Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-18
FIGHT
NOT YET ENDED
Insurgents Attack a Town in
Luzon, but Are Quickly
Driven Away.
WAR STILL "oN" IN oEBU ISLAND
Two Hundred Rebels There Keep Busi-
ness on the Wane-BoOdle Plot
Exposed in Court.

Manila. April 1S.-Fifty insurgent
rif1emen attacked the town of Bay,
OH Bay lake in. Laguna province
southeast of Manila. The insurgents
were quickly routed. Lieutenant VIII
liam s. Nipes, of the Thirty-secOnd
volunteer infantry, has captured
bearer of dispatches from the insur-
gent general NOriel to General NAL
var. NOriel directed Malvar not to
surrender. saying he would send him
1900 recruits. money and ammunition
when Aguinaldo was released. Noriel
succeeded Trias in Southern LuZon.
A thousand troops in the island of
Cebu are unable to accomplish the sur
render or capture of the 200 inSurgent
Iifiemen who are still out. Colonel
McClernand says the terms the insur-
gents offered are impossible. OF the
fifty towns. ad Oxen of the larger have
been organized under military order.
The others are believed to have i'll
surgent governments.
Taft Puts 1t to the Citizens.
Judge Taft. addressing the conven-
ton at Cebu yesterday deplored the
fact that Cebu was the least pacitied
province. and called on the delegates
to decide whetehr 200 men would he
permitted to restrain peace and pros
perity or whether the ma jority would
organize and notify the mountain sulk-
ers to cease causing trouble. If the
people We're not ready to do this the
commission would not supersede the
military by civil control. The exhOr-t
tatiOn was not demonstratively re
ceived. The leading NiSayans from
the twenty-four towns represented
urged the organization of provincial
government. The island probably will
he organized as one province. The
population numbers 65OO00.
Plot of BoodIers Exposed.
The trial of Lieutenant Frederick
Boyer. charged With the embeZZlement
Of commissary stores. will be contin-
ued next Monday. The trial of the
civilian named Fletcher. accused of
the unlawful conversion of commits
sary stores, which was held before the
provost court yesterday. exposed a plot
to obtain cOmmiSsary supplies aud sell
them to the hotels and merchants OF
Manila.
At Il meeting of clergymen held in
Manila at which Bishop Warren pre-
sided. strong protests were made
against the opening of cock pits in
Manila. The business men OF the city
have also objected on the same lines
Military Officers Coming Home.
Brigadier General James +. Wade
and William Ludlow have arrived
here. General Wade succeeds Brig
adler General John c. Bates in COM
mand of the department of southern
Luzon. Brigadier General Bates. Rob
ert II. Hall and Frederick u. Grant
return to the United States.
Frauds Not Considered Serious.
Washington. April 1S.-Relative to
the alleged frauds of Manila it may
be noted that the opinion is general
here that the frauds will be found
TO have been confined to one or two
volunteer officers. and some of the
non-commissioned force. The officers
here are quite sure that none of the
regulars will come out of the investi-
cation with furnished regulations, and
the most they are prepared to admit
is that some of the regular officers of
the department may have been guilty
of overcontideuce and have leaned
upon unworthy supports.