Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1900 — SIGNAL CORPS MEN LOST. [ARTICLE]

SIGNAL CORPS MEN LOST.

Members of Special Body Disappear in Philippines.

A Manila dispatch says that ten members of the signal corps under Lieut. Duffy have disappeared south of Vigan and are believed to have been taken prisoners by the insurgents, ffhe men were stringing wires south of Vigan to connect with a phrty under Lieut: Lenoir, who were constructing a line northward. When Duffy's men failed to appear a search was made and it Was discovered his. wires had been cut and telegraph poles destroyed. Aguinaldo's wife, sisters and eighteen . Filipinos haye surrendered to. Maj. March’s battalion of the Thirty-third infantry at Bontoc, province of that name. . Three Filipino bflicers also surrendered to Maj. March and, the-Filipinos gave up two Spanish and two American prisoners. The first movement of a general southern advance began when two battalions of the Thirty-nijith infantry landed and occupied t.'abnyao. on the south side of Laguna de Bay. Two Americans : were killed and four were wounded. Twenty-four of the enemy’s dead were found in hue house. One hundred apd fifty prisoners four siXTpounder rapid-fire guns won* raptured.