The Bourbon news., 1899-11-07
REBEL CABINET.
Crisis is Predicted as Result of the
Resignation of Two Members.
Feeling of Disquiet at IlOiIo Has subsi d.
ed-The Americans Occupy 1t ana
the Adjoining Towns of JarO
and MOIo With 1000 Men

MANILA, Nov. 3.-Aguinaldo has is
sued proclamation announcing that
the American congress will meet in
December to decide whether the i'm.
periaiist policy" and this bloody
work. are to be continued. He exhorts
his soldiers to conduct themselves sc
that congress will consider them
worthy of an independence, and re-
qulres the priests to abstain from poll
tics and to redeem the church from
the bad name the misdeeds of the friars
have given it.
A crisis in the Filipino cabinet is
predicted as the result of the @esigna-
tOns CT Palermo and BuencamfnO, two
Filipino leader who hay re lost the con-
f;dence of the rabid revolutionists.
Filipinos who attempted to come to
Manila with the Spanish commission
received a message from Gen. Otis say
ing the women and children would be
given American protection, but that
the men who mad cast their lot with
the insurreetion must remain with it.
The party Included brother of Gen.
Luna, who was assassinated by the
guard before Aguinaido's house, with
his family and the Filipino secretary
of the treasury's family. The families
returned to Tarlac.
Lieut. Slavens, of Gen. Mav14rtbur's
staff. reconnoitering with Is men in
front of Angeles, discovered a Filipino
outpost in a trench. The Filipinos
mum bered about 40 men. AS the Fill
pinos had sighted the Americans,
Lieut.. Slavens' only course was to
charge, and his party rushed to the
trench shooting and yelling. They
killed three of the insurgents and
wounded several, who, however, sue
ceeded in escaping. Not one of the
Americans was nit. The lieutenant
secured valuable information about the
enemy's position.
The feeling of disquiet aroused at
Iloilo by the arrest of Santiago, the
wealthy Filipino, who is charged with
forming a revolutionary junta has sub
sided. The natives in their quarter OF
the town were sullen and restless and
were heard chanting the death song at
night, with the refrain The Ameri-
cans sleep"
A provost marshal's force surround
cd the quarter and drove the sus-
picjous looking natives Oh tside the
lines
The Americans occupy Iloilo and the
adjoining towns Of Jaro and MOlo
with f. 900 men, consisting of the 18th
and 26tn regiments, two battalions OF
the 10Th regiment, a detachment of the
9th regiment and battery OF the 9th
artillery. The insurgent force is
now supposed to be between
500 and 5000 armed men and many
more unarmed. Their lines are about
300 yards from Jaro, which is occupied
BY the 26tn regiment. The insurgents
cre supposed to have five smoOth-b bore
cannon. For long time past they
have been building trenches between
Jaro and their stronghold, Santa Bar
nara, eight miles north.
The insurgents attempted to ambush
Capt. Batson's scouts between Santi-
ago and Sarogassa, but Capt. Batson
charged them, drove them up from
their position, killing and wounding
several of them. One American officer
was killed and private wounded.
The captures at the TalOura arsenal
IN Jude Is small brass Howitzers and
500 one-pound projeotiles.
Mai. Bells regiment Thursday ad-
| vanced from GuamaO on Florida
Blanca, which was found TO be de-
serted. Bishops battalion is station
ed there. Major also made another
descent upon Porac pursuing the Fill
| pinos thence into the mountains, and
capturing their horses and baggage.
| The American loss was one killed and
two wounded. Maj Bell reports that
he entirely destroyed the insurgent
cavalry that was operating in that Sec
| tion.
Fired on a British Sailing Ship.