Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-03

CAPTURED AT BALER-THE
FIGHTING CONTINUES - ONE
AMERICAN KILLED AND FIVE
WOUNDED.
Manila, May 2-Major Manuel Ar
guelles and Lieut.. Jose Bernal, of the
staff of Gen. Luna, returned here to-
day to renew and press the request of
Gen. Luna for cessation of hostili-
ties. They have found the field of la
Dor most uncongenial one.
The two officers were received in
conference by Major General E. S.
Otis The proposals which they had
to submit differed but slightly from
those which they brought from the
Filipino commander in the first place
They desired little time in which 10
summon congress and expressed them
selves as being confident that the con-
gress will decree peace, because the
people desire it. They represent that
Aguinaldo is without power TO surren-
der the army and that the congress
must decide that question. Incident
ally, the Filipino ENJOYS asserted that
Aguinaldo had not yet made fair test
of his strength against the American
forces, because only one-third of his
army had been assembled together.
The ENJOYS presented a letter from
Senior Mabini, president and minister
of foreign affairs in the cabinet of
Aguinaldo, and who is the backbone
of the Filipino organization. The
communication is personal and unoffi-
cial, and seconds Major Arguelles ar
guments.
The ENJOYS will see Gen. Otis again
tomorrow. They will sleep tonight
in Manila. They lunched with Gen.
Macarthur at his headquarters on a
car Of the armored train at Calumpit
before coming to Manila.
Whether or not Gen. Luna is sin
cere in his oyertures, the negotiations
are giving the insurgents a much
needed opportunity to rehaDilitate their
demoralized forces. The truth is that
discussions among the leaders of the
rebels is helping on the Reorganization
of the Filipino army almost as much
as the American campaign.
In the course Of the conference with
the Filipino ENJOYS, Gen. Otis agreed
with the statement of Major Arguelles
that the people of the Philippine is
lands wanted peace, and he added that
requests for protection are pouring in
upon him from all parts of the coun-
try.
Major Gen. Lawton was engaged in
hard fighting early this morning. Tel
egraph communication was cut at
O'Clock a. M, and there have been no
I civ
time.
The first authentic information re-
garding Lieut.. J. C. Gilmore and his
party of fourteen men from the u. S.
gunboat Yorktown, who were cap
tured by the Filipinos on April II, was
received to-day. 1t is in the form of
list of the missing men and is signed
by Lieut. Gilmore. The lieutenant re-
ports that he and his party have been
brought across the mountains from
Baler, where they were captured.
This information was brought in re-
Spouse to note which Maj Gen. Mac
Arthur sent to Gen. Luna by Major
Shields and Lieut.. Haine, and which
these officers, bearing a flag of truce
carried across Gen. Lunas lines on
yesterday evening. The note, after
erican prisoners in Gen Lunas hands.
concluded with the message that he
(Gen. MacArthur) would be pleased to
meet Gen. Luna
Major Shields and Lieut.. Hayne
found span of the railroad bridge a
mile from ST. Thomas broken.
The officers left ten days provisions
for the prisoners on a hand-car at the
10 hI.iA MI h.
the keeping of Filipinos, whose con-
duct throughout the various negotia-
tons has been all that could be ex-
pected of civilized nation.
Refugees report that the Filipino
army is deserving San Fernando and
masslng at st. Tomas, where Gen.
Lunas headquarters are located. and
that strong entertainments are being
constructed at the sides of the railway
and on the swamp front, in the best
positions possible.
Men OF the U. S. Signal Corps have
established Geographic communication
with Major General Lawton. who is adj
yancing IN westerly course. Gen.
LaWton lost one killed and five wounded
on yesterday, near San Rafael, where
ne strongly entrenched himself. To-
day Gen. Lawton is marching on Ba-
lirag, where large body of rebels has
been concentrated.
Gen. Hale started at daybreak with
the Iowa and South Dakota regiments
squad of cavalry and two guns of
Utah battery from Calumpit in a north
easterly direction, to cooperate with
the Macabeebes. who have asked the
Americans to arm them in order that
they might fight the Tagals. The Mac
abeebes have already organized a com
pany of bolomen to guard the town.
They are bringing Tagal prisoners to
Gen. Macarthur.
Washington, May 1.-The following
cablegram was received by the War De-
partment shortly before midnight:
Manila.
'Adjutant General, Washington:
General Lawton's column passing
westward from Norzagaray captured
Balinag and villages in vicinity yester-
day, scattering and pursuing sixteen
hundred insurgent troops His only
casualties two wounded; insurgent loss
several killed; large number wounded
and captured. Numbers not stated.
Have opened communication with Law
ton via Malolos by means Of Hale's
troops and detachments from city.