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Cervera’s Spanish fleet was destroyed at Santiago de Cuba, July 3, and Santiago and its large army were surrendered on July 17. The leading military events of the war, so far as Cuba was concerned, were the fights at El Caney and San Juan, the battle at Santiago, and the struggle before Las Guasimas. Under the treaty of peace the island was evacuated Jan. 1, 1899, the United States then formally a uming the government till the Cubans had adopted a written constitution and installed a satisfactory native government. A convention to frame a constitution met in Havana, Nov. 5, 1900; on Jan. 22, 1901, received from the central committee a draft of the eel constitution; and on Feb. 22 following adopted a series of declarations concerning the future relations of Cuba with the United States. These declarations were not acceptable to the United States, and Congre on March 2 pa ed what was known as the Platt Amendment, in which relations that would be satisfactory were detailed. On June 12 the Cuban convention adopted the Platt Amendment in its entirety. W. of Verona, where the Italians have twice been utterly defeated by the Austrians. On July 23-25, 1848, Charles Albert was routed after severe fighting by Radetzky with a smaller force, and forced to retreat behind the Mincio; and on June 24, 1866, Victor Emmanuel with 130,000 men was defeated by the Archduke Albert with 75,000 men. ‘ Cutch, a State in the W. of India, lying to the S. of Sind; under British gee area, 6,500 square miles. op. of the State 558,415. es Cuthbert, St., a celebrated father of the early English Church; born, en to tradition, near Melrose, about 635. He became a monk, and in 664 was appointed prior of Melrose, which after some years he quitted to take a similar charge in the monastery of Lindisfarne. Still seeking a more ascetic life, Cuthbert then retired to the desolate isle of Farne. Here the fame of his holine attracted many great visitors, and he was at last persuaded to accept the bishopric of Hexham, which he, -however, resigned two years after, again ee to his hermitage in the island of F’'arne, where he died in 687. W. of Warsaw by rail. A Catholic monastery, founded here about 1382, is visited yearly by 50,000 to 60,000 pilgrims, as po e ing the famous “ Black Virgin,” a murky painting of Byzantine origin, but ascribed by legend to St. Luke himself. In 1655 Czenstochau was the only place in Poland which offered resistance to Charles Gustavus of Sweden, when 70 monks and 150 soldiers for 38 days held out against 10,000 men. The inhabitants, 15,500 in number, carry on a considerable trade ®& sacred pictures and rosaries. wrote: “The Declaration of Independence set before the world four great truths which were declared to be self-evident: first, that all men are created equal; second, that they are endowed with inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happine ; third, that governments are instituted among men to secure these rights; fourth, that <a derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. “Upon these four pillars, quarried from the mountain of eternal truth, all free government must forever rest. “Then followed the War of the Revolution, with its sacrifices and its sacred memories, with its trials and its triumphs, establishing a government dedicated to liberty. “But before a generation had pa ed, wealth, represented by Hamilton, began to a ert itself, and contempt for the rights of man and distrust of the people themselves began to be manifest.