Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-23

OF the F1l1p1no caplnet, Tue
appointed to cooperate
with Senores Florintino Torres. Pablo
Campo and Teodore Yanco, of Manila,
for the purpose of negotiating terms OF |
peace with the American commission
ers, reached Manila by special train
from Malolos at s:15 o'clock Saturday
The, party was met by Lieut.. Col. Bar
~, adjutant general, and conducted
from the train to the launch Captain
and taken to the palace at Galacanan,
and after breakfast were driven
through the city to the Ayuntamiente.
The party was closeted with Gen. Otis
for more than an hour, but the inter-
view was decidedly unsatisfactory, the
commission having nothing definite to
propose and being unempowered to ne
gotiate terms.
The commissioners brought COM
munication direct from Aguinaldo ask
ing for an armistice pending the deci-
sion of the Filipino congress as towhat
policy should be adopted.
AS before, Gen. Otis refused to enter
tain the proposition.
! The commissioners after leaving the
city hall accepted an invitation to visit
the Oregon and the other vessels OF the
American feet in the bay; and they
were also granted permission to see
their families before returning.
Expedition UP Rio Grande.
Manila, May 22.-Col Hobbies expedi-
ton up the Rio Grande river met with
no resistance except at the outskirts
of San Luis, where several hundred Fill
pinos were entrenched on the banks of
the stream. The rebels retreated be-
yond Candaba and the gunboats
steamed ahead, all the way training
their gatling guns upon the banks and
dropping shells wherever uniforms APP
peared on the shore. The gunboats dis
persed the insurgents before San Luis
After they had passed, sharpshooters
from trees across the river, a hundred
yards distant, harassed the Seven
teenth infantry, which was marching
by tours along the narrow wooded road
from which the troops were unable
to see the enemy. The members Of one
battalion lay on their faces in the road
for quarter hour trying to locate the
rifemen and return their fire. Two
Americans were wounded.
The road wound close to the stream
and was thickly settled. 1t was pic
turesque march. Many groups of hun
dreds of natives were clustered under
the trees on the opposite banks. dis
playing white shirts. towels, sheets or
anything white on poles. Some shout
ed welcomes to the American soldiers,
but most of them maintained sullen
silence.
troops two miles outside of the town.
He said: 81 have lived in England and
I have told the people that the Ameri-
cans are like the English and that they
need not be afraid"
Given a "Porto Ricnn" Welcome.
Capt. Grant, in command of the gun
boats, landed before the troops arrived
and met with porto Rican' welcome
The natives, who had assembled on the
shore, crowded about the Americans
with fulsome expressions of friendship
apparently half afraid that they woulc
be massacred.
Capt. Grant quickly distributed the
men from the gunboat Laguna de Bay
to guard the town; and the natives sen
messenger to tell the people who hae
taken refuge in the swamp to return
Hundreds of the natives thereupon re
turned timidly, man with an impro
vised flag of truce flying from BAN
boo pole preceding each party.
A Capuchin priest, one of the few
whom the Filipinos have not impris
oned, was found at Candaba. He sal
it was useless to try to convince the ma
tives that the Americans had not com
TO Cypress them, as they believed thei
leaders, who had strongly impresse
this belief upon them, and who hay
told stories of massacres, rapes an
Filipino victories. The walls of til
towns were placarded with reports &
the slaughter of Americans, hundreds (
whom were said to have been take
prisoners.
Natives Raid the Rice stores.
AS soon as Maj. Kobbe reached Sa
Luis the natives raided the insurger
rice stores. All day stream of hal
naked people emerged from the stor
house, in the manner of ants, rushin
to their homes with bags of rice @
their heads.
On Thursday night body of rebe
returned to San Luis and burned pa
of the town. Lieut.. Cunningham, wit
signal corps. party engaged in ru
ming telegraph line, was camped ne
the place. Maj. Kobbe sent the arm
gunboat Cavandoga there and foul
the party Saturday in the town.
The Rio Grande, since Maj. Kob
started, has been the highway for t
exodus Of the natives, and Saturd'
there was a continuous procession
thatched cascoes, with white flag
drifting down the river and containi1
whole families, of 90 or 80 persons, wi
their household goods and animals {
board. Thousands of these boats ha
passed the army gunboats.
Nebraska Troops Relieved.
The Nebraska regiment march,
from San Fernando to Calumpit Satu
day, for aO-days' rest. The regimel
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