Warren sheaf., 1899-11-30
PRACTICALLY ENDED.
Filipino Rebellion ON It's Inst Legs
Aguinn1dio q; Fugitive and Many
of His Aids Captiyes.

Washingt Nov. 25. Gen. Otis
summarizes the situation III Luzon in
dispatch to the war department Fri
day, in which he says that the insur-
gent government can no longer claim to
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 hct1On; its treasurer, secretary Of the
interior and president Of congress in our
hands, its president and remaining cab
met officers in hiding evidently in different
central Luzon provinces: it's generals and
troops in small bands scattered through
these provinces acting as banditti or dis
persed, playing the role of amigos with
arms concealed. Indications are that Agui-
naldo did not escape through the lines OF
LaWton or Wheaton, but fled westward
from Bayambong railway station. Tele-
graphic communication to Dagupan estab-
lished, probably to San Fabian to-day;
by relaying nine miles of track with ma
terial at hand, railway communication to
that point reestablished; labor Of troops
must attend maintenance IL
A later dispatch from Gen. Otis gives
the results of the fighting at Iloilo as
follows: l3s2 $I
Hughes, Iloilo, reports enemy driven
back into mountains; ,insurgent capital Cos
batuans captured. Only serious action that
of Carpenter at Pavia; total casualties.
five killed or since dead of wounds; Fl
wounded; captured ten prisoners. 1S can
non, six rifles. quantities of ammunition.
Enemy's casualties not stated.'
Manila, Nov. 25.-Bautista, president
of the Filipino congress, presented
himself to Gen. Macarthur Friday and
formally renounced 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 a judgeship
of the supreme court, but declined.
He now announces that he desires to
accept the position and says the Fill
pino 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. So. s55i,
Manila, Nov. 25.-Senor Buencamino,
a former member Of the so-called cab
met of Aguinaldo, has been brought
to Gen. Otis a prisoner on the trans
port Brutus. He had soughtsrefuge in
a village near San Fabian with Aguin-
aldo's mother and son. The natives
disclosed his identity to Maj. iCronin,
| who captured him. sI.n iHtststi ~ Ii
New York, Nov.t 25.---The New York
World prints the. following cable from
Hong-Kong: Aguinaldo has found
means of escaping from the Philippines
It 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 EnglisEman, was engaged by
Aguinaldo, through President Lacson
of Negros, to buy launch here. Lac.
sons brother, Pedro Regelado, we'll
known Iloilo man, came to Hong-Kong
They actually bore letters from Gen
Otis to Wildman, United States con
sui here. They bought a 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
a 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 beer
seen in Hong-Kong. They must have
escaped, disguised, through the Amer.
lean lines, for they came from Manila
on regular trading steamers.