The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-09

the IuHdDlIdnLS out, burned the town.
The insurgents nightly annoy the
troops at San Fernando. Several Amer
leans a been slightly wounded re-
Gently. The enemy have several Krupp
guns which they bring forward and use
for firing large shells into the town,
then retfeating with their guns One
of the insurgent shells fell within thtr-
ty yards Of General MacArthur's head
quarters Saturday evening. The Amer
lean troops do not reply to the nightly
outbreaks.
The American forces have occupied
the peninsula and General Halls COL
umn is encamped at Morong. Major
Truman, marching across from Oman
gonana, found it impracticable to form
a Gordon, and the insurgents, with the
exception Of a hundred or two, escaped
through the mountains after General
Pho del Pillar, dragging their battery
by buffalos at night. A few, however.
may be trapped.
The Washington troops have return
ed to Pasig, but the progress Of the
other troops is uncertain.
The present expedition shows the
oAlllIullJ WHICH Is encountered Dy an
army which must depend upon wagon
trains in catching barefooted bandits
IN their own mountains, and also gives
proof that the rebels do not intend to
fight battles.
OUR TROOPS EXHAUSTED.
General Hall left santa Teresa yes
terday morning and marched twelve
miles to Morong, up and down rocky
hills and through woods and swamps.
scores or his men fell ont nwinO to
the extreme heat and were left to fol-
low as best they could. The head of
the army arrived at Morong at noon,
having exchanged only a few shots with
1nsurgent Skirmishers on the Way.
Groups of s~tragglerS followed all day,
but the force was 200 smaller than
when it started. The men were almost
thirty-six hours without rations and
1T was considerable of an achievement
Tor them to cover the ground they did.
En- route to Morong the Americans
met flocks Of Philippines under flags
OF truce, many of them young men
with the bearing of soldiers. Many dis
carded uniforms were found in the
houses, apparently those of soldiers
who had escaped by changing their
costumes from 'insurrecto' to amigo"
n walking boldly past the army,
which had expected to carral them.
Few were found about Morong.
One member of the Washington reg
IAACAI was hlllSu anu TWO were wound
ed in the encounter with the outposts.
General LaWton, on board a gunboat
searching the coast for Major Truman,
stopped at Binangonana, opposite Mo-
'rong. The natives Immediately ran up
a nag OF truce, and a delegation in
canoes put off and greeted the Ameri-
cans with the usual prOtestations of
friendship.
VOLUNTEERS PREPARING TO RE-
TTTPN
The Second Oregon volunteer regi-
ment has eturned to barracks in Ma
Mia and is preparing to return to the
United States. The order to sail in a
few days will shortly be issued. The
First California regiment will be re-
IeVed by a regiment of regulars at an
early date and will follow the Orego-
mans. 1t is intended to send the First
Colorado and the First Nebraska regi-
ments next.
SUICIDE OF AN OFFICER.
Manila, June ITO a. m.-Lieuten-
ant Fred w. Pearce, of the Sixth
United States artillery, committed sui
eide here this morning. He came from
lloilo a week & or Leave, but linger-
ed here beyond the limit n failed to
reply to repeated kilograms from his
commander. Yesterday he was put I'M
der arrest on his commanders order.
This morning another officer called to
c Hlu witch ne SuQQenly pulled q
revolver from under his pillow and
shot himself through the heart. His
friends say his mind was affected by
a recent SunStroke.
A Spanish paper asserts that Colo
mel Argeulles, one of the two member
of the original Philippine military
commission, who were placed under ar
rest at Tarlac last month after re-
turning to Luna's camp from their
conferences with the United States
commissioners, has been court-mar-
tailed and sentenced to twelve years
Imprisonment for friendship display
ed towards the Americans"
GOMEz'S FAREWELL ADDRESS.
Havana, June 6.-Maximo Gomez, the
former commander-in-chief of the Gu.
ban army, issued his farewell mani.
festo today. In substance it says:
THE mission I ave been intrusted
with is nearly concluded. 1 have at,
tempted to find a solution of questions
concerning the army which L com
= manded during the bloodiest wal
known in America. I am now leaving
regretfully. to attend to necessary pri'
Vate business.
"A parting word to the people fol-
whom 1 nave sacrificed thirty years OF
my life and to my friends in the army
just d~isbanded, which action should
nave been taken instantly after thu
removal of the bloody weight of SPANS
LdeIC'leSS regime. we no longer Wall
soldiers, but men for the maintenance
of peace and order, which are the basi:
of Cuba's future welfare.
1T is necessary to understand tina
the nation, in this epoch most diff
cult n u~nequaled in history, SHOULD
avail itself of the opportunity to shov
it possesses virtues, in spite Of tn
vices caused by colonial government
and the h~arshness of warlike life. w
wanted and depended upon foreign in
PREVENTION to end the war. This oc
Cured at the most terrible momen
of our contest and resulted in Spain
defeat. But none Of US thought thi
extraordinary event would be followe
by a military occupation of the coun
try by our allies, VINO treat US as