New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-11-29
Government Is SMASHED
Filipinos Can No Longer Claim That.
It Has Any Existence
Whatever.
MANY OF ITS OFFICERS IN oU3 HANDS.
Dispatch from Gen. Otis Shows That
1nsurrectiOn Is Practically Ended
President of Filipino Congress
RenOunces All Further Connection
with the Rebellion Of AEuinaldo.

Washington, Nov. IS. 80 Gen. Otis
summarizes the situation in Luzon in
a dispatch to the war department Fri
day, in which he says that the insur-
gent government can no longer claim to
exist, it's 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 fiction; it's treasurer, secretary of the
interior and president of congress in our
hands; it's president and remaining cab
met officers in hiding evidently in different
central Luzon provinces; its 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 fed 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" -
Fuller Details of the Fighting.
Fuller details of the sharp engage
ment between Carpenters command
and the insurgents in Iloilo reached the
war department in the following dis
patch from Gen. Otis, dated Manila,
Friday:
GIN Pana to-day, 21st inst, when Dick
man drove the enemy in vicinity of Jaro,
Carpenter, with two battalions of Eight
zenith infantry and Bridgman's battery had
severe engagement at Pavia, North Iloilo.
His casualties, five killed, 20 wounded now
in Iloilo hospital, others slightly wound=
ed with command; enemy driven north
with reported very heavy loss; particulars
not received. Carpenter passed on to in
surSents stronghold, Santa Barbara,
which he captured 22d inst, without loss.
Nothing received from column under i'm
mediate command of Hughes, which is
moving rapidly and operating north and
west of Santa Barbara Apparently Vis-
ayans friendly, not taking active part; en-
envy consists of 2, 900 Tagalos.''
A later dispatch from Gen. Otis gives
the results of the fighting at Iloilo as
follows:
Hughes, Iloilo, reports enemy driven
back into mountains; insurgent capital Co.
batuan captured. Only serious action that
of Carpenter at Pavia; total casualties,
five killed or since dead of wounds; n
wounded; captured ten prisoners, Is can
non six rifles, quantities of ammunition.
Enemy's casualties not stated
President of Congress Gives Up.
Manila, Nov. 25-Bautista, president
of the Filipino congress, presented
himself to Gen. Macarthur Friday and
formally renowned all further con-
nection with the instruction. He
was one of the influential Filipinos
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.
Charleston q Total Loss.
Washington, Nov. 25.-The navy de-
partment has received the following
cablegram from Capt. Leutze, COM
manding the naval station at Cayite,
dated Manila, Friday:
"Culgoa reports Charleston disap-
peared.''
The Culgoa was the relief ship sent
out from Hong-Kong. It is believed
at the navy department that the
Charleston has slipped down into deep
water from the steep bank on which
she was resting at the bow This re-