The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-06-07
A FILIPINO
SENTENCED.
Commissioner Gets Twelve Years
For Friendship For Americans,
THE SUICIDE OF A LIEUTENANT.

Had Exceeded His Furlough Limit and
was Placed Under Arrest-Rebels
Attack and Burn the Friendly Town
of Macabebe.
Manila, June IA Spanish paper as
serts that Colonel Arguelles, one Of
the two members Of the original Fiji
pino military commission who were
placed under arrest at Tarlac last
month, after returning to LunR's camp
from their conferences with the United
States commissioners, has been court
martialed and sentenced to IL years
imprisonment for friendship display
cd toward the Americans.
Lieutenant Fred w. Pierce, OF the
Sixth United States artillery, commit
ted suicide here this morning He came
from Iloilo a week ago on leave, but
fingered here beyond the limit and
failed to reply to repeated kilograms
from his commander. Yesterday he
was put under arrest on his COM
mander's order. This morning another
officer called to see him, when he sud
denly pulled q revolver from under his
pillow and shot himself through the
head. His friends say his mind was
affected by a recent sunstroke.
The rebels on Saturday night made
an attack upon the friendly town of
Macabebe, and after driving the in
habitants out burned the town.
The insurgents nightly annoy the
| troops at San Fernando. Several Amer
leans have been slightly wounded re-
/ Gently. The enemy have several Krupp
| guns, which they bring forward and
use for firing large shells into the
| town, then retreating with their guns.
/ One Of the insurgent shells fell within
| 30 yards of General MacArthur's head
| quarters Saturday evening The Amer
/ lean troops do not reply TO the nightly
| outbreaks.
The American forces have occupied
/ the peninsula and General Halls coll
umn Is encamped at Morong. Major
| Truman, marching across from Bin
angonan, found it impracticable to
| form a Gordon, and the insurgents,
with the exception of hundred or two,
escaped through the mountains after
General Pho del Pilar, dragging their
battery by buffaloes at night. A few,
however, may be trapped.
The Washington troops have re-
| turned to Pasig, but the program of
the other troops is uncertain.
The present expedition shows the
difficulty which is encountered by an
army which must depend upon wagon
trains in catching barefooted bandits
| in their own mountains, and also gives
| proof that the rebels do not intend to
| fight battles.
! day morning and marched twelve miles
| to Morong, up and down rocky hills
and through woods and swamps. Scores
OF his men fell out, owing to the sX-
| treme heat, and were left to follow as
best they could. The head of the army
arrived at Morong at noon, having ex-
! changed only few shots with insur-
gent skirmishers on the way. Groups
of stragglers followed all day but the
force was 200 smaller than when it
! started The men were almost SO
hours without rations, and 1t was con-
| siderable of an achievement for them
10 cover the ground they did.
dstretce q hmthe ,aycgesthr hrrr
En- route to Morong the Americans
met fiocks OF Filipinos, under flags OF
truce, many of them young men with
the bearing of soldiers. MANY discard
ed uniforms were found in the houses
apparently those of soldiers who had
escaped by changing their costumes
from "insurrecto" to amigo" and
walking boldly past the army, which
had expected to corral them. Few were
found about Morong.
One member of the Washington regi-
men was killed and two were wounded
in the encounter with the outposts.
General Lawton, on board a gunboat
searching the coast for Major Truman
stopped at Binangonan, opposite Nor
ong. The natives Immediately ran up
flag of truce, and a delegation IN
canoes put off and greeted the Ameri-
cans with the usual protestations OF
friendship.