The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-04
AGUINALDO
RECEIVES HIS
DEATH WOUND.
naicer Shot by Members Of the
Thirty-Third Infantry, suppos-
cd to be the Insurgeut Leader.
HIS SADDLE BAGS CAPTURED.
Contained a Diary Of the Filipino
eeneral-Party Escape on a Raft.
Effort to Capture Him,


y1GAN, Luzon, June 2, Via MANI
IA June s.-Major March, with his de-
,achmpnt Of the Thirty-thlrd regiment.
overlook what is believed to have been
Lpulnaldo's party. on May 10, at La
cat about one hundred miles north
sost of yIgan. The Americans killed or
wounded an officer, supposed to be Ag-
uInnldo, whose body was removed by
his followers.
Agulnaldo had one hundred men.
Major March 1875. The American COM
mander reached Iaboagan. where Ag-
ulpaldo had made his headquarters
since March 8, on May 4. Aguinaldo
bad fled seven hours before, leaving all
the beaten trails and travelling through
the forest along the beds of streams.
Toward evening May 10, Major March
Struck Aguinaldo's outpost about a
mile outside of LagRt, killing four Fill
ipinos and capturing two. From the
latter he learned that AguInaldo had
camped there for the night.
Entered Lagat on the Run.
Although exhausted and half starved,
Major March's 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 a gray
horse, were sllhouetted against the
sunset. The Americans fired a yolley
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 q badly wounded
man, was on the animal and on the
ground. The saddle-bags contained
Aguinaldo's diary and some private
papers. including proclamatlons. One
OF these was addressed;
Filipino ohisftain's Proclamation.
ITO the civilized nations"
1t protested against the American oc-
cupation Of the Philippines. There.
were y also POUND copies Of Senator Bev-
er!dge's speech. translated into Span
ish and entitled:
THE death knell OF the Filipino peo-
pie"
Major March believing that the Fill
pInos had taken to river which is a
tributary to the Chico, followed 1t for
two days, reaching Tiao, where he
learned that q party of FilIpinos had
descended the river May 20, on raft,
with the body Of dead or wounded
man upon u litter covered with palm
leaves.
There Major March reviewed his COM
mand. shoeless and exhausted and
picked out twenty-four of the freshest
men, with whom he beat the sur
rounding country for six days longer,
but without finding any trace of the
Insurgents. The Americans pushed on
ana arrived at Apart May %.
Either Aguinaldo or His Adjutant.
The officer shot was either Agulnaldo
or his ndjutant; and as the horse was
richly caparlsoned, 1t Is fair presump-
tion that 1t was Agllnaldo.
The soldIers Of General Young, mill
tary governor Of Northwestern Luzon,
captured early last month an insurgent
officer with papers revealing Aguinal-
dos whereabouts. General Young i'm
mqdlately organized for pursuit, giving
Major March chance to finish the
work begun in November. Major
March left Candon May 10, hurrylng
north towards Lnboagnn, while Colonel
Hare, with battalion divided into two
parts. started from Rangued province
OF Abra, covering the trails westward.
The garrlsons In the Cagayan valley
we're disposed in such way as to
guard the avenues Of escape eastward.
Spies Herulded His Approach.
Spies heralded the approach of Major
March with signal fires. on reaching
Laboasan, he apprehended letter in
Aguinaldo's handwriting, the ink Of
which was hardly dry. addressed to an
officer of guerrlllas OF the Filipino
army and saying:
There having arrived thfs morning
at Labongan n hostile column from
Bokoc, have set out with all my
force. MY road has no Axed destIna-
ton"
This was signed Colonel David" a
SoubrIquet.
Celebrated Easter With Banquet.
Agulnaldo called at the presidencia,
from which he Issued decrees and
where his followers celebrated Easter
with a banquet at a triangular table
when speeches were made euloglzlng
Gregora de Pillar.
That night Major Mnrch's men slept
IN the bamboo, resumlng the advance in
The morning md reaching Lagat. forty
miles distant, in two days, although It
vas raining hard In the mountains all
the time.
AguInaIdo's papers are very import
mt They show that he took refuge In
Isabella province. where he remained
until he established himself at habon-
gan. province OF Abrn, where he pro-
posed to direct the raining season oper-
ationB. Until recently no was ignor-