The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-11-27
AGUINALDO'S
LAST DITCH
REACHED.
can Is Lost Save Honor" and
Guerilla Tactics Are
Followed.
BEGINNING OF The END.
omcials Who Welcome Americans
at Malasiqui Were Mur-
dsred.

MANILA, Nov. 20, II p. m.-The last
Filipino council OF war was held by the
retreatlng leaders at Bayambang, Nov
ember 49, 'n the house now occupied by
General Macarthur. 1t was attended
by Agulnaldo, Pho del Pillar Garcia,
Ale1andrlno and some members of the
so-called cabinet. Information has
reached General Macarthur from sew
eral sources to the effect that the coun-
Gil recognized the futlity of attempt
ing further resistance to the Americans
with united forces, and agreed that the
Filipino troops should scntter and
should hereafter follow guerilla meth
DDS.
Reports OF ambuscades and sdrm-
ishes come from every section of the
country along the railroads. Those dis
tricts seem to be flied with small
bands Yesterday four men Of Com
pany D, Ninth infantry, were foragInG
beyond Bamban. when twenty Filipinos
took them in ambush, killing one and
capturing the other three.
The Americans resisted for half an
hour. The firing being heard at Bam-
ban, Lieutenant Frazer. with squad
followed the retreatlug Flllplnos several
miles. The Americans found the body
Of the soldier bofoed. They burned the
hamlet where the fight took place.
Three Filipino refiemen ambushed an
American surgeon near Capas. He shot
one and the others fed.
Between Bamban and Angeles mule
train was fired upon by the insurgents.
and a spaniard. former prisoner of
the FllpInos. who was with the train,
was shot.
At Malaslqui the officials who well
coined the Americans were murdered.
This was the only railroad town which
the Americans did not garrison, and on
the night the troops withdrew band
of Insurgents entered, dragged Antonio
Majla, president of the town, into the
street and cut MS throat. The murder
ers then assasslnated the vice president
and 1--WE members OF the town council
in the same manner and told the fright
ened natives who witnessed the slnugh-
ter to spread the news that similar
fate awaited all friends of the AmerI-
cans.
Military activity continues in every
section. Col Bells regiment has nd
vauced from Bayambang upon Manga
tarem, where It is supposed there is a
large insurgent force. Two battaiions
OF the newly arrived Twenty-elghtn In
fantry have been sent by Castoes to
BaCunr to reinforce the south line.
Major Spence, with fifty men Of the
Thlrty-second regiment surrounded a
village near Bautiston during the night
and attacked the place at daybreak,
capturing Filipino captain and fifteen
men, with sevcn rifles.
The latest news from General Young
is that there are ten cavalrymen and
200 Maccabebes with him, most OF the
horsemen who started having been
compelled to drop out because their
horses failed them.
The Flllpinos took the American
prisoners from Victoria to San Carlos.
on the walls of the Victoria prison and
of the San Carlos convent are the fol-
lowing names:
ciyiIlans-George LangfOrd. Thomas
Hayes.
soldlers-Harry Winfield. Phil Better
ton, j. 1. Salisbury. A. N. Gordon. E.
N. Nugent, Frank Stone, John Des-
mond. George sackett, David Scott,
Martin Brennan, Tom Edwards, D. P.
Curran, John cronIn, Charles Baker. C.
L. Davis. Leland Smith.
On the walls OF the San Carlos con-
vent were also found the following
names:
civlllans-chnrles Bird, W. j, shqehy,
F. e. Huber.
sailors-Edward Burke, battleshlp
Oregon, c. b. Powers, gunboat Urdan-
eta; John j. Farley, b. j, Greene, TIL
den Herbert.