Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-02
Governor Of Philippine Pro-
vince on War Path.
Constabu|ary Aurrying TO Scene
And Battle Hourly Expected.
Washington Does Not Expect ANY,
thing Serious from Uprising.

Manila. Sept. IAN uprising against
the government is reported in the
province of Nueva Niscaya. con-
| stahulary force is hurrying to the
scene and a battle is expected hour
| ~ The rebel movement is headed by
Simeon Mandac. former governor OF
| the province of IlocoS Norte, who has
! long been a fugitive from justice.
Mandac occupies Solano, a town OF
about 5000 inhabitants northwest Of
| the center of Nueve Nizcaya and about
| five miles north of Bayonbong. The
| telegraph wires north OF Bayonbong
have been cut and it is impossible to
learn the number of Mandac's follow
erS.
Colonel TAYLOR at the head of the
constabulary at Bayonhong is prepar-
! ing for an attack and the conStabularN
forces from other points are moving
towards Solano with the purpose OF
surrounding the outlaws. Government
reinforCements are avallable shoulo
thew be needed.
Word of the trouble reached Mania
today. Mandac. while governor, sub
iected prisoner to third degree
examination of such severity that the
man died The governor was CON
victed of homicide and sentenced to
IA Years imprisonment. He appealed
from the verdict of the court an"
while the appeal was pending jumped
his bond. 1t was thought that he had
escaped abroad until today when an
official dispatch announced mat ne
had turned up at the head Of band
Of malcontentS Nueve Nizcaya is the
central province of Luzon and Bayou
bong is its capital.
Washington. Sept. 1.-The reported
disturbance in the province of NueNa
ViZcaya comes as surprise TO the
officials of the bureau of lnSular al
fairs and the other officers of the war
department. No intimation has reach-
cd Washington Of any general discon-
tent in this wild. sparSely settled prov
ince and it is believed here that IT was
a surnrise likewise to the officials in
the Philippines.
Diaicultv will be encountered in sup
pressing the uprising. according to the
views of the officials of the war depart
wont # Mandac's following is large.
Nevertheless it is expected here that the
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in which the scenes are laid, will be over
come quickly and the uprising quelled by
the constabuiary with little if any loss of
life
The fact that Mandac has taken his
stand in Solano. in the province of Nueva
Vjzcava, or or two hundred miles across
the mountains from his home in the pro-
vince of Ilocos Norte leads officials here
to believe that his followers are few.
Twice in the short period of his term
as governor of Ilocos Norte press reports
came to Washington of trouble in which
Mandac figured.
One report was that the governor who
was elected to office by small ma jor-
ity last January. had been found guilty
by a lower court of homicide and sen
fenced to imprisonment for IA years in
Bilibad The. case arose, it was said.
from an attack upon two prisoners under
at Laoag. the capital of the
province of Ilocos Norte. 1t was charged
that the governor had killed one of them
with a kick in the abdomen.
A few weeks later a report reached
Wash ington that Governor Mandac had
been guilty of the illegal detention of
several persons in Jail in his province
He was fined $500. according to the
port. Justice Trent of the supreme court
of the Philippines granted an Injunction,