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Garcia resigns and his troops withdrawn to mountains.
21. Dewey authorized to attack Ma- nila.
21. Gen. Leonard R. Wood made Miiltary Governor of Santiago.
21. In an attack on Manila rebels re- pulsed with great loss.
22. Gen. Shafter instructed to con- sult with Gen. Garcia.
22. Gen. Garcia instructs his troops to return to their former occupa- tions.
22. Cabinet decides to conciliate Cu- bans.
22. Sampson opened port of "Nipe" as a base.
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22. War Department. orders 20,- 000 men to Porto Rico.
22. Camara's squadron .headed toward Centa.
22. Cuban Junta repudiates Gen. Garcia's course.
22. Second expedition to the Philip- pines disembarked near Manila.
22. Rio Janeiro sails for Manila with 900 men.
,23. Porto Rico expedition leaves Tampa, Fla.
23. Miles' troops pass by Hayti.
23. Spanish Admiral Camara's fleet at Cartagena, Spain.
23. American flag raised at Nipe.
23. Gunboat Mangrove captured Spanish sloop Aguldita, off Cuba.
23. Hospital ship Relief brings 125 wounded soldiers from battlefields of Cuba to New York harbor.
24. Spanish Admiral Cervera says our navy is magnificent, and he feels no dsgrace in having : been beaten by such a foe.
24. U. S. S. Frolic sailed for Key West and will join blockading squadron off Cuba. .
: 24. Gen. Brooke and staff. left for Newport News this afternoon.
24. Camp Alger troopers ordered to ; move to Porto Rico.
24. Tampa troopships carrying 4,000 men sail for Porto Rico.
24. Lieut Hobson makes arrange- ments for saving Spanish battle- ships, Cristobal Colon and the In- fanta Maria Teresa.
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24. , Gen. Shafter reports deaths among soldiers from yellow fever. Major James E. Stewart has been appointed postmaster. at Santi- ago.
July 25. Gen. Shafter issued order prais- ing army for bravery at Santiago, Cuba.
25. Rear Admiral Dewey believes Philippine rebels can govern themselves better than Cubans.
25. Spanish Admiral Camara will use Centa as his base of operations.
25. . Troops A & C. N. Y. Cavalry, and Third Illinois Infantry, reach- · ed Newport News to take trans- ports for Porto Rico.
25. Sampson's report in President's hands.
25. Shafter's army to have rest; en- tire Fifth Corps will be ordered north.
25. Cubans protest against Gen. Shafter's treatment of Gen. Gar- cia.
25. Dissensions in Red Cross So- ciety in Cuba ;. Dr. Gintera has resigned and returned to the U. S.
25. Post office in Santiago, Cuba, be- gins business.
25. Gen. Shafter reports more sur- renders.
26. Gen. Miles begins landing troops near Ponce, Porto Rico.
26. Mrs. J. Addison Porter at San- tiago, Cuba, reports that at battles of El Caney and San Juan, sharp- shooters, shot wounded soldiers on, Red Cross litters.
26. Transport. Hudson arrived at Fort Munroe with wounded offi- cers from Santiago, Cuba; bodies of Hamilton Fish, Jr., and Captain Capron were brought back on same transport.
26. .Submarine mines . exploded off Willetts . Point, N. Y.
26. Engraved thanks of Congress forwarded to Admiral Dewey at Manila.
26 ... Insurgents capture Gibara, Cu- ba:
26. Hospital ship Relief, released from quarantine ..
26 ... 5,000 men of Gen. Brooke's con- mand arrived at Newport News to embark for Porto Rico.
26. Uncle Sam bought tug, Gypsum King.
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26. Porto Rican army of invasion will use 2,000 whistles to enable scouts to keep track of one anoth- er.
26. Russian war ships sail from Ma- nila.
26. : Spanish prisoners from outlying garrisons are pouring into Santi- ago, Cuba.
26 .. Surgeon Gen. Sternberg came to New York to investigate condi- tion of sick and wounded on Se- neca.
26. Gen. Shafter's Fifth Corps to go to Montauk Point.
26. Sampson's fleet to be divided.
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26. Gen. Shafter is feeding 11,000 Spanish prisoners.
26. Gen. Shafter publicly praises his men; no army ever. equaled it, he says.
26. . Transport Morgan sailed for Porto Rico with troops.
26. Steamer Olivette sailed with hos- pital stores and nurses for Santi- ago, Cuba.
27. . Spain asks our peace terms.
27. Surgeon Gen .. Sternberg criti- cises Red Cross nurses.
27. Gen. Grant left Chickamauga Park for Newport News, Va., to :. embark for Porto Rico:
27. Merritt-Chapman Wrecking Co. off for Santiago, Cuba.
27. Admiral Sampson gives praise to · all engaged in fight at Santiago.
27. Review at Camp Alger.
.27. Our flag planted on. Porto Rico at Guancio by sailors from gun- boat Gloucester.
27. Gen. Shafter reports dead and wounded.
27. Hercules Powder Co. at Pinole blown up; five men killed and thirteen wounded.
28. Gen. Shafter cabled War De- partment that customs are being collected at Santiago.
28. Gen. Shafter reports 3,770 of his troops sick.
28. The news that Hawaii had been annexed to U. S. reached Hono- .. . lulu by, steamer Coptic, on July 13th.
28. Surgeon Gen. Sternberg reports that accounts of conditions of Se- ·neca on her trip from Santiago with . sick and wounded soldiers has been exaggerated.
28. 3.770 soldiers sick at Santiago, Cuba.
28. Spaniards fall back on San Juan, Porto Rico.
28. P. J. Besosa, a native Porto Ri- can, is acting as scout and inter- preter for Gen. Miles.
28. Transport . Massachusetts takes Gen. Brook expedition to Porto Rico to reinforce Gen. Miles.
28. Tampa, Florida, abandoned as military base.
28. Report of Capt. Chadwick, of New York, Capt. Taylor, of Indiana, Capt. Philip, of the Texas, and Lieut. Commander Wainwright, of the Gloucester. Each officer praises bravery and gunnery of their respective crews.
28. : Typhoid fever spreading at Camp Alger.
29. President Mckinley preparing to resist possible obstruction of European powers in peace nego- tiations. .
29. . Brig .- Gen. F. C. Harris sail- ed from Newport News for Por- to Rico.
Transport .. . Concho. reached Hampton Roads with 176 ill and wounded, officers and men from Siboney, Cuba.
29. Sagasta ;sends notice of peace averture to Spain's Cabinet Coun- cil.
29. Secretary Alger orders Gen. Shafter to move his army in San- tiago, Cuba, to Montauk, L. I.
30. Gen. Miles received surrender of Ponce, Porto Rico, without firing a shot.
30. Gen. Miles captured Yanco, Por- to "Rico, the terminal of railroad leading to Ponce, Porto Rico.
30. In fight preceding capture of Guanica, Porto Rico two captains and two privates of Sixth Massa- chusetts Volunteers were wound- ed.
30. Gen. . Miles makes. Gen. Wilson Military Governor of Ponce, Por- .to: Rico ..
30. Auxiliary cruiser St. Paul left Newport News with the First Ohio Regiment to join Gen. Brooke's expedition to Porto Ri- co.
30. Reservefleet of Spain is being as- sembled at Cadiz, Spain.
30. President Mckinley placed reply to Spain's plea for peace in Am- " bassador Cambon's hands.
31. . Admiral Dewey reports that in- surgent leader Aguinaldo has as- sumed bold attitude of defiance.
31. French steamship, Maneaubia, captured off Porto Rico by gun- boat Dixie.
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31. U. S. transport Rio Grande ar- rived in N. Y. harbor.
31. Capt. Charles Dodge, of Twenty- fourth U. S. Infantry died of yel- low fever at Santiago, Cuba.
31. Hospital ship Solace left Brook- lyn Navy Yard for Cuba to dis- tribute medical supplies.
Aug. I. Residents of San Juan, Porto Rico, flee from the city on ap- proach of the U. S. troops, under Gen. Miles.
I. Gen. Miles reports his victories and that he has collected $14,000 in duties.
I. Gov .- Gen. Augusti, of Manila, calls on Spain for help to resist American attacks.
I. Battleship Texas arrives in N. Y. harbor from Santiago to be dock- ed and cleaned.
I. Spanish soldiers retreating toward San Juan, Porto Rico, are pillag- ing towns and maltreating wo- men.
I. Transport Concho and Alamo arrived in New York from Santi- ago with sick and wounded sol- diers.
I. Government transport, Michigan, sailed for Santiago, Cuba, with provisions for the army.
I. All of the 150 passengers from Santiago, Cuba, brought by Sar- atoga are in Detention Hospital at Egmont Key.
I. Transport Concho reported worse than the Seneca. She has 191 sick passengers; five died on the way from Siboney, Cuba.
I. Third Pennsylvania U. S. Volun- unteers ordered to Ferdinandina, Fla.
I. Gen. Henry's division consisting of 3,400 men and 26 pieces of ar- tillery, has been ordered from Yanco to Ponce.
2. Mayor of Yanco, Porto Rico, is- sued proclamation expressing joy for taking of city by U. S. troops ..
2. Astor battery landed in Philip- pines.
2. Gen. Linares' appeal to Madrid for permission to surrender made public.
2. Gunboat Eagle captured Spanish schooner, Dolores, loaded with provisions for Batabano, Cuba.
3. Gen. Garcia in heavy fight at Mayari, Cuba.
3. Surgeon General advises remov- al of troops from Camp Alger on account of fever.
4. Spain's reply to President Mc- Kinley leaves no room for doubt that she will accept peace terms.
4. Eighteen regiments from as many States (20,000 men) will be sent to Porto Rico, under Gen. Wade's command.
4. Gun boat Bancroft captured Spanish sloop off the Isle of Pines.
4. Between 30,000 and 50,000 Amer- ican troops will be assigned to Cuba for garrison duty.
4. Battleship Texas safely placed in dry dock No. 2 at Brooklyn Navy Yard.
4. Cruisers St. Louis and St. Paul ordered north to be disarmed.
5. Gen. Shafter reports 3,788 sol- diers ill at Santiago, Cuba.
6. Captain Gen. Macias, of Porto Rico, instructed by Spanish gov- ernment to capitulate.
6. Cape Juan, about 30 miles east of city of San Juan, Porto Rico, taken by men from American warships.
6. Second Division marched from Camp Alger and are encamped at Bristow.
7. Spain's Cabinet accepted basis of our peace terms.
7. Guayama, Porto Rico, surrender- ed.
7. Official reports show that fleet in Cuban waters is practically free from sickness.
7. An army officer declares military balloon is a failure, and that its use at Santiago caused death of 300 men.
7. Five companies of First N. Y. Regiment, sailed from San Fran- cisco, Cal., for Honolulu, Hawaii.
8. Rough Riders under Col. Roose- velt start from Santiago, Cuba, for home.
8. Inhabitants of Cardenas inform- ed commander of Hudson that they would not resist attack.
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8. Capt. Sigsbee has been placed in command of the battleship Texas.
8. Spain's reply to peace demands received in Washington.
8. Gen. Miles is closing in on San Juan, Porto Rico.
IO. Spaniard s attacked American troops at Malate, near Manila, and were driven back with heavy losses.
IO. Guantanamo, Cuba, has formally surrendered, and Brig .- Gen. Er- vers has been made Military Gov- ernor.
II. The Alicante and three other ves- sels have sailed from Guantana- mo Bay with Spanish prisoners. and the St. Louis with the 9th and Ioth Infantry.
12. Gen. Schwan's brigade had gen- eral engagement near Hormi- guers, Porto Rico; Americans victorious.
13. Orders have been issued placing Mangrove out of commission.
13. Greater U. S. made by stroke of the pen that humbles Spain.
13. Arrival of transport Sequranca in N. Y. harbor from Santiago, with 331 men.
14. Our peace terms with Spain are: Ist, Spain to relinquish all sov- ereignty over the Island of Cuba; 2d, Spain to cede to U. S. the Is- land of Porto Rico, and all is- lands under sovereignty of Spain in West Indies; 3d, Spain to cede to U. S. Island of Guam in the Ladrones; 4th. U. S. to hold bay and city of Manila pending con- clusion of treaty of peace; 5th, commissioners were appointed by U. S. to meet commissioners on part of Spain to conclude treaty of peace.
14. Cuban Junta orders cessation of warfares.
14. Cable censorship has been rais- ed.
14. Transport Gate City arrived at Montauk Point from Santiago with 500 men of the Third and Sixth Cavalry.
15. Admiral Dewey captures Manila after bombardment, before re- ceiving word from Washington in regard to treaty of peace.
16. Secretary of State, William R. Day and Senator Cushman K. Davis, of Minnesota, were ap- pointed on the peace commission. Gen. Blanco has resigned as Governor and Captain-General of Cuba.
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16. Gen. Augustin has resigned as Governor-General of Philippines. Italy was the first nation to send congratulations on close of war.
17. Ambassador Hay has accepted portfolio of U. S. Secretary in Cabinet.
17. Cubans at Santiago have decided to respect peace agreed to by U. S.
17. So great is the mortality in Span- ish camp at Santiago that victims of disease are burned.
17. Spanish troops massacred 90 cit- izens of Ciales, Porto Rico.
18. The Seventy-first N. Y. Volun- unteers, of N. Y., now in camp at Montauk Point, L. I.
18. Monitor Nahant put out of com- mission.
19. Col. Theo. Roosevelt with eight troops of Rough Riders, and Gen. Joseph Wheeler with 22 troops of third regular cavalry, arrive at Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, L. I.
19. Gen. Blanco, Gen. Castellanos, Gen. Leon and Admiral Mante- rola, appointed commissioners for Cuba, and Gen. Macias, Gen. Or- tega and Admiral Vallaimo for Porto Rico.
19. The transports Seneca and Co- manche arrive at Montauk Point, L. I., with the 24th and 25th In- fantry, U. S. Regulars, from San- tiago.
19. Hospital ship Relief brought 248 sick and wounded soldiers from Porto Rico to New Jersey.
20. Review of the victorious war- ships at New York.
20. Transport Mobile arrives at Mon- tauk Point, L. I., with 1,600 men from Santiago.
20. Transport Olivette arrives at Newport News with 200 sick sol- diers from Santiago.
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21. Gen. Merritt cabled to Washing- ton articles of capitulation of Ma- nila.
21. Lieut. Hobson presented to Geo. F. Philips, one of the Merrimac heroes, a gold watch, on behalf of citizens of Galveston. Texas.
21. Transport Rio Grande brought 600 colored Regulars from Santi- ago to Montauk Point, L. I.
22. Four transports; Breakwater, Olivette, City of Macon and Mor- 1. tera, arrive from Santiago.
22. President Mckinley has decided . to retain the island of Luzon.
22. 75,000 people were at Tompkins- ville to see our warships.
22. Transport Arizona leaves San Francisco with 1,300 troops for Manila.
22. American transports Peru and Pueblo arrive at Manila with 2,- 000 men on board.
23. Admiral Sampson in consultation with Cuban commissioners, who will accompany him to Cuba.
24. Natives of Porto Rico make trouble for the United States on belief that liberty gives them the right to punish their former Span- ish masters. "
24. The sunken vessel that obstruct- ed entrance to San Juan harbor, Porto Rico, has been removed, and ships can now pass in. .
25. Gen. Garcia makes his report to the Cuban Junta.
26. The . Peace Commission decided "on by the President will be com- posed of following named gentle- men: . Secretary William R. Day, . of Ohio; Senator Cushman K. Davis, of Minnesota; Senator William P. Frye, of Maine: Jus- tice Edward Douglas White, of Louisiana, and Mr. Whitelaw Reid, of New York.
26. Capt. Chas. E. Clark, of the Ore- gon, is at the Naval Hospital, Brooklyn.
26. Dynamite cruiser Vesuvius arriv- ed in New York harbor.
26. Gen. Shafter sailed from Santi- ago.
26. Admiral Schley on duty again on the Brooklyn.
27 .. Commodore John W. Philip has been assigned to command North Atlantic squadron. :. .
28. Second Regiment N. Y. Volun- teers in Jersey City.
28. Private of Marines O'Shea fired the' first shot at' Cervera's fleet on July 3d from bridge of Oregon.
29. U. S. transport San Marcus ar- rived in New York harbor with 600 men from Key West.
29. Auxiliary cruiser Yankee arrived in New York harbor with the First Naval Reserve Battalion of New York. (
29 .. N. Y. .. Merchants' Association ·shipload of supplies distributed at Montauk ..
30. Seventy-first N. Y. Volunteers ar- rived home in New York.
30. U. S. warship New Orleans en- ters San Juan harbor, Porto Ri- có; first" American war vessel to enter port of San Juan since war began.
30. Gen. Garcia relieved of his com- mand by Gen. Gomez.
30. 229 members. Eighth Regiment N. Y. Volunteers, arrived in New York.
30. Battleship Massachusetts left New York. for Boston.
30. Official report of Spanish Admir- al Montejo of destruction of his : fleet in Manila bay.
30. Lieutenant Hobson arrived at Santiago on steamer Sequranca, to raise Spanish cruisers, Cristo- bal Colon and Infanta Maria Te- rėsa.
31. First woman to hold army of- ficer's commission, is Assistant Surgeon Anita Newcomb McGee, U. S. A.
Sept. I. Col. Roosevelt's Rough Riders are being mustered out.
I. Hospital ship Olivette sank in harbor of Fernandina, Fla .; no lives lost. .
I. Admiral Schley and Gen. Gor- don sail on the Seneca for Porto Rico as commissioners to arrange terms for evacuation of Porto Ri- co.
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I. Admiral Cervera and his officers and men were ordered released, Spain agreeing to pay for their transportation home to Spain.
I. . Admiral Schley with his staff sails for Porto Rico.
I. Gen. Miles and staff sailed on transport Obdam from Porto Ri- co for United States.
2. Gen. Shafter and staff arrived at Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, L. I.
2, Spanish transport Isla DePanay from Santiago, arrived at Corun- na, Spain, with detachment of surrendered Spanish troops.
2. Transport, „Shinnecock. arrived from Montauk with 318 sick sol- diers for New York city hospit- als.
2, The New York, Paris; St. Louis and St. Paul returned. to Interna- tional Navigation Co ...
2. Justice White declined place on peace commission,
2. N. Y. Naval Reserves sailed from .League Island Navy. Yard for New York.
3. Troops A, & C, N. Y. Volunteer Cavalry sailed from Ponce, Porto Rico, for New York on transport Mississippi.
3. . The first cargo of coal for Porto Rico since the . war began, was shipped from Baltimore, Md., on schooner James F. Beachan.
3. All the , regulars at Montauk Point 'ordered to posts occupied - - 'by them before the war.
3. Naval parade at Boston, Mass.
3 :. Filipinos still fighting; grabbing all lands possible before peace terms are signed. .
3. Gen. Blanco packing up and pre- paring to leave. Cuba.
3: Spanish transport Covadenga ar- rived at Santander, Spain, with 2,200 Spanish soldiers from Santi- ago, Cuba:
3. War Department . issued order for mustering out Seventy-first N. Y. Volunteers.
3. The N. Y. Naval Reserves marched through New York streets, and were received by Mayor Van Wyck and President McKinley.
4. Spain names Senors Montero
Rios, Castillo, Villanrutia and Gen. Cerero as peace commis- sioners.
4. 80,000 volunteers have been or- dered mustered out.
4 .. Spanish gunboat Sandoval, scut- tled in Guantanamo Bay, after Gen. Toral's surrender was float- ed and will be added to our navy.
5. Gunboat Gloucester, Lieut .- Com- mander Wainwright, arrived in New York harbor.
5. Gen. Brooke left Guayma, Porto Rico, for San Juan.
5 .: . Lieut .- Col. Smart, a war depart- . ment scientist, has gone to Camp Wikoff, Montauk, Point, to inves- tigate water supply.
5 ... Col. Roosevelt made farewell ad- dress, to the Rough Riders.
5: Transports Roumania and Un- ionist arrived to-day at Camp Wikoff with 686 soldiers from Santiago.
6. Gen. Aguinaldo now holds the Manila water works; a menace to American forces.
6 .. Gen. Shafter assumes command ' .. of Camp Wikoff.
6 ... Rear Admiral Sampson, Major- . Gen. Wade and Major-Gen. But- ler, the Cuban military commis- sion, sailed for Cuba on the Res- „olute.
6. Gen. - Brooke has arrived at sub- .urbs of San Juan. ....:
6. Transport Alleghany wrecked off Point Judith with 113 soldiers on board; all saved. .:: :
7. . Rear Admiral Schley and Gens. Gordon and Brooks arrive at San Juan, Porto Rico, and call on Spanish Gen, Macias.
7. Approximate estimate that war has cost United States $114,500,- .000.
7. Transport Chester arrived in New York harbor with Fourth Regi- ment Penn. Volunteers.
7 .. Owing' to Gen. Blanco's refusal to receive Red Cross supplies, American troops may be sent to Havana to take place of Spanish soldiers sooner than had been planned.
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7. Secretary Alger made announce- ment that he will make a tour of various camps.
8. Gen. Miles and the Third Wis- consin Volunteers arrived on the Obdam.
9. Spain instructs her commission- ers.
9. Transport Alliance arrived at Honolulu with Third Battalion of First N. Y. Volunteers.
9. Eighth Regiment N. Y. Volun- teers arrived in New York.
9. Gen. Miles reached Washington.
9. Gen. Shafter left Washington with orders to report to Adjt .- Gen. Corbin.
9. Admiral Cervera goes to Boston and Portsmouth to see about ship- ping his sailors home.
IO. Troop C, N. Y. Volunteers, of Brooklyn, arrived on Transport Mississippi.
IO. Twenty-first N. Y. Volunteer In- fantry moves from Camp Black to Camp Meade, its first step toward Cuba.
IO. Spanish war prisoners from An- napolis arrive in New York and go on City of Rome to Ports- mouth, N. H.
IO. Surgeon-Gen. Sternberg ordered all patients in Camp Wikoff to be sent to city hospitals.
IO. Territory of Hawaii is name An- nexation Commissioners will recommend .to Congress.
II. Hospital ship Missouri landed 248 sick soldiers at Camp Wikoff from Santiago.
II. . Gen. Blanco receives Cuban peace commissioners from United States.
12. Spanish Minister of Marine, Se- nor Annon, admits that he advis- ed Admiral Cevera to make dash out of Santiago, rather than blow up ships.
12. Gen. Miles issued peremptory or- ders for all troops to leave Camp Wikoff.|
12. War with America has cost Spain $400,000,000, besides loss of col- onies and ships destroyed.
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12. Spanish instructions have been received and Porto Rican com- missioners will begin work to- day.
13. Admiral Cervera, his staff and 1,700 Spanish prisoners sailed on City of Rome for Santander, Spain.
13. Rear Admiral Dewey considers situation in Philippines as critical. Rough Riders under Col. Roose- velt mustered out.
13. Lafayette Post, G. A. R., will give "Old Glory" to every school in Porto Rico.
13. A committee has been formed of Cubans to help in governing Cu- ba.
14. Cruiser Brooklyn ran
hard aground off Guantanamo, Cuba.
14. Gen. Shafter submitted his re- port on Santiago campaign to War Department.
14. Aguinaldo, leader of insurgents, given two days to withdraw his troops from vicinity of Manila.
14. Col. Roosevelt and his Rough Riders part with cheers and tears.
14. Cuban Commission have taken quarters in Hotel Trotcha, Ha- vana.
14. U. S. transport Santiago, Captain Johnson, arrived from Santiago via. Montauk, with 9,000 rifles surrendered by Spaniards.
14. Sixth Regiment Ill. Volunteers arrived in New York on transport Manitoba from Ponce, Porto Ri- co.
14. Three hundred officers and men and 22 nurses arrived at Montauk from Santiago on Vigilancie.
14. Military Board, consisting of Major Stanhope E. Blunt, Major Daniel M. Taylor, Capt. Beverly W. Dunn and First Lieut. Geo. W. Burr, all of Ordinance Depart- ment, appointed to investigate comparative merits of arms used by army.
14. Two Hundred and Second Reg- iment N. Y. Volunteers leave Camp Black for Camp Meade, Penn.
14. Spanish Cortes adopted Peace Protocol.
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14. Rough Riders presented Col. Roosevelt with "Broncho Bus- ter" in bronze, just before they were mustered out.
15. Capt .- Gen Blanco accuses United States of treachery.
15. Spanish Cruiser Cristobol Colon cannot be saved.
15. Aguinaldoleaves suburbs of Ma- niļa.
15. Spaniards destroy official records in San Juan, Porto Rico.
15. Of 225 officers and men who went to Santiago from Governor's Island, 113 returned.
15. Orders for dispersal of Eastern Squadron issued by Secretary Long, Commodore, to be com- mandant at Mare Island Navy Yard.
15. Battleships Oregon and Iowa or- dered to Manila.
16. Maj .- Gen. Wilson and three bat- teries of artillery, who took part in Porto Rican campaign, arriv- ed in New York harbor on trans- port Concho, from Ponce.
16. Gen. Gomez asks Spaniards to help him to get rid of Americans,
16. Final instructions have been giv- en to the U. S. Peace Commis- sion.
16. Capt. Evans, of the Iowa, was relieved of command at his own request. He will be placed on naval inspection board.
17. U. S. Peace Commissioners sail- ed on Campania for Paris, France, to meet Spanish Commissioners.
17. Gen. Toral, who surrendered Santiago, was mobbed in Vigo, Spain.
17. Aguinaldo thanks Americans and wants them to withdraw from the Philippines.
17. Spain has chosen her Peace Com- missioners.
17. Manila's revenue for first month, $540,000.
17. Sampson now has 31 ships.
17. Almo arrived from Ponce, Porto Rico, with 533 officers and men of Gen. Brooke's Corps.
17. All ready for evacuation in Porto Rico; terms have been arranged by commission; Spaniards only wait for transports.
18. Peace Commissioners appointed by Spain are Senor Montero Rios, Gen. Cerebos and Senors Abar- zuza, Villarrutta and Garmica.
18. San Juan defences show how well American seamen aimed. .
18. Wreckers have recovered 10 six- inch guns from the Maria Teresa, and expect to float the ship.
18. Twenty-three per cent. of soldiers in Porto Rico are ill and General Brooke has asked for hospital ship.
19. Peace commissions are all filled; Paris commission will be: Ameri- can-Judge Day, Senator Davis, Senator Frye, Senator Gray, Whitelaw Reid; Spaniards-Mon- tero Rios, Senor Abarzuza, Senor Garmica, General Cerero, Senor Villarruta. Cuban commission: American: Admiral Sampson, Ger .. Wade, Gen. Bates; Spaniards- Admiral Manterola; Gen. Parra do; Marquis of Montoro. Porto Rico commission : American-Ad- miral Schley, Gen. Brooke, Gen. Gordon; Spaniards - Admiral Vallarmo, Gen. Ostega, Senor Delalgulla.
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