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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-14
So Frightened When They Hear the
Terrible American Yell They
Offer Little Resistance.
NOT A SHOT FIRED In TARLAC
COLONEL BELL FOUND THE LATE
CAPITAL ALMOST DESERTED.
LawtOn Having Great Difficulty in
Making Progress Through the
Swamps-Supplies Captured.

MANILA, Nov. 13.-When Colonel Bell left
Capas, ten miles from Tarlac, at o'clock
yesterday he intended merely to recon-
noiter. He had with him the Thirty-sixth
Infantry. Slaven's scouts, Troop e of the
Fourth Cavalry, battalion of the Twenty
second Regiment and Gatling guns. The
scouts, mounted, preceded the main body
UP the railroad. They met a hundred rebels
at Murcia, but the insurgents quickly re-
treated. The scouts found the depot burn
ing but extinguished the fire and saved the
building. The main column marched up the
wagon road, but before reaching Tarlac
divided. entering the town on two sides
at o'clock without shot being fired. The
insurgents had evacuated the place only a
few hours before. setting fire to the railway
station and the rolling stock. They left a
rear guard of 400 men. who. however. failed
to make a stand and cover the retreat Of
the main force of insurgents, as they had
probably been ordered to do. The rebel ord
nance is reported to have been shipped to
the town of O'Donnell The Americans are
continuing their advance so rapidly that
the insurgents have not the time necessary
to destroy the railroad.
General Young is supposed to have
of Dagupan, but his wagons are far be-
hind.
Colonel Hays has captured Aguinaldo' S
secretary, with an escort of 175 Bolomen, on
his way to the province of Neuva Visaya.
The son of General Llaneras and his fam
lily are prisoners. The general barely es-
capped.
The correspondent of the Associated Press
with General Young telegraphs from San
Jose that Aguinaldo did not escape to the
northeast. He and his army, the corre-
spondent adds, are surrounded. His last
orders to the Filipino commander az San
Jose were to hold San Jose and Carranglan
at all costs.
The recent encounters were too one-sided
to be called fights. The insurgents are
mortally afraid of the Americans, how
ever strong their position. They make but
a brief and feeble resistance and run when
the terrible American yell reaches their
ears, whereupon the Americans pursue them
and slay many.
The moral effect OF the report that 6o.00(
troops are on the way here is unquestion-
ably great.
The insurgents are suffering more from
disease than are Americans, owing to poor
food, lack of medicines and filthy hospitals
with the result that there is great mortality
among them.
General Lawton has intercepted tele-
| gram from an insurgent captain TO a Fill
| pino general reading: How can you blame
me for retreating when only twelve of my
| company were able to fight?'
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OTIS TOO ECONOMICAL.
Comments of a British Naval Officer
on the Campaign.

LONDON, Nov. ia British naval OFF,
Ger who has just returned from tour In
the Philippines has been interviewed re-
garding the situation there, of which he
takes somewhat pessimistic view. Ac-
cording to the published interview, he
thinks more river gunboats are needed, and
that General Otis is trying to run the
campaign too economically. After paying a
high tribute to the surprising intelligence
and confidence of the American soldier, the
officer says: Patience and bravery the
American soldier has shown in high de-
gree, but he is not particularly mobile. He
would be more efficacious If, instead of be,
ing collected in comparatively enormous
numbers, he were used in smaller forces,
moving more rapidly and living on the
country instead of requiring vast quantities
of potted luxuries, Moreover, he looks tired
and as if he wanted something to do. Ex-
cept for an occasional game of baseball.
there is nothing for him to do but to drink.
Now, if he were a British soldier, he would
he diverted by all sorts of sports
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officers of the Charleston.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-The following
are the officers of the Charleston as given in
the Navy Departments list of July g. 1899:
Captain George w. Pingman, command
ing; Lieutenant Commander John A. Nor
ris, Lieutenant Commander Thomas b.
Howard, Lieutenant Commander William
N Little Lieutenant Commander William
Braunersreuther, Lieutenant Lsuis S. VAN
duzen, Lieutenants 0unior grade): L. A. EV-
erhart, Dewitt Bloomer and Waldo Evans;
Ensigns Ivan G. Wettenged, Albert w. Mar
shall and James Il. Henry, jr.; Naval Ca
dets Edward T.. Constane, Charles Fisher.
Charles L. Moran, James +. Mathews,
Frank o. Branch and Charles B. Hatch;
Surgeon Charles T. Hibbett, Assistant Sur
geon Edward " Armstrong, Passed Assist
ant Paymaster Zeba w. Reynolds, Captain
of Marines Melville j. Shaw, Boatswain
Dominick Glynn, Gunner Joseph X. Ward
and Acting Carpenter John II. Gill.
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GEN. OTIs's REPORT.
American Troops Tightening the Net
Around AguinaldO and His Rebels.

WASHINGTON, Nov. lS.-The following
dispatch from General Otis was received at
the War Department to-day:
"MacArthur's advance, with the Thirty
sixth volunteers and cavalry troop under
yesterday. The enemy fed. BY great labor
Macarthur succeeded in getting forward to
Capas yesterday all artillery and quarter
mand in Tarlac to-day, his advance pushing
forward TO save as much OF railroad as pos
sible, which the enemy is trying TO destroy
on its retreat. Many deserters from the
enemy They turned over to Macarthur
some thirty rifles yesterday. Insurgents in
that section reported to be short or pro-
visions.
"Lawton pushing forward with great en-
ergy His advance has been obliged to leave
behind all transportation and depend TO a
Hayes, with the Fourth Cavalry, in the
vicinity of Carranglan, has captured q
argg neaTiy affH haif b battalion of 100 bolomen.
Transporting Aguinaldos property north
over the mountains, together with his pri-
Young, with the Third Cavalry, and Bat
sons Macabebe scouts, followed by a bat
talon of the Twenty-second Infantry. leav-
ing behind all transportation, pushed out on
the San Jose Lupam, San Quentin and
Mayug road and scattered the enemy sta
toned at these points, most of whom were
''Wessels, with squadron of the Third
Cavalry. FASTENED forward to Mayug, where
the supply ucpOt "ao
securing several hundred pounds OF rice,
$500 pounds of flour. 1900 pounds OF salt and
other provisions, thirteen hundred uniform
coats (new), many blankets and many ar
ticles Of clothing. also number of insur-
gent officers and sixty-nine Spanish and two
America prisoners. Detachments sent north
to San Nicolas. and Ii is believed that
Young established communication with
Wheatons troops last evening.
The indications are that the insurgents
will not escape to the mountain capital at
Bayombong without great difficulty and
loss, if at all. Our troops al Tarlac, Ariag,
Taliverag. San Jose Bapo. Humngan. San
Quentin, Tayug. San Nicholas, on through
to Langayen gulf, with strong stations at
Aryat San Isidro and Cabanatus, should
troops have suffered from the hardships and
have performed most severe service. but are
reported I'm excellnt condition and spirits
The enterprise and indomitable will dis
played by officers never excelled."
The spelling OF names of towns in the
above is as given In the cable dispatch. AS
the American forces have now reached a
point, the maps OF which are necessarily
imperfect, the War Department adheres to
the text of the cable.
Later in the day the department received
a scond dispatch from General Otis as fol-
lows:
mo news OF Lawtons advance received
yet: MacAr;hurs troops took Bambon and
Capas, four miles north of Bambon both on
railroad, and Conception. TO the west of th,.
railroad, yesterday. Insurgents. who are re-
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Light Shed on the Surrender of the
british at NichoIsOn's Mex.

PRETORIA, Nov. 6-Father Matthews,
chaplain of the Irish Fusiliers, who was
captured at the battle of Nicholson's Mex,
has arrived here. He complains that though
General Joubert promised he would be per-
mitted to return to the British camp, he
was taken to Pretoria The secretary of
war released him two days after his ar
rival and he was permitted TO leave. He re-
ports that the prisoners are well cared for.
LOURENZO MARQUES, Delagoa Bay,
Nov. 9.-Father Matthews, who has arrived
here from Pretoria, says. with reference to
the surrender of the Irish Fusiliers and the
Worcestershire troops, at Nicholson's Mex,
that after the mules stampeded, the force
got hard pressed by the enemy. They
would have held out, however, but some
subordinate, without instructions, hosted
flag of truce on his own responsibility.
Nothing then remained but to surrender.
I'VE were sent OUT" says Father Mat
thews, Ito occupy position with the OBJ
ject of preventing two Boer forces from
joining. We started at $50 o'clock Sun
day evening marched ten miles and got to
the hill at about o'clock Monday morning
The first mishap was that the mountain
battery stampeded and scattered the whole
lot Of mules. We formed up again and
gained the top Of the hill. The mules were
gone but not all the ammunition. / do
not know what stampeded the mules. They
knocked me down. 1t was pitch dark.
I'VE had one hours sleep. The firing
began just after daybreak, being somewhat
slack for time. But finally the Beers
crept around and then the firing became
furious. Our men had d breastwork Of
stones.
general cry of fire, but our fellows would
not stop firing. Major Adye came up and
confirmed the order and then the bugle
sounded cease firing
'In our locality there was a rumor that
a white flag was raised by young officer,
who thought his batch of ten men were the
sole survivors, but We were 900 alive, hav-
ing started with perhaps 1900 l think
many of the battery men were captured.
Our officers and men refused to sur
render. The Beers did not seem to be in
great numbers on the spot, but l heard that
the main body had galloped off. Our men
had to give up their arms and the officers
were sent to Commandant Steenekamp The
officers then ordered the men to fall in.
1.-The officers were taken away from the
men and sent to General Joubert the same
| day, travelling in mule wagons and sleep
| ing that night in some stores on the way.
| The next morning they took train at
| Waschebank for Pretoria They are very
| we'll treated, and so 1 have heard are the
| men.
There has been no unpleasantness in
Pretoria The officers are in a school
| building and are allowed TO walk as they
| please in the grounds. The surrender, in
my judgment. was great blunder. caused
| by misunderstanding. Major Adye was
| much put out The white flag was not
| hoisted by the Irish Fuslliers."
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SAID TO HAVE MANY WIVES.
James Mono Alleged to Have Mar
ried at Least Six Women.

CHICAGO, Nov. 13-James Monroe. who
is said TO have wives in half dozen cities
and who is also wanted for a number Of al
legged swindling operations. has been ar
rested here and will be held pending the
arrival Of police officers from Rochester
n. Y. Monroe, IL is alleged, married Mrs
Mary J. Colthar. of Bunker Hin. ILL.,, and
deserted her at Rochester, n. Y, after Sc
curing s4,lo0 from her. According to the po-
lice Monroe has wives in ST. Louis, Evans
vile, New York city, Rochester and Cam
ada. Monroe is said TO have conducted his
operations through various matrimonial bu-
reaus. In a satchel OF Monroe's were found
several hundred letters from women all
over the country accepting Monroe's adver-
tised proposals.
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NEW CANAL ROUTE.
United States Commission to Survey
Short Cut Across Colombia.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov 13-The
United States gunboat Scorpion arrived
here to-day, conveying the United States
commission dispatched for the purpose Of
surveying the suggested new Colombian
canal route between Caledonia bay and the
Gulf of San Miguel for a sea-level water
way, necessitating only twenty-six miles of
actual canal. This is the originally selected
route, which was rejected in favor of the
De Lesseps Colon-Panama route, on the
ground that the latter already possessed
railroad transportation and other facilities,
while the former traversed the alleged most
deadly maiarial district on the face of the
earth, including the extensive swamp areas
rendered untenable by men on account Of
mosquitoes and other venomous tropical
nests.
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DEFENSE OF MAFEKING.
Col. BndCn-PoweI Repulses Beers
md Inaicts Heavy Loss.

LONDON, Nov. 13.-The War Office this
morning published dispatch received from
General Butler dated Cape Town. Nov. IL
(nighD, and giving the following reports
from Colonel Baden-Powell:
'Mafekng, Oct. 3.--All we'll here.
Enemy evidently shy 10 attack US Now
closing in on US. Are now destroying rail-
ways twelve miles north with dynamite.
Smelling continued Doing very little harm.
Tuesday, Oct. 31.-Enemy attempted as
sault to-day on Cannon kopj and southeast
corner OF the town. Attack most bril-
liant. Notwithstanding hot shell fire by the
British South African police, under Wal
ford. Enemy lost heavily. our casualties
five killed and five wounded. Killed: Cap
tains Hon. ID. II. MarSham. Fourth Bed
fordshire, and c. a. Petchell Third Kings
Rifles; a sergeant major and two troopers
Wounded: Five noncommissioned officers
and troopers. all British South African po-
lice"
The War Office also made public a dis
patch from General Butler from Cape
Town, dated Nov II, giving the following
from Colonel Nicholson.
"Buluwayo. Nov. 5.-The following is
from Baden-Powell. under date of Mafe-
Continued ON Second Page)
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Protest from the French Press.

PARIS. Nov. 1.-THE Paris morning pa
pers protest against the stopping of the
French steamer Cordoba by the British
third-class cruiser Magicienne, off Lou
renzo Marquee. The Petit Bleu says: This
arbitrary act Of England requires an apol-
ogy to the French government, and in
demnity to the owners Of the Cordoba and
to the authorities" The Soliel and the Echo
de Paris protest in the same terms The
Matin demands that an investigation be
made, as there is no effective blockade, 9TH
erwise the authorities would have been
notified. The Gauiois does not consider the
incident serious.
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MAY LIVE A LONG TIME.
Vice President Hobart Making Prog
ress Toward Recovery.

PATERSON. N. j., Nov. 13-Improve.
ment in the condition of Vice President
Hobart continues and Mrs. Hobart and
other members of the family feel confident
that the life of the Vice President will be
preserved for a long time, even if his COM
piete recovery is not considered a possibility
by his physicians To-day he was able TO
partake of all of his meals at the usual
time Mrs. Hobart, who has been at his
bedside almost continually since his serious
illness began, felt so encouraged at the i'm
pr movement this afternoon that she consented
to go for drive. This is the first time that I
she has been willing to leave the Hobart
residence for even few moments during
the last two weeks.
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Crui.e,. Racing to Manila.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13-The New Or
leans is beating the Brooklyn in the ocean
race for Manila. The Brooklyn sailed to-
dav from Port Tewfik for Alden, at the
mouth of the Red sea, while the New Or
leans arrived at Port Said, at the western
end Of the Suez canal. yesterday. But the
New Orleans, it is said at the Navy De-
partment. where the race is being watched
with interest, has gained full days time
on the crack American cruiser, as she is
now only three days behind, starting under
a handicap
The surgeon general has been Informed
of the arrival of the hospital ship Missouri
at Colombo, Nov. II, en- route to Manila.
All on board are well.
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ported to be 1,500 strong are retiring rap
idly north and making slight resistance.
Our casualties: Second Lieutenant Davis,
Thirty-sixth Volunteers, killed, three en-
listed men reported wounded Strong re-
connoissance from Capas in the direction OF
Tarlac to-day. Condition of roads and
streams renders general advance with wag-
on transportation impracticabie. The enemy
appears to be In demoraiized condition
Gated by captured Geographic dispatches
and deserters from their ranks"
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ain which preceded IL. and from which
Germany has drawn the obvious deductions
that legitimate and colonial and commercial
ambitions cannot possibly be fulfilled in the
face of the hostility of the two English
speaking peoples According TO the 81.
James Gazette. with the establishment OF
good relations between London and Wash
ington, 1t became necessary for Germany 10
stand on friendly terms with both There
has been. the paper adds, no qualified prom
ises OF future armed support. but the three
countries have decided TO live on civil terms
for business reasons
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Davis Was a Resident of Arkansas.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Nov. 13.-Lieut.
Julian S. Davis, Thirty-sixth United States
Infantry, who was killed in action in the
Philippines yesterday, resided here. He was
appointed July % last and reached Manila
month ago. Davis was twenty-seven
years of age and was a captain in the Lit
tie Rock fire department before entering
the army. He entered the Second Arkansas
Regiment in the Spanish war as a private
and came out second lieutenant. His
father lives at Dardanelle, and is circuit
clerk of Yell county.
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be followed by General Methuen must neces-
sarily be dictated entirely by official knowl-
edge Of General Whites position and re-
sources, and the experts hope General
Methuen will be able to await the concentra-
tion of the whole division before advancing
and thus have better chance of dealing a
telling blow at General Joubert's main
army, which, il is asserted. will be caught
between two British forces and compelled
either to fight general action or retire to
their stronghold.
Colonel Baden-Powelrs dashing sorties at
Mafeking encourage the hope that the
British garrisons along the western border
are all able to hold out. Cecil Rhodes is
employing eight thousand men. white and
black, at Kimberley in road making as a
remedy for destitution.
According TO a dispatch from De Aar, the
Beers at Kimberley have got the exact
range OF the mines, and are constantly
throwing shells at the dynamite huts. Sew
eral of the latter have been blown up, and
damage done to the mines already amounts
to many thousands of pounds.
Among the stories from Brussels is one
that General Joubert and Sir White have
been endeavoring to negotiate for the ca
pitulation OF Ladysmith, but have failed to
come to terms.
Lord Salisbury and Lord Wolseley were
guests of the Queen at Windsor Castle last
night.
Mrs. Rudyard Kipling has donated $50
and some books TO the fund for the fitting
out Of the hospital ship Maine.
The stories Of Father Matthews, cabled
from Lourenzo Marques, regarding the sur
render at Nicholson's Mex are too vague to
be convincing, bur in military circles it is
considered unpleasant reading, and 1t will
be impossible to learn the facts until the
officers concerned have been court-mar-
tiaed.
The report that British cruiser had fired
on the French steamer Cordoba raises the
doubtful point whether Great Britain had
yet actually declared war 1t is believed,
however, that European nations have been
made acquainted with the severance of re-
lations between Great Britain and the two
republics.
1t is understood that the Admiralty, on
General Buffers advice, has arranged that
cruisers at the Cape should go out to inter-
cept all arriving transports and inform them
of the latest orders respecting their desti-
nation, which are to be kept secret.
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The cruiser Charleston, which was built in
San Francisco in 1Sss. had displacement of
40 tons, was 312 feet inches in length,
4s feet inches in beam, and u feet inches
in draught. She was of STEEL having two
propellers, one funnel and two masts. with
military tops. She had the following arma-
ment: Two eight-inch guns. six six-inch
guns, four six-pounders, two three-pound-
ers, six one-pounders. two machine guns
and one light gun. with four torpedo tubes.
She had complement of 3o6 men.
The Charleston has been in Asiatic wa
ter more than year. She was one of the
first vessels TO be sent to Manila after the
destruction Of the Spanish fleet by Admiral
Dewey. the Navy Department utilizing her
for the purpose of sending ammunition and
other supplies for the Asiatic station. Just
previous to her assignment to that duty she
had under gone an overhauling at the Mare
Island navy yard, San Francisco, and
therefore was in prime condition for her du-
ties. The Charleston is one of the vessels
of more recent construction, and belongs to
that class which is commonly referred TO
as the new nayy.''
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CANNIBALS PUNISHED.
Two Hundred Slain by Germans and
Their Heads stuck on Poles

LIVERPOOL. Nov. 13.-The British
steamer Volta, from the German Came
rooms, West Africa, which arrived here to-
day, reports that a German punitive ex-
pedition in the Cameroons recently chas-
tized a tribe Of rebellious cannibals who had
besieged trading station at and near Kribi.
The Germans chased the natives into the
bush, killing 200. 1t was reported, according
to the captain OF the Volta, that numbers
Of the slain were decapitated, their heads
being stuck on poles in the interior towns
TO strike terror 10 the inhabitants
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LONDON. Nov. 1.-THE Times publishes
n communication this morning from its St.
Petersburg correspondent. who discussed
the recent rumors of Russian advance to-
ward Herat. The correspondent thinks
tha, although the rumors are without foun-
dation, there can be no doubt that the Rus
sian military authorities are preparing for
an advance to Herat in certain cventuali-
ties. such as the death or abdication Of the
Ameer of Afghanistan. which would lead TO
disturbances
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FRANKFORT. KY. Nov. Ex-senator
Goebel and the Democratic leaders are stili
waiting on the final action OF the county
boards OF elections in Jefferson. Christian,
Knox. Johnson and other counties. IL Is
claimed that enough fraudulent votes VIII
be thrown out in these counties TO give
Goebel a majority on the face OF the re-
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LONDON. Nov. 13-George Cooper, who
in 1882 was sentenced to ten years impris-
onment, after a sensational trial, for hav-
ing killed his wife at Douglas, Isle of Man,
has just been released. He finds himself
the inheritor of a fortune estimated at
nearly e1.NO0O0o. Both his father and faith
in-law. who were always convinced OF his
innocence, that the death of his wife was
accidental died during his Imprisonment.
leaving him large properties.
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Britain, Germany and America.

LONDON, Nov. 13.-The afternoon news
papers. commenting on Emperor Williams
approaching visit TO England and the i'm
proved relations between Germany and
Great Britain. voice the general opinion
here, saying that the latter is In a great
part due to the vast change In the relations
between the United States and Great Brit