Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-27
HOLD LAST COUNCIL or WAR
Takes Place on November IL in House
Now Occupied by General
Macarthur.

MANILA, Nov. Ell p. m.-The last
Filipino council of war was held by the
retreatng leaders at Bayambong on Mo-
vember 13 in the house now occupied by
General Macarthur. 1t was attended by
Aguinaldo. Pie del Pillar. Garcia, Aleian-
drino and some members of the so-callcd
cabinet. Information has reached General
Macarthur from several sources to the ef-
feet that the council recognized the futility
of attempting any further resistance to the
Americans with united forces and agreed
that the Filipino troops should scatter and
should hereafter follow guerrilla methods.
The disposition of the generals. with their
approximate forces, is as follows: General
Conception. with $40 men, in New Egija
province General Macabolos, with 1926 men,
at the town of Binaca, province of Tarlac;
General Pho del Pillar with 500 men, north
east OF Malolos; General Aquino, with 500
men, at Arayat; General San Miguel, with
150 men, in Zambalos province General
Mascardo, with LOO, in the mountains west
of Angeles, and the largest, probably under
General Trias, in Cavite province.
Reports of ambuscades and skirmishes
come from every section of the country
along the railroads These districts seem
to be filled with small bands. Yesterday
four men of Company ID, Ninth infantry,
were foragng beyond Bamban when twenty
Filipinos took them in ambush, killing one
and capturing the other three. The Ameri
cans resisted for half an hour. The firing
being heard at Bamban, Lieutenant Frazer,
with squad, followed the retreating Fill
pinos several miles. The Americans found
the body of the soldier boloed. They burned
the hamlet where the fight took place.
Three Filipino rhemen ambushed an Ameri
can surgeon near Capas He shot one and
the others fled.
Between Bamban and Angeles a mule
train was fired upon by the insurgents and
a Spaniard, a former prisoner of the Fill
pnos who was with the train. was shot.
At Malasiqul the officials who welcomed
the Americans were murdered This was
the only railroad town which the Americans
did not garrison and on the night the troops
withdrew a band of insurgents entered,
dragged Antonio Mejia, president of the
town. into the street and cut his throat.
The murderers then assassinated the vice
president and five members OF the town
council in the same manner and told the
frightened natives who witnessed the slaugh-
ter to spread the news that similar fate
awaited all friends of the Americans.
The mayor Of San Carlos, who rode in the
carriage with General macarthur ana
Colonel Bell when the Americans entered the
town amid the cheers of the people, was
murdered the next night.
Military activity continues in every Sec
tion. Colonel Bells regiment has advanced
from Bayambong upon Mangatarem, where
It is supposed there is a large insurgent
force. Two battalions OF the newly ar
rived Twenty-eighth infantry have been
sent by cascoes to Bacoor to reinforce the
south line.
Major Spence with fifty men of the Thirty
second regiment, surrounded village near
Bautlston during the night and attacked
the place at daybreak, capturing a Filipino
captain aud fifteen men with seven rifles
The latest news from General Young is
that there are ten cavalrymen and 200 Mac
cabebes with him, most OF the horsemen
who started having been compelled to drop
out because their horses failed them.
The Filipinos took the American prison
erB from Victoria to san Carlos. On the
walls Of the Victoria prison and of the San
Carlos convent are the following names:
CiviliahG; George Langtord, Thomas