Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-02-11
WAR DECLARED
Aguinaldo Has Thrown Down the
Gauntlet to Uncle Sam.
Gen. Otis Estimates that During the
Recent Combats Around Manila
the Enemy's Loss was Mt
Least 1000 NIen.


loocan, under a flag of truce. Several
American officers went to meet him.
but when the parties met the Filipi-
nos opened fire. The Filipino apollo
gized for the barbarous condlsct of his
troops and returned to his lines. The
American troops are being promptly
furnished with supplies of all kinds,
hospital attendance is supplied up to
the firing line, and all the wants of our
troops are met Immediately by the diff
ferent military departments whose
duty it is to attend to such matters.
Artificer Hays, of the Colorado regi-
ment, discovered the missing parts of
the pumping machinery of the water
works buried in coal pile at Singalon
station. The machinery will soon be
in working order again and, the en-
ployes having promised to return to
work, it is improbable that the threat
ened water famine will occur.
Lieut.. Afford, of Company l, Twen-
tieth Kansas infantry, and a private OF
that company were killed and six 9th
er members of the regiment were
wounded near Caloocan last night
while reconnoitering. The party was
in Jungle when it was attacked by
the enemy. Two companies of the
Kansas regiment were sent to the re-
lief of their comrades and drove the
Filipinos into Caloocan, penetrating to
the very heart of the town. Mean
while the gunboats shelled the sub
urbs. Gen. Otis finally recalled the
| troops.
Aguinaldo's proclamation of Satur-
day says:
II order and command:
"First-That friendly relations with
| the Americans be broken and that the
| latter be treated as enemies, within the
| limits prescribed by the laws of war.
"Second-That the Americans cap
| tured be held as prisoners of war.
'Third-That this proclamation be
communicated to the consuls and that
congress order suspension of the
constitutional guarantee resulting
| from the declaration of war"
Aguinaldo's proclamation of Monday
says the outbreak of hostilities was
unjustly provoked by the Americans,
refers to his manifesto of January 8,
publishing the alleged grievances OF
the Filipinos at the hands of the army
of occupation, and the constant out
RACES and taunts which have been
causing misery to the Manilans," and
refers to "the useless conferences" and
contempt shown for the Filipino gov
ernment" as proving 'premeditated
transgression of justice and liberty"
The rebel leader also refers to the
former losses of the Filipinos, but calls
upon them to sacrifice all upon the
altar of honor and national integrity
He insists that he tried to avoid, as
far as possible, ON armed conflict, but
claims that all his efforts "were use
less before the unmeaSured pride of
the Americans"
The Americans are in complete con-
troll of the situation within a radius of
nine miles of Manila, their lines ex-
tending to Malabon, on the north, and
to Paranaque, on the south, being full
ly 25 miles long. While a few detached
bodies of the enemy still offer desul-
tory opposition, the main body of the
rebels is in full retreat and utterly
routed.
The terrible loss of the rebels may
be gathered from the fact that 16O of
them were buried in one rice field on
Monday near Pasas, and that 81 we4e
inferred between Paco and Santa Ana.
A river gunboat did terrible execu-
tion among the rebels, sweeping both
banks of the river with her Gatling
guns and her heavier sbattery. Hun
dreds of Filipinos undoubtedly crawled
into the canebrakes and died there.
The chief of the Ygorotes, the Fill
pino natives who fought so gallantly
in the face of our artillery fire, with
their bows and arrows, is in a hospital
with shattered thigh. He admits
that he never saw modern artillery and
was ignorant of its effects until he and
his followers met the disastrous fire OF
! Sunday. The chief is bitterly incensed
against the Tagalos for placing the
Ygorotes in front of the American bat,
terry under the pretense that they were
sent to occupy a post of honor and he
intimates that the Ygorotes viii
avenge this treachery when the surviv
ors return north.
: Washington, Feb. S.-The war de
partment yesterday received the fol
lowing dispatch from Gen. Otis ut Ma
7 nila:
"The insurgent army concentrated
around Manila from Luzon province
} numbering over 10000, possesses sev
|
= Good portion of enemy armed with
Mausers of latest pattern. Two KrupI
5 and great many rifles captured. In
: surgents fired a great quantity of am
: munition. Quite number of Spanish
A soldiers in insurgent service wht
served artillery. Insurgents construct
: ed strong intrenchments near oul
4 lines, mostly in bamboo thickets
4 These our men charged, killing or cap
!. turing many of the enemy. Our casu
i alties probably aggregate $50 Casu
: alties of insurgents very heavy. Hav
g buried some 500 of their dead and holt
S 500 prisoners. Their loss in killed
y wounded and prisoners probabl.
1000"
Another Steel Trust.
4 New York, Feb. S.-The Times says