Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1899 — WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

The rainy season has begun. Gen. Lawton, with the main body of his troops, reached Malolos Wednesday. The Oregon and Minnesota volunteers have returned to Manila for a needed rest A typhoon prevented the sailing for the United States of the California volunteers. For some days past the rebels near San Pedro Macati have been engaged in building new trenches. Twenty insurgents were killed and forty wounded in the engagement with Maj. Bell’s scouts west of Bacolor. Brig. Gen. Williston has relieved Gen. Hughes as provost marshal of Manila. Gen. Hughes will go to the Visayan Island. Majors Guison and Mapua, two members of the Filipino general staff, stole through the American lines and surrendered. At Maraquina, the Colorado volunteers had a brush with the enemy, whom they dispersed with severe loss. One Colorado volunteer was wounded. At Santa Rita, west of Bacolorfi Bell’s scouts met a small force of the enemy and drove them to the north after a brief fight. Three of the scouts were wounded. The Spanish newspaper Oceania, which has recently published articles objectionable to the military authorities, has been suppressed. The editor is in jail. A raft, which was being used to transport the Twelfth infantry across the Pasig river, was overloaded and sank in midstream. Five of the soldiers were drowned. Detachments from the Twelfth United States infantry and from Idaho volunteers dashed out from their lines and drove the insurgents away after a fierce fight. Two of the Americans were killed and two wounded. The insurgents’ loss was heayy. During the last month Gen. Lawton has fought twenty-five engagements, lost six killed and thirty-five wounded, two men dying from their wounds. He has taken 1,000 prisoners. Civil government, under his direction, has been established at San Miguel Balinag and San ftidro. Gen. Lawton’s rear guard, consisting of detachments of the Third and Twenty-sec-ond infantry, while escorting the signal corps from San Miguel to Balinag, had a running fight for the whole distance of ten miles. The Americans lost one man killed and one officer and fourteen privates wounded. They captured twenty of the insurgents. Gen. Lawton says he is convinced from evidence found at San Isidro that American prisoners in the hands of the Filipinos, particularly the captured men of the Yorktown, have been subjected to outrageous indignities. The Newport arrived at Manila Tuesday without casualties. The Newport sailed from San Francisco April 20 with fifteen officers and 260 enlisted men of the marine corps of the navy for the garrison at Cavite, also light batteries F of the Fourth and F of the Fifth artillery; eight officers and 228 enlisted men under «mbr«nd of Maj. Tiernon.