The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-18
OUR LINES DRAWN TIGHTER
GEN. Y0UNs MOVES ON URDANETA
Nv PURSUIT or AGUINALDO.

Macarthur Starts North from TarIao-
Dodd's Cavalry Captures 1900 Pesos OF
the Rebel Funds and 5000 Msussr Cart
ridEes-Keniy's Dynamite Guns to he
Sent TO wheaton-Nsws of Prisoners.
sp,eai Cable Despateh to TEE sus.
MANILA, Nov. 17.-Gsn. Macarthur started
north from Tarlac to-day. Col. Bell 10 recon-
NOTHING with his reeimsnt-the Thirty third
and battalion OF the Seventeenth.
Nothing has been heard from Gen. Lawton
to-day.
Lieut. Kenly with his battery Of dynamite
guns Ia going 10 Join Gen. Wheaton.
Manila Ia very much excited about Asui.
naldo. One moment you hear that no has
been captured and the next report IL thht he
has escaped. The widest rumors are 10 cir
culatlon.
A despatch from THE suS's correspondent at
TayuR. dated Nov. IL, via Ban Jos6 Nov. IL.
says: The insureent Secretary Of War passed
here on his way to Bayobong yesterday morn-
Ing.
Calvin l.. Davis OF the Sixteenth Infantry
and Thomas W. Hayes. a civilian, two Ameri.
can prisoners taken from the Filipinos on Nov.
II. say they believe the insurrection will 70
over In fifteen days. The Filipinos realize that
they are surrounded. and the officials Of the
so-called Government are devotine all their
energies to escaping 10 the mountains over the
only trails available via Tayug and Ban Joss.
There are comparatively few insurgents in this
neiRhborhood. II Ia said that the American
cavalrymen who have gone to the north have
captured ample supplies for both men and
horses"
A despatch from The SUS correspondent at
TayuR dated Nov 10. which came by way Of
San Jose. says: 'Dodds troop OF cavalry cap
tured 5000 pesos OF insurgent money which
had been buried In a caion three miles above
San Nicolas. The money had been carried to-
ward the mountains in a train OF bull-carts
which left here on Nov. IL. Yesterday detail
o. cavalrymen captured a Filipino oiflcer and
some men near the place where the bull-carts
had been abandoned. Another expedition
| this morning captured the driver OF the bull
train. He had thirty pesos hidden on his per-
son. The prisoner was taken TO San Nicolas.
where Troops VI and P Of the Third Cavalry.
under Lieut. Col. Walder. were stationed. A
troop was sent back over the trail with the
prisoner and he pointed out the place where
the money was buried. Fourteen chests wers
dug up. In addition to the money the men
found q quantity Of clothing and private
effects. and 5000 Mauser cartridges. which
were destroyed. 1t seems profitable to follow
| this trail and the troops will bring the money
"a ldyuk tO-UlHhI lHtTe WerS lnulCetlOnb
that the rebels had recently left the spot where
the m oney was found.
Capt Thayer's trooplreconnoitered Banaban-
don to-day. ARuinaldo Is again reported to be
| at Urdaneta with 1.500 men.
| "A battalion OF IN. Thirty-seventh tCol. WAL
| lace's regiment raised In Manilal with the
| Macabe be scouts arrived here to-day. Wagons
| with supplies also got up.
Gen. Young moves on Urdansta to- morrow.
Capt. Balance moves TO Rosales from Humin-
gan by steamboats, to prevent ARuinaldo'i
| escape"
| When Lieut-C Howe entered Victoria. q
| Filipino handed him letter from a private In
he Am erloan signal Corps. who had been
taken prisoner by the rebels. The letter read
| as follows:
| VICTORIA. Oct. 81.
There are twenty-one OF us here. We are
all well and expect to leave for the mountains
every day. Stone and Smith are with me.
| The photographer OF z Company IL III Al
| Tarlac."
This letter explains the disappearance OF 50
| many Signal Corps men. Salisbury. the pho
tographer referred to. was captured at Cabana-
| tuan after having his horse shot from under
| him. When Gen. Macarthur entered Tarlac
| he found q letter written BY salisbury Ia
| Aguinaldo requesting the latter to allow him
to go to Manila. as he had been wounded and
needed medical treatment.