Arizona republican., 1898-07-25
battleship Maine blown up in Havana

FeDruary Z0-Span1SE cruiser VIZ caya anchors of Staten Island, N. Y.
 February 22-Spanish board of in- quiry reports the destruction of the Maine an accident of internal origin.
 March 9-Emergency bill, 50 million dollars, for United States coast de- lenses passed.
 March 2S-The president sends a message with the Maine report to congress.
 April s-General Fitzhugh Lee and other consuls leave Cuba.
 April 1.-The pres dent sends mes- sage to congress recommending armed intervention in Cuba.
 April 15-War department orders regular troops to the coast.
 April 16-The intervention resolu- tions passed by the senate.
 April 19-The house passes the in- tervention resolutions. The president prepares an ultimatum to Spain de- handing the evacuation of Cuba with in three days.
 April 20-The Cuban resolutions signed by the president. Spanish min ister, Polo Bernabs, asks for hls passports.
 April 21-The United States minis ter, General Woodford, is given hls passports Tn Madrid. Spain's sever ance of diplomatic relations held to be declaration of war.
 April 22-North Atlantic squadron sails to blockade Cuban ports First shot fired, when the United Stkes gunboat Nashville captured the Span ish coast trader Buena Ventura. Pres ident's proclamation to all nations de claring the blockade of Cuban ports
 April 23-The presidents call issued for 125,O0O volunteers.
 April 24-Spain's first shot at United States from masked batteries at Ma tanzas on the United gunboat Foote. Capture of the Catalina by the Detroit, the Candida by the Wilmington and the Saturnina by the Winona
 April 25-Congress declares war; Secretary of State Sherman resigns. Mangrove captures the Panama
 April 26-President's proclamation States ports. William R. Day made secretary of state.
 April 27-Asiatic squadron sails from Hong Kong to meet the Spanish fleet at the Philippine islands. United States cruisers New York. Cincinnati and monitor Puritan silence the bat teries at Matanzas. The United States monitor Terror captured the Spanish steamer Guido
 April 28.-United States gunboat Newport captured the Spanish sloop Engarcia- Spanish forts at Cabannas demolished by guns of the flagship New York.
 April 30-The Paris in New York and the Oregon and Mariettaat Rio de Janerio.
 May Spanish fleet at Manila de- molished by Dewey. Fourteen vessels of the enemy destroyed. about 400 killed and several hundred injured. Not an American vessel injured nor an American life lost, and only six men slightly injured Admiral Mon- tejo of the Spanish feet admits total defeat
 May 2-Congress appropriated S35,- 720,945 for the army of invasion. Ma val bill for thirty-fve new warships sent to the president for signature. Martial law proclaimed in Madrid Eight transports ordered to Tampa for army of invasion. Dewey holds the Philippines.
 May 3-President names major and brigadier generals of volunteers. Seri- ous riots in Spanish provinces. Ore gon Omitted States battleship) sailed from Rio Janerio.
 May 4-Admiral Sampson's fleet sails under sealed orders. Hawaii tenders islands to the United States for war uses. The Arizona troops leave Prescott for the front. May 5-The French liner Lafayette captured and turned loose. May 7-Commodore Dewey's report on battle of Manila received.
 May 9-Congress passes vote o1 thanks to Dewey and makes him rear admiral.
 May 10.-Cape Verde squadron re- ported anchored at Cadiz. Oregon a. Bahia.
 May 11.-Troops breaking camp at Chickamauga preparatory for trans portat1on south. Spanish torpedo boat destroyer Destructor blown up at Gib- raltar.
 May 12.-News was received of ar rival of Spanish Cape Verde squad ron at Martinique. West Indies. The g1nboat Wilmington, the torpedo boat W1nSICW ana the duXlllary SulDOdt Hudson, while in Cardenas bay, at lacked by Spanish batteries and gun boats. Ensign Bagley and four of the Winslow's crew killed. and town of Cardenas was shelled. An engagement reported at Cienfuegos. in which the Americans were said to have been repulsed.
 May 13-Rear Admiral Sampson re- ported that he had bombarded the forts at San Juan, Porto Rico, with a loss of two men killed and six wound ed, the American squadron being un- injured. The flying squadron, under Commodore Schley, sailed under se- cret orders from Hampton Roads. l May 14-The Spanish fleet was re- ported at Curacoa, off the Venezuelan coast, and Admiral Sampson was of Puerto Plata. Hayti. American re- port of Cienfuegos affair reached Key West and told of the killing of Reagan a marine on the Marblehead. and the wounding of five others, while cutting the cable in Cienfuesos bay. in small 1 open boats, under hot Spanish fire. Tho MorbJobood NoChr;IIo ap5 U-ip