The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-05
SHOWS FIGHT.
Sultan of Sulu is Preparing
For War.
Will Resist Authority of the
United States.
is PURCHASING ARMS
And Enlisting Sepoy Soldiers
at Singapore.
Vigorous Fighting in Progress
rs PURCHASING ARMS
Vigorous Fighting in Progress
on LuZOn.

New York. June 5.-A special to the
Journal from Hong Kong says:
The Sultan of Sulu, who it was sup
posed was favorab1y disposed toward
the United States, it now turns out has
imported a large quantity of arms from
Singapore via Sandaken, with a view
to resisting the Americans.
These arms he has stored on the ISL
land of Siasi and he is raising force of
SepOyS at Singapore.
It is believed that the decision of the
sultan to fight the United States is the
result of Bray's mission to Singapore
in April. Joseph Henry Grimes has a
suit in the supreme court against
Aguinaldo, through his attorneys, Agon-
ciilo ana Llchance' for S35oeo, winch ne
alleges is one-fourth of the profits of
the Abbey expedition, to which he is
entitled.
CAPTURE OF MORONG.
Manila. June 5.-Two battalions of
the Washington troops under Colonel
Wholley, on board cascoes, were towed
from Pasig to Morong on Sunday and
landed under cover of a well directed
fire from the ''tin-clad'' army gunboats
Napidan and Covadonga.
The rebels, who were entrenched in
the outskirts of the town, reserved their
fire until the troops We're ashore in the
open. The American artillery opened
fire on the Insurgents and drove them
from their positions, killing nine of
them and wounding five.
The Washington troops then took the
town, the rebels fleeing to the hills.
While the Americans were on their
way to Morong, the insurgents opened
their first shot striking the Covadon-
gas awning aft, at a range of $500
yards. The Napidan also was fired on.
DEATHS IN A WEEK.
Washington, June 5-GeneraI Otis re-
ports the following deaths since his
last weekly report:
Typhoid fever, May 27. VIM. Dons1ey,
private company c, First California;
EN1~E,a Il
pany K, Third infantry, cerebro spinal
meningitis; May %, Charles Karger,
private, company M, Third infantry,
strangulated hernia, James Mercor-
mack, private, company B, Fourth in
fantry; alcoholism, May q, Patrick
Byrnes, private. company L, Twentieth
infantry; suppurative typletis, May %
Edward Paterson, private, company c,
Third infantry; suppurative tonsilitis,
May 90 Lyman Kelsey, company D, Sec
ond Oregon; variola, Edward, A. Camp
bell, private, company F. Twentieth in
fantry; dysentery, David L. Williams,
private, First Montana; drowned, acct
dental, June 1. Lawrence Occroy, cor
poral, company G, Twenty-second in
fantry; drowned on duty, April II,
Frederick Grabow, private, company F,
Fourteenth infantry.
OBJECT OF LAWTON'S MOVE.
New York, June 5.-A special to the
Herald from Washington says:
In dispatching Gen. Lawton to cap
ture Morong, Major General Otis is un-
derstood to have the purpose to destroy
or drive back the strong force of in
surgents which has been operating from
that section against the Pasig river line
There is no expectation here that
Lawton's column will go far from
rivers or lakes, upon which supplies
will be carried to him. The authorities
appreciate the extreme difficulty of
campaign during the rainy season and
all they expect is that the American
forces will make short incursions into
the enemy's country, breaking up any
large organizations which may estab-
1ish themselves in the vicinity of Manila,
especially near Laguna de Bay.
It is apparent from the line which
Lawton is following and the dispatch
of the Washington troops to Morong
that it is hoped to get the insurgents
between that point, Taytay and Anti
polo and the lake hemmed in so that
they can be DESTROYED or cantured