The record-union., 1899-10-31

insurgents near Labam and scattered
them. The insurgents left four CHI
GERS and eight men on the field ana the
Americans captured several guns On
the American side one man was Killed
and two officers and six men wounded
Captain French took a reconnoiterlns
party beyond the Labam after he had
met the enemy and was reinforced py
Major Bishop with two companies The
insurgents brought up cavalry REIN
forcements and there was a second
fight, during which their leader, Major
Salvador. was killed and many We're
wounded and carried away. Colonei
Bell has been given a free hand around
Bacolor. He has sixty mounted men
securing the country daily and they are
killing many Filipinos in skirmishes.
EXTENSION OF CIVIL ADMINS
TRATION.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.-Word has
been received here of the further ex-
tension of civil administration of the
towns adjacent to Manila. These in
clude Pasig, Taguig and Pateros, where
elections have been held under the d1-
rection of the military officials in order
to secure a full quota of native officers
to carry on the civil affairs of the town.
An order from the Eighth Army
Corps also directs the election of
new Mayor at linus, as the one former
ly chosen has failed to exercise his
functions of late and is thought to
have gone over to the insurgents.
Recent mail advices from Manila
show the existence of much uneasiness
among the Chinese residents of the city
and suburbs, due to repeated riotous
conflicts between the native Filipinos
and the Chinese. One of the sources OF
friction appears to be the displacement
of Chinese laborers for FilipinoS on
considerable amount of Government
work The Transportations Quarter
master General discharged some 200
Chinese and filed their places with
Filipinos most of them MaccabebeS,
brought from the interior. The dis
charge of the Chinese is said to be
due to their unwillingness to be shift
ed to various points where the emer-
gency work was to be done. In the
suburbs of Binondo a party of Chinese
were attacked by native Ladrones and
a pitched battle ensued, one of the Chi
nese being killed and several others
wounded.
AMERICAN CASUALTIES.
WASHINGTON Oct. 30-The War
Department has received the following
casualty list from General Otis, dated
October 18th:
Killed: Civilian, on tug Oceania,
river Chico, Pampanga, October 22d;
John D. Dean, blacksmith; October 23d,
Calamba. Company I. Twenty-first In
fantry, George Mitchell.
Wounded: Civilian employe on tug
Oceania. river Chico; October 22d w.
P. Chamberlain, severe; Twenty first
Infantry, at Calamba, Company B,
Corporal A. Elliott, shoulder, moderate;
October 23d, Company D, Ernest
Knowles. thigh, severe; George Smith,
knee, severe.
Also the following: i.
Following deaths since last report:
Uraemia, October 1st, William E. Fau-
Der, Company K, Sixth Infantry; epi-
lepsy 9th, Edgar A. Kenney, E, Nine
teenth Infantry; drowning, accidental,
October 10th, John L. Hand, Company
NJ. Fourth Cavalry; pneumonia, 10Th.
James Hart, oiler Yorktown; castro
enteritis, Michael Dairy, B, Twenty
first Infantry: pulmonary tuberculosis.
21st, Robert H. Smith, E, Twelfth In
fantry; anaemia, 22d, Charles H. Sla-
ter, B. Twenty first Infantry; gunshot
wound. accidental, 23d, Frank Gravelly,
H, Twenty Infantry; acute
dysentery, Corporal Edward Harris, F,
Twenty-first Infantry; oath, Charles
Skinner, II, Fourth Infantry: chronic
dysentery, Alex NJ. Culrose, K, Fourth
Infantry; 9th, Robert NJ. Richwine, E,
Thirty-seventh Infantry; chronic diar-
rhoea. 26th, Edward S. Bruce, I,
Twelfth Infantry.