Twenty-three members of the class were withdrawn between 1898 and 1905 but the majority of these were sold in working order rather than scrapped.

From 1898 to 2001, areas with county councils were known as administrative counties while the counties corporate were designated as county boroughs.

The only entirely new counties created in 1898 were the county boroughs of Londonderry and Belfast.

While Kilkenny city was once a county corporate, by the terms of the 1898 Act it became part of the administrative county.

County voters in 1898 elected to make Sterling a dry county, prohibiting the sale of alcohol within its boundaries.

Parnell remained the county seat until 1898, when another election relocated the seat of county government back to Miami.

Under the Local Government ( Ireland ) Act 1898, part of the judicial county of Galway ( Drummaan, Inishcaltra North and Mountshannon electoral divisions ) was transferred to county Clare.

It is the oldest existing town in the county ( established in 1898 ).

In In 1903, after the popular Spanish-American War of 1898, the name of the county was changed to Leonard Wood County after the Presidential physician, Major-General in the Rough Riders, and winner of the Medal of Honor.

In 1898, the Tallulah Falls Railway was constructed on a north / south track through the county.

The county is named for William Yates Atkinson, Democratic governor of Georgia from 1894 to 1898.

Idaho Territory was established in 1863, and the county seat moved north to the Silver Valley in Murray in 1884 ( and to Wallace in 1898 ).

At this time, citizens petitioned for incorporation, and on January 4, 1898, the county commissioners granted their request.

Braddock, the oldest existing town in Emmons County, located in Section 27 of Township 126 North, Range 75 West, of the Fifth Principal Meridian, was established as the first railroad town in the county in the Fall of 1898.

Further decline came with the tornado of May 1, 1898, and then the loss of the county seat, in 1907, to Wheeler.

The settlement was established in 1878, when New York investor and financier William Whitewright Jr. ( b. 1815-d. 1898 ), for whom his family name was the community named, purchased a tract of land in the path of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, which was then extending its tracks across the county from Sherman to Greenville.

* Following the abolition of the former county-Tipperary-as an administrative division in 1898, the county of North Tipperary was created.

He failed in early campaigns for state office from his heavily Republican home county but finally was elected to the state senate in 1898, indicating his growing bipartisan appeal.

Only after the passing of the Local Government ( Ireland ) Act 1898 which granted extensive power to previously non-existent county councils, allowing nationalists for the first time through local elections to democratically run local affairs previously under the control of landlord dominated " Grand Juries ", and William O ' Brien founding the United Irish League that year, did the Irish Parliamentary Party reunite under John Redmond in January 1900, returning to its former strength in the following September general election.

* The extensive 1898 Local Government Act abolished the old landlord-dominated Grand Juries and replaced them by forty-nine county, urban and rural district councils, managed by Irish people for the administration of local affairs.

Until 1898 the General Assembly was apportioned by county, with a total of 30 members elected county-wide " at-large " with equal numbers from each of the three counties.

Although officially classified as a torpedo boat in 1898 by the US Navy, the, a long all steel vessel displacing 165 tons, was described by her commander, LT. John C. Fremont, as "... a compact mass of machinery not meant to keep the sea nor to live in ... as five sevenths of the ship are taken up by machinery and fuel, whilst the remaining two sevenths, fore and aft, are the crew's quarters ; officers forward and the men placed aft.

In 1898 she published Women and Economics, a theoretical treatise which argued, among other things, that women are subjugated by men, that motherhood should not preclude a woman from working outside the home, and that housekeeping, cooking, and child care, would be professionalized.

In 1898 Blackheath Barrow — a ring cairn monument situated above Cross Stone in Todmorden — was excavated and proved to be a site of " surpassing archaeological interest ", according to J. Lawton Russell, one of the men who carried out the excavation.

Between 1898 and 1889, the Reading Room was built by Archbishop Maclagan as a place of rest and recreation for local men, but without the sale of alcohol.

In 1898, his father Lucio and his brother Pedro were ambushed and killed by armed men while on their way home to Baler from Nueva Ecija.

After winning two major battles during the 1898 Spanish – American, the Navy continued to build more ships, and by the end of World War I had more men and women in uniform than the Royal Navy.

A fire underground at Whitwick Colliery ( now under the Morrison's supermarket ) led to the deaths of 35 men in 1898.

One Sunday afternoon in 1898 six young men from Ottery St Mary, who were then living in London, met on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral, and resolved to form a Society to promote good fellowship among Ottery people wherever they may be.

On his return from India in 1891, he met George Merrill, a working class man also from Sheffield, and the two men struck up a relationship, eventually moving in together in 1898.

* The Canadian men and women of the time: a handbook of Canadian biography HJ Morgan ( 1898 )

On September 18, 1946 Mound Metalcraft was created in Mound, Minnesota with three men as partners, Lynn Everett Baker ( 1898 – 1964 ), Avery F. Crounse, and Alvin F. Tesch.

These men were especially informed by Spain ’ s defeat and humiliation in the Spanish-American war in 1898, which crystallized into two distinct political movements, Republicanism and Carlist Monarchism marked by the oscillation of power ( a zeal for reform characterized these years of Spanish history ):

To cite examples from period newspapers, The New York Tribune's article, " The Bowery Mission, A Sketch of its Career ", dated March 14, 1898 opens with " The Bowery Mission was started in 1880 at No. 36 Bowery by a number of men who were interested in mission work.

1898 column denouncing the selfishness of men in the SS La Bourgogne | Bourgogne Disaster.

The following Naval Air Station roads are named for men who lost their lives in the fighting here in June 1898: Good, Taurman, Smith, Dumphy, McColgan, and Gibbs.

There was a mining disaster on 19 April 1898 in Whitwick Number Five Pit which resulted in the deaths of thirty five men.

On 6 September 1898 at Candia, Crete, Greece, two parties of men from HMS Hazard went to the assistance of the Customs House Garrison which was being besieged.

The Greenland Disaster of 1898 cost the lives of several of George Barbours men.

It was announced in May 1898 that he would receive the Victoria Cross, one of four men to be so honoured for actions at Dargai, and was personally decorated by Queen Victoria at Netley on 14 May, a few days before he was formally discharged from the Army.

On 5 May 1898 120 men marched from Rawene to Waima to deal with the revolters, but the dispute was settled without them.

House helped to make four men governor of Texas: James S. Hogg ( 1892 ), Charles A. Culberson ( 1894 ), Joseph D. Sayers ( 1898 ), and S. W. T. Lanham ( 1902 ).

At the Battle of Omdurman on September 2, 1898 his army of 52, 000 men was destroyed.

In September 1898 a British battalion led by Lieutenant-Colonel Parsons moved from Kassala toward Gedaref and clashed with a Mahdist Dervishes army composed of 3, 500 men under the command of the Mahdist Emir Sa ' ad-allah in a jungle located between the River Atbara and Gedaref town.

Herbert Henry Austin and his men reached the Omo delta on 12 September 1898, and found that an Ethiopian expedition, led by Ras Wolda Giyorgis, had previously planted Ethiopian flags on the northern shore of Lake Turkana on 7 April, as well as having plundered the locals and reduced them to poverty.