Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1908 — ELEVEN AMERICANS KILLED [ARTICLE]

ELEVEN AMERICANS KILLED

Philippines Governor Orders investigation of Wholesale Poisoning. Manila; Dec 22.—Governor Smith has dispatched a special commission to the district where eleven soldier* died after drinking a corrosive poison served to them as “beno,” a native drink. The men who died are: John Duffy, Edward C. Clark. Thomas W Bing and Cbesley Delaney of Company L. Eighteenth infantry, and Otto Kuppe, John J. Phelan, Frank L. Smith. James B. Curtis, Sam A. Bramel, John O. Corbell and William Nicholas of Company M, Eighteenth Infantry. It Is reported that there had been trouble between the Filipinos and the Americans and that the proprietor of the stand at which was served the deadly beverage had sworn to do harm to the soldiers for their failure to pay promptly for tobacco, oranges and mangoes.