The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04

was in response to a cable inquiry sent
by H. H. Kohlsaat, as follows:
worcester, Manila:
Charles Bremen, Minneapolis, Kan
sas, writes home: Company I had four
prisoners and did not know what to do
with them. They asked Captain Bishop
what to do. He said: You know or
ders.' And four natives fell deaI" Ca
bic truth. KOHLSAAT."
Commissioner Worcesters answer was
as follows:
Manila, June 20.
Editor Times-Herald, Chicago, ILL.,:
"The original statement Of Bremen is
untrue. Brenner's charge was prompt
ly investigated by the military authori-
ties here. No facts were ascertained to
support the charge at the time Of first
inquiry, but the investigation has been
renewed and is being prosecuted Vlgor-
ously and extensively. This invest'ga-
ton has not yet been completed
"Brenner's charge has some SEM
blance of truth, for the reason that It
is now believed that two prisoners were
shot in the neat of battle for refusing
to pass to the rear when ordered to do
so. This matter is being probed to the
bottom. 1t is an isolated case.
THE inhabitants of the own Ie-
Gently captured had been maltreated,
! robbed and left destitute by the insur-
{ gents. The natives rejoice at the ar.
J rival VI liz l. IlOOpS, III
neither burn their homes o loo their
property and who feed the hungry. The
! inhabitants are resuming their Ordi-
: nary occupations and are ready to CO.
operate with US.
The wounded insurgents are brought
! to Manila, where they receive the same
care and attention as our own wound
ed. WORCESTER"
CUBAN BANDITS.
90 o11;r@
here from G~uanajay today say Major
Jose Acosta, of the Cuban army, &C
cused of completely in the recent safe
robbery at Mariel, at first succeeded in
escaping the rural police, but was pur-
sued to a small country house, which
he reached after dark. On the ap-
proach of the guards, Acosta, who was
at the we'll drinking, attempted to reach
his horse, but the guards fired and
Acosta dropped on his knees and beg
ged them to spare his life. He was
taken to Guanajay Jail and was afraid
the guards would kill him on h way
there. On the promise of his life being
spared, he said his party numbered
Twenty-Five, among whom, he claimed,
vas Colonel Garlic Dolz, who was ap-
pointed last week chief of the Guanajay
rural police. AcOSta received $500 as
his share of the Mariel robbery.
Major Bulnes and the head man of
the San Francisco plantation attack,
nav both disappeared, and there are
rumors that they have organized a par
ty near Cayajabos.
At Puerto Paddle four boats return
ing from fishing were halted by armed
negroes in five boats, one mile from the
shore, and were compelled to surrender
their fish and everything of value on
board.
The Tunas rurales and a detachment
of American cavalry are securing the
hills in search of forty outlaws who
have been raiding that district recently.
The band is we'll mounted and has
successfully evaded the pursuers so far.
BROOKE'S MORTALITY REPORT.
: Washington, June 29.-General Brooke
has 'cabled the department the follow
ing death report, dated Havana, June
28th:
June 27-Santiago: Musician James
Mccarthy, Company 6, Fifth infantry,
| yellow fever. Puerto Principe: Sergeant
Hugh Letow. Company C, Eighth cav
airy, yellow fever"