Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-02

Manila. Sept. 28.-Gen. Macarthur
with Gems. Wheaton and Wheeler ana
four regiments and a battry, advanced
at daybreak this morning upon Porac
about eight miles northwest of Baco
| Tor, in Pampanga province.
The insurgents seem to be try
ing to make their good treat
ment of American prisoners {
card by which to gain outside sym
pathy. Two Englishmen who arrived
here from Tarlac report that the Amer
leans are treated more like guests thar
prisoners. They are fed on the best
the country affords and everything is
done to gain their favor. A Filipino
paper says that on the occasion of the
recent fete at Vittoria, in celebration
of mythical Filipino victory, the
American prisoners there were given
the freedom of the town and five pesos
each with which to celebrate the ''vic-
tory" The Englishmen also say that
the Filipinos offered all the Americans
commissions in the army and that
believed. The American officers north
of Manila tell the Associated Press
that Aguinaldo is attempting to en-
force good government after the
American fashion, ordering his SOL
diers to suppress band of robbers,
three of whom were executed at Mar
quima. He has also prohibited gamb-
ling in the villages under his control.
Palermo, president of the so-called
Filipino cabinet, has fallen into dis
favor among the Filipinos on account
of his peace proclivities They suspect
him of planning to repeat his treachery
of the former insurrection, when he
went over to the Spaniards. Agui-
naldo has issued decree inviting the
Filipino deserters to return within a
month, in which case they will be
pardoned
The American authorities have de-
clined the request of Gen. Jarmillo, the
Spanish officer who is settling SPANS
military affairs in the Philippine
islands, TO send vessel under the
Spanish flag to collect the Spanish
prisoners at insurgent ports, as stip-
uIated by the Filipinos, on the ground
that the ports are closed, that such a
step, therefore, would be unlawful, and
because they declined to accept the
F'iiipinos' dictation. The authorities
are ready to send an American vessel.
The Spanish commission, therefore,
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endeavor to effect an arrangement for
the delivery Of the prisoners on board
an American vessel.
Aguinaldo has issued a statement
saying shat warlike activity of the
Americans has prevented the concen-
tration Of the prisoners, as intended
but that they will be delivered up Oct
10.
The insurgents are trying to incite
the natives of Malabon, a city of 10000
rise against the American garrison.
Capt. Allen has been holding the place
with two companies Of the six
teenth infantry, but, on account of
the need of all of the available
men at the front, his force has
been reduced to military men. They
now remain near the big church,
where they are quartered, being too
few in number to attempt to patrol the
town. Armed, uniformed parties of
insurgents recently disembarked from
cascoes during the night, collected
money for the instruction and
preached revolt Two mayors have
been elected, but both of them have
declined to serve.
Malabon has been made the shipping
point whence provisions and other
stuff are brought from Massila by
trains and shipped into the hostile ter
ritory.
The Tagals of the island of Minda-
mao have expressed their readiness to
accept American sovereignty in ex-
change for protection against the har-
assing Moros. A native officer has Of
fered Maj.-Gen. Otis 1000 Maccabebe
tribesmen to fight Tagals of the La
guna de Bay district.
Otis Accepts Dinner Invitation.
New York, Sept. 28.-Gen. E. S. Otis,
under date of Manila August IA, writes
to the society of Geneseo accepting the
complimentary dinner to be rendered
him by the society on his return to
America. "TEhe time of my return, how
ever" the general adds, lis very in
definite and is subject to Instructions
from superior authority"
Administration Endorsed.
New Haven, Conn, Sept. 28.-The
national camp of the Patriotic order OF
Sons of America Wednesday
adopted the following: ''ResOlved
that while this order is absolutely non
partisan, the national camp would be
recreant to- it's duty and faithless &c
patriotic citizenship if it did not show
in the plainest possible way the fealt9
of the entire brotherhood to the flag
and the principles of liberty; that il
| the effort now in progress in the Phi
lippines to suppress wicked anC
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