El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-28
And Porac Captured After a
Fight Lasting One Hour
In Which
REBELS LOSE HEAVILY
And The American Loss
Slight-A Troublesome
Band of Rebels
Vanquished.

MANILA, Sept. 28.---Early this morn
ing General Mac acArthur and Genera
Wheeler with four regiments advanced
from Santa Rita northwest toward Pc
rae, and at the same time General
LawtOn started down toward Porac to
cooperate with Macarthur and Wheel
er.
The movement was made with the
view OF surrounding the enemy and
squelching the activity of the insur-
gents in this city, and is perhaps the
opening wedge of the fall campaign.
At noon the news was received tha,
the movement was success and Por &C
was captured after an hours fighting
in which the insurgents are believed
to have lost heavily.
The American loss is slight.
The destruction of the gunboat Ur-
daneta and the capture or killing of
her crew near Oronis few days ago
is attr ibuted to this band of insur-
gents.
1t is expected that the men of the
POrac. Porac is town of about three
hundred Inhabitants and is fourteen
miles from. Bacolora, capital OF
Pampanga province.
1t is about four miles west of the
railroad line running north from Ma
Mia and between Santa Rita and An
geles, through to the southwest of the
latter and the northwest ofSanta Rita.
The force of rebels defeated TODAY
has been concentrating about Porac for
some time and operating as far south
as the northwestern shore of Manila
bay, and have been giving Americans
no end of trouble.
The sAmericans converged on the
town from two directions
General Wheeler with the Ninth in
fantry and artillery came straight up
from Santa Rita and General Near.
thur, accompanied by Colonel Bell and
the 36th infantry, proceeded from San
Antonio on the right.
The two.columns attacked Porac to-
gether. Four members of the Both in
fantry were wounded and one of the
9Th. Five were killed.
The bodies of ten insurgents have
been found and two Filipino officers
we're taken prisoners
Two Englishmen who recently came
through the Filipino lines say the in
surgents at Bamben recently received
Z, 500 new rifles of Japanese make.
DEVISE CRAFTY SCHEME.
MANILA, Sept. 2s.-Two Filipino
M ajors entered the American lines last
night under flag of truce and request
ed permission to bring in some prison
ers held by the insurgents.
Owing to an advance having been
decided upon, the Americans refused to |
enter into any negotiations with the |
Insurgent ENJOYS looking to the release |
Of the prisoners.
DOLORES CAPTURED.
MANILA, Sept. 2S.-One of the re-
suits of today's operations around /
2orac was the capture of Dolores, a
ew miles north of Porac, which had
oeen occupied by the rebels.
The town was taken wish but little
esistance
A FILIPINO JOKE.
HONG KONG, Sept, 2S.-A Filipino
has been issued here to-
ay declaring all ports in the Philip
zines open to all nations except the
United States.
HARROW ESCAPE OF CAPT. LARSON
AND ESCORT.
MANILA, Sept. 2S.-Cspt. Larson and {
party from the gun boat Nspidan had
narrow escape from death in the
own Iof Paste on Lsguna de Bay ,
AXE.
The insurgents had fortified and gar I
isoned the town, when Larson went
shore to hold consultation with the
itizens. AS he was walking up from
ne wharf rebels who were concealed :