Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1898-07-02
THE WAR In BRIEF.

January "a, 1sss-The battleship Maine
| ordered TO Havans.
February 9-The De LONE letter pub
lishec.
February 10-Ds LONE resigns and his
resignation accepted at Madrid.
February l5-Destruction Of the Maine
in the hsrbor Of Havana.
March 5-Spsin seeks TO have Consul
| General Lee recalled.
March S-Congress votes unanimously
| and without debate for Q defense fund OF
| $50. 600. 600.
Mari: 2s-Uni.ed States Board Of In
| uiry reports tina, the Maine was blown
| up By 81 external mine.
April l1-President Mckinley sends bis
Cuban message TO Congress.
April 20-The Government sends its ui-
timatum to Spain, and the Queen Regent
| opens the Oortes with 9 varlike speech.
The Spanish minister at Washington asks
for his passports.
his passports at Madrid. and leaves Tor
Paris.
April 22-wsr opens with the Nash
%yilIe's capture OF the Buens Ventura and
the New York's capture OF the Pedro.
Havana harbor declared 10 9 state OF
Il VA00h84Is
April 23-President's call for 1850
| volunteers.
April 24-Capsure OF the Catalina BY
| The Detroit, the Candida By the Whining
| son and the SaturninA By the Winona.
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-ChAirman Dingley reports
| var revenue bill to the House. The Presi-
| dent adheres to the anti-privateering
agreement OF the Declaration Of Paris.
| New Yorh's militia called out. England
| proclaims her neutrality and contends
that war began when Spain gave Woodford
| his passports on April 81. Spain appeals
to the powers.
April 27-Mstanzas esrthvorks shelled
and silenced by New York, Puritan and
| CINCINNATI. Steamer Guido made . prize
by monitor Terror. Dewey's Asistic
squadron sails from Mrs Bay to Manila,
and the Spanish fleet leaves Manila TO
meet him.
April 28-Congress agrees 10 q naval
appropriation bill of nearly S47, 900, 600.
Tampa made the point for massing troops
for the invasion Of Cuba. SPANS tor
pedo boat Temerario leaves the harbor OF
Buenos Ayres.
April achievement Of troops from
Chattanooga to the sesboard. American
deet sighted off 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 al
Port Cabanss, Cuba.
April 30-The Paris reaches New York
In safety and the Oregon and Mariet.a
anchor at Bio.
May l-Spanish feet demolished by
Dewey in the Bay Of Manila. Three
spanish cruisers. the Castillo, San Juan
ie Austria and the Reina Cristins com
oletely destroyed and two gunboats dis
.bled. Three Spanish commanders and
100 seamen lost, while American casualties
were trifing.
MAY 2-Commodore Dewey orders Cap
,sin. General of she Philippines to sur
render all his forts. This was refused,
Manila cable cut az 6 P. NJ, when Dewey
was bombarding Manila.
NAV 4-The fighting ships Of Admiral
SIMPSONS feet sailed from Key West, after
preparing for q long stay at sea. The
Oregon and Marietta left Rio Janeiro.
May 5-Arms for the Cubans were
landed by the tug Leyden, the gunbosi
Wilmington assisting in repelliDg the
Spanish.
MAY 6-The French steamer Lafayette, Of
the Compagnie Generalle Transatlsntique
tried to run the Havana blockade after
being warned not to do 80. She was cap
.ured by the Annapolis and taken to Key
West. but her release WAS afterward or
dered by the State Department.
May 7-Commodore Dewey reported viz
dispatch boat to Hong Kong that he had
taken Cavite fortress in Manila Bay, aftel
destroying eleven Spanish vessels. HI
reported the Asiatic squadron uninjuredi
and that while Abe Spanish loss was very
heavy, no Americans were killed and onlJ
a few men were slightly wounded. Riot
we're reported In Madrid and t~hroughou'
Spain.
May 9-The President asked Congress
to give Rear Admiral Dewey q vote o
thanks and commendation, which wa
made unanimous.
May 1O-The Spanish Cortes voted thu
war credits.
NAV 11-Major General Merritt was or
dered TO the Philippine Islands as Mill
tary Governor.
May i2-News WAS received OF the ar
rival OF the Spanish Cape Verde squsdroI
At Martinique, West Indies. The gunboa
Wilmington, the torpedo boat Winslow
and the auxiliary gunboat Hudson, Will
in Cardenas Bay, were attacked by Span
ish batteries and gunbosts. Ensign Bag
ley and four Of the Winslow's crew wsr,
killed, and the town OF Cardenas wal
shelled. An engagement was reported q
C~ienfuegos. In which fourteen SpaniardI
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 Rioo, with q loss o.
two men killed and six wounded. tn,
American squadron being uninjured. The
Flying Squadron. under Commodore
Schley, sailed under secret orders from
Hampton Roads.
May 1.-THE Spanish fleet was reported
al Curacao, of the Venezuelan coast. and
Admiral Sampson was off Pusrta Plata
Haiti. The first American report Of thu
Oienfuegos affair reached Key West. snd
told OF the killing Of Reagan. q marine OF
the Marblehesd. and the w~ounding Of five
others, while cutting the cable in Glen
fuegos Bay. In small open boats, under
hot Spanish fire. The Msrblehead, Nash
Vile and Window took part, razing the
Spanish defenses there.