Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1900 — FILIPINO BANDS ROUTED. [ARTICLE]

FILIPINO BANDS ROUTED.

Americans Severely Punish Insurgent] for Various Attacks and Atrocities, j The Filipinos who killed nineteen sol diets of the Forty-third infantry at Catil big, island of Samar, and had 200 ofl their number killed while assaulting th| heroic garrison, have been further puil ished. Maj. Gilmore of the Forty-thing with 100 men, chased’ the remainder c| the insurgent band to Pambajan, whera the Filipinos made a stand. They werl scattered by a series of charges, leaving 75 dead on the field. The Americans hail one man wounded. Chester Kennedy of Company F, Foil ty-fifth regiment, United States army, i| the Philippines, writes home that oiil soldier of his company who was kiltej was buried near by. The natives dug him up, cut out his heart and placed j on a pole, with a notice that all Amer] cans would be treated likewise if the! did not leave. The body was buried an] dug up again, and this time fed to th] hogs. The bones were recovered by th] soldiers, who were then sent to burn th] town and shock the natives, ten of whoil were killed. Capts. Elliott and France, with eight! men of the Fortieth infantry, have has an engagement with 500 insurgents fl Agtiian, near Cngayan, in the norther] part of Mindanao. The rebels lost fift;| two killed, and the Americans two killel and three wounded. The infantrymei captured thirty-one rifles and a thousanl rounds of ammunition.