Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-23
order H. consult the Filipino con.

III order H. consult the Filipino con-
gress.
After II conference today with the
! United States commissioners the Fill
pino commissioners will lunch with
| Prof. SchuTman and will afterward
visit the vessels composing the Ameri:
can feet.
Spite OF the presence of the Filipino
commissioners III Manila. the military
operations continued without unabated
vigor.
The visitors were apparently ignorant
or the true conditions of affairs here
Upon their arrival they Were imme-
| diately Inundated with invitations COW
ering both day and night and expressed
surprise ut the condition of affairs
within our Ines. They had been led 10
believe tha5 cvelything was chaotic aud
are delighted at the reception accorded
them.
Reports received from persons who
had arrived from the interior indicated
that 10 troops We're left in the northern
provinces. They Were all drafted south
after the outbreak OF war. The Villages
on the W $. coast We're almost deserted
and tie Iiocanos especially were desir-
ous OF Joining the Americans, if only
for the purpose Of crushing the Tagalos
Many natives Of the Benguot and Ilocis
said that If the Americans had not ar
rived civil war would necessarily have
ensued. Cwi1,g 10 the friction between
the Ta2aloS and the inhabitants of other
provinces.
1t was sail the only Filipino troops
LETT Were 1000 men under General
Luna at rar,e.' and ahout 1000 under
General P.o del Pillar Even these Were
said TO ! e iemoraliZed and short of arms
and supplies. Many of their rifles were
declared 10 Be disabled, and the Fill
pinos Were unable to repair them owing
to the lack = mechanics and materials
for 81 du.li-.
\ ccs;stl.s steamer which arrived re-
ported THAT the Spanish garrison at
Zanbo;nsa, Island of Mindauao, was
held by TIE rebels in much the same
manner Dis the Americans held them
while they were IL the vicinity of Ma
Mia. Ever night the Spaniards were
subjected to AZ Intellectual fusilade and,
it WIS said. II fhey were not soon re-
heved they would be reduced to the con-
ditlon of the Spi iniSh garrison at IlOilo
previous to Its evacuation.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-General Otis
reported the following deaths;
May !, Stephen Burdall, private, Com
pany NJ. Pirst California, dysentery;
18th, Wll.iam tahrenwald. private, G,
Fret South Dakota, dysentery; 14th,
John b. Elliott. private, L. Twentieth
infantry, typhoid; John Ccrbett, pri-
vate, Twenty infantry, typhoid;
10Th, Herbert L. kesler, private, G,
Thirteenth Minnesota, diphtheria; Will
lam Hast corporal. II, Fourth infantry,
nephrltis, 18th, Christof Lost, G, Twen-
tietil inlan;ry, suicide; Frank Nassau
1es, second lieutenant. K, Seventeenth
inISs1 r., rryspelas, 18th.
C:.j'itNsJf. May 23.-SecOnd Lieu-
tenant Fans tiassaurek, Company X,
Se7e :es.Jtl! IffIRcfry, WAS ali attorney
eEt; Z. IL .nicr u tho eIitarial staff of
the Cincinn1ti yalksblatt. of which his
uUcie, Colonel L. l.. Markbreit, is pro-
prltto>. Ho was appnil ted second lieu
tenant l'y the president last year and as
SIgnsd to the Seventeenth infantry. His
father, the late Hou, Frederick Has
saurek, WIS widely known as an editor
and politician.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-The war de-
partment received the following cable
gram from General Otis:
MANILA, May q.
Adiut@'t General WASHINGTON:
Cnnd:t.ans as follows: In Bulacan
province troops maintained at Quinga,
L. ljuag. Ss,n Aiigul: Lawton proceeding
down Rio GrAAde river from san lsidro;
his driven enemy westward from San
Antonio, Carioa and Arayat, where he
was joined yesterday Sy Kobbe's col
umn; will reach Santa Ana and Can