Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-30
LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS.
Several Filipino Leaders Are
Tired of Fighting.

| tered With Young Hot on Their
| TraiI-Many FiIipinos Applying to
General Otis For Permission to En-
Joy Luxuries of Manila.
| Manila, Nov. 2S.-News which the
steamship Brutus brings from Dagupan
dispels all doubts that the so-called
Filipino Republic is crumbling like a
house of cards. Aguinaldo is deSerting
or being abandoned by the politicians,
and the army which a fortnight ago
was entrenched at Tarlac and exercised
de facto government over nine-tenths
of the inhabitants of LuZon is fugitive
in the mountains, with small hope of
| re-establishing the machine. The army
is scattered in the hills on both sides
of the railroad, and widely separated
detachments are within the Gordon
which Generals Lawton and Wheaton
have completed.
The ruling spirit of the Cabinet is
prisoner in Manila-a white elephant
in the hands of the authorities-and the
small fry are tumbling over one an
other to get to Manila. Three prov
incial Governors have arrived here to
request General Otis to install them in
their old offices under the new regime.
DR.. Luna, Il brother of General Luna,
and prominent Filipino, has arrived,
and his friends and many others are
applying to General Otis for permits
sion TO enjoy the luxuries of Manila
after months of separation from civil
ization.
Parties of Filipinos made feeble at
tacks upon linus and the Zapote bridge
Saturday night. The only large organ
lied forces of natives known to remain
are those in the Cavite province, at
San Mateo, and in the Zambeles Noun
tains, though several seaports have
large garrisons.
Aguinaldo began his retreat with two
thousand men under General Gregorio
del Pillar That force was probably re-
duced to it's present proportion by de-
sertion. The last definite news as to
Aguinaldo's whereabouts is that he
passed through Trinidad, east of Arn-
gay, toward Bayombong, escorted by
two hundred men of the Bulacan bat
TALON, which had dwindled from six
hundred within week.
General Tino, who fought the Thir-
ty-third at San Jacinto. is supposed to
have Joined him. letter from Gen
the writer says two hundred of his men
were killed or wounded, and that he
had had enough and was going to the
mountains.
General Young lest Tayug on Nov. 13
to connect with General Wheaton, with
the Macabebes and three troops of cav
airy. Two troops, commanded by Cap
tain Hunter and Lieutenant Thayer,
cd oh 10 rin
point Lieutenant Thayer, with twelve
men, started for San Fabian. taking
the chances of getting through the
lines of the enemy, supposed to be be
tween Aringan and San Fabian.
After 4 daring ride by way of Ma
galdan and San Jacinto, he arrived at
San Fabian on November IA, dashing
through a considerable force of the en-
emy at Magaldan. His undertaking
was reported at Manila by courier from
General Young to San Jose The fate
OF Lieutenant Thayer and his COM
panions was unknown until now. and
fear prevailed here that they had either
been killed or captured.
Cronin's battalion marched to Po-
zorrubio. there finding General Young's
force, which had just learned that
Aguinado had passed through Aringan
on his way to Binalonan the night be-
fore. General Young started to head
off the party at Pozorrubio. and might
have succeeded but that he took the
wrong road, reaching Manaoag. where
he struck the rear guard of the Filipino
chief.
Aguinaldo is on the mountain trails,
with twenty-five horses in the party,
and has a good chance of eluding the
Americans unless he gets among hos
tile natives.
Business men of Dagupan and many
foreigners sent word to General Whea-
ton that the Filipinos had evacuated
the place and requested that he gar
rison 1t.
Captain Rowland took a battalion of
the Thirteenth regiment and proceed
ed to Dagupan. He found two thous-
and five hundred persons in the town,
the population of which is fifty thous-
and, the rest having fed to the sur
rounding swamps. Captain Rowland
reinstalled in office the local authori-
ties of Aguinaldos government all of
whom took the oath of allegiance.
The Third cavalry had one man kill
ed and several wounded in the fight at
Santo Tomas.
1he movement against the natives
in the Island of Panay has resulted
In driving them to the mountains, over
twenty miles inland. The troops en-
gagged were two battalions of the Nine
teenth regiment, battalion of the
Twenty-sixth regiment. the Eighteenth
regiment. Gordon's mounted scouts and
Bridgman's battery of the Sixth arti-
lcry. The Americans lost five men kill
ed and had thirty-eight men wounded.
General Hughes. Colonel Carpenter
and Colonel Edmund Rice commanded
during the various fights. Thirty-two
natives were killed in the engagements
and the natives reported that nineteen
cart loads of wounded were taken
away.
Among the Americans killed was a
lieutenant of the Eighteenth regiment
and IA sergeant of artillery. Twelve OBJ
solete cannon We're captured.