The National tribune., 1899-11-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FILIPINos IN DISTRESS.

According to Gen. Otis the Filipino Gov
ernment il on the eve of disintegration, with
the arch-inSurrectioniSt, Aguinaldo, dodg-
ing the American troops in an endeayor tC
escape, and his So-called Secretary OF
State and other officials having been cap
tured.
Gen. Otis advised the Department on
Nov. "a: 4s
The claim! to Government by the in
| surgents can be made 10 longer under any
fiction. Its Treasurer, Secretary of the
Interior and President of Congress are in
our hands. Its President and remaining
Cabinet officers are in hiding, evidently i'll
the different central Luzon onProvinces. Its
Generals AMI troops are in small bands
scattered through these Provinces acting
as banditu OF dispersed playing the role OF
Amigos, with their arms concealed. The
Indications are that Aguinaldo did not
escape through the lines of Lawton or
Wheaton, but fled westward from Bayam-
bang railway station"
On Nov. Il the. .insurgent Secretary Of
State, Buencamino, said TO be the brightest
man of the Filipino revolt, was captured.
He was with Aguinaldo and the party that
left Tarlac on the night of the 18th. to be
escorted north by 1000 troops from Bayam-
bang and Dagupan. These troops Whea-
ton struck at San JacintO, and Young cast
ward. Aguinaldo, with part of his family
escaped north with 200 men, passing be
tNCCli IouilS stilu w lltdtOIl. az
mother and oldest child, with Buencamino,
We're separated from the rest of<the party;
the mother was lost in the woods. and the
child, four years old, is with Wheaton
troops. Buencamino was taken i'll
village six miles from Manoag, near the
coast.
The Americans have made large captures
OF insurgent money and arms and am
munition andGhave the bulk OF the insur-
gent artillery. They have liberated sew
eral hundred Spanish prisoners and few
Americans. Otis's latest dispatch says:
Young is still in pursuit of Aguinaldo,
who is heading for Bangued, few miles
east of Vigan; Young, with cavalry and
scouts, is followed by battalion of the
33d, and by balance battalion of the 22d;
two battaliors of the 336 are en- route for
Vigan by the military post road. Young's
reception by inhabitants is enthusiastic.
They give all aid possible"
Apparently the insurgents are now
operating only as small bands, and the
American leaders in the Philippines have
seen enough Indian fighting to actively
and successfully press the campaign under
such similar conditions.
ILLINOIS AT CHICKAMAUGA.
The exercises of defeating the 107 monu-
ments and markers of the State of Illinois
on the battlefields surrounding Chatta-
nooga were held at Orchard Knob Nov. %.
Maj Charles A. Connolly delivered the
speech presenting the monuments to the
Governor of Illinois on behalf of the Illinois
Commissioners. Gov. John X. Tanner, OF
Illinois, received the monuments, and in
turn presentet: them to the Government.
Gen. Henrs- V. Boynton, President of
the Chickamnuga Park Commission, re-
ceived the morspments in behalf of the Secre-
tary of War. zHe and Senator Cullom both
male addresses, the formers eulogistic of
the men undef, Grant and Thomas.
The two g7eat iMonuments of Illinois,
which are among the most attractive on
the battlefield are located one at Orchard
Knob ani thI, otheT at Bragg's Hill, Mis-
The monun,ant of Bragg's Hill is erected
in honor Of tge brigades of Gems. Gross,
Sherman, J8quess, Wagner, Harker,
Which, Carla.si. Moore, and Wood. 1t is a
tall shaft of New England granite, sur
mounted by ;sssbronze figure. The base is
of Georgia gt%nite. four additional figures
at the base ofthe monument and the flags,
shields, etc, 9re OF, standard bronze, as is
also the great seal Of Illinois which appears
on it,. This Iaonuinent is very elaborately
inscribed.
The monuklent at Orchard Knob was
erected to thc memory of the brigades of