The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-05-05

SAN IUMn0 Is AkEN-
Filipinos Are Burning Their
Towns Behind Them.
CLOSING IN ON SAN FERNANDO.
Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota Troops
Are In Severe Observation-Disclosures
ence Between Otis and Filipinos IL
without Result, Insurgents Asking
90 DAYS Grace to Consider Surrender.
MANILA, May a, noon.-General Mac.
Mrthur is now assaulting the town Of
San Tomas about five miles northwest
of Calumpit. The Americans are fight
ing for the bridge and the rebels are
burning the town.
After q severe engagement General
Wheaton's brigade entered San Tomas
this morning, the insurgents fighting
desperately. The Americans found San
Tomas burned. General Hale is push
ing the insurgents toward San Fer
nando.
General Macarthur moved forward
at = o'clock this morning with the Kan
sas and Montana regiments along the
railway, and the Utah battery and Ne
braska, South Dakota and Iowa regi-
ments on the right. There was a Sc
eere engagement at a bridge four miles
this side of San Tomas, where the in
surgents We're found in force.
Il ~
mand is now advancing northward to-
ward Maasin.
Filipinos Ask For Three Months Truce.
MANILA, May 4.-There was a con-
ference lasting two hours yesterday be-
tween Major General Otis and the en-
voys who came here from General An
tonic Luna bearing proposal for ces-
sation of hostilities.
General Otis adhered to his refusal
to recognize the so-called government
of the insurgents. The Filipinos now
ask for truce of three months to en-
able Aguinaldo to summon the congress
and consult with the insurgent leaders
il on others of the islands.
! At Balibog last evening there was a
running fight, in the course Of which
one American soldier was killed and
three were wounded. The rebels scat
tered before General Lawton and Gem
eral Hale. Yesterday, while Captain
Wheeler, with detachment of the
Fourth cavalry, was covering General
Hale's advance he discovered a large
body of rebels at Pulilan. The cavalry
opened fire, but there was no response.
! Thinking that the rebels wanted to SUR
render, Lieutenant Bell went forward to.
! parley with them. The Filipinos re-
+ piled that they did not wish
to surrender, but that they had
been ordered to refrain from fighting
during the negotiations. They asked
what Lieutenant Bell wanted and in
reply were given half an hour in which
to retire, which they improved.
VI A Spanish prisoner who escaped into
the American lines reports that after
General Hale's advance on Quingan 200
Filipinos were buried, 35 in one trench,
and ~ in another. This is the largest
Z number of rebels that have been killed
in any engagement for several months.
Seven Men Still Missing.
4 WASHINGTON, May 4.-The following
cablegram has been received from Ad-
= miral Dewey:
, MANILA, May S.-Secretary Navy,
: Washington: The following are the
10 Yorktown prisoners at insurgent head.
It quarters at San Isidro: Lieutenant
Gilmore, Chief Quartermaster William
y Walton, Sailmakers Mate Paul Van
p. dot, Coxswain John Ellsworth, Ap-
prentice Albert Peterson, Landsman
D. Sylvio Brisolese, Landsman Paul Ed
wards and Landsman Fred Anderson.
: Provisions have been sent to them by
i. Otis. Am continuing inquiries as to
the fate of the other seven DEWEY.
IS Among the men not accounted for is
Charles Albert Morrissey. He was
,, born at Columbus, Neb., and his mother
Or at present resides in Lincoln.
g General Hale IL wounded.
p. WASHINGTON, May 4.-General Otis
reports the following casualties not
le heretofore reported: Wounded April
'f 90: Brigadier General Irving Hale,
!, leg. slight
~ First South Dakota-Captain Charles
III. Englesby, company III, shoulder,
81 slight; Sergeant Oscar N. Corsey, com.
pany G, leg, slight.
Fifty-first Iowa-Fred E. Strong,
X company M, scalp, slight; Samuel j.
Tillen, company M, April 20, shoulder,