Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-31

WASHINGTON, May 31.-The Post to
day said in part:
General Otis has informed the wa,
department that he will be satisfied i
the army under his command is kept al
maximum of 10000. The presiden
will give him this number
THE situation in the Philippines wa
the subject of all extended eonferenc,
between the president and Adjutan
General Corhin. In view of the more
Or less alarming reports which have
been sent to the United States from
Manila, it Is important to know that the
president does not share in the anxiety
which these dispatches have naturally
created. General Otis has kept III close
touch with the authorities here, and if
he was in the tight position which the
! press reports seem to indicate, it is felt
| that he would not hesitate about max
ing his dilemma known.
lit can be stated on authority that
until General Otis asks for an addi-
tional force there will be no enlarge
ment of the army, not even to the ex-
tent of recruiting the $4,000 natives pro-
vided for i'll the army reorganization
bill which passed the last congress"
MANILA, May 3l.-Brigadier General
South, who was sent with detachment
of troops on board a gunboat in search
of Captain George H. Tihoy of the
signal corps, reported missing at Esca-
Ian. e on the island of Negros, sent the
body of Captain Tilley to Ilollo Tues
day on board launch. The body of
Captain Tilley was buried later in the
day, with notable ceremony. English
friends of the captain joined with his
comrades of the signal corps in arrang-
ing for the funeral and heaped wreaths
OF flowers upon the coffin of the dead
soldier.
General South remained at Escalante
with his soldiers to search for the miss
ing men who We're with Captain Tilley
when he met his death.
Memorial day was celebrated at Bat
terry Knoll, where Scott's guns were
planted against the Filipino treuches in
" 300 soldiers lie buried there on
bleak mound surrounded by rice fields,
rough boards marking the graves,
which are ranged in five unbroken
rows. Beyond these are Spanish block
hOuSco anu DdluDOO llcuSCS, WulCh WcI0
mown down by shells from the Ameri-
can guns.
The soldiers who could be spared
went to Battery Knoll bearing flowers
with which 10 strew their comrades
graves. A silk flag was placed above
each mound. The day was as mild as a
New England spring day when, just be-
fore sunset, few hundred Americans
Do
Knoll i'll blue and brown uniforms.
Among the soldiers were groups of
American ladies and brown-faced na-
tives peering curiously at the unwonted
spectacle from points near by, the
guns of the monitor Monadnock bom-
harding Paranaque booming signiti-
cant reminder of the nearness of war.
Just as the Sixth artillery band began
dirge the thunder of the Monadnock's
guns ceased, while taps sounded from
the bugle.
Colonel Charles DENLY of the Uuited
States Philippine commission presided
at the exercises He spoke briefly of
the peculiar solemnity of the day to
Manila. The chaplain of the British
cruiser Powerful made an invocation
Chaplain Pierce of the Twenty-third
lu1dutly anu Sudpldln STeSSey Ol Iuo
Minnesota volunteers delivered orations
and the soldiers sung appropriate
hymns
After taps had been sounded soldiers |
took the flags from the graves to send
to relatives of the dead.
Similar services We're held over the
dead in the Paco cemetery in the after
noon. Colonel DENLY was the orator
on this occasion. The graves were deco
rated with a vast quantity of magnifi-
cent flowers.
High mass for the dead Of the Roman
Catholic communion was celebrated at |
the Paco cemetery in the morning. Ora
tions were delivered by Fathers Nc
Kinnon and McQuade, Chaplain Stew
enson Of the Idaho regiment, Metho-
dist, and Peter Mcqueen, a Congrega-
tional clergyman, of Boston.
Most of the business places III Manila |
were closed in observance of the day. |
The American and many foreign flags |
We're displayed at halt mast. The |
graves of soldiers and sailors buried at |
Cavite and Iloilo were also decorated
Tuesday.