Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-28

MANILA. November 27.-The insur-
gent have evacuated Mangatearen'
province of Pangasinan, leaving seven
American and 81 Spanish prisoners
who escaped in the confusion OF the
Filipino retreat. The Americans are
P. J. Green and George Powers, OF the
battleship Oregon; Thomas EDWARDS
and Charles Bird. of the Sixteenth in
fantry: Henry w. James, OF the
Twelfth infantry; John Desmond, OF
the Signal Corps; and F. H. Huber, OF
loves scouts. They report that TWO
Americans who were unable to escape
are with the insurgents. They are
David Scott. of the Twenty-fourth In
fantry, and William Sherry, of the hos
pital corps. -Four deserters are with
the Filipinos: Howard, Martin and
Ford, of the Californians, and Watts,
whose former regiment is unknown.
Howard is the only one serving with
the insurgents He is captain of ar
tillery.
Col Bell. of the Thirty-fourth vol
unteers, arrived at Mangatearen last
evening, after a hard march, fording
the Agno. He found that Capt. Fow-
ler's company, of the Twenty third, had
occupied the town for two days. The
insurgents, Gen. Alejandrino COM
manding, retreated to the mountains
behind the town short of food and am
munition. Beside this his men were
deserving, and six cannon which the in
surgents were dragging impeded their
march. Col. Bell proposes to follow
the Filipinos until he can bring about
q decisive fight or they are scattered.
Mangatearen was strongly fortified with
rife pits commanding the roads, but
the insurgents abandoned the place
without firing shot,
Three hundred Spanish prisoners
who escaped from their captors before
the American advance, including civil
officials of rank who had been in the
hands of the Filipinos for more than a
year, and many officers have arrived at
Manila during the past week. Fran
cisco Reyes brought one hundred of
them from Gen. Wheaton. They were
a motley-apparelled and bearded COM
pany. Some were i'll and had to be
carried from Tayug to San Fabian in
former prisoners have visited Major
Gen. Otis in order to thank him for his
hospitality, which included the furnish
ing of food and clothing. Senior ia
marillo, the Spanish commissioner, is
making arrangements to send them to
Spain on board of Spanish transports.
Buencamino has been lodged in COM
Portable quarters at the police station,
with his family. Other persons are not
allowed to communicate with him. He
is classed as being the most slippery
person connected with the instruction.
He was a colonel in the Spanish army
and traitor to Spain. At the time Of
the first instruction he tried to sell
out to the Filipinos, and his present
Imprisonment excites no sympathy
among his own people, while the Span
iards think it is mistaken leniency for
the Americans to refrain from shoot
ing him on the Luneta, the fate dealt
out to better men in the anti-Spanish
uprising.
Aguinaldo's youngest child, who was
recently christened at Tarlac with
great ceremony, died and was buried
at Dayamban in Aguinaldo's fight.
Gen. Wheaton reports that natives
nave threatened violence to Aguinal-
dos mother, who is now sheltered in a
convent, with guard. Gen. Otis has
ordered her to be brought to Manila for
safety.