The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-03

MANILA, April 2-The American
troops under Gen. Macarthur are still
resting at Malolos, where everything has
been quiet today Hostilities elsewhere
so far as officially reported-have been
limited during the last twenty-four hours
to an occasional exchange of shots be-
tween the insurgents and the troops
forming the lines of Gen. Lawton and
Gen. Hall. extending from the water
works to La Lonia. But this shooting
has been just active enough to make
the lives of the soldiers a burden, and
to compel the officers to sleep in trenches,
clothed and in readiness to repel possible
attacks.
Most of the Americans are becoming
convinced that the backbone of the In
surgent opposition is broken. There are
numerous rumors pointing to an early
collapse Of the insurrection. One of these
is that Gen. Pho del Pillar the best fight
er among the Filipino officers, will desert
Aguinaldo and give his support to the
Americans.
SPANIARDS SKEPTICAL.
The Spaniards. reasoning from their
experience of the natives, refuse to be-
lieve that the rebellion is anywhere near
put down. They declare that the Fill
pinos will not take their defeat at Mall
olos, with the loss of the city and the
removal of their so-called government
! seriously to heart. On the contrary the
Spaniards predict that the insurgents
will hover near the American lines, both
ering them as much as possible, and
when attacked in force dissolve only to
reappear at other points. These tactics,
! the Spaniards say, will be followed until
| the wet season compels the Americans
/ to be housed in barracks, and then the
Filipinos will return and reoccupy such
towns as the United States troops do
not garrison. With the next dry season
a repetition of the present operations
will begin.
Time alone will show how much there
Is in this theory, but as against it it
must be borne in mind that the Spaniards
in all their domination of the Philip
pines never gave the inhabitants a DEM
onstration of power comparable in eff
fectiveness to that given them by the
United States.
REBELS ARE WEARY
A priest and two members of the So
called Filipino congress, who hid them
selves in the woods during the fighting
| which preceded the capture of Malolos,
returned there this morning and de-
clared that 1000 of the Filipino soldiers
were anxious to give up fighting and
would do so but for their officers, who
kept them under arms.
The whole country between Malolos and
Caloocan Is now full of friendlies wom-
en- children and old people, who are
returning to their homes carrying white
flags. The Americans are trying to gain
the confidence of the inhabitants by prov
| ing to them that if they will return and
attend to their ordinary work, peace
fully, no harm will befall them.
Two hundred and fifty civilians came
| back to their homes in Malolos last
evening. Two thousand women and chill
dren, with a sprinkling of unarmed men,
supposed to be warriors, came to the out
skirts of Malolos on the side of the
city and afterwards sneaked away, carry
ing all the goods they could.
There has been no little good-natured
rivalry as to which regiment-the First
Montana or the Twentieth Kansas-is en-
titled to the honor of having raised its
flag first in Malolos. Col. Funston and
twenty men of Company E, Kansas vol
| unteers, claim the distinction, on the
ground, as already cabed, of having en-
tered the town at double quick and raised
the company's flag, but the first to be
| recognized officially was that of Com
pany G of the Montana infantry
HEAVY LOSSES.
CHICAGO. April 3.-The Records Ia
coma, Wash, special, says: Foreign busi-
ness lost over s1,OOO,O0O by the destruction
of Iloilo by the F'ilipinos, before Gen Mil
Ter captured the city. Steven &c Co., an
English firm, estimates their loss at $140.-
600 on stored hemp. Numerous other
firms had warehouses and stocks de-
stroyed. English insurance companies
will be the chief losers. The French firm
of jewellers, La Estrella del Norte, lost
$500 900 in property