Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1900 — FILIPINOS KEEP ON FIGHTING. [ARTICLE]

FILIPINOS KEEP ON FIGHTING.

Fifty Rebels Killer! in Numerons Battles They Started. A week’s scouting in northern Luzon resulted in fifty rebels being killed and forty wounded. One American was killed. Troops operating in North 1 locos burned six of the barracks belonging to Gen. Tino's forces and captured Tino’s correspondence. Gen. Tino with 200 of his men armed with rifles escaped. Near Manguiris the Americans attacked and defeated a large body of bolomen. At Angeles Gen. Aquino surrendered to Gen. Grant. At Turlac three officers and fifteen Filipinos armed with rifles surrendered to Lieut. Burns' scouts. At Pampango the rebels liberated a prisoner named Aiken, who was sick. He reports that Capt. Charles D. Roberts of the Thirty-fifth regiment is well. The Filipinos attacked the town of Bengued twice. The garrison succeeded in driving off the insurgents. The American Philippines commission is studying the approaching necessity for the substitution for army officers performing civil functions of civil service men, and has asked the Washington Government to semi- examiners to the Philippines to hold civil service examinations there at the same time as in the United States, with the idea of creating a Philippine civil service board. Prof. J. M. Stedman, professor of entomology in Missouri University, has been appointed by the board of curators of the institution to make a collection of entomological and other specimens for the university museum in southern Mexico. Cook Cox, Gray’s Village, Ky., killed John Engle. Quarreled over a horse trade. Patrick Oa'tens, Crescent Springs, Ky„ .was shot from ambush nnd fatally injured.