New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-08-16
Letter from rlaniIa.

Col. Joseph Bobleter is in receipt OF
the following letter from his son Albert,
now stationed at Manila, which will be
of great interest to our readers:
General Hospital.
MANILA, P. l., June 13, 1899.
My dear Father
Your long and interesting letter Of
April goth came today. This is the first
mail from the States that has reached us
in three weeks. So you can imagine
how eager we were to get it. OF course,
everybody got a stack of letters. Don't
you think for one minute that the trou-
BILE in the Philippines is all over. There
arc no indications whatever of any sur
render on the Insurgents part.
A story reached our, lines yesterday
that Gen: kuna of the Insurgent forces
had met his death at the hands of one of
his own men. The facts of the case show,
that on the morning of June 9th Gen.
Luna went to the palace or rather the
building occupied as such by Agu1nal-
do, tor the purpose Of securing an inter-
view with the rebel chief. Luna was in
formed by the officer of the day who was
on duty, that Aguinaldo was not in the
building and therefore could not be seen.
Luna threw some doubt upon the state
ment of the officer and expressed in
somewhat strong language his opinion
of Aguinaldo's absence. The officer on
guard made 1etort and when Luna at
tempted to force his way past the guard
the officer interposed. Finally Luna
drew a revolver and pointing it at the
officer of the guard ordered him to with
draw. Before Luna could press the trig-
ger, the sergeant of the guard stepped
forward with knife in his hands and SO
plunged it to the hilt into Luna's back.
The latter fell to, the floor and was
promptly carried away and medical at.
tendance summoned. But 1t was too
late as the knife had reached a. fatal
spot and within very short time Luna
had pissed away to the "Happy Hunt
ing Grounds" I hope that there is some
truth IN this story, as 1t may put an end
to this war.
The American forces captured "Para-
naque", a small town about seven miles
from here, last Saturday. We could see
our gun boats lombard the town while
on the Luneta Saturday morning. 1 tell
you, 1t was grand sight. Our boys had
hard scrap just the other side of Para
naque today. Word has been received
at the office, that twenty of our soldiers
have been killed and seventy-fve wound
ed. will send you the morning papers
which will probably give full account
CT the battle. The following troops un-
der command of General Lawton took
part in the skirmish- 14th Infantry, 17th
Infantry, 18th Infantry, companies Of
the Colorado Reg't, nine companies of
the Washington Reg't and the 9th cayal-
~. By the way the ''rebs" captured
two guns from the artillery. Everything
is quiet out on the north line. All the
trouble seems to be on the south lire
right near town. I can't understand
why it is that our troops always let the
niggers get away when they capture a
town. Niggers they do get claim to be
.'amigoes''- s''-friendly-or ssumcha in
firma" sick. think that these people
are causing all the trouble. When they
see that there is no escape for them they
throw away their arms and ammunition
and pose as ssamigos". The Oregon
Reg't sailed for the States today. They
were happy lot of boys when they.
went aboard the ship. The 18th Mimi.
Reg't will probably start for home some
time next month. Lieut.. Hart was in
to sec me today. The wounded are be-