The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-15

ON OpTTOsk WIFI
.ng Mausers coming from the rear. pings
Ping The little 1eaden messengers whizzed
about their heads and raised the dirt and
dust about their feet. The foliage was
dense overhead. A whole squad could
have hidden up there.
At length, after considerable search, the.
tree was located in which the hidden gun.
ner was doing his deadly work, but the
thick leaves screened him perfectly from
those he was shooting at. Volieys were
fred into those thickiy clustered branches
before the ~lifeless fingers let the Mauser
rifle drop Gathering TO the ground And
what Kind of man do you suppose it was
those Kansas veterans found therea They
found an old Filipino who had lost one
limb in some past trouble, perhaps in
some fight with the Spaniards. His COM
rades had tied him up in the tree SO that
he couldn't fall down, and there he staid,
shooting as long as his fingers could hold
his rife. American bullets had riddled
his body, but the rope that bound him to
his post kept the lifeless clay still there.
He died o hero, fighting in q lost cause.
Midway between the pumping station
and the settling tank an old man, bent
and crippled, with one leg bandaged W,
ga III tIQ Aab44CItAS In4lA6Au W4tA AAo CA4AA4
in his hands, gazing steadfastly into the
dying embers that had just licked up his
once happy home.
Everything had gone up with the smoke.
His family had either persisted or were
with the fleeing rebels miles and miles
away. There were no comforts at hand,
no food or water within reach; nothing
but the old man and his supreme sorrow.
A few rods farther on were a lone tree
and a stone wall spattered with the blood
of an American officer who had been MUIR
dered a few hours before, perhaps by .
warm friend of this same old man. Away
off yonder, over the great waters, wers
brothers, sisters, a sweetheart and a loving
mother anxiously praying for the officers
safety, anxiously and vainly praying for
his happy home coming. Night came on,
the old man sat there, the blood stains
turned black on the stone wall, and We
walked on feeling more thar ever that war
was the blacklist curse on earth.
Another gentleman who has been visit-
ing around the districts trayersed during
the actions of the past few days informs
us that at one place he found the eorpses
of two Filipirros lying in a building. As
he approached three or four large and
gaunt dogs, their jaws besmeared With
$500
blood, ran away. On looking into the
place the gentleman was Mortified to sec
that the starving creatures had been eat-
ing the bodies and had torn and mangled
one of them in a most horrible and revolt
ing manner
Renegades and spies have to be looked
after as well as the forces of Aguinaldo.
So far the American forces have produced
only two renegades, and they are both
dead. Here are some news paragraphs
from Freedom, another American news~
paperin Manila.
A day or so ago a Spanish first lieuten-
ant was discovered among a gang OF ma
tiyes who were being gathered in" by
the Minnesota boys for holding aseditious
meeting. He formed an edifying spec
tacle as he besought his guards not to
turn him into the calaboose with his dark
skinned friends, but he got there just the
same.
Passing along the Spanish bridge yes
terday afternoon, on they came, as inno-
cent looking a beyy of white shocked
as one might meet any day
outside a Sunday school gathering. There
were about 115 of them, escorted by .
guard of Kansas boys. The latter had
their suspicious attracted to the queer
movements of these ingenious niggers-
mere boys some of them-and ON bouncing
upon them in the vicinity of g go down Ia
which they had been gathering not many
miles from Chinatown the Kansas lads
discovered them all to be disporting the
rebel uniform Or as near an approach to it
as possible beneath their immaculate look
white dittoes. One of them only was
armed and with a knife. The whole gang
duly marched to the arsenal, where
opportunity will be given them to
reflect on the stupidity of their malicious
and abortiye plot.