Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1898-08-27
THE WAR IN BRIEF.


ordered TO Havana.
February 9-The De LONE letter pup
lished.
February 1O-De LONE resigns and bis
resignation accepted At Madrid.
February I5-Destrucsion Of the Maine
in she hsrbor OF Havana.
March 5-Spain seeks 10 have Consul
General Lee recalled.
March s-Congress votes unanimously
aud without debate for 9 defense fund oil
$50. 000. 900.
March 2S-Unised States Board Of In
curry reports that the Maine was blown
up by sn external mine. -
April i1-President Mckinley SENDS nis
Cuban message TO Congress.
April 20-Thc Government SENDS us W.
timssum to Spain, and sbe Queen hesen'
opens the Oortes with 9 warlike speech.
The Spanish minister at Washington asks
for his passports.
April Administer woodford asks for
his passports 81 Madrid, and leaves for
Paris.
April 22-war opens with the Nash.
ville's capture OF The Buena Ventura and
the New York's capture Of the Pedro.
Havana harbor declared In q state OF
blockade.
April 23-Presidsntis call for 1850 0
volunteers.
April 24-Cspture Of the Catalina BY
the Detroit. the Candida by the Whining
ton and the saturnina By the Winons.
April 24-Spain declares war.
April 25-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
war revenue bill to the House. The Presi-
49, A. .-es nrUafaaTlnQ
agreement Of the Declaration OF Paris.
New Yorh's militia called out. England
proclaims her neutrality and contends
tbst war began when Spain gave Woodford
his passports on April 81. Spain appeals
70 the power.
April 27-Matanzas earthworks shelled
and silenced by New York, Puritan
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 to a naval
appropriation bill Of nearly S47,OO 900.
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-Movemsnt OF troops from
Chattanooga TO the sesboard. American
feet sighted of the Philippines. House
passes bill for popular bond issue OF $780,
O00, 900. Naval bill passes the Senate.
Spanish feet leaves Cape Verde Islands.
Cruiser New York silences the forts at
Port Cabsnas. Cuba.
April 30-The Paris reaches New York
in safety and the Oregon and Marietta
anchor at Rio.
NAV spanish fleet demolished by
Dewey in the Bay of Manila. Three
Spanish cruisers, the Castillo, San Juan
de Austria and the Reina Cristina com
pletely destroyed and two gunboats dis
sbled. Three Spanish commanders and
400 seamen lost, while American casualties
were trifing.
May 2-Commodore Dewey orders Cap
ain -General Of the Philippines to sur
render all his forts. This was refused.
Manila cable cut at 6 P. M, when Dewey
was bombarding Manila.
MAY 4-The fighting ships OF Admiral
SIMPSONS feet sailed from Key West, after
preparing for a long stay at sea. The
Oregon and Marietta left Bio 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 Oompsgnie Generslle Tr~snsstlantique,
tried 10 run the Havana blockade after
being warned NOS to do 30. 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 via
dispatch boat to Hong Kong that he had
taken Cavite fortress in Manila Bay, after
destroying eleven Spanish vessels. He
reported the Asiatic squadron uniDjured,
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 commendation, which was
made unanimous.
May 1O-The spanish Corses voted the
war credits.
Nav li-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 squadron
at Martinique, West Indies. Tn gunboat
Wilmington, the torpedo boat Winslow
and the auxiliary gunboat Hudson, while
in CardenAs Bay, were attacked by Span
ish batteries and gunboats. Ensign Bag
ley and four Of the Winslow's crew were
killed, and the town Of Cardenas was
shelled. An engagement was reported at
C~ienfuegos, in which fourteen Spsniards
were wounded and the Americans were
said to have been repulsed.
May 13-Rear Admiral Sampson re.
ported that he had bombarded the forts
at San Juan, Porto Rico, with . loss OF
two men killed and six wounded, the
American squadron being uninjured. The
Flying Squadron. under Commodore
Schley, 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 Puerta Plata,
Haiti. The first American report OF the
C~ienfuegos affair reached Key West. and
told OF the killing Of Reagan, q marine on
the M~arblehsad, and the wounding OF five
others, while cutting the cable in Glen
fuegos Bay. in small open boats. under
hot Spanish fire. The Marblehead, Nash
willie and Window took part. razing the
Spanish defenses there.