The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-30
Government IS CRUSHED
Filipinos Can No Longer Claim That
Their Organization Has
Any Existence.
MANY OF ITS OFFICERS IN OUR HANDS.
Dfxpatch from Gen. Otis shows That
Iusurrection Is Practically Ended
President of Filipino Congress
Renounces All Further Connection
with the Rebellion.

summarizes the situation in LuZon in
a dispatch to the war department FRI
day, in which he says that the insur-
gent government can no longer claim to
exist, its troops and officials are scat
tered and .,guinaldo in hiding. The
dispatch follows:
Manila Nov. 24-Claim to government
by insurgents can be made no longer under
any fiction; it's treasurer, secretary OF the
Interior and president Of congress in our
hands its president and remaining cab
met officers in hiding evidently in dlfterent
central Luzon provinces; its generals ana
troops in small bands scattered Z rough
these provinces acting as banditti or dis
persed, playing the role of amigos with
arms concealed Indications are that Agui-
nal6o did not escape through the lines OF
Iawton or Wheaton, but fled westward
from Bayambong railway station.
President of Congress Gives Up.
Manila, Nov. 25.-Bautista, president
of the Filipino congress, presented
himself to Gen. Macarthur Friday and
formally renowned all further con-
nection with the insurrection. lie
was one of the influential Filipinos
who hesitated at the beginning of the
war as to the side on which to cast
his lot. He was offered judgeship
of the supreme court, but declined.
He now announces that he desires to
accept the position and says the Fill
pino congress and cabinet are scat
tered, never to reassemble. Some of
the members, he adds, have returned
to their homes, while others are fly
ing for safety. Many of the congress
men have resigned, and he believes
the Filipino soldiers will lay down
their arms everywhere as soon as
they learn the truth.
American Flag Flying.
Gen. Bates, who is making a tour of
the southern islands, reports that he
has had interview with the sultan of
Paragua, and that satisfactory relations
were established with that ruler. The
American flag is now flying over the
Island of Paragua, which is the most
western island of the Philippines and
is situated to the north of Borneo. 1t
is long and narrow. and has a chain of
high mountains. Its length is 200 miles
and its population $4,000.
Surrender of ZambORnEn.
Washington, Nov. 27.-Secretary of
the Navy Long on Sunday received a
cablegram from Admiral Watson in
forming him that the entire province
of Zamboanga, island of Mndanao, had
surrendered Internationally to Com
mander Very. of the Castine. The sur
render was made on the 18th inst The
information contained in Admiral Wat
sons dispatch was received by the
president and his advisers with uncon-
cealed satisfaction.
Zamboanga is the principal city of the
island of Mindanao, which is the second
largest island of the Philippine group.
Advices from Admiral Watson indicate
that the entire southern half of the is
land, which comprises the province Of
Zamboanga, has yielded to the Ameri
can forces and acceded to the authority
of the United States.
Has AguinaIdO's Son.
Manila Nov. 27.-Aguinaldo's four
year-old son is captive in the hands
of Gen. Wheaton. With Buencamino,
the former Filipino secretary of state
and member of Aguinaldos cabinet,
who was brought here prisoner on the
Brutus. they had taken refuge after
Tarlac was deserted in a little village
in Pangasiman province, about five
miles from Manaoag. When the natives
of Cabarawan attacked Buencamino's
party Aguinaldo's mother and her
canine thought they had been killed.
The boy was taken, however, by Maj.
Cronin's men, and is now safe at the
camp of Gen. Wheaton. His grand
mother has not been found.
Important Captures.
Buencamino's position as the former
secretary of state and chief adviser of
Aguinaldo and his influence among the
natives makes his capture an impor-
fant one, and makes the American Off
cials here more confident than ever that
the insurrection is in its dying stage.
Senior Buencamino. indeed, admitted
that the rebellion had gone to pieces.
He says Aguinaldo has gone to Bayom
bong. and il is now merely a matter of
persistent chasing in order 10 catch
him The whole trouble. he said. would
soon be ended. Buencamno had $4,000
in gold when he was captured. but had
no clothing. He came to Manila wear
ing borrowed garments.
The situation Outlined.
Washington, Nov. 2s.-Gen. Otis re-
ports the situation in the Philippines
in the following dispatch to the war
department:
Manila, Nov 27.-Steamer from San
Fabian yesterday brought lis Spanish pris-
oners, $4,000 insurgent government money
and other property captured by Lawton's
troops near Tayug on 25th. Wheaton's
troops, Fowler's company, Thirty-third,
drove enemy westward from Mangataren
a few miles southwest Dagupan, captured
Ave three-inch muZze-loading guns, u
rifles, 1900 rounds Maxim cartridges, 900
shrapnel, 500 pounds of powder and other
property also "a Spanish and seven Amer
lean prisoners. Bell, with Thirty-siXth
infantry in pursuit and will march down
western LuZon coast. Indications are two
or three bodies nsurgent troops number
ing probably 500 or more men each in
mountains west of railroad, can be readily
handled by Macarthur; they have the
bulk of the insurgent artillery all OF