Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1901 — Resort to Savage Warfare. [ARTICLE]

Resort to Savage Warfare.

Washington dispatch: AdjutantGeneral Corbin today received the following cablegram from Gen. Chaffee, dated at Manila: Lieuts. Feeler and Wetherell, nineteenth regiment, United States infantry, badly wounded by bamboo spikes in a pitfall near Carmen, Bohol. Feeter wounded in foot, Wetherill In thigh; operation necessary to extract sticks. Lieut Smith slightly hurt. First Lieut. George R. Feeter is a native of New York. He entered the army as a second lieutenant in May, 1899. Second Lieuts. Richard Wetherill and Ira A. Smith were appointed from the ranks in February last.