The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-06-23

Show Their Love for Uncle Sam
by Starting a Fire in the
Rear of Wheaton.
WE LOSE FIVE MEN SHOT TO DEATH,
While Twenty Five Others Garry
Leaden Tokens of Tagal
Affection.

Manila, June 20 a. m, Reinforce
ments arrived at the front where Gen
eral Wheaton was fighting the rebels,
on the Las Minas road. last evening,
and the Insurgents were chased back
to Perez Las Minas The Americans
bivouacked near the town. preparatory
to attacking this morning,
Washington, June 20.-The news from
Manila yesterday was rot great in
quantity, but it was significant in quail
ity and showed that the Filipino is fruit
full in ways that are dark and tricks
that are rnot alwaysl vain" Nothing
official was received, but the press dis
patches said-dated Manila June 10, $50
p. m-that a battalion Of the Fourth
infantry, which left linus yesterday
morning to reconnoiter, was attacked ir
the rear by apparently friendly natives
This brought on a sharp engagement,
lasting several hours, resulting in five
Americans being killed and about
twenty being wounded. The loss of
the rebels was very heavy.
Filipinos Fire Gen. Wheaton.
The dispatch said further that the
battalion soon exhausted it's ammuni-
ton, and at 2:S0 p. M Wheaton and his
staff, with the Second battalion, two
mountain guns and one field piece, went
to re-enforce the troops attacked. Gen.
Wheaton was fired on in road and had
| talon was ordered to the front and
formed on the Las Mnas road. Heavy
firing on both sides followed, the artil-
| lery being freely used. The dispatch
! said that the fighting was still in pro-
| gress at o'clock, at which time the
Americans had secured a quantity of
| Filipino arms, which had been aban-
doned in the woods The scene of the
! fight is over twenty miles from Manila.
New Experience for Our Boys,
Manila, June 16, 5:45 p. mater cut
ting the railroad and telegraph at Apa-
lit, seven miles south, for the purpose
of severing connection, the rebels at
tackled General MacArthur's lines at
San Fernando at 1870 this morning.
They met with an unexpectedly warm
| ASSS
of seventy-five killed, thirty prisoners
and many wounded. The rebel force.
estimated to have numbered 5000 men,
advanced stealthly from the jungle
north of the city, and then divided with
the evident purpose of surrounding the:
Americans The outposts of the Iowa
regiment discovered the enemy and re-
| WI
division awaited in an entrenched posi-
ton. The Iowa regiment and the KAN
sas regiment received the first shock OF
1 the attack.
Reserving their fire until the enemy
was within 600 yards the first volley OF
the Americans hit the rebels, who re-
turned the fire wildly, the rest Of their
line failing to advance The Americans,
who thoroughly enjoyed the novelty Of
the Misunderstanding an attack-sal-
lied forth ard the insurgents thereupOn
turned and fled into the jungle, Our
loss was fourteen men wounded and the
majority of them are only slightly hurt.
General Funstons brigade of Kansas
and Montana troops and General Hale's
| brigade, the Seventeenth regulars and
| the Iowa regiment, constituted the force
| engaged. Aguinaldo is reported to have
| personally conducted the attack, and
preparationswere made for several days
to bring forward troops from Candaba,
and others from Daguipan were trans
ported by rail-
Telegraph Operator Gave the Alarm.
Along the front of the Kansas regi-
ment thirty-nine rebel dead were
| counted. The first news of the Filipino
advance was reported by a telegraph
operator who was sent to the bridge at
Apalit to ascertain the cause of a break
in one of the wires. He was compelled
to beat hasty retreat under fire.
Since the Americans withdrew from
! Candaba recently the rebels have re-
turned and have wreaked vengeance
upon those who befriended the Amer
| leans. They slaughtered the natives
| who surrendered the town and dis
| played their heads on poles in the pub
| lie square. The hostile natives of Cebu
are more menacing. Mail advices say
| that hostilities against the American
| have begun there. Colonel Hamer, the
| American commander has asked for re-
| Inducements and four companies of the
Tennessee regiment have been sent to
him from Iloilo.
Fire and EypI0sion at Fort picLxans