Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1899 — MAY USE THE TORCH. [ARTICLE]

MAY USE THE TORCH.

Philippine Kobe's Threaten to Barn the City of llello. CoL Potter, special emissary of Gen. Otis between Manila and Iloilo, arrived ill Manila with dispatches. When he left Iloilo the streets of the city were barricaded, and it waa reported that the principal buildings had been “kerosened,” the insurgents having threatened to destroy the whole business section by fire at the first shot of bombardment. The banka were shipping their treasure to the United States transport Newport and other vessels. The family of the American viceconsul had gone on board the Newport. CoL Potter reports that President McKinley’s proclamation had to be typewritten aboard ship, as the printers on shore declined to do the work, and when the text of the proclamation was read to them ridiculed the notion that conciliation was posable. Both sides, Col. Potter says, have been impressing the local shipping for military purposes and the Francisco Reyes has landed 530 natives. The foreigners were taking refuge on the British cruiser Bonaventura. Public demonstrations were held in Pampangas province in ratification of Agninaldo’s proclamation, and the excitement was intense. A Washington correspondent asserts that Felipe Agoncillo is talking so much and with such braggadocio that he may be expelled from this country. In view of his activity to date there is a disposition on the part of some influential Senators, well versed in national and international law, to introduce and adopt a resolution providing for his expulsion Agoncillo, according to their complaint, has filed a protest with the peace commission against the cession to the United States of the Philippines by Spain; he has offered his credentials as Philippine minister to the State Department; he has filed a demand for the recognition of Philippine independence; he has been communicating news of all kinds to Aguinaldo, and by so doing has stirred up resistance to United States authority in United States territory, and has uttered public denunciations of United States governmental action. The last two counts are regarded as valid grounds for the adoption of the suggested resolution. If Agonrillo's advice to Aguinaldo results in bloodshed at Iloilo there is no question as to what will be done with the dnsky envoy.