The times., 1899-01-01

Santiago; yellow fever appears in thu
American camp.
1i.-Twenty-four hour armistice agreed
| upon at Santiago.
l2+-Spanish Cabinet resigns.
H.-Generai Toral snrrenders Santiago
to the Americans.
I5.-American flag hcisted over SantIa-
go.
2o.-General MiIes's expedition starts
for Porto Rico.
26.-spain opens negotiations for peace
through NJ Cambon.
so.-America replies to SPANS peace
overtures.
3o.-Death Of Prince Bismarck.
S1.-Spaniards attack the American
trenches In front Of Manila.
August.
S.-Spain's answer to Americas note
reaches Washington.
12.-Peace protocol signed b. represen-
tatives OF Spain and America.
1S.-Dewey and Merritt, attack and cap-
ture Manila
1s.-orders to muster out 5000 troops
issued.
26.-Peaee Commission appointed by the
President
September.
Io-President appoints commission to
press Of Austria assassinated at Geneva
E.-Peace Commission sails for France.
2l.-Evacuation Of Porto Rico begun.
Oc.=ber.
1.-American and Spanish Peace Com
mission holds its first joint conference in
the French foreign Office at Paris: fire In
Colorado Springs causes loss of 81
coo, geo
2.-Severe hurricane on the coasts OF
Georgia and South Carolina causes great
China. destroyed more than a square mile
Of the city.
4--American battieship Illinois launch
ed at Newport News, Va
5.-Captain Wilkinson, Third United
States Infantry. and six soldiers are killed
by Indians at Leech Lake. MINI: general
convention OF the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the United States meets In
Washington.
7.-After deciding on the points to be
considered, the American and Spanish
Peace Commissioners adjourn their sittinzs
to October IL; President Mckinley informs
the American evacuation commissioners
that the Spanish military forces must leave
Porto Rico by October is and Cuba By De-
eember 1; a decree promulgated by Gen
eral Blaneo permits Spanish soldiers to re-
main in Cuba
S.-State officials of Mississippi appeal TO
the Federal Government for aid in reliev-
ing yellow fever sufferers
10-Navy Department publishes an ex-
planation of the delay of the sailing OF
transports from Tampa for Santiago
1.-THE Peace Commissioners resume
Joint sessions at Paris; the American flag
is hoisted over public buildings at Mama
Milo. Cuba.
bA hof
sail from New York for Manila; at Virden,
ILL.,, thirteen miners killed and Twenty-Five
wounded in riot caused by the imporsa-
tion OF negroes to take their places troops
sent to the scene; former State Treas
urer Hayward OF Pennsylvania and SEN
ator Quay held for trial on the charge of
misusing public funds; German emperor
and empress leave Berlin on their Journey
to Palestine
1S.-Chaplain Mcintyre. of the Oregon.
found guilty of improperly critcising his
superior officers and sentenced to dismiss
sal from the navy.
I--Cuban debt discussed BY the Peace
Commissioners; the discovery OF military
plot to overthrow the government an
nounced in Paris; nine Italian anarchists
arrested In Alexandria, Egypt. on suspicion
OF plotting to kill the German Emperor:
Atlantic transport steamer Mohegan goes
ashore OF the Lizard and f16 lives lost.
1S.-American flag hoisted at San Juan.
Porto Rico, and the United States takes
full possession.
19.-President Mckinley reviews the Chi
cago peace jubilee parade and speaks at a
banquet.
2l-General Wood issues a proclamation
guaranteeing personal rights to the inhabi-
tants OF Santiago de Cuba.
22-Fourteen negroes and one white man
n OF ff,t
z3-Admiral Sampson report OF destruc-
tion of Cervera's fleet made public
2f--Iast OF the Spanish troops in Porto
Rico sail for Spain; the United States Su-
preEe Court decides the joint traffic case
in favor of the Government against the
railroads.
25-Spanish government protests against
the United States sending the Oregon and
Iowa to Manila: the French ministry re-
signs on account Of the Dreyfus affair
26.-General Wood refuses to issue ra-
tons to Cubans in arms
21-Spain's peace commissioners accept
the views OF the American commissioners
respecting the Cuban debt
29--The Court of Cessation at Paris de-
cides to grant revision of the Dreyfus
case.
31.-American Peace Commissioners
present the demand OF the United States
for the Philippine Islands; a new French
ministry is organized; the japanese cabi-
net resigns.
November.
1.-The American Peace Commissioners
present the demand that Cuba be eracu-
ated on or before January :. 1899
S.-order for troops to occupy Cuba is--
ued.
Gas explosion at the Capitol
SELECTIONS in forty-two States
10.-Raee riot at Wilmington, n. c.
16.-Spain's Peace Commissioners re-
quest that the terms of the protocol re-
lating to the Philippines be submitted to
arbitration.
December.
Grand jubilee of the Emperor Franz
Josef of Austria.
5.-Meeting OF the Fifty-sixth Congress.
s.-Treaty OF peace between Spain and
America completed
10.-Peaee treaty signed at Paris
n,-Death Of Gen. Calixto Garcia. the
Cuban patriot, in this city; General Lee
sails from Savannah for Cuba
1i-President Mckinley makes Il patri-
otic speech in Atlanta.
15.-Death of Calvin s Brice in New
York
DENOMINATION of Ethan Allen Hitch
cock to be Secretary Of the Interior, vice
MIR. Bliss. resigned: General Miles recites
unpleasant facts before the Alger Relief
Commission.
24--Return to America of the Peace
Commissioners.
2s.-Death OF United States Senator
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