Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1898 — WILL NOT RELEASE PRISONERS. [ARTICLE]

WILL NOT RELEASE PRISONERS.

Filippinos 'Will Not Cheaply Relinquish Dearly-Uoutrht Conquest*. The national assembly at Malolos, at a recent setting, voted Aguiualdo a civil list of $75,000, but Aguiualdo declined to receive anything until the army should (have been paid. An attempt wus made by IV ierno, rhe speaker of the house, to have bisected a clause granting him an allowance because of his office, but the proposal was rejected. The Spanish community is endeavoring to secure the enforcement of the release of prisoners. Personal investigations made in the province emphasize the determination of the insurgents to obtain a specific guarantee of favorable terms before releasing the prisoners now in tbeir hiunks, and it is certain that they will never cheaply relinquish their dearly bought (onquests.