The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-28
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CUR FLAG UP ATT CEBU.
Old Glory Hoisted On the Island
by the Gunboat Petrol.
INSURGENTS ARE BECOMING MEEK

etars and Stripes Raised Without Any Ma
tive Oppnsiton-Story From Madrid OF
European Interference at Manila Is Dis
credited at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Shout
and Run Away.
MANILA, Feb. 27-The steamer Nues-
ira Sonora del Carmen Yesterday
brought the news that the American
flag had been raised over the island of
Cebu, the United States gunboat Petrol,
Commander G. Cornwell, visiting Cebu
Feb. %.
Commander Cornwell sent an ultima
tum ashore declaring the intention of
the Americans to take possession, peace
fully if possible, by force if necessary.
The rebels Immediately vacated taking
their guns TO the hills. A party of ma
rines was landed and the American
flag was raised by them over the gov
ernment building, which they still oc-
cupied when the Neustra left.
A battalion of the Twenty third reg
ulars left for Cebu yesterday by the
transssesAg ennsylvania. The same
Steamer brought dispatches from Brig
adler General Miller at Iloilo to Major
General Otis reporting all was quiet
there, that there had been no further
fighting. that confidence had been re-
stored and business was being generally
resumed. General Miller thinks it
probable that the natives will soon be-
come convinced of the error of oppos-
ing the inevitable, and that the exam
pie set by the inhabitants of Negros is
having its effect among the other ISL
ands, which, though not entirely con-
vinced, are, in General Miller's opin-
! ion, open to reason.
All is quiet inside and outside of Man
ila except Caloocan, where the enemy's
sharpshooters continue to annoy our
troops ut a comparatively close range.
One man of the Twentieth Kansas vol
unteers was killed in Ariquina village,
which was burned last night, and four
were wounded in the skirmish.
Last night the rebels concentrated in
such numbers near the Chinese ceme-
terry that General Macarthur antici-
pated an attack and asked for reinforce
ments. Two companies of the Twenty
third regulars We're sent to Caloocan
ana battalion of the Twentieth regu-
lars to the cemetery at about midnight.
But the expected attack was not made,
the rebels, after making great noise
with bugle calls and yells of ssviva
independencia'' and ssmocho malo
Americanos' and firing volleys, dis
appeared in the woods. 1t is believed
their leaders are getting desperate and
are attempting to force the United
States troops to making an attack in
the hope of breaking through the Ameri-
can lines, but the rebels are evidently
unwilling to be pacifed when facing
the Americans. 1t is just possible,
however, that they may be goaded into
such move before more reinforce
ments arrive. All was quiet in the
city last night
Admiral Dewey, when asked by the
correspondent of the Associated Press
to give his reasons for requesting Wash
1 ington to send the battleship Oregon to
Manila, firmly declined to discuss the
matter No such emergency exists here
as is presented by reports circulated in
the United States, and cabled back to
Manila to the effect that Admiral
Dewey has had collision of a forcible
character with the German naval COM
mander.