The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-06
Badly Worsted in an Engagement
With Washington Volunteers.
Forced to Retreat, Leaving Nine Dead and
Several Wounded on the Field.
Cabinet Members Decline to Make
Public the Purport Of Sunday
Nights Meeting, Though It Is
Generally Believed It Related
to Some Fresh Overtures Re-
ceived From the Insurgents in
the Philippines.

the F0111pp10eS.
MANILA, June 5-1:4O p. m.-Two
under Colonel Wholly, on board cascoes,
were towed from Pasig to Morong on
Sunday and landed under cover of a
we'll directed fire from the ''tinclad'
army gunboats Napidan and Cova-
donga.
The rebels, who were entrenched in
the outskirts of the town, reserved their
fire until the troops were ashore and III
the open. The American artillery
opened fire on the insurgents and drove
them from their positions, killing nine
of them and wounding five. The Wash
ington troops then took the town, the
rebels fleeing to the hills.
While the Americans were on their
way to Morong the insurgents opened
fire from a shore battery at Ancona,
their first shot striking the Covadonga' S
awning aft at a range of $500 yards.
The Napidan also was fired at.
SUNDAY NIGHTS CABINET CON-
FERENCE.
WASHINGTON, June 5.-No definite
information was obtainable to-day as
to the subject of the discussion during
the conference at the White House last
night between the President Acting
Secretary of War Meiklejohn and Adju-
tant General Corbin. The latter refuses
to refer to the matter. Mr.. Meiklejohn
says the dispatch referred exclusively to
future military movements, which it
would be impolitic to make public at
this time
Secretary Hay was a party to the
conference, fact not generally known
last night. 1t is believed that advices
We're received from President Schurman
of the Philippine Commission. The con-
ference prepared some instructions to
govern the conduct of the officers in the
Philippines in accordance with the sug-
gestions contained in the cable advices,
and these We're promptly cabled to Ma
Mia. 80 ~
The fact that the Secretary Of State
was called into the conference by the
President is taken as an indication that
the subjects discussed We're not purely
military in character, but related in
some manner to large questions of pol
icy at the Philippines, relating again to
some fresh overtures Of the insurgents,
perhaps. The matter is said to be III
such shape that publication at this time
would defeat the object in view.
WORK OF SIGNAL CORPS IN THE
PHILIPPINES.
WASHINGTON, June 5.-Reports
from the chief signal officer at Manila,
and from Major A. c. Devol of the
Quartermaster's Department, were
made public by the War Department to-
day. The report of the signal officer
sketches in considerable detail the work
of the Signal Corps in the islands, and
speaks in terms of high praise of The
work of both officers and men,.
A number of instances are given of
rapid work and distinguished bravery
on the part of officers in the fight at
Caloocan, where the laying of a long
line of wire was necessary. A signal
office was set up at the extreme front,
and was doing business in a few min
utes after the action ceased.
In the fight at Tondo an Office was
opened and doing business in the heart
of the town before any attempt was
made to put out the fire.
Every command, depot, or outpost of
the army can now be reached.
The officers mentioned for ddstin-
guished service under fire are Captain
Edgar Russell, Lieutenant Charles E.
Kilbourne, Jr, Lieutenant F. H. Bal
ley, Lieutenant Charles H. Gordon
Lieutenant E. E. Kelly and Lieuten-
ant George S. Gibbs. Among the men
and non commissioned officers who are
especially mentioned are Sergeant
Thomas McKinsley, Corporals William
F. Schoneman and Fred Schalda, and
Private Tracey E. Inman, for repairing
a line under heavy fire; Sergeant Dan
L. Hopkins, for similar work through
a burning village; Corporal Fred Gel
herman, for carrying the wounded from
the field under fire; Sergeant Emmet
r. Jones and William Howser. Corporal
Fritz Biebel and Private Allan For
man, for maintaining signals with the
navy from Fort Malate while standing
up under fire, Howser and Biebel also
marking advance line with flags during
a charge; Sergeant Paul o. Paulson,
David T. Flannery and Arthur Alexan-
der and Private Allen Kneiby, for the
excellence of their signaling under fire
at Caloocan; Sergeant A. N Maxiner
and Privates Weir and Prendergast. for
long and trying service under fire at
outposts and Private H. B. Young. for
carrying a message to a blockhouse in
the face of a heavy fire.
The report of Major Devol of the
Quart ermaster Department relates
merely to the number of conveyances,
pack trains and saddle animals in SER
vice in the Philippines with the troops,
the statement being made THAT they are
we'll supplied for all requirements.
AMERICAN CASUALTIES.
WASHINGTON, Jun 5.-General Otis
reports the following deaths since the
last weekly report:
Typhoid fever, May 9th. William
Donsley, private, Company c, First
California; 2Sth, Frank Kruger. pri-
waite, Company K, Third Infantry;
cerebro- spinal meningitis; 2Sth, Charles
Kargar, private, Company M, Third
Infantry, strapgulated hernia, James
Mccormack, private, Company B.,
Fourth Infantry; alcoholism, 9th, Pat
rick Byrnes. private. Company l.,
Twentieth Infantry; vaIfola, Edward
A. Campbell, private, Company F..
Twentieth Infantry; dysentery, David
Ludins, private. First Montana: