The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
TO SELL OUT AGUINALD0.
GENERAL PILLARS PROPOSAL To BE-
TRAY THE FlLIPlN0S' CAUSE q
Into the Hands of Americans for a Fix
ed sum The Proposal DecIi ned.
S~paniards in Filipino Army Executed
for Conspiring to Surrender Artillery
to Our Omcers-Aguinaldo Publishes
Alleged Correspond nee with Ameri-
can OficiaIS.

Manila, October 18.-8:55 a. m.-Gen-
eral Otis has received messages pur-
porting to come from the insurgent
General Rio del Pillar, offering to sell
gu this army and to deliber A~guinaldo
into the hands of the Americans AL
though he is not satisfied that this offer
is authentic, it is not improbable. The
policy of General Otis is firmly set
against buying any s~urrenders.
Rio de3 Pillar offers for the sum of
$4,000 to refrain from attacking Ma
Mia with his army; for the sum of $780,
900 to surrender his army after a sham
battle, both sides firing into the air, and
for the sum of $500, 900 he says he will
procure the overthrow of the insurrec-
ton and the capture of Aguinaldo, Pa
ternO and the other leaders.
In the course of the communication
he refers to Aguinaldo in c~ontemptous
terms, indicating that strained rela-
ions exist between them.
Reports are being received from the
districts occupied by the enemy that the
F%ilipinos believe that Pho del Pillar has
an audiciOus plan to break through
the American lines into Manila and
seize General Otis and the archbishop.
Possibly these rumors were started
with an idea Of helping to make a deal
with the Americans.
1t is unnecessary to say thai the
Americans would welcome an attack
of that sort. There has been much
speculation of late regarding the where
aIn,,+a &c D;o 1n1 Di11or Tho ottnoly a r
la Iona is credited to his men. 1t is
believed that he is now in the vicinity
of the San Mateo valley with a force of
from 1900 to 5000 men.
SPANISH IN FILIPINO ARMY OF
FER TO SURRENDS GUNS.
Ten former Spanish soldiers who were
captured by the Filipinos and for a
time acted as officers and members of
a Filipino artillery regiment located in
the vicinity of Santa Rosa, in the La
guna re Bay district, determined to
surrender the artillery to the Ameri-
cans. The plot was discovered by the
Filipinos, who killed seven of the con-
spiratOrs, the other three making their
escape to Manila.
1t appears hi when the surrender
was determined upon the Spaniards
delegated one of their number to pro-
coed to Manila and to propose to Cen
eral Otis to surrender, after a pre-ar-
ranged mock battle, about twelve
pieces, including krupp and Norden-
felt rapid fire guns, well supplied with
ammunition from the Lipa powder fac
tory, in exchange for certain sums to
e be paid the Spaniards, who We're to be
pardOned for carrying arms against the
Americans and to be transported to
Spain. The delegate left Santa Rosa
and, accompanied by three Filipinos,
nntnna1 thn ronricon 1innc of (N91 m hq
The FilipinOs did not proceed far, de-
Gliding to await his return at a given
time. AS the delegate was detained in
Manila longer than they had expected
they grew suspicious and returned to
Santa Rosa
The plot was then revealed and the
remaining Spaniards were attacked,
The gunbOat Napidan, coasting near
Santa Rosa, perceived two men on the
beach hurriedly embark in a canoe and
push out toward them. She took them
on board, and they reported that the
FilipinOs, on discovering the plot to
surrender the artillery, had cut the
threats of seven of their Spanish COM
panions and that they themselves had
barely escaped with their lives.
The three Spaniards are now hiding
in Manila, fearing Filipino vengeance.
General Otis declined their offer
through the delegate to surrender the
q LAI1SiJ AL AA1OAASy - ~
send the three to Spain.
MACABEBEES ROUT TAGALOS.
Batson's MacAbebee scouts encoun-
tered the enemy at San Mateo, near
Arayal, at dawn today n attacked
them on the front and flank, driving
them out of the trenches and dispensing
them completely. Several Fflipinos, in
Guiding a captain and a lieutenant,
were killed. A quantity of arms was
captured The MacAbebees had one
man killed.
A body of twenty-five Filipinos at
tackled a railroad patrol of eight men,
members of the Seventeenth regiment,
=. at Guigunto, north Bulacan, w%ounding
two. The Americans reinforced the pa
troll drove off the enemy, capturing
a quantity of ammunition.
The consuls in Manila lay received
from Tarlac, where, it is believed, Agul-
naldo remains, a book containing the
correspondence between him and the
American commanders and cOnSulS, II
which, as he contended in his recent
appeal for recognition, the F1lipinos
find the basis for their assertion that
the American government recognized
their sovereignty and promised them
independence.
The book is addressed to the mem.
bers of the United States congress ano
contains a long argument by Seno1
Beuncanimo, of the so-cafled cabinet
of Aguinaldo, and alleged letters writ
ten by Rousevello Wildman, United
States consul at Hong Kong to Agui
naldo, in June n July Of last year
It has made a sensation among tn
-SpaniardS here.
Replying to A~guinaldo's request tha
the Americans would arrange for thu
shipment of the Spanish prisoners II
Hong Kong, relieving the F1lipinos o
the expense of maintaining them, MI
Wildman wrote: Never mind feeding
them. A meal every day Of rice ant
water will be a good diet. They hav'
been living too high during the las
few years. As the Spaniards wan
more bloodshed in the Philippines
trust you will let them have a taste o
real war. Do not be so tender witt
them. n them as they woul'
treat you."
Mr.. Wildman's letters dealt largel,
with the shipment of arms.
The whole correspondence, however
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