The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-01-05
RIOS REACHED MANILA.
Spanish General Had a Confer
ence With Otis.
HIS WARNING TO THE REBELS.
Before Quitting the Trenches at Iloils
He Told Them ~ They Fired n Shot
He would Raze the Town-Reinforce-
ments Going to Philippines.

MADRID, Jan. 3.-General Rios, the
Spanish commander, cabed that he had
arrived at Manila on board the Leon
XIII, after having completely evacuated
the Visayas and the northern part OF
the island Of Mindanao and after blow
ing up IA forts and the feet of gunboats
on Lake Lano. He adedd that 1900
Spanish troops were concentrated at
Lamboanga under the command of Gen
eral Montero.
The Spanish general also said that
before quitting the trenches he warned
the insurgents in the vicinity OF Iloilo
that If they fred single shot he would
raZe the town
The Spanish transport Monserrat is
expected to sail for Spain on Jan. ID,
and the Leon XIII, with General Rios
on board, is likely to sail Jan. l2.
LONDON, Jan. 3.-The Madrid corre-
spondent of The Daily Mail said that
General Rios, on his arrival at Manila,
had a conference with General Elwen
S. Otis, United States military gov
ernor of the Philippines.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Nothing more
was heard at the war department from
General Otis at Manila since his cable.
gram Sunday was received. The situa.
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cording to the experience of the last
few days it was not to be expected that
anything more could be heard from
lloilo for a day or two at least, except
in the very improbable event that the
American force had been repulsed in
their efforts to make q landing and had
beeh obliged to return straight to Ma
nilla. 1t was surmised from the reports
that General Miller was proceeding
with more tact and with less roughness
in his dealings with the insurgents
than appeared from first inspection of
the reports.
His purpose apparently was to avoid
such formal recognition of the insur-
gents as might tend to embarrass the
United States government hereafter,
but at the same time not to deal har, hly
with them if they can be brought TO see
the rectitude of his intentions. There.
fore the officials were of the opinion
that there will be no actual hostilities
between the forces arrayed against
General Otis and his own, but that at
the worst the former would retire from
the city without accepting or rejecting
the American oyertures until they had
heard from Agulnaldo. General Otis
had taken steps to acquaint General
Miller with the very latest instructions
of the president and special messen-
ger was on his way from Manila to
lloilo.
Although officials professed this strong
belief that no serious trouble would oc-
cur they took the preoaution to expe.
dite the dispatch of military reinforce
ments to General Otis command in the
Philippines. Orders were issued for
the Twentieth regiment of infantry at
Fort Leavenworth to time it's depart
ure so as to be IN San Francisco by the
7th inst. in order TO embark on the
military transport being fitted out to
sail for Manila on that date if possible.
The two other infantry regiments
which are under orders to proceed to
the Philippines by the Pacific route
the Third and Twenty ysecond-will fol-
low as soon as means of water trans
portation can be secured. Three other
regiments are also under orders to pro-
ceed to Manila by way of the Medlter-
ranean and Suez canal.
These are the Fourth, Twelfth and
Seventeenth infantry regiments. They
will make the trip ON the new trans
ports Mobile and Mohawk and unless
present plans miscarry they will en-
bark at New York on the l7th inst.
Major General Lawton, the hero of El
Caney, who has been ordered to take
command of the military forces in the
Philippines under the direction of Major
General Otis as military governor of
the archipelago, will accompany the
expedition from New York after q con.
ference here respecting the ss.ddlninistra<
ton al aua..s IN the Philippines.