naval battle Manila, V.

evacuates Cuba, cedes Porto Rico, sells Philippines, V.

in American Revolution, V.

Spaniards, treatment of American natives by the, I.

Spanish-American war, V.

Spanish coins, II.

Specie payment, resumption of, IV.

Sperry, Rear-Admiral Charles S .. VI.

Spinning machinery, II., III.

Spooner Act concerning isthmian ca.n.a.l, VI.

Sports, in United States, in 1800, II.

Spotswood, Governor, of Virginia, I.

Spottsylvania, battle of, IV.

"Squatter Sovereignty," III.

Stamp Act, the, II.

repealed, II.

Stanton, Secretary, III.

Star of the West, the, fired on, III.

Stark, General, II.

his cool courage, II.

"Starving time," the, in Virginia, I.

State const.i.tutions, revision of, V.

State Department, the, II.

rights and the central government, III.

rights in slavery, III.

authority as compared with that of the Union, III.

under Secretary Hay, VI.

Steam, navigation begun, II.

fire engines, III.

Steamship combinations, VI.

Steel trade, VI.

Stephens, Alexander H., his position on the slavery Question, III.

chosen Vice-President of the Confederacy, III.

Steuben, Baron, II.

Stevens, Thaddeus, IV.

Stevenson, Adlai E., nominated for Vice-President, 1900, V.

Stillwater, battles of, II.

Stone, Governor, of Maryland, I.

deposed, I.

attempts, to regain the province, I.

Stone River, battle of, IV.

Stony Point, attack on, II.

Stoughton, Lieutenant Governor, and witchcraft, I.

Street railways. III.

Strike of 1877, the, IV.

Homestead, V.

Pullman, V.

steel, VI.

coal, VI.

Stuyvesant, Governor, his administration, I.

Submarine boats, VI.

Suffrage, extension of, IV.

woman, V.

negro, V.

Sullivan, General, at Newport, II.

Sumner, Charles, supersedes Webster, III.

attack upon, by Brooks, III.

on secession, IV.

Sumter, Fort, fired upon, III.

evacuated, III.

effect of firing on, in the North, III.