Arizona republican., 1898-06-20

| OCUODef l-In0 r0DeNNOn up to LulS
 time has cost Spain 250 million dol
 lars.
 December 4-G General Antonio Maceo | killed by treachery. December 10-General Ruiz Rivera succeeds Maceo. 1897. | August S-Premier Canovas- of Spain
 assassinated | October 2-Weyler recalled by the Sasasta liberal ministry on pressure
 from the United States. l November 27-Decree from govern ment at Madrid granting autonomy to 1 Cuba
 1 January 24-United States battle ship Maine ordered to Havana on a peaceful mission.
 February 10-De Lome, Spanish
 minister, recalled for unwarranted
 personalities ref1ecting on President
 Mckinley.
 1 February 15-The United States battleship Maine blown up in Havana
 harbor and 266 lives lost February 17-United States board of | inquiry on the loss of the Maine ap-
 pointed. l February 20-Spanisb cruiser Viz l caya anchors off Staten Island, N. Y February 22-Spanish board of in- | quiry reports the destruction of the | Maine an accident of internal origin. ! March S-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 9-General F'itzhugh Lee and
 other consuls leave Cuba. l April 1.-The president sends mes
 sage to congress recommending armed
 intervention in Cuba
 April 15-War department orders
 regular troops to the coast l 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 2O-The Cuban resolutions
 signed by the president. Spanish min 1 ister, Polo Bernabe, asks for his passports.
 April 21-The United States minis | ter, General WoodfOrd, is given hls I passports Tn Madrid. Spain's sever
 ance of diplomatic relations held to
 be a declaration of war. l April 22-North Atlantic squadron
 sails to blockade Cuban ports. First shot fired, when the United States
 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 125,00O volunteers. l 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-Congrsss declares war. 1 Secretary of State Sherman resigns.
 Mangrove captures the Panama. | April 26-President's proclamation
 issues on Spanish vessels in United
 States ports. William R. Day made
 secretary of state. | April 27-Asiatic squadron sails I from Hong Kong to meet the Spanish 1 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
 1 April 28.-United States gunboat | Newport captured the Spanish sloop
 Engarcia- Spanish forts at Cabannas 1 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- l tejo of the Spanish fleet admits total defeat
 | May 2-Congress appropriated $35.- | 720,945 for the army of invasion. Ma val bill for thirty-five new warships sent to the president for signature. Martial law proclaimed in Madrid.
 Eight transports ordered to Tampa l for army of invasion. Dewey holds the Philippines.
 1 May 3-President names major and
 brigadier generals of volunteers. Seri-
 ous riots in Spanish provinces. Ore gon (United States battleship) sailed from Rio Janerio. May Admiral Sampson's fleet sails under sealed orders Hawaii l tenders islands to the United States for war uses. The Arizona troops l leave Prescott for the front l 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 of thanks to Dewey and makes him rear admiral.
 May 10.-Cape Verde squadron re-
 ported anchored at Cadiz Oregon at
 Bahia.
 May 11.-Troops breaking camp at
 Chickamauga preparatory for trans
 portation south. Spanish torpedo boat
 destroyer Destructor blown up at Gib- | ra1tar