Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-25

AGUINALDO AND HIS OTHER
OFFICERS ARE FUGITIVES IN
HIDING - GEN. HUGHES SUP
PRESSING THE TAGALO INSUR-
GENTS AT PANAY.
WASHINGTON, November 24.-Gen.
Otis summarizes the situation in Luzon
in a dispatch to the War Department
to-day in which he says that the insur-
gent government can no longer claim
to exist; it's troops and officials are
scattered and Aguanaldo in hiding.
The dispatch follows:
MANILA, November "a.
"Claim to government by insurgents
can be made no longer under any nc
ton; its treasurer, secretary OF the in
terror and president of congress are in
our hands; its president and remain
ing cabinet officers are in hiding, evil
IDENTIFY in different central Luzon prov
inces; it's generals and troops in small
bands are scattered through these prov
inces, acting as banditti, or are dis
persed and playing the role Of 'amigoes,'
with arms concealed. The indications
are that Aguinaldo did not escape
through the lines of Iawton or Wheat
on. but fed westward from Bayambang
railway station. Telegraphic commune
cation to Dagupan has been established
and probably will be to Fabian to-day.
BY relaying nine miles of track with
material at hand railway communica-
ton to that point has been re-estab-
lished.
Details of the sharp engagement be-
tween Col. Carpenters command and
the insurgents on Panay Island reached
the War Department to-day in the fol-
lowing dispatch from Gen. Otis, dated
Manila, to-day:
I'm Panay, on the 21st inst, when
Col. Dickman drove the enemy from the
vicinity of Jaro, Col Carpenter, with
two battalions of the Eighteenth in
fantry and Bridgeman's battery, had a
severe engagement at Pavia, north of
Iloilo. His casualties were five killed
and twenty wounded, are now in Ilo-
lilo hospital. Others slightly wounded
are with the command. The enemy
was driven north with reported very
heavy loss; particulars not received.
Carpenter passed on to the insurgents
stronghold, Santa Barbara, which he
captured on the 22d inst, without loss.
Nothing has been received from the
column under the immediate command
of Gen. Hughes, which is moving rap
idly and operating north and west of
Santa Barbara. Apparently the Visay-
ans are friendly, not taking an active
part. The enemy consists of 1000
Tagalos."
A later dispatch from Gen. Otis
gives the results Of the fighting in noilo
as follows:
Gen. Hughes, at Iloilo, reports the
enemy driven back into the mountains
The insurgent capital Of Cobatuan has
been captured. The only serious action
was that of Carpenter at Pavia; the
total casualties were five killed or since
fled of wounds, and q wounded. We
captured ten prisoners. eighteen can
non,, six rifles and quantities of ammu
milton. The enemy's casualties are not
stated"
Gen. Otis also sends the following
list of casualties sustained since his
last report: Killed in advance on
Pavia, November p: Howard Lowe,
sergeant, G.; Sixth artillery. William S.
Addy, F, Eighteenth infantry, in action
near Barrio Tenabing, 18th; Thomas E.
Gardner L, Seventeenth infantry;
wounded, Charles E. Hapner, Seven
teenth, right thigh, moderate; Tenth
John e. Miller, A, Seventeenth, right
chest and abdomen, severe; in action at
Minduriao, Panay, James NJ. Casey, B,
Eighteenth infantry, left thigh, slight;
in action near Jaro, Panay, Richard
Corbeth, C, Twenty-sixth Infantry,
neck, severe; Eighteenth, James E.
Roegey, A, head, severe: in action at
iAnabo, Luzon, Paul :. Phenuer, F,
Eleventh cavalry, left thigh, moderate;
Edward Johnson, head, moderate; VIM.
w. Human, corporal, right leg, mod
crate.
MANILA, November 24.-5: 50 p. m
Bautista, president of the Filipino Con-
gress, presented himself to Gen. Mac
Arthur to-day and formally renounced
all further connection with the insur-
rection. He was one of the influential
Filipinos who hesitated at the begin
ming of the war as to which 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 Filipino Congress and cabinet are
scattered, never to reassemble. Some
of the members, he adds, have returned
to their homes while Others are flying
for safety. Many OF the congressman