Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1899 — TO TRAP AGUINALDO. [ARTICLE]

TO TRAP AGUINALDO.

Lawton and MacArthur Planning to Move North of Manila. While Gen. Schwan is engaged in scattering the Filipinos in Cavite province, Gens. Lawton and MacArthur are making preparations for an important movement to the north of Manila. Gens. MacArthur and Lawton will proceed to the north in the hope of trapping Aguinaldo and his forces in between the three columns. Gen. Schwan’s movement to the southward of Manila is merely in the nature of a demonstration for the purpose of scattering the insurgents who have intrenched themselves in Cavite province, the home of Aguinaldo and the nest of- the rebellion. Gen. Young entered Arayat Thursday morning, after half an hour’s fighting. Maj. Bachelor's battalion of the Twentyfeurth (colored) infantry charged 300 insurgents, who retreated in the direction of Magalang. The American loss was one man slightly wounded. Four of the enemy, were killed. Gen. Schwan’s column, which has been operating south of Manila, is resting at Peres Dasmarinas, after a fatiguing but unmolested march .through submerged rice fields from San Francisco de Malabon. Two hundred and fifty insurgents evacuated Peres Dasrnarinas before the Americans