The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-01
SATISFACTORY NEWS FROM NORTH
LUZ0N AND PANAY.
IN PURSUIT OF AGUINA[DO
General Young Pushes Into the Noun
tafns After Him-Amerfcan and SPAN
ish Prisoners Escape I'm Confusion of
Insurgent -Dcserters I'm Fiji
pino Army Insurgents Surrender
Munitions -AGuinaldo's Mother and
son Under American Profession.

Manila. November 27.-iI:3g a M
The insurgents have Man
gaIaren. province of P~angasinan. leav-
ing seven American and ninety-four
Spanish prisoners, wISs escaped in the
confusion OF the Filipino retreat. The
Americans are T. j. Green and George
Powers. of the battleship Oregon:
Thomas Edwards and Charles Bird. Of
the Sixteenth infantry: Henry w.
ame of the Twelfth infantry: John
Desmond, of the signal corps. and H.
II. Huber, of loves scouts. They re-
port that two Americans who were un-
able to escape, are with the insurgents.
They are David Scott, OF the Twenty
fourth infantry, and William Sherry.
OF the hospital corps. Four deserters
are with the Filipinos-Howard. Mar
tin and Ford, of the Californians. and
Watts, whose former regiment is un-
known. Howard is the only one serv-
ing with the insurgents. He is a cap
tain of artillery.
Colonel Bell, of the Thirty-fourth
volunteers, arrived at Mangalaren last
evening, after a hard march and ford
ing the Agno. He found that Fowler's
company of the Thirty-third a oc-
cupied the town for two days, the in
surgents, General ~Alejandringo COM
handing, retreating to the mountains
behind the town, short of food and am
munition. Beside this, his men were
deserving and six cannon. which the
Insurgents were dragging. impeded
their march. Colonel Bell roposes to
follow the ~Filipinos until he can bring
about a decisive fight or they are
scattered. Mangalaren was strongly
fortified with rifle pits commanding the
roads, but the insurgents abandoned
the place without firing a shot.
Three hundred Spanish prisoners who
escaped from their captors before. the
American advance, including civil Of
ficials of rank who hav been in the
hands Of the Filipinos for more than
a year, and many officers, have a-riv-
ed at Manila during the past week.
Francisco Reyes brought 100 of them
from General Wheaton. They were a
motley appareled and bearded COM
pany. Some were ill and had to be
carried from Tayug to San Fabian in
army wagons A delegation of these
former prisoners have visited Major
General Otis in order to thank him for
his hospitality which included the fur
nishing of food and clothes. Senior ia
marillo, the Spanish commissioner, is
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Spain on board the Spanish. transports.
A SLIPPERY RASCAL.
Buencamino has beer lodged in COM
Portable quarters at the police station
with his family. Other prisoners are
not allowed to communicate with him.
He is classed as being the most slip
perry parsonage connected with the in
surrection. He was a colonel in the
Spanish army and a traitor to Spain.
At the time of the first insurrection he
tried to sell put to the Filipinos and his
present Imprisonment excites no SYM
pathy among his own people, while the
Spaniards think it is mistaken lenien-
ey for the Americans to refrain from
shooting him on the Luneta, the fate
dealt out to better men in the anti
Spanish uprising.
Aginaldo's youngest child who was
recently christened at Tarlac with
great died and was buried
at Dayamban in Aguinaldo's flight.
General Wheaton reports that natives
have threatened violence to Aguinal-
dos mother, who is now sheltered in
a convent, with a guard. General Otis
safety.
CABLEGRAMS FROM OTIS.
, Washington, November 27.-General
Otis today reports the situation in the
Philippines in the following dispatch
to the war department:
Manila, November q.
Steamer from San Fabian yesterday
brought 1i5 Spanish prisoners, SIS, 900 in
surgent government money n other
property captured by Lawton's troops
near Tayug on the 25th. Wheaton's
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