Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-09-26
STILL HOLDING PRISONERS
Aguinaldo Fails to Make Good
His Offer to Surrender Them,
DROP NEGOTIATIONS.
Wheeler Asked for Cavalry and was
Told He Couldn't Have Any
Until October.

Manila, Sept. 23.-4:4 40 p. m.-No infor-
nation has been received from the naval
expedition at Subig bay.
The Filipinos have not made good their
offer to surrender the American prisoners
and they have not sent an officer to meet
Maj.-Gen. Otis as promised.
Nothing further has been heard from
the rebel officers who conferred with Gen
Macarthur recently and returned to their
own lines.
Chief Signal Officer Thompson has gone
on a two-weeks' tour of inspection Of the
cable service of all the southern islands.
Wheeler Asked for Cavalry.
New York, Sept. pa dispatch to the
World from Manila September 10, via
Hong Kong, says:
Gen Joseph Wheeler, after skirmish
at Parac, telegraphed to Gen. Otis ask
ing the latter to send cavalry for the pur-
pose of preventing q reaSsembllng of the
insurgents. Gen. Otis replied that he
could not send the cavalry until October.
Three attempts have been made to as
sassinate Tavera, the leader of the pro
American Filipinos.
There is growing feeling among mill
tary men and the native police that the
native judges are unreliable. An inquiry
Is now proceeding
Commercial dislocaton has resulted in
Manila because the gooGs ordinarily pro
duced here are understandable since the
provinces have been disturbed. Now
adays the goods are only obtainable from
abroad
The Filipino newspaper independence
says lnsurgent preparations are complete
to abandon Tarlac if necessary Aguin-
aIdoS forces, this organ says, will be
able to continue their Fabian tactics sue
ceSsfully, exhausting the American
troops more easily than the Romans wore
out Hannibal.
Rebel Vessels Captured
Washington. ID. c., Sept 23.-Actine
Secretary Allen has received this dis.
patch from Rear-Admira Watson:
The Panay. Laning commanding can
Inred steamer Mundaca, for Illicit trading
The MariveleS. Oman commanding car
tured steamer Taaleno. aiding and ahettine.
insurgents The Taaleno will make a good
gunboat, 100 tons. viii fit out and man ner
The Panay is commanded by Ensign
Lanlng. who was previously attached to
the Monadnock. Lieut.. Joseph W.
Oman was transferred to the Mariyeles
from the Helena 1t is evident from Ad-
nlraI Watsons dispatch that he is main,
tanning sharp watch for filibusters
The fact that efforts are being made tc
send In such supplies seems to indicate
that the insurgents have no intention Of
yielding.
cables the war department today that
the Senator sailed yesterday from Manila
with the Iowa volunteers
Explosion ON a Transport.
By an explosion of a box of percussion
caps on the United States TranSport
sherman last night four stevedores were
seriously injured, two fatally.
The injured:
John Burke. fatally.
Frank klarn. fatally.
Charles Anderson. badly hurt
John BrOdie, bruised and injured internal
~.
The stevedores were working over time
in the endeavor to prepare the transport
for her next trip to Manila. Under the
direction of Foreman Klarn, the men
were trying to store Il box of percussion
caps in the foreward hold. The box
weighed about 30 pounds and the men
tried to force the box into Il small space
There was an exposition which filled the
bodies of the men with flying splinters
and percussion caps.