The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-18
CORBIN IS IN MANILA
ADJUTANT GENERAL OF THE AR,1v
INVESTIGATING CoYDFTIoNs IN
THE PHILIPPINEs
HAD PLANNED Az MONARCHY
In 1898 the Leaders of the FiIipinos
Intended Having Kingdom of
Their Own, With a Heredi-
tary Nobility.

MANILA, July 17.-Adjt Gen. Corbin.
Surgeon General Sternberg and Joseph r
Wheaton, of the subsistence department.
will be rendered receptions at the head.
quarters in Manila of the division com
manders and Their STATS m
Adjt. Gen. Corbin said to q CORRESPOND
ent of the Associated Press that the chief
purpose Of his visit to Manila
was to get in closer touch with the serv-
! Ice in the Philippines and discuss tre
, subject of greater economy in the Phil
ippines. Gen. Corbin has been invited
to accompany the Philippine commits
sioners on a trip to the northern part Of
Luzon. Gen. Corbin will probably decide
to visit the southern islands of the arch:
peaago instead.
investigation into the case of Capt.
Andrew S. Rowan, Of the Nineteenth in
fantry, charged with burning a town of
the island of Bohol, failed to prove that
Rowan had ordered the town to be burn
ed. Responsibility for the destruction of
the town has not yet been fixed
The organ of the Filipino insurgents in
Madrid, Filtpinas Ante Europa and pub
lished in that city, had printed an order
from Aguinaldo, dated Panan. in Janu-
airy, which directs the execution of all
American prisoners. When questioned
about this order today, Aguinaldo said
Press that he had always been consider
ate of prisoners and denied the author
ship of the order in question. He said
that many orders had been issued by in
surgent military officers in his name
without his sanction.
PLANNED A MONARCHY.
American military officers have direct
information that in November, 1898,
the Filipino leaders contemplated estab-
fishing Filipino monarchy and nobility.
Filipino leaders when questioned regard
ing the matter refused to talk
An outline of the operations in the ISL
and of Samar has bean furnished the COR
respondent of the Associated Press by
Maj Noble, adjutant general of the de-
partment of the Visayas. According to
this information, over twenty points in
Samar have been garrisoned Although
there are no roads on the island, Gen
Hughes has penetrated into the interior
in all directions and has aScended the
various rivers. In these operations the
general was greatly aided by the navy
gunboats Paragua, Basco, Leyte and
Guardoqui, the Princeton acting as sup
ply ship to the smaller vessels. Gen.
Chaffee, acting on the recommended ION of
Gen. Hughes, has ordered the construc-
ton of several trails across the ISLANDS
to connect points now occupied by the ma
tives friendly to the Americans. The
influence of the insurgent general, Lu-
chan, who has long headed the revolu-
tiOn in Samar, has waned and none of
Luchan's various row ng bands possess
more than six or seven rifles.
Friends of the insurgent general NAL
var, who is still at large, have tele graph
ed former Insurgent Leader Tr las, now in
Manila, that Malvar is willing to sur
render to the Americans Brix Haelter-
man, a Belgian, has been sentenced to
be hanged, having been found guilty of
delivering money and supplies and ocher-
wise aiding and aoetting the Filipino i'm
surgents Upon the recommendation OF
Gen Wade Haeltermans sentence has
been committed to life Imprisonment.