The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-12-01
A GUERILLA WARFARE
Natives Attack Small Ameri-
can Parties.
THREE U. s. SOLDIERS CAPTURED.
A. Malasigui OmciaIs WHO Welcomed
Americans Were Murdered by Rebels
Names of American Prisoners Found on
Convent Walls at san Carlos.

MANILA, Nov. PA Filipino council
OF war was held by the retreating lead.
ers at Bayambang Nov. 13 in the house
now occupied by General Macarthur.
1t was attended by Aguinaldo, Pho del
pilar, Garcia, Alejandrino and some
members of the so-called cabinet. Infor.
nation reached General Macarthur
from several sources to the effect that
the council recognized the futility of at
tempting further resistance to the
Americans with united forces, and
agreed that the Filipino troops should
scatter and should thereafter follow
guerrilla methods.
-Four men of Company d. Ninth in.
fantry, were foraging beyond Bamban
when 70 Filipinos took them in ambush,
killing one and capturing the other
three. The Americans resisted for hall
an hour. The firing being heard al
Bamban, Lieutenant Frazer, with "a
squad followed the retreating Filipinos
several miles. The Americans found
the body of the soldier boloed. They
burned the hamlet where the fight TOOK
place.
Three Filipino rifemen ambushed all
American surgeon near Capas. He
shot one and the others fed.
Between Bamban aud Angeles mule
train was fired upon by the insurgents,
and Spanlard, former prisoner of the
t1hpinos, who was with the train, was
shot. At Malasiqui the officials who
welcomed the Americans were mur.
dered This was the only railroad town
which the Americans did not garrison,
and on the night the troops withdrew a
band of insurgents entered, dragged An
tonic Mejla, president of the town, into
the street and cut his throat. The murC. er.
ers then assasslnated the vice president
and five members of the town council
in the same manner and told the fright.
ened natives VINO witnessed the slaughter
to spread the news tnat a similar fate
awaited all friends of the Americans.
The mayor of San Carlos, VINO rode
In the carriage with General MacAr.
thur and Colonel Bell when the Ameri.
cans entered the town, sud the cheers
OF the people were murdered the next
night.
Colonel Bells regiment advanced
from Bayambang upon Mangatarem,
where 1t was supposed there Is a large
insurgent force, Two bLttalions OF the
newly arrived Twenty eighth infantry
force the south line.
Major Spence, with 90 men of the
Thirty-second regiment, surrounded u
village near BauClston during the night
and attacked the place about daybreak,
capturing Filipino captain and 10 men,
with seven rifles.
News from General Young was that
there were ten cavalrymen and 20u
Maccabebys with him, most of the
horsemen who started having been
compelled to drop out because their
horses failed them.
The Filipinos took the American pris
oners from Victoria to San Carlos. On
the walls of the Victoria prison and OF
the San Carlos convent are the follow.
ing nailes:
Civilians.
George Langford, Thomas Hayes.
Soldiers.
Harry Winfield, Phil Betterton, J. l.
Salisbury, A. N. Gordon, Z. N Nugent
Frank Stone, John Desmond, George
Sackett, DAVID Scott, Martin Brennan
Tom Edwards. ID. p. Curran, John
Cronin, Charles Baker. O. l.. Davis, LIE
land Smith.
On the walls of the San Carlos con
vent were also found the following
names:
Civilians,
Charles Bird, w. j. Sheehy, +. Il
Huber.
Sailors.
Edward Burke, battleship Oregon
q. b. Powers, gunboat UrdaDeta; John
j. Farley, b. j. Greene. Tilden Herbert
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