Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1899 — CAPTURE OF ILOI[?]O. [ARTICLE]

CAPTURE OF ILOI[?]O.

American Ships Bombard and Troops Take lnsurj-ent i'troneliold. The Uuiteil States forces under Brig. Gen. Mller captured Iloilo, capital of the Island of Painty and scat of the so-called government of the Yisnyas federation, on Saturday after a bombardment. The rebels set the town on tire before evacuating it: but the American troops extinguished the flames. There were no casualties on the American sides <b'a. Miller, tin receipt of his instructions from Manila, scut native commissioners ashore from the United States transport St. Paul with a communication for the rebel governor of Iloilo calling on him to surrender within a time stated, and warning him not to make a demonstration in the interval. The rebels immediately moved final- guns and prepared to defend their position. Thereupon the Petrel tins] two warning guns, the rebels immediately opening tire on the gunboat. Tie- Petrel and Baltimore then bombarded the town, which the rebels, having set on fire, immediately evacuated. American troops were promptly landed and extinguished tin-fires in all cases of foreign property, Vuit not before considerable damage had been done. It is believed that the enemy's loss during the bombardment was heavy.