Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-19
FIGHTING IN PHILIPPINES.
American Prisoners Believed TO Have
necn uoscued from Insurgents
The General situation.

Washington. Dec. lS.--Gcn Otis today
cabled the war department as follows:
Manila. Dec. is.-Hughes reports
from Ronbllon island his arrival at
Capiz. North Paney. 10th inst. driving
out the Tagalos. Carpenter with six
companies Is occupying northern Pa
nay. two companies on Romblon island
Hughes with battalion Nineteenth In
faniry has gone to cebu to police tina.
island.
Young. northern Luzon. reports sew
erll minor engagements with few cas-
ualtlcs. Col. Hare with small column
which has the American prisoners. has
passed through the mountains and Il
marching ON PamDlona, n short dis.
lance east OF Apart. navy co-operat.
ing. Seven hundred and thirty-ons
Spanish prisoners arrived last evening;
800 more expected today, 400 leave
FOR Spain this afternoon
Gen. otis's latest casualty list Is az
follows:
Drowncd-Rio Grande. near cabana-
tuln, November It'll. Twcnty-Hecond
Infantry. e. J. Marks. company +; az
Tayulg, December End. Twenty-fourth
Infantry. John II. tombstone. corporal,
company II.
Dysentery-No November 25th. Thirty
fourth Infantry. Frank Wells, company
A, December gth. Eleventh cavalry,
John Delaney, sergeant troop T.. De.
ccmber 18th. Fourth Infantry, David
Il. buckingham. company T.
November 21th. Twcnty-sec-
ond Infantry. Charles Bainwator COM
pany G; December Sth. Twelfth infan-
try Dean Il. Shearcr, company L.
Gunshot wounds IN nctlon- December
10th. Thirty-thlrd Infantry. Gilbert
Baron Company q: December 10Th.
Thirty-slxth Infantry Hardy r. Law
renee. company T.
cnlngitis-Dcccmber 10th. Thirty
seventh infantry. Lewis l.. osgood,
Varoia-Decembe 10th. Third cav
airy, William Homer Pnup, company
"A: December 10Th. Twenty-second In
fnntry. Arthur lIollenbeck. company
Colitis-Decembc eth. Eighteenth In
fantry. Thomas Smith. company X.
Scptlcaemln-Decc 18th. - IN
fantry. Henry Wolpcr. sergeant band,
Encouraging news reached the navy
department today from Admiral Wat
son at Manila. respecting the mem
hers OF the crew OF the Yorktown
boats party which landed at Baler
last spring. The report gives the ac-
count OF a sailor OF the party who has
that eleven OF the original party OF NJ
teen are stlll alive. The man Ryn-
ders) who brings this news was cox
swain OF the Yorktown, u native OF
Amsterdam, but resident OF San
Francisco, where he shipped.
The four dead men mentioned enlist
ed at the following points: NyEard, n
Russian. ut Brooklyn; Mcdonald. OF
Carmel Valley. Cal, at Mare island .
Diller. native OF Peru. Ind, at Mare
island, and Morrissey. native OF Co.
lunbus. Neb.. also at Mare island.
Admiral Watson's cablegram Is as
follows:
Manila. Dec. l7.-seaman Rynders.
OF the Yorktown, captured at Baler, ie-
captured with Woodbury. by cavalry
at Bayombong. has reported on board
flagship, both wounded when Gilmore
was taken and lAft behind He reporta
Nyward. Mcdonald, Dillon, Morrissey
killed. Rynders. Woodbury.. Venville
wounded In foot, unable to travel. Do
Ing well Baler. June 18th Expect
Woodbury. tomorrow; wounded not
care. Woodbury. and Rynders walked
to Manila. WATSON"
Manila. Dec. ls.-Gcn. Lawton will
start tonight with the Eleventh cav
airy. under Col Lockett. and battalions
OF inc IWeuty-nlnln ana twenty
seventh infantry, under Lieut.. Col
Sargent. to capture San Matco where
Gerenomo has three hundred insur-
gents.
Gen. Grant has nearly cleared Fam
bales province. He discovered hidden
In Subig bay a steamer, the Don Fran
cisco, OF $50 tons, fully equipped and
eoaled. She IL supposed TO be the vessel
Aguinaldo was keeping ready for his
escape.
Capt Layson, OF the Thirty-second
regiment, has routed an insurgent band
In znmbales province and killed several
officers.
Mai, Smith, with three companies of
the Seventeenth. surrounded and cap-
turcd another band OF guerrillas which
were terrorising n large section north.
The troops killed several of the band.
Gen. Hughes has captured insurgent
strongholds at Leapiz and RombIon,
the navy cooperating. One man was
killed ana one wounded.
The insurgents In the island OF Panny
are apparently suppressed
II IN officially announced that Gen.
Young reDOrta that ha haiiavaa az.