signal is heard by the lighthouse near Ramsgate Lifeboat Station, which sends a lifeboat to the rescue. Waldemar Jungner files the patent application for the first alkaline battery and receives Swedish patent number 11132. March 12 – Encinal County, Texas, created on February 1, 1856, near the U.S. city of Laredo on the condition that it would create a county seat, is discontinued and annexed into neighboring Webb County. The largest town in the area, Bruni, has less than 400 people. March 13 – Chelan County, Washington is created from Okanogan and Kittitas counties for the area around Wenatchee. March 14 – After a civil war breaks out in Samoa between Malietoa Tanumafili I (recognized by Germany, the UK and the U.S.) and rebels who recognize Mata'afa Iosefo as the island's king, the USS Philadelphia takes control of the capital at Apia. Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II takes direct command of the Imperial Navy. March 15 – Santa Cruz County is established in the southeast corner of Pima County around the city of Nogales (built across from the border of the larger Mexican city of Nogales, Sonora) in the U.S. territory of Arizona. March 16 – Memorial ceremonies are held for the burial of the late German hero Otto von Bismarck and his wife, Johanna von Puttkamer with their re-interment at the Bismarck Mausoleum, now a tourist attraction at Friedrichsruh in Aumühle. Bismarck, who had died on July 30, had been buried along with his wife at the estate of his home in Varzin, now the city of Warcino in Poland. March 17 – A fire kills 86 people at the Windsor Hotel in New York City. March 18 – Phoebe, the ninth-known moon of the planet Saturn is discovered by U.S. astronomer William Pickering from analysis of photographic plates made by a Peruvian observatory seven months earlier, the first discovery of a satellite photographically. March 19 – One of the first labor unions for government employees is formed with the organization in Denmark of the Copenhagen Municipal Workers' Union The Battle of Taguig takes place in the Philippines as the USS Laguna de Bay bombards the Katipunan stronghold. March 20 – At Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman to be executed in an electric chair. March 21 – The Eden Theatre in La Ciotat, a small city in France near Marseilles, lays