Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1898-07-23
THE WAR In BRIEF.

| J8uu1Ey 11s
| ordered 70 Havana.
Februsry 9-The De LONE letter pub
lished.
February 10-De LONE resigns and bis
| resignation accepted at Madrid.
February I5-Destrnction of the Maine
in the harbor Of Havana.
March Spain seeks 10 have Consul
| General Lee recalled.
March 5-Congress votes unanimously
| and without debate for . defense fund Of
| $50, 900. 900.
March 2s-United States Board Of In
| quiry reports that the Maine was blown
| 1p By an external mine.
April I1-President Mckinley sends bis
| Cuban message 10 Congress.
April 2O-The Government sends its ul-
| ,imstum TO Spain, and the Queen Regent
| opens the Cortes with o wsrlike speech.
| The Spanish minister as Washington ssks
| for his passports.
April Administer woodford asks for
his passports at Madrid, and leaves for
Paris.
April 22-War opens with the Nash
| ville's capture OF the Buens Ventura and
| the New York's capture OF the Pedro.
| Havana harbor declared in a state OF
| blockade.
April 2s-President's call for 1880
volunteers.
April 24-Capiure OF the Catalina BY
the Desroit, the Candida by the Whining
ION and the ss,urnins By the Winons.
April 24-Spain declares war.
April 2~5-Congress declares that war
began on April q by act Of Spain. States
called upon for their quota Of troops.
April 26-Chsirman Dingley reports
var revenue bill to the House. The Presi-
| lent adheres to the snti-privsteering
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
his passports on April 81. Spain appeals
10 the powers.
and sileuced By New York, Puritan and
Cincinnati. Steamer Guido made a prize
BY monitor Terror. Dewey's Asiatic
l squadron sails from Mrs Bay to Manila.
and the Spanish feet leaves Manila to
meet him.
April 2~5-Congress agrees TO q naval
appropriation bill of nearly SAT, 900, 600.
Tampa made the point for massing troops
for the invasion Of Cubs. SPANS tor
pedo boat Temerario leaves the harbor OF
Buenos Ayres.
April achievement OF troops from
l Chattanooga to the sesboArd. American
heet sighted of the Philippines. House
passes bill for popular bond issue OF $780,
900, 900. Naval bill passes the Senate.
spanish feet leaves Cape Verde Islands
Cruiser New York silences the forts 81
Port Csbanas. Cuba.
April 30-The Paris reaches New York
IN safety and the Oregon and MARKETS.
anchor at Rio.
MAY l-spanish feet demolished by
Dewey in the Bay Of Manila. Three
spanish cruisers, the Castillo. San Juan
ie Austria aud the Reina Cristina com
oletely destroyed and two %gunboats dis
.bled. Three Spanish commanders and
100 seamen lost, while American casualties
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. M, when Dewey
was bombsrding Manila.
May 4-The fighting ships OF Admira
SIMPSONS feet sailed from Key West, aftel
preparing for q long stay ct sea. Tit
Oregon and Marietta left Rio Janeiro.
MAY 5-Arms for the Oubans wert
landed by the tug Leyden, the gunboa
Wilmington assisting in repelling thu
Spanish.
NAV 6-The French steamer Lafayette, o.
she Compagnie Generalle Transatlantique
,ried 10 run the Havana blockade aftel
being warned not to do 80. She was cap
sured By the Annapolis and taken to Kel
West, but her release was afterwsrd or
iered by the State Department.
May 7-Commodore Dewey reported vii
dispatch boat to Hong Kong that he hat
taken Cavite fortress in Manila Bay, aftel
destroying eleven Spanish vessels. III
reported the Asiatic squadron uninjured
and that while the Spanish loss was verl
heavy, no Americans were killed and onll
a few men were slightly wounded. Riot
we're reported in Madrid and Throughout
Spain.
May 9-The President asked Congress
TO give Rear Admiral Dewey q vote o
hanks and commepdation, which wa
made unanimous.
May 1O-The Spanish Cortes voted thu
war credits.
NAV 1l-Major General Merritt was or
dered to the Philippine Islands as Mill
.sry Governor.
May I2-News WAS received OF the ar
rival of me Spanish Cape Verde squadron
At Martinique. West Indies. The gunboa
Wilmington, the torpedo boat Winslow
and the auxiliary gunboat Hudson, Will,
10 Cardenss Bay, we're attacked by Span
ish batteries and gunboats. Ensign Bag
ley and four OF the Winslow's crew wer'
killed, and the town OF Cardenas wa
shelled. An engagement was reported q
Cienfuegos, in which fourteen SpsniardI
we're wounded and the Americans wer'
said to have been repulsed.
May 13-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. Tit
Flying Squadron. under Commodor'
Schley, sailed under secret orders from
Hampton Roads.
May 14-The Spanish feet was reported
al Curacao, off the Venezuelan coast. and
Admiral Sampson was off Puersa Plata
Haiti. The first American report Of tn
O~ienfuegos affair reached Key West. ant
told OF the killing Of Reagan, q marine OF
the M%arblehead, and the wounding OF dv'
others, while cutting the cable In Glen
fuegos Bay, In small open boats, under
hot Spanish fire. The Msrblehesd, Nash
willie and Window took part. rszing thu
Spanish defenses there.