Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-11-22
aHD OF THE RAINY SEASON.
q Briggs Renewed Activity In the Philip
p~ines-Beths sides Actively
Engaged.

Manila. Nov. 1a-Last week wit
messed a very considerable increase in
Fepei and American activity in the
held. Many skirmishes occurred and
several small engagements in north
ern and southern Luzon. The termi-
sna1ion of h rains permits a resump-
ton of operations on both sides.
series OF Aggressive Movements.
The Americans are undertaking g
series of aggressive movements
against the insurgents, notably upon
the Island of SaTpar, against Gen.
Lukban, whose forces hold the entire
island with the exception of three
coast towns, each of which is gar
rssoned by two companies of the
Twenty-ninth infantry and a platoon
of artillery.
shooting Into G~arrisoned Towns,
The rebels are continually shooting
into the garrisoned towns, and our
forces have not been sufficient to re-
tai1ate effectively. Commerce in Sa-
mar has been at a standstill, and most
OF b influential inhabitants have de-
parted Gen. Hare has arrived there
with $50 men. He will bring eight
companies of the Second infantry
from the Island of Marindnaue, as
they may be needed, and will proceed
7energetically TO crush Gen. Lukban.
Meanwhile United States gunboats
viii patrol the coast to prevent the
escape of the insurgent leader.
Lukban still holds three members
Of the Forty-third regiment prison
ers.
b Martinique Ga~rrfsons.
All of the Martinique garrisons are
being continued. The Fourteenth in
fantry, which recently arrived from
China will relieve the Twenty-fIst in
fantry from duty in Manila, and the
Twenty-first will relieve the Thirty
eighth infantry in southern Luzon, the
Thirty-eighth infantry proceeding to
n Island of Panay to reinforce the
troops there. The Twenty-eighth in
fantry Will reinforce the garrisons in
the Island of Mindanao, particular
~ at KagayaD, where an armed truce
between the rebels and the Americans
has existed for months past.
d ReinfOrcements to Young.
Gen. Wheaton, commanding in the
Department of Northern Luzon, is
sending reinforcements to Gen.
Young's provinces, where the natives
under Gen. Tinio and Aglipay, the ex-
communicated Filipino priest, are
showing signs of restlessness, desert
ing the domiciles that they have occu-
pied during the rainy season, and
joining under ~compulsion of fear the
insurgents in the mountains.
Gen. Grants victory.
Notable among the weeks engage
ments was Gen. Grants advance with
Masabebe and American scouts upon
a rebel stronghold, 35 miles north of
Manila, which was defended by 200 in
surgents armed with rifles. After
skirmishing and fighting for the great
er part of a day and night, the enemy
was dislodged from the mountain
~fastness, and immense quantities of
rise and stores, with ammunition,
were destroyed. Fifty Filipinos were
killed and many others wounded. The
insurgents carried off their dead. The
American losses were IL privates and
one officer wounded and one Maecabee
killed.
Letter from an American Captive.
Lieut.. Frederick w. Alstaeter, of
the engineers, who was captured by
the insurgents in Luzon last Septem-
Der, has sent, with the permission of
his captors, a letter to Manila, ask
ing for food, money and clothing,
which will be forwarded tt him by a
native runner. His health is broken
and his release is problematical.
Macarthur Goes to Subig Bay.
Gen. Macarthur has gone TO Subig
bay with Admiral Remey on the Unit
ed States cruiser Brooklyn for the
purpose of examining the locality. 1t
is probable that 1,s00 marines now in
the Philippine waters will be used to
relieve certain army posts, rendering
the relieved soldiers available for 9TH
er and more urgent duties. 1t is I'M
derstood that Gen. Macarthur is on
sidcring the question of establishing
more marines in tho vicinity of Subig.
He is expected to return here m
row.
The Censorship.
Although news and commercial mes
sages between Manila and points in
America and Europe are no. subject
to censorship, all messages between
the Philippines and the orient are
censored as heretofore.