The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-03-21
AGUlNALDOA HEADSMAN
Hasa General Decapitated for AdV's
inc Him 20 CapituIate.

MANILA March 4.-N.t a - -.
reported ON high and relaDie "u'i No.
tbat Aeuinaldo Is taking ext me mt .--
lires to suppress signs calc1'''' ~0
a cessation of hosuhues. ,...
Twelve Manila adherents OF the pan
% independence have been condemned 70
death because they wrote ADVISING SUI
render. and all loyal flhplnos nave pVo"
called upou to perform the national ser
vice Of dispatching them.
Friday General Lasarda visited Maiolos
and attempted TO convince Aguinaido OF
the folly of persisung IN the face OF over
Wheimiug odds. ,..,ou
Agu!naIdo WIS furious az the adFlce
and ordered General Lagarda 10 be eA'
ccuted Immediately.
The unfortunate general was promptly
decapitated.
In Yesterdays fighting q company OF
washington volunteers crossed the river
tn a native canoe under heavy fire. fifteen
IN each trip. 10 attack the enemy
trenches.
The inability OF the commissary train
20 keep up with the advance caused
considerable suffering. many men being
completely exhausted when they were re-
called and falling from the ranks. strung
along FOR almost six miles, numbers re-
turning 10 camp in the artillery ambu-
lances which were always close up TO
he lines.
Among the dead are several who pre-
yiously were reported as wounded.
Yesterdays casualties were ass follows:
Twenty-second Regiment: Captain
Frank j. Jones. Company j.. Privates
Youne. Anderson ana Nunt of Company
j.. Rice, Pasmir white. Ellis. Morgan,
Schunder. Coumpolz Company j., Ed
ward. Company Is, and C0rp0rals Come
merge aud Nelson, Company VI.
washington Volunteer. pr.,ates Wess
anl Bartlett. and Corporal Waters. Com
Yany j.. and Corporal Er-cAly, Company
oregon volunteers: Private Brown.
Company ~
Manesota Volunteers-Private Bruce
Company O.
All the above are more or less seriously
wounded.
4.fO = N-Thc mountain banditi OF
panav Island recently threatened a cerl-
Gus attack upon lioilo but they were re-
pulsed With "a Joss Of two hundred men,
iy General Miller.
McNeVs battalion Of the California
regiment. under Iieufenant-COl0nel Du-
bose has been ordered 20 embark ON
the transport Indiana tomorrow in order
20 reinforce the carrisons Of the towns
Of pais ana Pacuyan. on the east coast
Of the Ilad of Nceros, whore Col smith
s. en- command.
This 4. only measure Of precaUtion
g. Mailr-Gcneral Otis says he does not
anticipate trouble there.
HONG KONG. March o. CORE
fpondent or the Associated Press al Ma
Mia says:
"An army has seldom operated under
harder conditions than have been en-
countered by the American flying bri-
gade The country trsycrsed BIS inter
Eected with mgOons narrow and unford-
able rivers and bambo0s SO thick that
the enemy cannot Dc seen "a hundred feet
distant.
During the advanc, the Americans
were ignorant a. 10 whether they were
attaching q hundred or thousands 81 in
furgeuts. which amazes the foreign OBJ
feryefs. Tho Filpnos were unexpected
Jy fierce at Caiuu But for American
lines being thin. the ennlld.nr fire would
have slaughtered many of ON men.
zone 81 the prisoners captured by the
Americans says the Filipino leaders
boat THAI they can continue such war
for years depending upon the American
forces being weakened daily by twenty
men killed wounded or invaded.
Some Of the high officials here think
tha' ten thousand rcinfo-cements are
needed. as the troops now on this island
are hafd.t more IMAM required 10 mann
toin q lac around Manila and police the
city.
"conolderabie ralu has fallen already
and ~ seems that tho season for rains
Is beginning prematurely. II Is possible
that when the steady rains begin our
troops viii have % be withdrawn 10
permanent barracks, which may enable
the rebels 10 return TO their old posi-
tiOrE.
'"Fhe Americans have RETAINED from
destroying the buildings in the country
swept by General Wheaton's troops a
sentry has been stationed before every
store AZ Pasig but the soldiers are
bringing IN loads Of loot from dwelling
houses"
MANILA. March H.-s.3 A. M-The
United states Philippine Commission has
held ia hrst meeting and decided 70