Spanish American War Timeline Highlights U S Cuban War Actions
A condensed record of events from February through December detailing U S demands against Spain over Cuba. Key milestones include the Maine explosion in Havana Harbor with heavy losses, naval actions, Dewey’s Manila battles, Santiago and Puerto Rico operations, and the declaration of war followed by subsequent campaigns and peace terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Dupuy de Lome
McKinley
Maine
Havana
Naval Board
Spain
Kee
Pres
Montgomery
London
Schley
Hampton Roads
Cuba
Tee
Congress
Senate
House
Washington
Woodford
Sampson
Nashville
Cervera
Dewey
Manila Bay
Cardenas
Bagley
Winslow
San Juan
Porto Rico
Philippines
San Francisco
Otis
Oregon
Cape Horn
Santiago Harbor
Gen
Merritt
Hobson
Merrimac
Guantanamo
Col
Huntington
Camara
Cadiz
Shafter
Santiago
Baiquiri
Juragua
Roosevelt
Rough Riders
10Th Cavalry
Lawton
Kent
San Juan Hill
el Caney
Morro
Watson
Spanish
Suez Canal
Shafter Santiago
Gen. Wood
Ponce
Cambon
Malate
Manila
U. S. Peace Commission
Sec. of
State Day
Davis and Frye
Whitelaw Reid
Justice White
War Investigation Commission
Paris
Marianao
Large Commercial Liabilities Highlighted Across U.S. Firms
A partial ledger lists liabilities of 500000 dollars or more tied to diverse firms and locations. Entries include Wertheimer & Co glove makers in New York, Alfred Dulge & Son piano suppliers in Dolgeville, Howard Clock & Watch Co, L. B. Clark & Co tanners in Bangor, Joseph Leiter in Chicago wheat speculation, and other enterprises in Providence Boston and elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schabnette
New Orleans
New York
Wertheimer & Co
Providence
Sawyer, Manning & Co
Boston
Dolgeville
N. Y
Alfred Dulge & Son
Howard Clock & Watch Co
Bangor
L. B. Clark & Co
Chicago
Joseph Leiter
Barton
Woven Hose & Rubber Co
Treat
Atrocious Domestic Murders Across Several States
A compiled U S domestic tragedy report lists multiple killings and suicides from January to May across Greenville Tennessee Cedar Rapids Illinois Milwaukee St Louis New York Venango Pa South Bend Indiana Plainview Texas Nebraska and other locations. Several incidents mention temporary insanity or personal crisis reports involving spouses children and bystanders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenville
Tenn
Alexander Carter
New York
John Matthews
Cedar Rapids
Healy
Libbie Brauschand
Niagara Walls
N. Y
A. Lathwell
P. Schucher
G. Henderson
I. Skinner
South Bend
Ind
F. Jlarrington
Wahlert
Plainview
Wm Perrine
Chronology of domestic killings and self-inflicted deaths
A dated list records numerous cases across several states detailing husbands or lovers killing wives, children, or relatives and then taking their own lives. Motives cited include jealousy, financial trouble, personal crisis, and domestic infelicity, with locations from Knoxville to Greenfield and dates ranging from June to December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
E. Hammerstrom
Hot Springs
Ark
J. W. Etting
Kalamazoo
Mich
Chas. Langley
Fulton
N. Y
William Cooper
Washington
Ind
James Cole
Oakland
Cal
Goong Chung
High Bridge
Wis
Herman Bach
Self
Davenport
Henry Schultz
Christia Yohansen
South River
N. J
Central City
Grand Rapids
Jesse Badgerow
Wyandotte
Ezekiel Lazetti
Louisville
Nellie McGuffin
Joseph F. Villier
Chicago
Fred Benfield
Emma Jungenberg
Churchville
W. Va
Ward Wolf
Indianapolis
William Bloom
Grace Harvey
Detroit
Williams
Robert Lesh
Pittsburgh
Bertha Bernstein
Cleveland
Sam H. Dickerson
Blanche Winship
Garret
Jesse Cheney
Flint
W.P. Murray
Youngstown
W. TH. Branton
John H. Jenkins
Harpersville
Miss
Lenora
Kan
Wm. Elliott
Fannie Leshel
Hamilton
Ala
Dan Holliday
John McLeod
Pineville
John Meadows
John
Clayton Mathews
Wilmington
N. C
Rochester
Josiah Bowers
Wm. Carr
New York
Frank Rhoner
Fort Madison
Frank Bush
F. Brooks
Stree Soil
Hutchings
John Hunt
Thomas Haywood
Jasper
Wm. Lowenstein
Wife
Greenfield
Wm. Shaver
Record of Historic Large-Scale Fire Losses Across Multiple Cities
A compiled timeline lists numerous fires and losses from January to December in cities like Dawson City, St Louis, Maysville, Naugatuck, Winnipeg, New York, Chicago, Sacramento, Boston, Attleboro, Philadelphia, Park City, Nashville, Toledo, Clarksville, Tacoma, Brooklyn, San Francisco, Terre Haute, and many smaller towns. Losses range from hundreds of thousands to several million dollars, with notes on destroyed business districts and burned warehouses, hotels, and factory plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ajdersey City
N. J
Fort Smith
Ark
Gloversville
N. Y
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Boston
Pittsburgh
Fairfield County
Kalamazoo
Mich
West Harvey
Ill
Brewton
Ala
New York
Bowery Mission House
Chicago
Pratt City
Lehigh
I. T
Kent
Minn
Santa Cruz
Cal
Dover
St. Vincente
Mex
Dakota
Iowa
Grand, Virdigris
Arkanas Bottoms
Tex
Seattle
Alaska
Beverly
Mass
Steamer
Hampton
Sable Islands
la Bourgogne
Cromartyshire
Steeleville
Hot Springs
Sharon
Ooltewah Station
Tenn
Stinesville
Ind
Mississippi River
Fort St. Philip
New York City
Cohoes
l—Jerome
A.T
Philadelphia
Toledo
Milan
Brownsville
Wisconsin
Georgia
Florida
Sarah J. Palmer
Charleston
S. A
Davis
Astoria
Ore
Indian Territory
Canyon City
Sodus
St. Peter
Lake Ontario
Bellaire
Gloucester
West Pittston
Exeter Calliery
Detroit
Oregon Coast
Yaquina Bay
Atlanta
Hackensack
N.J
Ashburn
Powder Works
Stockton
New York Harbor
New England
Highland Light
Portland
Pinole
Corfu
White Pass
Madison
Fla
Dawson City
St. Louis
Union Elevator
Maysville
Mason County Library
Naugatuck
Conn
U. S. Rubber Co
Winnipeg
Man
McIntyre Block
Oe Bittabunalt
Levi P. Morton
Ayer Bld'g
Sacramento
Southern Pacific
Penn Plate Glass
North Irwin
Attleboro
Potter Oilcloth Works
Portsmouth
Burgess Steel & Tron Co
W—Park City
Utah
Center Ridge
Bismarck
N. C
Nashville
Phillips-Buthell Co
Colorado Springs
Col
Clarksville
Tacoma
Wash
Brooklyn
San Francisco
Baldwin Hotel
Duossy
New York Home Life Ins
B'ld’g
Terre Jtaute
Global chronicle of unrest and diplomacy across 1900s
A compact record outlines world events from Cuba swearing loyalty to Spain and newspaper offices burned in Havana to a sweeping list of global incidents. It notes revolutions, assassinations, massacres, naval moves, and territorial shifts across Europe Africa and Asia with dates and key figures.
Strikes Across the Nation Hit Mills and Mines in 1900s
A snapshot of labor unrest with date marked actions across cities like Lawrence Boston Chicago and Virden. It lists wage reductions strikes by cotton mill operatives iron workers carpenters and miners, resulting in wages increases job losses deaths and troop deployments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
London
Lawrence
Maass
Ironwood
Mich
Carnegie Milners
Biddeford
Cleveland
Beckman Woolen Mills
Chicago
John Morris
Oshkosh
Wis
Omaha
Cudahy’s
Swift’s
Pana
Virden
Ill
Pittsburgh
Knights of Labor
Marlboro
Mass
Strike wave hits 6000 cotton mill workers in Augusta
In Augusta Georgia six thousand cotton mill operatives went on strike over wage reductions. A separate note reports a December 1 grand jury in Carlinville Illinois indicting Governor Tanner in connection with riots at Virden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Carlinville
Tanner
Virden
List of mob violence and disasters across states
A compilation of mob killings robberies and murders from January to December across states including Arkansas Oklahoma Texas Georgia and Missouri. Entries name alleged perpetrators victims and locations such as Colfax Wash Wewoka Dewitt and Fort Smith with noted outcomes from lynchings to shootings and arson. The record also lists extensive weather disasters including floods tornadoes frosts and blizzards across California Ohio Indiana New York and New England with property damage and fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Smith
Ark
New England
Cal
Ohio
Indiana
W. Va
Oklahoma
N. C
Dakota
Iowa
Lampton
N. H
Steeleville
Stanberry
Maryville
Georgia
New York City
Nebraska
Nodaway Co
Brunswick
Ornado Aternandina
Fla
Florida
Minn
N. D
Lake Michigan
New Eingland
Kansas
Ind
N. Y
Mass
Notable deaths and prominent births listed by dates
A dated roster lists prominent figures from politics law and industry with ages and locations. Entries include former congressmen ex governors and other public leaders such as Miss Willard Benjamin Butterworth Dewitt Senter Geral James Broadhead and Cyrus Carpenter among others with dates and places like Chicago Paris Washington and Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses WP. Ifandy
Chicago
Bon Air Hotel
Benjamin Butterworth
Ohio
Thomasville
C. A. O. McClellan
Auburn
Ind
Irances
Willard
Jason B. Brown
Seymour
Rosecrans
Redondo
Cal
P. HH. Bell
Jaittleton
N.C
Blanche K. Bruce
Register of Treasury
Washington
Paris
Sen
KE. C. Walthall
Miss
Thos. Lynch
Antigo
Wis
Aaron H. Cragin
C. ML. Roberts
Austin
B. J. Franklin
A.T
Phoenix
Edward Bellamy
Chicopee Walls
Alass
Cyrus C. Carpenter
Fort Dodge
Chas.v. Chidley
Olympia
Manila
Dewitt C. Senter
Alorristown
Lenn
Omar DD. Conger
Mich
Ammen
Col
James ©. Broadhead
Switzerland
St. Louis
F. A. Briggs
N.J
Bismarck
Moody Currier
N.at
Ann Arbor
Eaton
Conn
Artford
Vanny Davenport
Duxbury
Muss
Thomas F. Bayard
Del
England
Wedham
Mass
Sherman Hoar
Concord
Benjamin Stark
Ore
New Haven
Dua
J. R. West
Byron Weston
Dalton
John W. Keeley
Keeley Motor
Philadelphia
Barnes Compton
Maryland
Laurel
Showalter
Gen. Garcia
Washington, D. C
Calvin
Brice
New York
Rice
Boston
Thos. W. Osborn
Fla
Justin 8. Morrill
Inaugurations Mark Mayors Sworn In Across States
January 1 sees Robert A. Van Wyck sworn in as New York mayor followed by inaugurations of Gov. d. Moge of Virginia and Gov. Bushnell of Ohio. The ceremonial oaths highlight new administrations and political shifts nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert A. van Wyck
New York
D. Moge 'I'yler
Gov. Bushnell (O
Political and civic milestones in 1896 from federal to local
A compact chronology lists elections appointments and events across the year. Marcus Hanna and M D Ratchford win positions. Shaw and McKenna appear in governance and justice. battleships Kentucky and Alabama launch. Hawaii annexation advances. national congress sessions and reforms proceed with key resignations and appointments, including McKinley and Gompers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marcus A. Hanna
U. S
M. D. Ratchford
Columbus
United Mine Workers’ Union of America
Leslie M. Shaw
American Anti-Saloon League
Hiram Price
Louis Emery McComas
National Stock Growers’ Association
Denver
Gov. Shaw
Indianapolis
I. B. Turley
Tenn
League of American Wheelmen
St. Louis
I. S. Potter
National American Women’s Suffrage Association
Louis Polo Bernabe
de Lomens
Washington
Lillian M. N. Stevens
Frances Willard
National Pure Food and Drug Congress
J. Sterling Morton
Sec
Day
Canton
National Congress of Mothers
White House
McKinley
Alabama
Philadelphia
France
William V. Sullivan
Walthall
Mississippi
Omaha
Wsconsin
Madison
Congress
Hawaii
U. S. Senate
Pres
Cullom
Tnl
Morgan
Ala
Hitt
Iil
Pres. Dole
Judd
International Convention Baptist Young People’s Union
Buffalo
Ferdinand W. Peck
Chicago
U.S
Joseph F. Johnston
National Meet League of American Wheelmen
Ambassador Hay
Thos. G. Sample
Huerbee
State Day
A. S. Pinkerton
Mass
Grand Sire Sovereign Lodge
Boston
Allen D. Candler
Georgia
Bear Island Point
Minn
Bear Island
N. Y
Conn
Cal
Mich
Wis. N
Ark
Fla
Miss
Jyashington
Hay
Cleveland
H. M. Ingham
Atlanta
National Civil Service Reform Ass
Baltimore
Carl Schurz
Bliss
Int. Dept
Mthan A.litchcock
Sam’l Gompers
Amer
Labor
Kansas City
Bunce
Historic pace records and feats across 1898 events
A sequence of endurance marks and race results across bicycles, ships, trains, and sports. Notable feats include Filkes 1,322 miles in 72 hours in Pittsburgh, UP mail train 517 miles in 480 minutes, Tacoma 10,000 miles in 133 days, multiple national bicycle distance and speed records, and college and Derby results highlighting early sports milestones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Filkes
Pittsburgh
Union Pacific Mail
Cheyenne
Omaha
Tacoma
Philadelphia
Tacomi
Wash
Chicago
Henry Leveson
Nasser Wilhelm der Grosse
Southampton
New York
Springfield
Lizzie Glaw
Berlin
Germany
Walter D. Mansfield
San Francisco
Boston
Eddie McDuffie
W.W. Hamilton
Denver
Cornell
Thames River
New London
Conn
Yale
Harvard
Washington Park
Warrenton
Tom Linton
Wales
Indianapolis
Ind
Chas
Gardner
Whitman
Davis
Newport
R. I
Baltimore
Henry Smith
Ifrank Waller
Detroit
Joseph and
Porter
Kansas City
Hoston
Cincinnati
D. J. Corbett
I. Sharkey
University of Michigan
University of Chicago
Richmond
N. Cy
U. of
Major Taylor
Frank Waller
C. W. Miller
New Yoak
Romero Dead at 62 Ambassador Romero of Mexico Dies in Washington
Washington dispatch reports Senor Romero, Mexico's ambassador to the United States, died at four this morning after an appendectomy on Tuesday. A former secretary of legislation and long time diplomat, he was 62 and leaves wife Lucretia Allen of Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senor Romero
Mexico
United States
Ambassador Romero
Diaz
Maximilian
Juarez
Congress
Romero
Lucretia Allen
Philadelphia
Europe
Latin America
A Busy Year for Locomotives and Cars
The Railroad Gazette reports a strong year for contracting shops in the United States with 1,875 locomotives built, up 624 from last year, and an estimated 105,158 cars including 99,809 freight and 4,650 street cars, with 1,663 destined for export. The 1890 record stands as the prior peak for total car output.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Railroad Gazette
United States
A Child's Awful Plot Blamed for Double Tragedy
In Lincoln Jackson County Wisconsin two young children aged four and two died in a house fire believed to be the result of a planned murder by the four year old boy who was punished. The parents were away and the mother was visiting a neighbor when the tragedy occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherrill
Ark
Pea Ridge
Miss
Jim Watts
Sam Cole
Colfax
Wash
Marshal Chadwick
Legen
Wewoka
Markus McGeiney
Palmer Simpson
Bramwall
W. Va
Henry Draper
Lake City
N. C
Baker
Mayfield
Richard Allen
Tom Holmes
Morgantown
Senatobia
Fred Moore
Wybark
I. T
Ed Chalmers
Brownsville
Tex
Samuel
Felipe Cobb
Carlos Jullien
Rives
Tenn
Jos
Curtis
Sam Young
Melvan
Great Bend
Kan
J. Becker
Myrtle Huffmeister
Wetumpka
Alta
Carlee
Marion
Ill
Monticello
Jim Redd
Alex Johnson
Carmel
John Meadows
Ripley,tenn
Richard Thurmond
Clarendon
Liberty
Bent, Jones
Mountain City
John Williams
Jones Station
Wright Erie
Edgefield Courthouse
Jim Mackie
Luther Sullivan
Lacon
W. Stewart
Phoenix
D. C
Meridian
Benton
Hearn and Richardson
Jake Glover
Tee County
Despernado
Dekalb
Newton Gaines
Town Creek
Ala
Wm. Simms
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Osseo
Wis
Herman Bonger
Lincoln
Jackson County
Part of Red Rock mountain destroys hotel in Switzerland
Airolo Switzerland reports part of Red Rock mountain collapsed, destroying a hotel and eight houses and causing a fire. Debris covered a square mile with three deaths and damage estimated at £40,000. Meanwhile in Hartford a 23 year old, Benjamin R. Willetts, was hanged for murder marking the prison's seventh automatic gallows execution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Red Rock Mountain
Airolo
Switzerland
Canton
Ticino
Hartford
Conn
Benjamin R. Willetts
State Prison
Wethersfield
David S. Lambert
Wilton
Willetts
Monument to Lincoln’s Mother Earmarked by Iowa Veterans
Des Moines announces a monument to Abraham Lincoln’s mother will be erected by veterans of the Second Iowa brigade three Illinois regiments the Fourteenth Thirteenth and Sixteenth and two Indiana regiments the Twenty sixth and Fifty third Gen Ankeny of Des Moines is chosen to raise funds from Iowa veterans Col J S Wright of Rockport Indiana sent the appointment letter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Abraham Lincoln
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Ankeny
J.S. Wright
Rockport
Ind
Postmaster Warns on Hawaii Mail Rates
The San Francisco postmaster notes a backlog caused by mistaken belief that domestic postage covers Hawaii. Letters to Hawaii residents require five cents per half ounce international postage, while mail to U S military or naval personnel goes at domestic rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
San Francisco
Hawaii
United States
Naval Service
Combination Completed in Steel and Wire Industry
Pittsburgh December 30 The Post reports the American Steel and Wire company formation is finished after a suspension period due to plant refusals. The capitalization amounts to 35 million dollars and the firm will practically control the world rod and wire nail business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
American Steel and Wire Company
Bribery Probe Ends Without Indictments for Chicago Council
The Chicago grand jury investigating bribery in the city council failed to develop evidence for indictments after a day and a half of testimony. Nearly every council member appeared before the panel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
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Elmwood
National
Paola
Isan
Wfirst National
Larimore
N.D
Bank of Southern Baltimore
Home Savings
Sioux City
Benson Savings
Waterford
Bank of Merriam Park
Doon
Northern
Lexington
Tawas Savings
Tawas City
Bank of
Allegheny
Clifton Forge
Tradesman’s National
Tioga National
Oswego
First National
Neligh
Neb
German National
Bridgeton
Cumberland Nail & Iron Co
Uvol
Paper Co
Hosmer, Codding & Co
New England Loan &Trust Co
U. AL & J. Sawyer
Manchester
Bankers’ & Merchants’ Mutual Fire Insurance Co
John Stephenson & Co
N. YV
T. B. Rays
J. 4 Rays Hardware Co
M—Turney & Jones Coal Co
Penn, & O. Fuel Co
Dee
Trenton
Great White Spirit Co
Dootka
Ruthven
Shawnee
Mast Grand Forks
St. Wine
Plainfield, Jr
Nenia
Exter
de Kalb
Cortez
Watersmeet
Goldenpond
Perry, IU
Victor
N.Y
Oxford Junction
Osborn
Hopkinton, Ja
Garwin
Wittemore
Murfreesboro
Coopersville
Mscanaba
Wheatland
Cartersville
Alton
Sacandaga Park
Chipley
Ila
Bicknell
Jnd
Crown Point
Park City
Dunsmuir
Kern City
Antelope
New Holland
Beckwith
Logansport
Jat
Rapid River
Jerome
Claremont
Beloochistan
Meiers
Santoga
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Senor Sagasta
Gen. Woodford
Cahba
Balikesen Asia
San Juan del Sur
Japan
China
Wei-Hai-Wei
Gien
Morales
Guatemala
Oscar Salinger
Constantinople
Jammerly
Prussia
M. Mmile Zola
Esterhazy
Ontario
Philippine Islands
Russia
Anatolia
Turkey
Queen Regent
Rome
Italy
British Council of
Henry Somerset
Moret
Gullen
Xiquena
Bermejo
Sagusta
William Ewart Gladstone
Nawarden Castle
Ingland
Peshawar
India
Corea
Simn Fu
Peking
Mi Yoko
E. T. Hooley
M. Ribot
Albion
Blackwell, Inc
Dreyfus
Sir Herbert Kitchener
Omdurman
Nile
MM. Cavaignac
Wilhelmina of
Holland
Amsterdam
Niingston
St. Vincent
West Indies
Barbadoes
Luesser Antilles
Candia
Crete
Reneh
Queen Louise
Denmark
Copenhagen
Dupuy
M. de Freycinet
Han Kow
Lord Salisbury
Maj
Marchand
Fashoda
Nile Valley
Chamber of Deputies
Pierre Puvig de Chavanes
Chun-Yang
Sporting
Helaford
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