The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-02-27
OUR BOYS CAPTURE |LO|LO.
BOMBARDED BY THE PETREL
AND BALTIMORE.
Insurgents Set Fire to the Foreign
Quarter Before ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
can Troops Extinguish the Flames.

MANILA, February 14.-0:S5 a. m.--
| The United states forces, under Brig
adler General Miller, captured Iloilo,
| capital of the island of Panay and seat
| of the so called Nisayas federation, on
| Saturday last after a bombardment
The rebels set the town on fire before
! evacuating it, but the American sol
diers eXtinguished the flames. There
were no casualties on the American
side.
MANILA, February 14.-9:45 a. m.-
The United States gunboat Petrol ar
rived late last evening with dispatch
es from Brigadier General NJ. Il. Mil
Ter to Major General Otis, announcing
that Iloilo had been taken General
Miller, on receipt Of his instructions
| from Manila, sent the native commits
sioners ashore from the United States
transport st. Paul with a communtca-
| ton for the rebel governor of lloi-
! 10, calling upon him to surrender with
! in a time stated and warning him not
! to make a demonstration in the inter-
! val.
! The rebels Immediately moved their
! guns and prepared to defend their po-
! sition. Thereupon the Petrol fired two
! warning guns, the rebels Immediately
opening fire upon her, The Petrol and
the Baltimore then bombarded the city
which the rebels having set on fire i'm
medately evacuated.
The American troops We're promptly
landed and eXtinguished the fires in
all cases of foreign property, but not
before considerable damage had been
done. v is believed the enemy's loss
during the bombardment was heavy,
but no American casualties are re-
ported.
NEW YORK, February IA cable
to the Sun from Manila, dated Febru-
0.g
of Jaro, a mile north of Iloilo was cap
! tured Sunday afternoon by battalion
of the Eighteenth infantry. 1t was
learned that the rebels were assemb-
ling there, and to prevent the POSSIBLE
ty of their making an attack on the
city proper our troops were dispatched
to drive them out
1t was not expected that any serious
resistance would be made by the in
surgents, but they made a better de-
Tense than was anticipated, with the
result that the American losses were
heavier than in the capture of Iloilo.
Lieutenant Frank Bolles of the Eigh-
teenth infantry and four men were
| wounded. Lieutenant Bolles' injury is
slight.
The insurgents held their position
for an hour, but the Americans made
things so lively for them that they
were compelled to withdraw. The en-
envy appears to have lost heart ana IL
is suspected that they have heard of
native reverses on the island of Lu
ION.
The steamer Butuan, which left llOi-
10 Monday, brought news of the capt
ure of Jaro, which was an insurgent
stronghold, by a battalion of the
| Eighteenth infantry, under Major
Charles Keller and a detachment of
| the Sixth artillery, with two Hotchkiss
! guns and a Calling gun, under Lieu
| tenant Ostseim. The battalion had
| left Tlolo to recOnnOiter, not intending
| to capture JarO, but was attacked by
| the enemy, and so took the town.
| The enemy resisted for about an
| hour, and then retired taking their
dead and wounded with them. Their
force numbered about thousand men.
Reconnaissance developed the fact that
the town of Molo had been deserted by
| the enemy who are going into the hills
| by three roads.
Business has been resumed at Iloilo.
The port has been opened, with En-
| sign L. H. EVerhart of the Boston as
captain of the port. The landing force,
| under command of Lieutenant Niblack,
navigating officer of the Boston, who
were first ashore, consisted of sailors
! and not marines, as was at first res
ported.
! Desultory firing on the California
! regiment near Caloocan, a few miles
! from Manila, continued last night and
| four Americans We're slightly wounded.