The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-01
PRACTICALLY ENDED.
Filipino Rebellion on It's Last Legs
AguinaldO Fugitive ana MANY
of His Aids Captives.

Washington, Nov. 25. = Gen. Otis
summarizes the situation in LuZon IN
dispatch to the war department FIJI
day, in which he says that the lnsur-
gent government can no longer claim 10
exist, its troops and officials are scat
tered and Aguinaldo in hiding. The
dispatch follows:
Manila, Nov. 24.-Claim to government
by insurgents can be made no longer under
any fiction; it's treasurer, secretary OF the
interior and president of congress in our
hands; it's president and remaining CAD
met officers in hiding evidently in dinereht
central LuZon provinces; its generals anu
troops in small bands scattered through
these provinces acting as banditti or as
persed, playing the role of amigos, WIN
arms concealed. Indications are that Agul-
naldo did not escape through the lines OF
Lawton or Wheaton, but fled westward
from Bayambong railway station Ieie-
graphic communication to Dagupan estaD-
lished, probably to San Fabian to-day;
by relaying nine miles of track with ma
terial at hand, railway communication 10
that point reestablished; labor of troops
must attend maintenance"
A later dispatch from Gen. Otis gives
the results of the fighting at Iloilo as
follows:
-"Hughes, Iloilo, reports enemy driven
back into mountains; insurgent capital Co
batuan captured. Only serious action that
of Carpenter at Pavia; total casualties,
| five killed or since dead of wounds; q
| wounded; captured ten prisoners, IS can
non, six rifles. quantities of ammunition.
Enemys casualties not stated"
Manila, Nov. 25.-Bautista, president
of the Filipino congress, presented
himself to Gen. Macarthur Friday and
formally renowned all further con-
nection with the insurrection. He
was one of the influential Filipincs
who hesitated at the beginning of the
war as to the side on which to cast
his lot. He was offered judgeship
of the supreme court, but declined.
He now announces that he desires to
accept the position and says the Fill
Pine congress and cabinet are scat
| tered never to reassmble. Some of
the members, he adds, have returned
to their homes, while others are fly
ing for safety. Many of the congress
men have resigned, and he believes
the Filipino soldiers will lay down
their arms everywhere as soon as
they learn the truth.
| Manila Nov 25.-Senor Buencamino,
former member of the so-called cab
met of Aguinaldo, has been brought
to Gen. Otis prisoner on the trans
port Brutus. He had sought refuge in
village near San Fabian with Aguin-
aldo's mother and son. The natives
disclosed his identity to Maj. Cronin,
who captured him.
New York, Nov. 25.-The New York
World prints the following cable from
Hong-Kong: Aguinaldo has found
means of escaping from the Philippines.
1t is feared he has already done so.
Gen. Otis unwittingly aided the escape
of the man whom 10000 American
troops are trying to catch. Capt. Law
renee, an Englishman, was engaged by
| Aguinaldo, through President Lacson,
of Negros, to buy launch here. Lac
sons brother, Pedro Regelado, we'll
known noilo man, came to Hong-Kong.
They actually bore letters from Gen.
| Otis to Wildman, United States con-
sui here. They bought launch, named
| it Lacson, cleared it at the United
| States consulate as bound for Toro, pro-
ceeded to Lingayen gulf and turned
| over the launch to Aguinaldo's men.
Afterward they gave out that ''insur-
gents captured the launch" 1t has
since been learned that Lawrence is
colonel in the insurgent army and
that he has been retained to command
the launch. which is held in readiness
to carry Aguinaldo to safety. Several
insurgent generals have already been
seen in HongKong. They must have
escaped, disguised, through the Amer
lean lines, for they came from Manila
on regular trading steamers.