The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-23
WORK Of SOLDIERS
WHAT AMERICANS ARE DOING TO
PACIFY THE PHILIPPINES.
Four Rebels Killed, Several Guns
Captured and Barracks Destroyed
by Captain Parke and His Men.
PRAIcE FOR LIEUT.. TILFORD
WHO SURROUNDED AN INsURGENT
STRONGHOLD ON A HILL,
Killed Nineteen of the Enemy and
Took sixteen Rifles and Five Hun
dred Rounds OF Ammunition.
LIEUT.. HARTMAN IN LUCK
ENCOUNTERED THE REBELS IN SIN
PLACES AND LOST NO MEN.
Arrest of Two PriestIy COunterfeit-
ers-Native Civil Officers Found
to BE Guilty of Treason.
Killed Nineteen of the Enemy and
Took sixteen Rifles and Five Hun
dred Rounds OF Ammunition.
LIEUT.. HARTMAN IN LUCK
ENCOUNTERED THE REBELS IN SIN
PLACES AND LOST NO MEN.
Arrest of Two PriestIy COunterfeit-
ers-Native Civil Officers Found
to BE Guilty of Treason.

MANILA. Dec. 22.-Captain John S. Parke.
jr. with thirty men of the Twenty-first
infantry, encountered sixty insurgents last
week at AlaminOs. in Laguna province.
Four Of the enemy were killed. several
guns were captured and their barracks
were destroyed.
General Bell. who is in command of the
American forces in Batangas province,
Luzon. has praised Lieutenant James ID.
Tilford, who. while scouting with Troop
ID. of the First Cavalry, routed an insur-
gent force in that province. Lieutenant
Tilford located a rebel stronghold on top
OF hill near the town of Batangas. He
surrounded the enemy under cover of night
and attacked them at daylight. Their sur
prise was complete. Nineteen insurgents
were killed while attempting to escape.
Lieutenant Tilford captured sixteen rifles
and 500 rounds of ammunition.
A detachment of scouts of the Second
Infantry also had small engagement with
the insurgents in which they killed nine
men and captured four
Lieutenant John ID. Hartman, of the First
Cavalry. during an expedition. which last
ed several days. encountered the enemy
six separate times without losing one of
Two priests have been arrested in Bat
angas province. They are charged with
aiding the insurrection. They were found
TO have hidden behind the altar of their
church appliances for counterfeiting money.
They are charged with manufacturing sill
yer dollars TO pay the insurgent soldiers.
Inspector General Breckenridge has re-
turned to Manila from tour of the pro-
vinces.
Every effort to decrease the expenses of
the American army in the Philippine
Islands is having little effect owing to the
increase of army stations, due partly to
the activity of the insurgents on the
Island of Samar in Batangas and Tayabas
provinces and in other places and also
10 the establishment of municipal govern
ments ia many towns, which has necess-
itated the sending OF troops there 10 pre-
The public schools of Vigan in uosoc
province. LuZon, have celebrated the fete
day of Jose Rial, the Filipino patriot, who
was shot by the Spaniards. Seven hundred
school children marched in a procession
and were addressed by the Governor of the
province. who told them to kiss and bless
the American flag, which brought them
that liberty for which Rial had died.
The United States army transport Meade
has arrived here. She reports having met
a terrific typhoon Dec. 13 and Is, which did
some damage to her boats and flooded the
cabins and the hospital quarters, causing
great alarm TO those on board,
General Chaffee, speaking with the cor
respondent here OF the Associated Press
on the situation in the islands, said he
considered conditions In the Philippines to
be hopeful, and that by the end of Feb
ruary all the turbulent provinces will have
been pacified. General Chaffee excepts the
Island of Samar, however, which will prob
ably require some months longer. There
the situation demands a policy of rigid
starvation, food to be given out only TO
these who surrender who stay in the
towns. The closing of the ports in Laguna
and Batangas provinces, in LuzOn, has had
a most saIutary effect, as the measure has
resulted I'm touching the pockets Of the
Manila Fi!ipinos. who have been aiding the
insurgents. The former now anxious
for peace and are working to that end. In
order To hasten matters these Filipinos
will cooperate with the forces under Gen.
Bell in Batangas and Laguna.