Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-10-05
TO INCITE MUTINY.
Insurgents Charged With AdvOca-
ting an Uprising at Manila.
The City Has 10000 Inhabitants, but the
American Force Ia Too Small to Pa
troll the Place-RepOrt About
Treatment OF Prisoners.

Manila, Sept. 2S.-The American au-
thorities have declined the request of
Gen. Jaramillo, the Spanish officer
who is settling SPANS military affairs
in the Philippine islands. to send
vessel under the Spanish flag to collect
the Spanish prisoners at inSurgent
ports, as stipulated by the Filipinos, on
the ground that the ports are closed,
that such step would be unlawful
and because they declined to accept
the Filipino dictation. The authorities
are ready to send an American vessel.
The Spanish commission, therefore.
will return to the insurgent lines and
endeavor to effect an arrangement for
the delivery of the prisoners on board
an American vessel.
Aguinaldo has issued a statement
saying the warlil1e activity of the
Americans has prevented the concen-
tration of the prisoners, as intended,
but that they will be delivered up Oe-
tober 10.
The Tagals of the island of Minda-
mao have expressed their readiness to
accept American sovereignty in ex-
change for protection against the har-
assing MOros.
A native officer has offered Mai. Gen.
Otis 1, 900 Maccabbe tribesmen to fight
Tagals of the Laguna de Bay district.
The troops engaged in the fighting
at Cebu belonged to the Nineteenth
infantry, Twenty-third infantry and
Sixth artillery.
The insurgents are trying to incite
the natives of Malabon, a city of so, 900
inhabitants, five miles from Manila, to
rise against the American garrison.
Al.
with two companies of the Sixteenth
infantry; but, on account of the need
of all the available men at the front,
his force has been reduced to 20 men.
They now remain near the big church,
where they are quartered, being too
few in number to attempt to patrol the
town. Armed, uniformed parties of
insurgents recently disembarked from
Cascoes during the night, collected
money for the instruction and
preached revolt.
American officers north of Manila
tell the correspondents of the Associat-
ed press that Aguinaldo is attempting
to enforce good government after the
American fashion, ordering his soldiers
to suppress a band of robbers, three of
whom were executed at Mariquima. He
also prohibits gambling in the villages
under his control. Palermo, the presi-
dent of the so-called Filipino cabinet,
has fallen into disfavor among the
Fiipino's on account of his peace pro-
c1ivities. They suspect him of plan
ming to repeat his treachery of the
former insurrection, when he went
over to the Spaniards, and they may
expel him.
The insurgents seem to be trying to
make their good treatment of the
American prisoners card by which to
gain outside sympathy. Two English
men who have arrived from Tarlac re-
port that the Americans are treated
more like guests than prisoners.
They are fed on the best that the
country affords, and everything is done
to gain their favor. A Filipino paper
says that, on the occasion of recent
fete at Vittoria. in celebration of a
mythical Filipino victory, the Ameri-
can prisoners there were given the
freedom of the town and five pesos each
with which to celebrate the victory