Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1898-09-17
THE WAR In BRIEF.


ordered 10 Havana.
February 9-The De LONE letter pub
lished.
February 10-De LONE resigns aud his
| resignation accepted az Madrid.
February l5-Destruction OF she Maine
in the hsrbor Of Havana.
March 5-Spain seeks TO have Consul
| General Lee recalled.
March 8-Congress votes unanimously
and without debate for q defense fund Of
| $50. 600. 900.
March 2S-United States Board OF In
q uiry reports that the Maine was blown
up by an external mine.
April l1-President Mckinley sends his
Cuban message to Congress.
April 20-The Government sends its ul-
timatum to Spain, and the Queen Regent
opens the Cortes with . warlike speech.
The Spanish minister ct Washington asks
for his passports.
April Administer woodford asks for
his passports at Madrid, and leaves for
Paris.
April 22-wsr opens with the Nash
ville's capture OF the Buena Ventura and
the New York's capture OF the Pedro.
Havana harbor declared 10 a state Of
blockade.
April 23-Prssident's call for 125,0oO
volunteers.
April 24-Capture OF the Catalina BY
the Detroit, the Candida by the Whining
ton and the S%sturnina BY the Winona.
April 24-Spain declares war.
April 25-Congress declares that 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 anti-privsteering
agreement OF the Declaration OF Paris.
New Yorh's militia called out. England
proclaims her neutrality q contends
shat war began when Spain gave Woodford
his passports on April 81. Spain appeals
10 the powers. -,
April 27-Mstanzas earthworks shelled
and silenced by New York. Puritan and
Cincinnati. Steamer Guido made . prize
by monitor Terror. Dewey's Asiatic
squadron sails from Mrs Bay TO Manila,
and the Spanish fleet leaves Manila to
meet him.
April 28-Congress agrees TO 9 naval
appropriation bill of nearly S47, 900, 600
Tampa made the point for msssing troops
for the invasion Of Cuba. SPANS tor
pedo boat Temerario leaves the hsrbor o.
Buenos Ayres.
April achievement Of troops from
Chattanooga TO the seabosrd. American
! fleet sighted off the Philippines. Hous'
! passes bill for popular bond issue OF 5000,
900, 900. Naval bill passes the Senate
spanish fleet leaves Cape Verde Islands
Cruiser New York silences the forts q
t Port Cabsnas, Cuba.
April 30-The Paris reaches New fori
10 safety and the Oregon and Mariettl
anchor at Rio.
: May 1-Spanish fleet demolished b.
, Dewey in the Bay of Manila. Thre'
Q Spanish cruisers, the Castillo, San Juai
: de Austria and the Reina Cristina com
pletely destroyed and two %gunbosss dis
sbled. Three Spanish commanders ant
. 400 sesmen lost, while American casualtie
were trihing.
MAY 2-Oommodore Dewey orders Cap
tain General OF the Philippines TO sur
|. render all his forts. This was refused
= Manila cable cut NJ 6 P. M, when Dewe
G WAS bombarding Manils.
May 4-The fighting ships Of Admire
SIMPSONS feet sailed from Key West, sfte
! preparing for q long stay at sea. Tn
D Oregon and Marietta left Rio Janeiro.
nj MAY 5-Arms for the Cubans wer
!. landed by the tug Leyden, the gunbos
Wilmington assisting in repelling th
q Spanish.
0 May 6-The French steamer Lafayette, c
e the Oompsgnie Generalle Transatlantiqut
!, tried to run the Havana blockade afte
J. being warned not to do so. She was cap
e tured by the Annapolis and taken to Ke
e West, but her release was afterwsrd or
r dered by the State Department.
ri May 7-Commodore Dewey reported vi
| dispatch boat to Hong Kong that he ha
III A-a.n - Ma-t1a pau afte
e DESTROYING eleven Spanish vessels. II
4 reported the Asiatic squadron uninjured
and that while the Spanish loss was yer
A heavy. no Americans were killed and onl
: few men were slightly wounded. Riot
we're reported In Madrid and throughou
Spain.
o May 9-The President asked Congrei
8 10 give Rear Admiral Dewey Q vote {
8 made unanimous.
May 1O-The Spanish oortes voted th
. war credits.
d NAV 11-Major General Merritt was or
J, dered to the Philippine Islands as Mil
ssry Governor.
Q MAY l2-News was received OF the OIL
J. rival OF the Spanish Cape Verde squadro
al Martinique, West Indies. The gunbos
Wilmington, the torpedo boat Winsloy
and the auxiliary gunboat Hudson, Will
. in Cardenas Bay, we're attacked by Span
ish batteries and gunbosts. Ensign Bag
lev and four Of the Winslow's Grew wer
killed, and the own Of Oardenas wa
shelled. An engagement was reported
C~isnfuegos, in which fourteen Spsniard
we're wounded and the Americans wer
said to have been repulsed.
May 13-Rear Admiral Sampson r.
ported that he had bombarded she fort
at San Juan, Porto Rico. with 9 loss
two men killed and six wounded, th
American squadron being uninjured. Tn
Flying Squadron. under Commodor
Schiey, sailed under secret orders fror
Hampton Roads.
May 1.-THE Spanish feet was reporte
At Curacao, off the Venezuelan coast. an
Admiral Sampson was off Pusrsa Plats
Haiti. The first American report Of th
Oienfuegos affair reached Key West. sn
told OF the killing Of Reagan. q marine O.
the M%arblehead, and the ~wounding OF 6v
others, while cutting the cable in Glen
fuegos Bay. in small open boats, unde
hot Spanish fire. The Marblehead, Nash
willie and Window took part. rszing th
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