The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-28
fA0RNOS AGGRESSIVE
Attacks Made ALI Along
Our Lines.
A VIGOROUS ASSAULT

Repulsed with Infantry and ARTILLERY.
i The M~onadnock Throws Ten-Inch
shells Among Enemy-some SHARE
Engaxements-Much Properly Burn.
I ed-More 1ncendiarlsm Threatened
Last Nighttime Philippines Allowed
on the streets After 2 O'Clock
Manila, February 23.,5:05 p. m.-
With daylight this morning the enemy
commenced worrying tactics at vari-
u parts Of theAmerican line, apparent
ly for the purpose Of Withdrawing at
tention from affairs inside the city.
An attempt was made to rush through
our extreme left, near Caloocan, but ii
was promptly checked by a hot and
effective musketry and artillery fire.
In the meantime some bodies of reb-
els, evidently some Of those engaged
last night in the cowardly work at
Tondo. spread out between the city and
the outposts. Every available man
was sent to drive them away,Lwith the
result that there was desultory firing
all the morning.
From s to 10:30 o'clock a.. m. the
T; United States double turreted monitor
Monadnock, Joined in the engagement,
hurting 10-inch shells over the Amer
lean lines into bodies of the enemy as
indicated by the signal corps.
So far our casualties are one man
killed and ten men wounded.
AT IL o'clock there were sharp en-
gagements at the Chinese cemetery
and at San Pedro Macati, almost SIM
u%ltaneously, but the artillery fire from
both positions drove the enemy back.
From the high towers of the city fires
can be seen burning at a dozen differ
ent points outside. Some of these are
probably due to the M~onadnock's
shells. -
1t is currently reported that the ma
tives have threatened to burn Esco-
late and the walled city tonight.
] Scores of rebels have been arrested
in the IOndo district. A band Of sixty
rebels, having two carloads of arms
and accoutrements, was captured in a
house. Business is temporarily sus-
pended.
5:35 p. m. Major General Otis today
issued a general order, directing all the
inhabitants of Manila until otherwise
ordered, to confine themselves to their
homes after z o'clock in the evening,
when the streets will be cleared by the
police. The general also warns incen-
diaries and suspects that they will be
severely dealt with if discovered in any
locality.
Extraordinary precautions have been
taken for the suppression of further
trouble, which is threatened to take
place in the city tonight; but it is gen.
orally believed that last nights expe-
rience will effectively quell the disturb
ing element.
Fire has been burning all day in the
Tondo district and has been clearing
the residents out of many houses in
the outskirts from which the enemy
previously fired on the Americans. A
cloud of smoke lowered over the city
today, conveying the impression to
people about the bay and in the out
side districts that the whole city is
burning.
The rebels between the city and the
outposts are being smoked out this at
ternoon and driven toward the beach.
Sharpshooters at various parts of the
line are very annoying, but otherwise
there has been no further excitement
since the Illustration of the mornings
attack.
Lieutnant Eugene s. French, of Com
pany = First Montana volunteers, ant
rrivate Oscar FELTON,, of Company c
| South Dakota volunteers, were killet
and two other Dakotans We're wounded
Paris February 23.-Agents In THU
city Of the Philippines have receives
news from Iloilo saying that the out.
break there of fire was not the worl
OF the natives, but was started by the
American SHELLS. When the attack
commenced, the Philippines add, the
foreign residents were endeavoring to
persuade General Lopez, the Philippine
commander, to submit, as Iloilo was
not fortified and was therefore not in
a position to resist the American at
tack. The whole commercial quarter
ofSIloilo, it appears, was destroyed,
with four-fifths of the rest OF the
town.
Finally, the Philippines say, the for
eign residents subsequently met, pro-
tested against the bombardment and
resolved to put in claims for damages.