The record-union., 1899-11-03

MANILA, Nov. 2.-5:4O p. m.-Aguin-
aldo has issued a proclamation an
nouncing that the American Congress
will meet in December to decide Wheth-
er the ''imperialist policy" and this
bloody work" are to be continued. He
exhorts his soldiers to conduct them
selves SO that Congress will consider
them worthy of independence, and re-
quests the priests to abstain from pol
itics, and to redeem the church from
the bad name the misdeeds of the friars
have given it.
A crisis in the Filipino Cabinet is
predicted as a. result of the designations
of Paterno and Beuncamino, two Fill
pino leaders who have lost the conf
dence of the rabid revolutionists.
Some FilipinOs who attempted to
come to Manila with the Spanish Com
mission received a message from Major
General Otis saying the women and
children would be given American pro-
lection, but the men who had cast their
lot with the insurrection must remain
with it, The party included a brother
of General Luna, who was assassin
ated by the guard before Aguinaldo' S
headquarters, with his family and the
Filipino Secretary of the Treasury. The
/ families returned to Tarlac.
Lieutenant Slaven of General Mac
Arthur's staff, accommodating with
eighteen men in front of Angeles, dis
covered a Filipino outpost in a. trench.
The Filipinos numbered forty men. AS
the Filipinos had sighted the Americans
Lieutenant Slavens' only course was to
charge, and his party rushed to the
trench, shooting and yelling. They
killed three of the insurgents and
wounded several. who. however, sue
ceeded in escaping. Not one of the
Americans was hit. The Lieutenant Sc
cured valuable information about the
enemy's position.
The feeling Of disquiet aroused at
Iloilo by the arrest of Santiago. the
wealthy Filipino who is charged with
forming a revolutionary junta has sub
sided. The natives in the quarter of the
town were sullen and restless and were
heard chanting the death song at night,
with the refrain THE Americans
Sleep" A provost marshaps force sur
rounded the quarter and drove the sus-
picious looking natives outside the
lines.
The Americans occupy Iloilo and the
adjoining towns of Jaro and Molo, with
1000 men, consisting of the Eighteenth
and Twenty-sixth Regiments, two bat
talions of the Nineteenth Regiment. a.
detachment of the Sixth Regiment and
battery of the Sixth Artillery.
The insurgent force is now supposed
to be between 300 and 500 armed men.
and many more unarmed. Their lines
are about 800 yards from Jaro, which
is occupied by the Twenty sixth Regi-
ment. The insurgents are supposed to
nave five smooth bore cannon. For
long time past they have been build
ing trenches between Jaro and their
stronghold, Santa Barbara, eight miles
north.
BATSON'S SCOUTS ROUT THE EN-
ENVY
MANILA. Nov. 3. 10 a. m.-The in
surgents attempted to ambush Captain
Batson's scouts between Santiago and
Saragossa, but Captain Batson charged
them and drove them out from their
position, killed and wounded several
of them. One American officer was
killed and a private wounded
General Young's troops are beginning
to live on the country, trying buffalo
meat and rice partly in lieu Of army
rations.
The captures at the Talouera arsenal
include thirteen small brass howlt-
zers and 500 one-pound projectiles
Major Bells regiment yesterday ad-
vanced from Guagua on Florida Blan-
ca which was found. to he sdaaerfed
Bishops battalion is stationed there.
Bell also made another descent upon
Porac, pursuing the Filipinos thence
into the mountains and capturing their
hors and baggage The American loss
was one killed and two wounded.
Major Bell reports that ne entirely
destroyed the insurgent cavalry that
was operating in that section.