Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1899 — General G. del Pilar Killed. [ARTICLE]

General G. del Pilar Killed.

Gen. Gregorio del Pilar, commanding Aguinaldo’s bodyguard, was killed by Maj. Peyton March’s battalion of the Thirty-third infantry in a fight eighteen miles northwest' of Cervantes. According to reports which Gen. Young obtained from escaped Spanish prisoners at Vigan several days ago, Maj. March left the coast, where he was pursuing Again aldo, and encountered Gen. del Pilar on a fortified trail. They fought for four hours, during which time seventy Filipinos were killed or wounded. The American loss was one man killed and six wounded.