Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1898-08-13
THE WAR IN BRIEF.

January "a, 1898-The bsttleship MAINE
ordered TO Havana.
February s-The De LONE letter pub
lished.
February 10-Ds LONE resigns and bis
resignation accepted ct Madrid.
February I5-Dsstruction OF the MAINE
in the harbor Of Havana.
March 5-Spain seeks 10 have Consui'
General Lee recalled.
March S-Congress votes UNANIMOUSLY
and without debate for Q defense fund Oh
$50. 600. 900.
March 2S-United States Board OF To-
quiry reports that the Maine was Dio"n
up BY 81 external mine.
April l1-President Mckinley senos nis
Cuban message 70 Congress.
April 2O-The Government sends its ul-
timatum TO Spain, and the Queen hsgen'
opeos the Oortes with Q wsrlike speech.
The Spanish minister at Washington AsAs
April 2I-Minisser woodford asks for
his passports a, Madrid, and leaves Tor
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 q state Oh
blockade. $1,000
April 2s-Presidens's call for 125,OOO
volunteers.
April "a Capture Of the Catalina BY
the Detroit, the Candida by the Whining
ton and the Ss,urnins by the Winona.
April 24-Spsin declares war.
April 25-Congress declares hat war
began ON April 81 by act Of Spain. States
called upon for their quota OF troops.
April 26 Chairman Dingley reports
war revenue bill to the House. The Presi-
dent adheres to the snti-privsteering
agreement Of the Declaration OF Paris.
New York's militia called OUT England
proclsims her neutrality and contends
that war began when Spain gave Woodford
his passports on April 81. Spain appeals
TO the powers. -,
April 27-Matanzas e~srthworks shelled
and siIeuced by New York. Puritan and
CINCINNATI. Steamer Guido made Q prize
ty monitor Terror. Dewey's Asiatic
squadron sails from Mrs Bay 20 Manila,
aud the Spanish fleet leaves Manila to
meet him.
April 28-Congress agrees to Q naval
appropriation bill Of nearly SAT, OOO,O 0O.
Tampa made the point for massing troops
for the invasion Of Cuba. SPANS tor
pedo boat Temerario leaves the harbor OF
Buenos Ayres.
April 29-Movement Of troops from
Chattanooga to the sesbosrd. American
fleet sighted of the Philippines. House
passes bill for popular bond issue OF $780,
OOO, 900. Naval bill passes the Senate.
spanish feet leaves Cape Verde Islands.
Cruiser New York silences she forts al
Port Cabanss, Cuba.
April 30-The Paris reaches New YORK
a. Sokv on1 <ha Ora0o0 and MArf6tta
anchor at Rio.
May 1-Spanish fleet demolished by
Dewey in the Bay Of Manila. Three
Spanish cruisers, the Castillo. San Juan
de Austria and the Reina Cristina CON-
pletely destroyed and two gunboats dis
abled. Three Spanish commanders and
400 seamen lost, while American casualties
were trifing.
May 2-Commodors Dewey orders Gap
tain General OF the Philippines to sur
render all his forts. This was refused.
Manila cable cut az 6 P. NJ, when Dewey
was bombsrding Manila.
May 4-The fighting ships Of Admiral
SIMPSONS feet sailed from Key West after
preparing for . long stay at sea. The
Oregon and Marietta left Rio Janeiro.
MAY 5-Arms for the Cubans were
landed by the tug Leyden, the gunboat
Wilmington assisting in repelling the
Spanish.
MAY 6-The French steamer Lafayette, OF
the Oompagnie Generalle Transatlsntique,
tried 10 run the Havana blockade after
being warned not to do so. She was cap
tured by the Annapolis and taken to Key
West, but her release was afterward or
dered by the State Department.
May 7-Commodore Dewey reported vis
dispatch boat to Hong Kong that he had
taken Cavite fortress in Manila Bay, after
destroying eleven Spanish vessels. He
reported the Asiatic squadron uninjured,
and that while the Spanish loss was very
heavy, no Americans were killed and only
few men were slightly wounded. Riots
were reported in Madrid and throughout
Spain.
May 9-The President asked Congress
TO give Rear Admiral Dewey Q vote oil
thanks and c~ommendation, which wa
made unanimous.
May 1O-The Spanish Cortes voted the
war credits.
NAV 1l-Msjor General Merritt was or
dered TO the Philippine Islands as Mill
tsry Governor.
May l2-News was received OF the ar
rival of the Spanish Cape Verde squadron
At Martinique, West Indies. The gunboai
Wilmington, the torpedo boat Winslow
and the auxiliary gunboat Hudson, while
in Csrdenas Bay, we're attacked by Span
ish batteries aud g~unboats. Ensign Bag
ley and four Of the Winslow's crew were
killed, and the tow Of CsrdenAs wss
shelled. An engagement was reported 81
Cienfuegos. In which fourteen Spsniardi
were wounded and the Americans wert
said to have been repulsed.
May 13-Rear Admiral Sampson re-
ported that he had bombsrded the forts
81 San Juan, Porto Rico. with Q loss OF
two men killed and six wounded, the
American squadron being uninjured. The
Flying Squadron. under Commodore
schlsy. sailed under secret orders from
Hampton Roads.
May 1.-THE Spanish feet WAS reported
81 Curacao, of the Venezuelan coast. and
Admiral Sampson was off Pusrta Plata,
Haiti. The first American report Of the
C~ienfuegos affair reached Key West. and
told Of the killing Of Reagan. g marine on
the Msrblehsad. and the wounding Of five
Others, while outing the cable In Glen
fuegos Bay. in Email open boats. under
hot Spanish fre. The Msrblehesd, Nash
willie snd Window took part. rszing the
Spanish d~efenses there.