The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-04
DID THEY KILL AGUINALD0?
FILIPINO CHIEF is BELIEVED TO
HAVE BEEN SHOT.

*~ - AsA~h1As 1sAOAs
Body of u Filipino officer Removed
After voIley From Maj. March's
Men-He Was Shot From n Richly
saddIed Horse Upon Which Some
of Aguinaldo's Papers Were
Found-Hard and Persistent WORK
of March's Little Band.
Vigan. Luzon. June 2, via Manila, June
s,-Maj. March. with his detachment of
the Thirty-third Regiment. overlook what
is believed to have been Aguinaldos par
ty. on May 10, at Lagat, about one hun
dred miles northeast of Vigan.
The Americans killed or wounded an
onlcer, supposed to be Aguinaldo, whose
body was removed by his followers
Aguinaldo had one hundred men, Maj.
March 125. The American commander
reached Laboangan, where Aguinaldo
had made his headquarters since March 6.
on May 7. Aguinaldo had fed seven
hours before, leaving all the beaten trails,
and travelling through the forest along the
beds of streams.
Toward evening, May 10, Maj. March
struck Aguinaldo's outpost about a mile
outside of Lagat, killing four Filipinos
and capturing two. From the latter he
learned that Aguinaldo had camped there
for che night.
Although exhausted and half-starved.
Maj. Marchs men entered Lagat on the
run. They saw the insurgents scattering
into the bushes or over the plateau. A
thousand yards beyond the town, on the
mountain SIDE the figures of twenty-five
Filipinos dressed in white. with their
leader on gray horse, were silhuoetted
against the sunset. The Americans fired
volley and saw the officer drop from
his horse. His followers fed, carrying the
body.
The Americans, on reaching the spot,
caught the horse, which was richly sad
died. Blood from badly wounded man
was on the animal and on the ground
The saddle bags contained Aguinaldo's
diary and some private papers, includin
proclamations. One of these was address,
ed; ITO the Civilized Nations" 1t pro-
tested against the American occupation of
the Philippines. There were also found
copies of Senator Beveridge's speech,
translated into Spanish and entitled 1.-THE
ASotA tNhCal VI lllS lllpif1O GeOpl6.
still Followed Them Up.
Maj. March, believing that the Filipinos
had taken TO river, which Is a tributary
to the Chico, followed it for two days.
reaching Tiao. where. he learned that a
party of Filipinos had descended the river
May 20 on a raft with the body of a
dead or wounded man, upon litter COW
cred with palm leaves.
There Mai. March reviewed his COM
naNd ShOalags and al nd iolr-
ed out twenty-four of the freshest men,
with whom he beat the surrounding eoup-
try for six days longer but without find
ing any trace of the insurgents. The
Americans pushed on and arrived at Apar-
ri May 29.
The officer shot was either Aguinaldo
or his adjutant; and as the horse YVES
richly caparisoned, it is a fair presump-
ton that it was Aguinaldo.
The soldiers of Gen. Young, military
Governor of Northwestern Luzon, cap
tured early last month, an insurgent off,
Ger with papers revealing Aguinaldo's
whereabouts. Gen. Young Immediately
organized for pursuit, giving Maj. March
a chance to finish the work begun In
November. Maj. March left Candon,
May 10, hurrying north towards LAboa-
gan, while Col. Hare. with battalion
divided into two parts, started from
Rangued, province of Abra, covering the
trails westward. The garrisons in the
Cagayan valley were disposed in such
way as to guard the avenues of escape
eastward.
what Mai. March Learned.
Spies heralded the approach Of Maj.
March with signal fires. On reaching La
boagan, he apprehended letter in Agui-
naldo's handwriting, the ink Of which was
hardly dry, addressed to an officer of
guerillas of the Filipino army, and say
ing:
There having arrived this morning at
Laboagan a hostile column from Boxoc
] have set out with all my force. My road
has no fixed destination"
This was signed Col David" q SOU
briquet. Aguinaldo called at the pres
dencia, from which he issued a decree,
and where his followers celebrated Easter
with a banquet at a triangular table
when speeches we're made eulogiz ng
Gregoric del Pillar.
That night Maj. March's men slept in
the bamboo, resuming the advance in ihe
morning, and reaching Lagaf, forty miles
distant, in two days, although IL was
raining hard in the mountains all The
time.
Aguinaldo's papers are very important
They show that he took refuge In Isatea
province, where he remained until ne es-
tablished himself at Laboagan, province
of Abra, where he proposed to direct the
rainy season operations. Until recently
he was ignorant of outside events, m TX
ing no pretense of directing the insurrsc-
tion, happy il indeed he might be able %
keep alive among the hostile Igorrotes,
who killed several of his followers.
gr~W Il ~ ng vnJ