Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-03
ACE NOT ARRANGED.
Conference With Filipinos To.
day Futile.
LAwTON's SUCCESSFUL FIGHTING.
Captured Bslinag and Some Villages and
Dispersed a Force of Rebeis-Sfore Def
mite News Received of Lieutenant Gill
more and some other Prisoners.

MANILA, May 3.-(Noon)-The Sec
ond conference, held this morning be.
tween Major General Otis and the Fill
pino enissaries, Colonel Manuel Ar
guelles and Lieutenant Jose Bernal,
terminated without any definite results.
WASHINGTON, May 3.-The following
cablcgram WAS received by the war de-
partnient:
Aliutant General. Washington:
General Lawton's column passing
westward from Norzagaray: captured
Balinag and villages in vicinity yester.
day. scattering and pursuing 500 in
surgcnt troops. His only casualties two
wounded; insurgent loss several killed;
large number wounded and captured.
Numbers not stated. Have opened com.
munication with Lawton via Malo los by
, means of Hale's troops and detachments
from city. OTIS"
MANILA, May 5.
Adjutant General, Washington:
List prisoners in hands insurgents
Just received shows Lieutenant Gilmore
and seven enlisted men navy lost from
Yorktown and six enlisted men army,
three of the six wrongfully arrested in
January before hostilities commenced,
all reported to be doing well. Beside
the above two men i'll hands insurgents,
South and Captain Rockefeller still un-
accounted for. OTIS"
MANILA, May 3.-Major Manuel Ar
guelles and Lieutenant Jose Bernal OF
the staff of General Antonio Luna re-
turned herelTuesday To renew and press
the request of General Luna for cesSa
ten of bostilities. The proposals diff
fered but slightly from those which they
brough, from the Filipino commando,
in the first place. They desired little
time in which to summon congress and
expressed themselves as being confident
that the congress will decree peace, be-
cause the people desired it. They rep
res emtcd that Aguinaldo was without
power to surrender the army, and that
the congress must decide that question.
Incidentally, the Filipino envoys as
serted that Aguinaldo had not yet made
{. fair test of his strength against the
of his army had been assembled to.
gether
The envoys presented letter from
Senor Ma I'M. president and minister of
foreign affairs in the cabinet of Agui-
.naldo, and who is the backbone of the
Filipino organization. The communi-
cation is personal and unofficial. and
seconds Major Arguelles' arguments.
I1,n
again today They slept last night in
Manila. They lunched with General
MacArthur at his headquarters on car
of the armored train at Calumpit before
coming to Manila.
Whether or not General Luna is sim
cere Ill his overtures, the negotiations
were giving the insurgents much
needed opportunity TO rehabilitate their
demoralized forces. The truth is that
dissensions among the leaders of the
rebels is helping on the disorganization
OF the Filipino army almost as much as
the American campaign.
In the course Of the conference with
the Filipino ENJOYS General Otis agreed
with the statement of Major Arguelles
that the people of the Philippine islands
wanted peace, and added that requests
for protection were pouring in upon
him from all parts of the country
The first authentic information re-
gardipg Lieutenant J. c. Gilmore and
his party of IL Hlen from the United
States gunboat Yorktown, who were
captured by the Filipinos on April IL,
was received Tuesday at the hands of
Major Arguelles of the staff of Gen
eral Luna. 1t was in the form of a list
of the missing men and is signed by
Lieutenant Gilmore. The lieutenant
reported that he and his party had been
brought across the mountains from
Balcr, where they We're captured.
This information was brought i'll re-
sponse to IA note which Major General
Macarthur sent to General Luna by
Major Shiels and Lieutenant Haine and
which these officers, bearing a flag of
truce. carried across General Luna s lines
on Monday evening. The note after ask
ing for information regarding Ameri-
can prisc.,ers i'll General Luna.s hands,
concluded with the message that he
General MacArthur) would be pleased
to meet General Luna.
Major Shiels and Lieutenant Haine
found Il span of the railroad bridge a
mile from st. Thomas broken.
The officers left ten days provisions
for the prisoners ON handcar at the
end Of the bridge, placing the car in the
keeping of Fihpinos whose conduct
throughout the various negotiations had
been all that could be expected of
riviliZcd nation.
Refugees reported that the Filipino
army was desertins San Fernando and
moving to st. Thomas, where General
Luna's headquarters We're located, and
that strong entertainments were being
constructed at the sides of the railway
and on the camp front, in the best posi-
tons possible.
Men of the United States signal corps
estaplished telegraphic communication
with Major General Lawton, who was
advancing in a westerly course. General
Lawton lost one killed and five wounded
ON Monday near San Rafael, lwhere he
strongly entrenched himself :
General Hale started with the Iowa
and South Dakota regiments, squad
of cavalry and two guns Of Utah bat
terry from Calumpit i'll a northeasterly
direction, TO cooperate with the Maca-
Eebccs, who asked the Americans to
arm them in order that they might
fight the 1agalos. The Macabebees had
already organized company of Bolo-
men to gnard the town. They We're
bringing Tagal prisoners to General
Mac Arthur.