The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-28
PAY GOES ON.
Spain Will Care For Her Soldiers In
Captivity.

| JarauilIOs who is settling SPANS mil
| itary affairs here, has received a cable
| message from the minister of war at
! Madrid, Gen. POlavie1a, announcing
| that the pay of all soldiers who are In
| the hands of the insurgents Will be
! continued during their captivity The
| families of many of these officers and
! soldiers are in Manila, without means
| of support and are on their return to
| Spain.
! The new Spanish consul here, Senior
Luis Marinas, says his foremost busI-
| ness is to secure the release Of the pris-
! onerS.
| The Spaniards are fast leaving Ma
| Mia. The steamer Isla De LuZon sails
| for Sapin soon, taking several hundred
| persons, civil and military officials and
! their families. The Spanish commercial
! men are selling out and some of the
| largest interests here will soon pass
| into the hands of English capitalists.
| Captain Gates squadron of the Fourth
| cavalry embarked for MOrOng, Mon
| day. The gunboat Napidan, which ac-
companied the troops, visited the town
| of Munitulipa, on the west shore of the
| lake and found small body of rebels
| entrenched. The entertainments were
| sheIled by the Napidan, and when the
rebels began to retreat.the cavalry was
! landed. The Filipinos in firing a final
volIey, killed a cavalry private.
OTIS OPENS PORTS.
Manila, June 2S.-Major General Otis
has ordered the opening to trade of
many important ports which have been
clude San Fernando on the west coast
of Luzon; Aparri on the north coast;
Curimoa and all ports in the islands of
Samar and Leyte.
Many ships used in inter-island COM
merce have been tied up in the harbor
here for months and the shippers and
merchants have been urging the gov
eminent to raise the blockade. When
the decision was made known yester-
day, the scene in the custom house was
as animated as the floor of an Ameri-
can stock exchange. 1t was a busy
day Ship owners rushed to get their
clearance papers.
There will be a great boom in the
hemp business, which has been at
standstill. The ships will race to bring
the first cargo before the demand weak
ems. AS there is a heavy export duty
on hemp this will greatly increase the
revenues. The interests of the natives,
as well the merchants and traders
generally, led Gen. Otis to take this
ton. Delegates from the southern is
lands told him that the cessation of
business was bringing much suffering
to peaceful inhabitants.
Gunboats will protect the shipping in
some ports, but elsewhere shippers must
risk confiscation by the insurgents. who
exact heavy tribute of all ships they
permit to sail.
The rurnor that AguinaIdo had been
assassinated was in circulation here
for several days. 1t was not believed,
but its currency gave it q definite form
According to the story Gen. Pho Del
Pillar called upon Aguinaldo upon June
10 and accused him of causing General
Luna to be killed. Aguialdo denied re
sponsibility and added that he deeply
regretted Luna's death; Gen. Pho Del
Pillar, as the story goes, called him a
liar and scoundrel, shot him twice in
the head with his revolver and walked
away unmolested.
The report finds no credence in Ma
Mia A Filipino general, mounted on
big horse, with numerous staff, has
since been seen haranging the Filipino
troops around San Fernando, in Pam
panagana province, and this officer is
supposed to be Aguinaldo.
Yesterday four guns of Hobbies bat
terry and other artillery bOmbarded the
Filipino block houses and trenches
about two miles north of San Fernando.
The blOckhouses, which had been used
by Filipino sharpshoOters to annoy the
American outposts, We're destroyed. The
enemy made no resistance.
Yesterday the Spanish consul general
wearing a brilliant uniform, visited
Major General Otis. He was received
in the latter'S office, which is hung with
portraits of Spanish royal personages.
In the course of graceful speech, he
said that the Spaniards on the Philip
pines would hold no resentment because
of the past and would entertain no SEN
timents but those of respect toward the
new regime.
PLAN FOR RE-ENLISTMENT.
Washington, June est is not known
at the war department how General Otis
has succeeded in his undertaking to
form three skeleton regiments from the
volunteers now in the Philippines who
are willing to re-enlist. An impression
prevails at the war department that a
large proportion of the volunteers may
be re-enlisted if some arrangement can
be made whereby the men can be allow
ed to make a visit to their friends and
relatives in the United States. The
idea is to re-enIist them in the Philip
pines and give them a furlough to re-
turn to the United States. This furlough
would be for at least four months, more
than half of which time would be re-
quired to make the round trip from Ma
Mia to the United States.