He
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and that while the spanish loss was very
heavy, no Americans we're killed and only
afew men were slightly wounded. Riots
were reported In Madrid and throughout
Spain.
May s-Ths President asked Congress
20 give Rear Admiral Dewey . vote OF
thanks and communication. which WAS
made unanimous.
May 10-Tbe Spanish Corses voted the
war credits.
Nav Il-Msjor General Merritt Was or
dered to the Philippine Islands - Mill
tary Governor.
May i2-Nsws was received Of the ar
rival Of she Spanish Cape Verde squadron
at Martinique. West Indies. The gunboat
Wilmington. the torpedo boat Winslow
and the auxiliary gunboat Hudson, while
Ia Cardenas Bay, we're attacked BY Span
ish batteries and gnnbosss. Ensign Bag
ley and four of the Winsiow's crew were
killed, and the town Of Cardenss was
sheIled. An engagement was reported At
Cienfuegos. in which fourteen Spaniards
were wounded and the Americans were
said to have been repulsed.
Nay 13-Rsar Admiral Sampson re-
ported that he had bombarded the forts
At San Juan. Porto Rico, with . ioss OF
two men killed and six wounded, the
American squadron being uninjured. The
Flying Squadron. under Commodore
Schiey, sailed Under secret orders from
Hampton Roads.
May 1.-THE Spanish feet was reported
al Curacao, of 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. . marine on
the Marblehesd, and the wounding OF Eve
Others, while cutting the cable in Glen
fuegos Bay. in small open boats. under
hot Spanish fire. The Msrblehead. Nash
willie and Window took part. razing the
Spanish dsfenses there.
Nav The E1vino Snuadron raaabed