The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-31

/ clHItu IHdL II the Americans can take
the Philippine capital he will sur
| render.
| GOOD WORK BY OUR GUNBOATS.
Washington, March 2S.-The follow
ing dispatch has just been received
from General Otis:
Manila, March %.
"Adjutant General, Washington:
Macarthur had severe fighting yes
terday afternoon beyond Marilao. Bril-
liant charge by South Dakota led by
Frost against famed troops of Agui-
naldo brought from Malolos; repulsed
enemy with slaughter. Adjutant Lien
n Lieutenants Adams and Morrison,
and four privates of that regiment kill
ed. Lieutenant McClelland and TWEEN
ty-two enlisted men wounded; loss yes
terday mostly confined to this regiment.
Partial destruction Of railroad which
is being rapidly repaired impedes Nc
Arthurs progress. supply railway
trains AVE now reached Marilao and
Macarthur is pushing on. Our small
~gnuboats are in Bulacan river, where
| great execution was done yesterday.
| They will relieve pressure on Near
thurs front materially. Troops in ex-
| cellent conditions and spirits. Procla-
| nation signed Luna, general-in-chief,
insurgent forces, directs that all towns
abandoned be burned. In
thereof, much country north in flames.
OTIS
The above dispatch was received in
| Washington at 2:4O o'clock a. m.
| March %. 1t is observed that it refers
| only to the fighting of yesterday, moth
| ing being said abOut the operations of
today, March 2Sth.
General Greedy, chief signal officer,
| has received a dispatch from Manila,
| sent this morning, which is confined to
routine affairs.
The Frost named in General Otis.
| dispatch is Captain A. S. Frost. of the
Twenty-second infantry, now Colonel
of the First South Dakota volunteers.
The three officers killed in that regi-
ment are Jonas H. Lien, first lienten-
ant and adjutant; First Lieutenant
Frank Fl. Adams and Second Lieuten-
ant Sydney E. Morrison. The officer
wounded is First Lieutenant Paul D..
McClelland.
REPORT AS TO CASUALTIES.
General Otis has forwarded to Adju-
tant General Corbin the following
casualty list under this date:
Manila, March q, 1898.
Killed-First South Dakota: First
Lieutenant and Adjutant Jonas H.
Lien; Company H, First Lieutenant
Frank Adams; Second Lieutenant Sid
ney E. Morrison; Company D, Privates
James Nelson, Matthew Ryan, Com
pany E., Harry Keogn, Lewis Chase,
Peter Ryan, Frank A. S~hraeder; Twen-
tieth Kansas, Company G, Corporal
John Shear and Privates Carroll, Will
liams; Company I, William Kinney.
Tenth Pennsylvania, Company H, Pri-
waite j. o. Cline. The wounded num-
Der sixty-siX."
SATISFACTORY REPORTS FROM
OTHER ISLANDS.
Adjutant General Corbin has re-
ceived the following dispatches:
Manila. March %.
"Adjutant General, Washington:
sEENA1lnuyin~ frnpo T1ni1n. FAn nnint
here, Smiths additional troops receiv-
ed at Enrique with great show of
%gladness. VAN VALZAH.'"
THE additional troops, Second bat
talon of California, sent to Colonel
Smith to protect inhabitants from
raids of hill robbers. Negroes develop
ing internal government under Smiths
supervision. Reports very ~encourag-
ing. OTIS"
SITUATION AS VIEWED FROM
WAR DEPARTMENT.
There was a lull today in the re-
ports from the scene of action north
of Manila, which for a time was rather
m~yStifying to the war department au-
thorities. Only one dispatch from Gen
eral Otis was received during the day,
dealing with the situation at the front,
and this related to yesterday after
noon. 1t was not until the Associated
Press dispatch came late in the day,
ClII1l Llo( 1IC LIN vi Ao4S-o wiz
resting beyond Marilao that the gen.
erals silence on tOday's movement was
explained.
The American advance is now beyond
Marilao, and almost up to the large
town of Bulacan. The exact distance
to Malolos is uncertain, owing to the
lack of information as to just where
they are resting, but at most, the dis
tance cannot be more than ten or
twelve miles, on a direct line along the
i railway. AT the rate of rogre made
in the last two days the next twenty
forces we'll up to the insurgent CAPT.
tai, if indeed the assault on that place
is not begun by that time. The Off
Gals are disposed to allow more time,
however, considering the natural OBJ
stacles of unfordable rivers and burn
ed bridges, together with the success
sive lines of reb entertainments.
Leading war department officials re-
| ferred today to the desperation with
which the insurgents were fighting. 1t
was taken as an indication that they
had Staked everything on the outcome
of this fight, and losing it, they would
submit rather than prolong a hopeless
struggle. In this view, the fierceness
of the rebel fighting was taken as an
evidence that "once whipped they VIII
stay whipped"
The navy department received moth
ing from Admiral Dewey during the
day, and up to the close of office hour
nothing official had been received con-
cernjng the achievement of the York
town in capturing a Spanish merchant
man in the gulf of Bingayen. While
the dispatch is silent as to the cause
for the capture, it is surmised that it
was u to her carrying c~ontraband OF
war.
iRUMOR OF TROUBLE IN NEGROS.
Singapore, March 29.-Trouble is
brewing in the island OF Negros,
where the inhabitants repudiate the
self~-constituted authority of Aniseto
Lacson, president of the provisional
government, to arrange affairs with
the Americans and have attacked the
Americans. The censor at Manila
suppressed the details.
The insurgents in Luzon sent a mes
sage to Commander Cowper, of the
British gunboat Plover, when the lat
ter endeavored to effect a compromise,
suggesting that they We're ready to
treat for peace through a neutral great