Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-08
CHASING AGUINALDo.
Gen. Young Believes His Capture VIII
Soon he EHected-Tn1lS with
Rebel Leaders Mother.

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those from Santa Cruz says that Gen.
Young hopes to find Aguinaldo in Ben
guet mountain pass and to capture him
there. Both entrances to Benguet are
fortified. Two troops of the Third cav
airy will reinforce Gen. Young in the
pass.
Manila, Dec. 5.-Col. Hood, while re-
connoitering near San Miguel, drove n
force of insurgents from Ildefonso, kill
ing several. Five Americans were
slightly wounded.
Manila, Dec. 5.-A dispatch from
Santa Cruz, province of South Ilocos,
forwarded by courier to San Fabian,
says that Gen. Young, with three troops
of the Third cavalry and Maj. Peyton c.
March's battalion of the Thirty-third
infantry, arrived at Santa Cruz Monday.
The Americans left Hamapacan, province
of Union, Monday morning, expecting
to have hard fight at Tagudin, in South
1locos province, but they found on ar
irving there, that 600 rebels, under Gen.
Tino, had evacuated SO hours before, de-
serting an almost impregnable position.
The insurgents had been entrenched at
btih, oh tilt liOl vi SlNlC vi tIt llNCl,
where hundred we'll disciplined troops
could have slaughtered whole brigade
crossing the river, with the men up to
the armpit in water.
The residents of Tagudin received the
Americans outside the town with
brass band. They had been robbed of
almost everything by the insurgents
and were glad to welcome friendly and
protecting troops. A similar reception
awaited Gen. Young at Santa Cruz.
Prominent citizens, headed by band,
escorted the American officers to houses,
where rest and refreshment were of
fered. Gen. Young's command was al
most without food. The men had been
living on the country, which affords
but little, and the horses are complete
ly worn out, most of them without
shoes.
The inhabitants of Santa Cruz and
of other towns through which the
Americans passed say that Aguinaldo
and his entire refugee army have gone
into the mountains eastward since the
Oregon, Samar and Callao attacked
Vigan and landed a force there.
Gen. Young's desire is to pursue the
rebels into the mountains. There is no
communication between his small COM
mand and any of the other American
columns, except indirectly, perhaps, by
sighting and signaling United States
gunboats bound to or from Manila.
In several towns Gen. Young was
shown letters written by Lieut.. Gil
more. showing that he had been kindly
treated by the citizens and had been en-
tertained by them when he passed
through last May. Reports indicate
that all the American prisoners, some
| 25 or 80, were at one time in Benguet
province, but it is supposed now that
they have been removed into Lepante
province.
Capt. Rumbold with 35 men of COM
pany G, Thirty-second infantry, while
escorting the signal corps laying the
wire from Porac to Florida Blanca,
charged and routed 20 insurgents, kill
| ing a captain and several privates. The
Americans found on the captain the
sword and revolver that were taken
from the body of Naval Cadet Welborn
C. Wood, who was killed by the insur.
gents while in command of the gunboat
Urdaneta, when that vessel was cap
tured in the Orani river.
Manila, Dec. 5.-Aguinaldo's mother,
who was captured by Maj. Cronin with
the little son of the insurgent leader
and brought to Manila by order of Gen.
Otis, said in an interview:
'T desire nothing but that peace may al
| once be secured. I am glad from the bot
| tom of my heart that the insurrection is
| near it's end. Aguinaldo is not sufficiently
| civilized to keep from being misled by the
bad counsel of his ministers and the mem
bers of the Filipino congress. A majority
of those about him have constantly de.
clared for war. Such course has always
been contrary to Aguinaldo's best judg.
| ment, but he was weak enough to allow
them to induce him to fight. That is why
1 say he is not sufficiently civilized"
The mother of the insurgent leader
expressed herself as being immensely
gratified by the manner in which she
and her grandson have been treated by
their American captors. She continued
when l was captured / fully expected
that / would be shot Immediately. Fol-
this reason / tried to keep the Identity O.
the child a secret from the soldiers, bu
they found it out somehow. Instead of be
ing put to death have been treated will
every kindness"
She also told me that the death of tn,
recently born babe of the insurgen
leader had been caused from falling
from the arms of a careless nurse, ant
not from exposure during the hurrieC
retreat, as had been widely reported
She claimed that the women and fami
lies even of the insurgent officers ar
suffering fearful privation and hard
ship as result of the war. She ais
claimed to know nothing of Aguinaldo'
whereabouts or his ultimate destina
ton.
Fireman Killed.
Chicago, Dec. 5.-During a fire in tn
building occupied by John A. Gauge
81 Co. HnrdY Bros. q Foley. molding fac