The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-02-17

Mia. 1t was with great satisfaction,
therefore, that Adm Dewey's dispatch
was received saying that we had lost
no men at all and that the casualties
among the natives were much smaller
than at first reported. /.
The fact that foreign interests in
Iloilo are being satisfactorily guarded
is another source of qualification to the
administration. This forestalls criti-
cism or danger of interference
from any foreign power, which
has all along been a complication that
had to be considered as possibility,
but which it was intended to avoid at
all costs.
LONDON, Feb. ia dispatch re-
ceived at Lloyds Tuesday from Manila
reports that there was serious fighting
at Iloilo on Saturday, February II,
and that much property was destroyed.
The insurgents were driven out of the
town. The correspondent expresses
the opinion that there is not likely to
be any further trouble Foreign prop
erty, the dispatch says, is safe.
1t is further stated that great por-
ton of Iloilo was destroyed by fire, in
Guiding the Chinese quarter.
MANILA, Feb. 16.-The village of
Jaro mile north of Iloilo, was cap
tured on Sunday afternoon by a battal-
ion of the 18th infantry. 1t was
! learned that the rebels were assem-
bling there and our troops were dis
patched to make a reconnaissance.
1t was not expected that any serious
resistance would be made by the in
surgents, but they made better de-
| Tense than was anticipated, with the
result that the American losses were
heavier than in the capture of Iloilo.
Lieut.. Frank Bolles, of the 18th, and
four privates were found wounded.
Lieut. Bolles' injury is slight. The in
surgents held their position for an
hour, but the Americans made things
SO lively for them that they were COM
PEELED to withdraw.
The steamer Butuan, which left
IloilO on Monday, brought the news of
the capture of Jaro, which was an in
surgent stronghold, by a battalion of
the 18th infantry, under Maj. Charles
Keller, and a detachment of the 9th
artillery, with two Hotchkiss guns a
Calling gun, under Lieut.. Ostseim.
The battalion left Iloilo to make a
reconnaissance; not intending to cap
ture Jaro, but was attacked by the en-
envy and so proceeded to take the town.
The enemy resisted for about an hour,
and then retired, taking their dead and
wounded with them. Their force
numbered about 1000 men. The re-
connoisance developed that the town
of Molo had been deserted by the enc
my, who are going into the hills by
three roads
Business has been resumed at Iloilo.
The r,<.-t-I4e.e- I,vvrr -0peued, with En-
sign L. II. Everhart, of the Boston, as
captain of the port. The landing
force, under command of Lieut.. Nib
lack, the navigating officer of the Bos-
|
sisted of sailors and not marines, as
was first reported.
Desultory firing on the California
regiment near Caloocan, a few miles
from Manila, continued Tuesday night.
Four Americans were slightly wound
ed.
The enemy appear to have lost heart,
and it is believed they have heard of
the native reverses on the island of
Luzon.
MANILA, Feb. 16.-Several rebels
Tuesday afternoon, having fired from
houses bearing white flags on the
American outposts, Col. Smith, with
Companies L, D and NJ, of the Califor-
MIA volunteers, proceeded to clean out
the enemy along his front. The rebels
opposed him from the brush and sew
eral slxirmishes occurred, during which
nine of the Californians were slightly
wounded before the rebels were driven
out.
The work proceeded Wednesday in a
! .
the villages and working her rapid-fre
guns very effectively on the jungle,
The entire California regiment, with
the exception of two com.
panies; four companies OF
the Washington regiment, two
companies of the Idaho regiment and q
battery of the 9th artillery were en-
gagged. The rebels were driven to
wards Lake Laguna de Bayo. The
rebels held their fire, apparently being
short of ammunition, hut they fought
desperately.
The American outposts in this direc
ton are now fully twelve miles. All is
quiet along the rest of the line with
the exception that an occasional ex
change of shots between the sharp
shooters breaks the mOnotony.