LIFE 1898

Historical Highlights from 1898 :

• Robert Allison becomes the first person to buy an American-built automobile when he buys a Winton automobile that has been advertised in Scientific American.
• The US and Cuba declare war against Spain, starting the Spanish-American war.
• Lynching by burning of two Seminole boys in Oklahoma; 6 of the lynch mob are convicted and imprisoned, the first successful prosecution of lynching in the Southwest.
• The United States annexes the Hawaiian Islands.
• Joshua Slocum completes a 3-year solo sailing circumnavigation of the world.
• Guam is transferred to the United States Navy control.
• After a merger of several small oil companies, John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company controls 84% of the United States’s oil and most American pipelines.
• Annie Oakley promotes the service of women in combat situations with the US military.