The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-06-02

Signal Service Man Attacked by Natives OF
NegrOS.


Negros.
New York, May 31.-A dispatch to
The Journal and Advertiser from Lon
don says: A special dispatch from
14abuan announces that severe fighting
is reported between Americans and Fill
ipinos on the island Of Mindanao. The
principal city on the island, Zamboanga,
has been bombarded and burned and is
in ruins. The same dispatch reports
trouble in Sulu
Manila, May 81, 11:20 a. m.-Two
petty officers of the United States hos
pital ship Relief went sailing in the
harbor yesterday. Their boat was
afterward found in the possession of
natives near their Paranique lines by
the monitor Monadnock, The men are
supposed to have been killed or cap
tured.
Captain Wren has organized a COM
pany of a hundred Macabebees as
scouts. They wear United States army
shirts and trousers, and are under
Wren's personal command.
Washington, May 29-General Greedy
yesterday received a cablegram from
Major Thompson, at Manila, reporting
that party landing for the repair of
the cable at Escalante, Island of Ne
gros had been treacherously attacked
by natives: that Captain George H.
Tilley, signal corps, is missing, and
that the worst is feared. The cable
operations referred to are not those of
the signal corps, but of the Eastern
Extension Gable company that has been
permitted to repair and replace certain
cables in the Visayan islands. Tilley
doubtless accompanied the expedition as
the representative of the United States,
the supervision of all telegraph lines
and cables being a part of his duties.
No other casualties in the signal corps
have been as yet reported in this ex-
petition Tilley was appointed from
California.
Manila, May rs, 8 p. m.-The approach
of the wet season finds the insurrection
seemingly taking a new lease of life.
All along the American lines the rebels
are showing more aggressive activity
in their guerrilla style than at any
time since the fall of Malolos. They
keep the United States troops in the
trenches, sleeping in their clothing and
constantly on the alert against dashes
upon our outposts, and they make life
warm for the American garrisons in
the towns The bands of General Luna
and General Mascardo, which retreated
toward Tarac when they feared they
would be caught between General Mac
Arthur and General Lawton, have re-
turned in force to their old trenches
around San Fernando, where there are
daily collisions. Opposite our lines on
the south protecting Manila, all the
way around to San Pedro Macati, the
Filipinos have three rows of trenches
most of the distance.
Friendly natives (amigos) continue to
pour into the American lines by land
and river routes, coming from the ter
ritory of insurrection into the country
where the passage of the two armies
has left no food, and practically throw
ing themselves upon the charity Of
their conquerors. Such able bodied men
as are not in the Filipino ranks have
been kept by the insurgent leaders to
dig trenches, and old men, women and
children form the mass of the refugees.
These are doing some blowing, but they
will be confronted with hunger before
they can realize any subsistence from
their crops
Washington May 29.-The war de-
partment yesterday made public dis
patch from General Otis, dated Manila,
May %, which, after announcing the
withdrawal of Spanish troops from
Zamboanga, says: Conference followed
between General Rios, who went from
Manila to withdraw troops, and insur-
gents. Latter stated to him would not
oppose landing Americans, but would
accept conditions in Luzon. Insurgent
falsehoods circulated in southern ISL
ands Of overwhelming insurgent vic
tories in Luzon keep up excitement in
that section among the more ignorant
classes, although intelligent people
know American arms have never met
reverse and they call for United States