The age-herald., 1899-11-25
REPORT OF OTIS.
Says the Insurgent Government Exists
 No Longer.

Washington, November 24.-General Otis summarizes the situation in Luzon in a dis patch to the war department today, in which he says that the insurgent govern mem can no longer claim to exist, it's troops and officials are scattered and Aguin- aldo is in hiding. The dispatch follows:
 Manila, November A.-Claim to govern- ment by insurgents can De made no longer under any fiction, insurgent treasurer sec retary interior and president of congress in our hands; it's president and remaining cabinet officers in hiding, evidently in dlf- ferent central Luzon provinces. It's gen. erals and troops in small bands scattered through these provinces acting as banditti or dispersed playing the role of amigos with arms concealed.
 Indications that Agunaldo did not escape through the lines of Lawton or Wheaton, but fled westward from Bayom- bong railway station.
 'Telegraph communication to Dagupan established to Los Fabian today by relay ing nine miles of track with material at hand. Railway communication to that point re-established, labor of troops must attend maintenance"
 Five Killed, Twenty Wounded
 Fuller details of the sharp engagement between Carpenters command and the in- surgents in Ilolo reached the war depart ment today in the following dispatch from General Otis, dated Manila today:
 "In Panay, Fist inst, when Hickman drove enemy in vicinity of Jaro, Carpenter, with two baHalions of the Eighteenth in- fantry and Bridgemans battery, had severe engagement at Pavia, north of Iloilo. His casualties five killed and twenty wounded, now in Iloilo hospital; others slightly wounded with command; enemy driven north with reported very heavy loss par ticuars not received.
 ''Carpenter passed on to the insurgents stronghold Santa Barbara, which he cap- tured the 22nd instant, without loss: Noth- ing received from column under command of Hughes, which is moving rapidly and operating north and west of Santa Bar bara Apparently viscayans friendly not taking active part Enemy consists of 200O Tagolas."
 Driven to Mountains
 A later dispatch from General Otis gives the results of fighting in Iloilo as follows:
 Hughes, Iloilo, reports enemy driven back into mountains; insurgent capital, Cobatuan, captured. Only serious action that of Carpenter at Pavia; total casual ties, five killed or since died of wounds, twenty-seven wounded; captured ten pris- oners, eighteen cannon three rifles, quan- titles of ammunition. Enemy's casualties not stated"
 List of Casualties
 General Otis also sends the following list of casualties sustained since his last re- port:
 Killed in advance on Pavia, November 21: Howard Lowe, sergeant, Sixth artileryt William s. Addy Eighteenth infantry.
 Wounded in action near Bar Rio Tenab- gin, 11th: Thomas D. Gardner, Seventeenth infantry, wounded; Charles Hapner, Sev- enteenth, right thigh, 10th; John F. Miller, Seventeenth, right chest and abdomen, se- were. In action at Minduriao Panay, James M. Casey, Eighteenth infantry, left thigh In action near Jaro, Panay, Richard Cor bett, Twenty-sixth infantry, neck severe. 18th, James E. Roegey, head, severe. In action at Anabo. Luzon, Paul P. Pheneur, Edward Johnson, head, moderate; William Eleventh cavalry, left thigh, moderate; W. Hinman, corporal, right leg, moderate.
 Molineux Case Devoid of Interest
 New York, November A.-The procedure and trial of the ninth day of Roland B. MoIineaux was singlllarly devoid of inter-