The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-09-27
STILL HOLDING PRISONERS
Aguinaldo Fails to Make Good
His Offer to Surrender Them.
DROP NEGOTIATIONS.
Wheeler Asked for Cavalry and was
Told He Couldn't Have Any
Until October.

Manila, Sept. 23.-4:45 p. m.-No infor-
nation has been received from the naval
expedition at Subig bay.
= The Filipinos have not made good their
offer to surrender the American prisoners
and they have not sent an officer to meet
Maj.-Gen. Otis, as promised.
Nothing further has been heard from
the rebel officers who conferred with Gen.
Macarthur recently and returned to their
own lines.
Chief Signal Officer Thompson has gone
on two-weeks' tour of inspection of the
cable service Of all the southern islands
Wheeler Asked for Cavalry.
New York, Sept. pa dispatch to the
World from Manila, September 10, via
Hong Kong, says:
Gen. Joseph Wheeler after skirmish
at Parac, telegraphed to Gen. Otis ask
ing the latter to send cavalry for the pur-
pose OF preventing reassembling OF the
insurgents. Gen. Otis replied that he
could not send the cavalry until October.
Three attempts have been made to as
sasslnate Iavera, the leader of the pro-
American Filipinos.
There is growing feeling among mill
tary men and the native police that the
native judges are unreliable. An inquiry
is now proceeding
Commercial dislocation has resulted in
Manila because the goods ordinarily pro-
provinces have been disturbed. Now
adaysE the goods are only obtainable from
abroad.
The Filipino newspaper Independence
says lnSurgent preparations are complete
to abandon Tarlac if necessary. Aguin-
aldo's forces. this organ says, will be
able to continue their Fabian tactics sue
JSfI
troops more easily than the Romans wore
out Hannibal. II
Rebel Vessels Captured.
:, Washington. d: c., Sept 23.-Actins
Secretary Allen has received this dis.
patch from Rear-Admiral Watson:
The Panay, Laning commanding, can.
Iured steamer Mundaca, for illicit trading.
The Mariveles, Oman commanding. can
i inred steamer r., Taaleno, aiding and abetting
gunboat, 100 tons. Will fit out and man her.
The Panay is commanded by Ensign
Laning, who was previously attached to
the MOnadnock. Lieut.. .Josenh w
Oman was transferred to the Mariyeles
from the Helena. 1t is evident from AID.
miral Watson's dispatch that he is main,
tanning a sharp watch for filibusters.
Inc fact that efforts are being made tcl
send In such supplies seems to indicate
that the insurgents have no intention of
yielding
Washington, D. c., Sept. 23.-Gen. Otis
cables the war department today that
the Senator sailed yesterday from Manila
with the Iowa volunteers.
Explosion ON a Transport.
By an explosion of box of percussion
caps on the United States TRANSPORT
Sherman last night four steyedores were
seriously. injured, two fatally.
The injured:
John Burke, fatally
Frank Klarn, fatally.
Charles Anderson, badly hurt
John Brodie, bruised and injured internal
ly.
The stevedores were working over time
in the endeavor to prepare the transport
for her next trip to Manila Under the
direction Of Foreman Klarn, the men
were trying to store box of percussion
caps in the foreward hold. The box
weighed about 30 pounds and the men
tried to force the box into small space.
There was an exposition which filled the
bodies of the men with flying splinters
and percussion caps.