Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1899 — WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

The fasargrats surereded fa Handing tea ■a thine guns at Capiz, on the is&Mid of Paway. McArthur's trosps are remstderalMy enervated by the beat and the faJsgw of the oonpaiga. The tasurgeuta of the province off Ctevfae are preparing to snake a desperate reahtaace to the Americans. Gen. Luna ansssed has army east off the railway, bringing up troops by trafafaads fa sight off the American fine*. A receenoairefag party. seat out by Gen. Lawton, discovered the fasnrgents ill loan, ly —trenched at Sun Hdefeaon, nfae miles north of Balfaag. Durfag the aflereoea off Monday Ge*. Mancuda, with a targe nffaae off officers, rede along the fine*. fkeqmtiy stopping to harangue Ssss' wartime. The transport Hancock, which sailed Cram Ban Francfaro April IS. carrying the Twenty-first infantry and Light Battrey E. First artillery, thirty*—e affirm and 1,451 eafisted asm. has reached JI»aata. « At dusk Tuesday a d-Mtariumrat of rebels irwrhed toward the wutposte of the Montana iitgfaw mt. but were sort by a hat fire Cresa the Montana regsssrat's fine. The faaanpents from trenches needy three mates tang reip— aled. Beam- Lopez, the Fifipfao agent in Lasdun. dfacredits the reports of the desire of the Fifipfaos to surrender. He says AgutaaMa is still fa supreme re—mend and conftrafficts the reported dmrioa of the Filipfao forces under Masrardo and Tfaaa The United States Fhafagine co—anisuto* has been esnridemg a provincial constitution for the island off Negro*. which Was Cra—ed by CaL Smith and tenduEg native*. The insurgents aawfastaatrd M. Dunariaa, a Frenchman, who had reo—td their fines under a flag off trace. He was nepstiatfag with the FWpfaus (hr the retaase of Spanish prfaam. The country between Sun Fesnando and Cbdwrepit is Mfiaguparith who irons, but who are a—pectad by many «C Wffisthy with the tasurertiou