The Topeka state journal., 1899-11-03
SINGING DEATH SONG.
Insurgents In IIOiIo Preparing
to Make Trouble.

Manila, Nov. $40 p. m.-Aguina1-
do has issued a proclamation announc-
ing that the American congress will
meet in December to decide whether
the imperialist policy and this
"bloody work" are to be continued. He
exhorts his soldiers to conduct them
selves so that congress will consider
them worthy of independence and re-
quests the priests to abstain from pol
itics and to redeem the church from the
bad name the misdeeds of the F'riars
have given it.
A crisis in the Filipino cabinet is
predicted as a result of the designations
of Paterno and BeuncaminO, two Fill
pino leaders, who have lost the con-
hdence of the rabid revoluuonlsts.
Some FilipinoS who attempted to
come to Manila with the Spanish COM
mission received a message from Major
General Otis saying the women and
children would be given American pro-
lection, but that the men who had cast
their lot with the insurrection must re-
main with it. The party included
brother of General Luna, who was as
naldOs house, with his family and the
Filipino secretary of the treasury's
family. The families returned to Tar
lac.
Lieutenant SIavens, of General Mac
Arthur's staff. recOnnOitering with
eighteen men in front of Angeles, dis
covered a lllD1IO outpost III d lISAAGAAs
the FiipinOs numbered about forty
men. AS the FilipinOs had sighted the
Americans, Lieutenant Slaven's only
course was to charge and his party
rushed to the trench, shooting and yell
ing. They killed three of the insur-
gents and wounded several, who, how
ever, succeeded in escaping. Not one
of the Americans was hit. The lieu
tenant secured valuable information
about the enemy's position.
The feeling of disquiet aroused at
Iloilo by the arrest of Santiago the
wealthy Filipino, who is charged with
forming a revolutionary Junta, has
subsided. The natives in their quarter
of the town were sullen and restless
and were heard chanting the death
song at night, with the refrain, THE
Americans sleep" A provost mar
shaIs force surrounded the quarter and
drove the suspicious looking natives
outside the lines.
The Americans occupy IloiIo and the
adjoining towns of JarO and Molo with
1900 men, consisting of the Eighteenth
and TWenty-SiXth regiments, two bat
talions of the Nineteenth regiment, a
detachment of the Sixth regiment and
a battery of the Sixth artillery. The
insurgent force is now supposed to be
between 500 and 5000 armed men and
many more unarmed. Their lines are
about 900 yards from JarO, which is Oc-
cupied by the Twenty-siXth regiment.
The Insurgents are supposed to have
smooth bore cannon. For a long time
past they have been building trenches
between Jaro ard their stronghold,
Santa Barbara, eight miles north.
The insurgents attempted to ambush
Captain Batson's scouts between San
tiago and Sarogassa, but Captain Bat
son charged them and drove them out
from their position, killing and wound
ing several of them. One American Off
Ger was killed and private wounded.
General Young's troops are begin
ming to live on the country trying
buffalo meat and rice partly in lieu of
army ratiOns.
The captures at the Talouera arsenal
include thirteen small brass howitzers
and 800 One-pOund projectiles.
Major Bells regiment yesterday ad-
vanced from Guagua on Florida Blanca
which was found to be deserted.
Bishops battalion is stationed there
Major Bell also made another descent
upon Porac, pursuing the Filipinos
thence into the mountains and captur-
ing their horses and baggage. The
American loss was one killed and two
wounded. Major Bell reports that he
entirely destroyed the insurgent cav
airy that was operating in that sec
tiOn.