Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-29
AN AMERICAN
LEADS FILIPINOS.
His Name David fagin, a Dese'''r
from the Twenty-Fourin
HIS MEN TOOK ALSTAEIlLR'
Capt Belgler, Attacked by Four 'i'"'
drcd insurgents, puts Ihe"
Rom with Great Loss

Manila. oct Pa clflilaN
towing a barge loaded with meI' '''''
disc near Arayat was attacked Wy @
force OF $50 insurgents under D'''l
Fagin. deserter from the I"'"''-
fourth infantry. The American u..'..
hearing the firing, turned OUT ia '''.
before the boat could be looIeu ""l
captured Fagin. who holds the ram ''
general among the insurgents ana WHO
has sworn special enmity towards hs
former company OF the twenty men
he captured a month ago seven nave
returned. one was killed In h.H4
his body being horribly mutilateu' fa'
gin sends messages TO his former COM
rades threatening them with FloieHes
II they become his prisoners II was
Fagln's men who captured Lieuienaa,
Frederick w Alstaetter who Us
prisoner
General Halls expedition, WIZ
force Of nearly 500 men, through The
mountains TO Blnangonan, province Of
Infanta. in pursuit Of the insurssnt
Cables, although It discovered no trace
of the enemy, encountered great hard.
ships on the march. Twenty Chinese
porters died and forty men were sent
into the hospital After stationing a
garrison Of $50 men In BlnanBunan
and visiting polillo island, or the coast
Of Infanta province. General Hall ana
the rest Of his force embarked there
on the transport GaTonne.
Reports from General Young's dis
trict show an increase Of insure 1is
there, owing TO the fact that recruits
are going thither from the towns.
While a detail of the Thirty-ihIri |
volunteer infantry was returning from |
Bangued, they were fired upon by In- |
surgents Sergeant Bearstaller being |
killed and two pHyates wounded.
While scouting near Loco a detach- |
ment Of the Twentieth and Twenty /
eighth regiments, under Captain Bel /
gler, We're attacked by 400 Insurgents. |
armed with rifles, under the command |
Of a white man, whose nationality s .
not known 10 the Americans The |
insurgents for the most part were iD- 4
trenched. After a heroic fight. Cap- /
tain Belgler drove off the enemy. El-
ing more than seventy.hye. The hght /
lasted FOR two hours. Captain BeIg'ar
and three priyates were slightly /
wounded and two Of the Americans |
We're killed.
An engagement took place Del a
between attachments Of the Third cav.
airy and the Thlrty-third volunteer In.
fantry, numbering sixty. and a force
n insurgents. including 400 rsaemrr !
and 1000 bolomen. The fighting was
desperate, Finally, under pressure %
numbers. the Amerir ans
were compelled 10 return on NarVlcar
Lieutenant George l.. Febler and
our priyates We're killed. nine wOunl-
% and four missing. Twentv.nlne
lorses are missing A number NJ :
eamsters We're captured by ,he IN.
urgents but were subsequently ~.
eased. The enemy's loss is estimate
It 100
Archbishop Chappelle. who recently
EFT Manila, accompanied by several
riars, for the northern districts m o
4uzon under conditions that oroi-si
he suspicious Of the Fiiplnos here fbaf
ie INTENDED TO establish the friars IN 10
n his arrival az Daugapan. Two 49,
ave elapsed since an opportunity f0r
e slo mas been presented More than
800 persons have been baptIzed
In view Of the protest of the norf.s 4
ealnSl inc appointment Of q friar as !,
aItsh president. Mr.. Chappelle did M, s
tempt 10 make It. }
The Philippine commission has a. :
49, ~ COMPILE the revised PhllIppqes {
ustUIns regulations with its own In. )
esukauohs' assisted by the report on ,
le aIsy poard. The result viii b Z
liWaraed TO the United States for pub. Z
yalloli ana discussion among those In.
1870 ~ foreign commerce. Wbar
~ uv'o"s appear 70 be satisfactory
nu ,he dratt has been approved by I
t,i secle.ery OF war the commlsli9n (,
III promulgate It here as a law
FlLIPNos ARE SENTENCED Is
Washington. Oct. 2S.-sIllitarv c,r
lsslohs IN the Philippines have ~.
Ivy lried score or more OF na Give d
illplhos on charges OF murder NJ, n
'rous assaults abduction. rape and
oidlloh OF the laws Of war In ,,5., or
sluhees the death penalty was .w. ''
'seu. aithoueh only IN two cases ,rss IA
aclualiy executed the Others 49,
Dor at haid
~ one one instance ice native organize =
mature lnsurrection and with q s,nsii +?
Nal VI iiplnos made an arne5 IN 3
1nt 'VWh OF Tuguegaro 10 ,s,'Sss \
ihe ul ms Fellows, who wers ~ Z
q 7V We snere by the United sp .ss : (
,nrIs 9S sentenced 70 hard labor and Z
i' , septanln 10, Tor thirty years and :
n wears yy"t Iva, was later conmutedVo I F..
.EcElPTs OF THE PHlLIPpryrs /
the '' PS NH net 2s-The .o,py :
onth Of h nense treasury fm he Z
le treasury Si nvE rsI,, 1900 were $50 ig
Onding month ~ iQaa Tue C0rre- X