The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-03-09
WILL FORCE THE FIGHTING.
VIII End Filipino War with
i'm Three Months,

Will END Filipino War With.
I'm Three Months.
Manila, March 6.-Gen. Otis thinks
the war will be practically ended with
in three months. When Gen. Lawton's
division arrives the American line now
stretched out for % miles around Ma.
Mia will be shortened and strength
ened to enable powerful column to
dash out and smash the insurgents
massed beyond Caloocan and then adj
vance on to Malolos, the Filipino cap
ital. Admiral Dewey thinks that the
enemy should be attacked Immediately
and the islands occupied.
Gen. Otis says that he will receive no
communication from the insurgents.
but he is willing to treat with Aguinal.
do simply as chief of the insurgent
forces. He will accept nothing but un.
conditional surrender. Before the
present conflict began Gen. Otis said he
sounded all Aguinaldo's commissioners
as to the acceptance of local self-gov-
eminent under American sovereignty
Aguinaldo replied that he would only
acceptabsolute independence, although
he was willing to let the United States
protect the republic against foreign
interference. Gen. Otis is anxious to
have Spain ratify the treaty, as now
everything outside of Manila is official
ly Spanish territory.
Gen. Rios, the Spanish commander
now in Manila, wishes to withdraw at
once his troops from Cebu, Zamboanga
and other points in the Philippines, but
Gen. Otis refuses to consent, threaten
ing that if the Spaniards withdraw be-
fore the Americans are ready to occupy
the points Spain will be held respon-
sible for the destruction of life and
property that will ensue.
Manila, March 6. - Admiral George
Dewey raised his flag as an admiral on
board the Olympia Saturday and was
saluted by the guns of the forts. of the
foreign warships, the British cruiser
Narcissus and the German cruiser
Kaiserin Augusta and by the Amer
lean ships in port.
Manila. March 6. AT daylight Gen.
Wheaton's outposts discovered large
body of rebels attempting to cross the
river for the purpose of reinforcing
the enemy at Guadalupe. and a gunboat
advanced under heavy fire and poured
shot into the jungle on both sides of
the river and shelled the enemy's posi-
ton at Guadalupe, effectually but tenn
porarily scattering the rebels. The
enemy's loss was heavy. Private John
T. Oiz, of battery C. Third artillery. was
killed. On board the gunboat Privates
William Wheeler, of company L, and
Louis BARREN, of company G, Califor-
mia regiment, were wounded.
Manila, March 6.-The United States
transport Ohio arrived Sunday. In the
last two days there has been a very
noticeable change in Manila for the
better, probably due to the arrival of
requirements for the American
troops. Numbers of people are seen
upon the streets and the amount of
business transacted in the stores has
marvelously increased. Sunday the
Luneta was blocked with carriages for
the first time since the outbreak and
the band of the Twentieth regulars
played number of airs. and it was
hard to believe that state of war ex-
listed. Outside the city there was desul-
tory firing throughout the day and at
various points the sharpshooters were
most annoying. At San Pedro Macati
the rebels are very active, erecting in
trenchments in front of the position oc-
cupied by the Washington troops, al
though two-gun battery of the Sixth
artillery repeatedly shelled them. The
enemy are fully alive to the fact that
Mausers have a much longer range
than springfelds and are continuous
ly taking ''pot shots" in comparative
safety. The American soldiers dislike
this passive resistance and are eager
for the excitement of an active cam
paign. Despite the heat. the health
of the men in the trenches has i'm
proved remarkably Assistant Engi-
neer Winship. of the gunboat Benning-
ton, was wounded in both legs Satur-
day by volley from the shore. The
maritime steamer FL Cano has arrived
from Iloilo with advices that all is
quiet there and that business is brisk.
The natives in the interior. the steam
er reports. are levying upon the sup
plies in the hands of the natives and
seriously interfering with the work
upon the plantations.
Washington, March 6. The war de-
partment has received the following
cablegram announcing the arrival at
Manila of six companies of reinforce
ments for the army in the Philippines:
manila, March 4-Adiutant General.
Washington: The transport Senator just
arrived, troops in good health. One cas-
ualty, accidental drowning.
(Signe0 "OTIS."
The Senator carries companies A B,
C. D, H and K, of the Twenty-second in
fantry, and sailed from San Francisco
On the list of February. The balance
of this regiment will soon arrive at
Manila on the transport Ohio, which
followed the Senator.
Offer Is Declined.
Washington, March 6.-Sir Julian
Pauncefote, the British ambassador,
called on Secretary of the Navy Long
Saturday and on behalf of his govern
ment expressed thanks for the tender
of the Brooklyn to bear Lord Her.
schell's remains back to England but
explained that the British government
had ordered vessel, probably the
cruiser Talbot, from it's North Atlantic
squadron at Bermuda for this mission.
Death of Mrs. Stevenson.
Peoria, Ill.,, March GA telephone
ington, ILL.,, says: Mrs. Sarah Steven
1nafhor~ of tho VIM