BR meee LAWTON IN HOT OHA _— Driving the Insurgents Into the Mountains. IS OPENED. pa RAILROAD Maj. Koih's Expedition to Re lnforce the Troops at the Front Marching Up the Rio Grande—Army Gunboat Disabled on Laguna Bay by a Shot from a Rebel Cannon— Repairing Bridges, Manila, Philippine Islands, (By Cable.) Maj. Kobbe's column reached Ban Luis, eight miles up the Rio Grande, meeting with but slight opposition. Cas man was wound- ed during a brush with the rebels. At day- break the Americans began a further ad- vance toward Candaba, about six miles up the river beyond San Luls, The insurgents along Gen, MacArthur's front evacuated their positions during the night time, presumably moving farther up the raliroad. The Twenty-third Infantry bas sailed on the transport Leon XIII for Jolo Island to relfeve the Spanish garrison there, Geo. Lawton’s advance guard, under Col, Summers, of the Oregon troops, took Ban Isidro, the insurgent capital. Col, Summers’ command, consisting of the Twenty-second Infantry on the left, the Minnesota Regiment in the center, and the Oregon and North Dakota Regiments on the right, and accompanied by Boott's battery of artillery, advanced from Baluarte at day- light. The troops first encountered the ene- my two miles from San Isidro, the rebels retiring when our artillery opened fire, Just outside the town a rebel force, estimated to cumbér 2 000 men, was intrenched. It made a slight resistance, but evacuated its posi- tion when our troops turned its right flank, The enemy's loss was fifteen man killed and twenty wounded. Our troops also cag - tured three prisoners and many rifles, Oa the American side one soldier, of the Oregon Regiment, and one of the Minnesota Regi- ment were slightly wounded. After capturing the town Col, Summers’ troops contioued their advance, pursuing the retreating rebels for several miles, Although the rebels still threaten San Fer- nando in considerable {orce, large numbers of natives, a majority of them being families with thelr household goods, are returning dally to the towns inside the American lines, at Apalit especially, Many of the richer Filipinos are coming to Manlls, and laborers are resuming work in the rice flelds. The latter show their re- speot for American soverelgaty by removing their hats to the passing trains, Owlog to the bad condition of the wagon roads, the work of repairing the raliroad is being actively pushed. All the broken bridges bave been trestied and only a few excavations remain to be fliled up. Tralos will undoubtedly be runpiag through to San Perpando in a few days. The only natives there are some Filipinos from Macabebe, who are trading with our soldiers, At daylight Lieut. Hill, who, with twenty- five men, of the Fourth lofantry, was con- cealed In the trenches near Pasig, was at- tacked by a force of rebels, who evidently imagined they could capture one of our out- posts, because only a few shots had been fired by the American forer, A few volleys put the enemy to flight, the rebels losing five men killed and a number of wounded, The army gunboat Napingdan bas returned here frow the Jake, having been disabled by a cannon shot from a rebel position, near Santa Cruz, which broke ber rudder post. The expedition under Maj. Kobbe, of the Third Artillery, consisting of the Seventesnth Infantry, a battalion of the Niath, asd one battery of the First Artillery, left Calumpit at daybreak, marching up the Rio Grands, to join Gen. Lawton's divicion, at Arayat, A flotilla of cascoes, loaded with suppiles, aiso proceeded up the river. Both forces were ecnveyed by the gunboats uuder Capt. Grant, Aguinaldo’s ex-Seeretary, Escamillo, who was arrested here on February 23, Is now employed as official isterpreter by the authorities, HAULED DOWN AT ILOILO, First Filipino Fiag Captured Received st Navy Department. Washington, D. C., (8peeial.)-The first geoulne Filipino flag to be eaptured during the present insurrection has resched the Navy Department. The flagis interesting for several reasons, but mainly Lecause it was a subject of controversy between the army and pavy officers. It was captured st Iloilo by Lieut. A. P. Niblsck. The fnserip- tion reads: “Fiug of issurgent Filipinos, eaptared at fort at Lioile, P, L, by landing party from U. 8. 8B. Boston and Petral, con « manded by Lieut, A. P. Niblack, U. 8. X _ February 11, 1899.” Gao. Miller, in command of the troops at Ilollio, demanded the flag, but waa refused. it Is about tweive feet Muy, and wes origin. ally try-colored red, white, and biue-—be- ing composed of a white triangle on the staff, with the broad upper strips of blue sud jower of red, DEAD ENGINEER IN CAR, Train Was Speeding Ahead, Bat the Five: man Went to the Rescas, + Stillwell, Ga., (Special. )— A passenger train on the Florida Central sod Peninsular Railroad eame fn here with Engineer Bail dead at the throttle, Fireman Edward Washington, when the train was a few miles from Stlliwell, noticed the engineer's head banging out of the cab window. As the train, well laden with passengers, neared Suliiwell, the engineer did not change bis position, Then the fireman suspected that some. thing was wrong and took hold of the ene gineer, The iatter fell back and the fireman saw be was dead, with a gaping wound on bis head. Then the Ocoman took charge of the train, The theory Is that the engineer was struck by the pips of 5 water tank at a station ten miles distant, FATAL FIGHT BETWEEN WOMEN, bh Mrs, Covington Stabs One of Her Assail- ants to Death and Wounds Another, an extraordinary tragedy at Haynes Mill, near Tiptonviile bas just reached here. Three women, a Mrs. Mattox, Mrs, Ed. aries ad and attacked riding wheren pe the latter drew a knife and stabbed Mrs, Mattox through the heart, Mrs then THE NEWS, Joseph Jackson, eolored, was banged at Charlotte, N. C., for raps committed on a young white girl last September, The Brotherhood of Railway Tralomen at New Orleans re-elected Grand Master Morrissey and other officers and selected Milwaukee as the next meetiog place, A quantity of damaged merchandise from the wrecked steamer Fairfax, of the Mer- chants and Miners’ Line, was sold at public auction at Boston, About 7060 bales of cot- ton, all saturated, realized £11,000, “Doe” J, W. Hamliton, aged sixty years, ope of the oldest and best-known bookmak- ers and turfmen in the United Btates, hav. ing sold pools on almost every race track in the country, died at San Antonie, Tex., of dropsy. The convention of the American Foundry- men's Association adjourned at Pittsburg alter electing officers, Including J. 8. Bea- mon, of Pittsburg, as president and J. P. Golden, of Columbus, Ga., ns Southern vice- president, The terms of all officers of the city of Corry, Pa, ran outin April. As the com. mon counell has kliled the appropriation ordinance, the mayor threstens to dismiss all municipal employes, leaving the city without water, electric light, police or fire- men. St. Paul captured the next session of the Grand Divislos, Order of Rallway Conduo- tors, at the last session of the twenty-seventh convention of the order, which just ended at Detroit, Mich. E. E. Clark, of Cedar Rapids, was elected grand chief! conductor, Russell Sage bas given 850.000 to the Women's Hospital, which fs about to erect a $400,000 buildisg In New York, Mrs. Bage has long been interested in the hos pital, Rev, Dr. BR, F. Sample, of New York, was elected moderator of the General Assembly of the Northern Presbyterian Conference, which is meeting at Minneapolis, Three of the largest lamp shimaey manu- facturers in the world bave been merged into one company at Pittsburg. Admiral Sehley, while in Chieago, on his way to Owaba, said that Dewey is the hero of the navy as well as of the people. There was a time, before dining cars be- came a fad, that the Baltimore and Oblo latiroad’s “Queen City Hotel" at Cumber- land, Md., was notad for its service and cuil- sine. In latter years the reputation deelined as few travelers partook of sustenance at the long tables in the big diolog room, Bat an effort is to be made to restore the reputa- tion of the seventies and eighties, and the hosteiry lias been placed in charge of I. N. Shattuck, who has been dinlag car superin- tendent of several big westere’ roads. Cone siderable money will be spent on the hotel and ft will again try for first-class patronage. Twenty-two members of the Olympin's erew, whe fought at Manile acd were dis. obarged from the Haleigh, are on their way to Ban Francisco to re-snilst and return to the Philippines, Wichits, Kao. is without street car ser- vice, In accordance with a decision by Judge Dale, declaring the street cars publie nuisance the cars quit runaiog, the lease of the present company haviag expired. It is sonouneced that Admiral Dewey, President Dias, of Mexico, and Lord Minto, Governor-General of Canada, will stisod the laying of the corner stone of the pew postoffioe In Chicago October § and will meet President McKinley, The Methodist ministers of Atlanta, Gs. passed resplations calling for the appoint ment of a committee to urge upon the forih- coming annual conference 8 movement for an extra General Conferonce to reconsider the Publishing House matter, the disposi. tion of which, it is alleged, Is not satisfne- tory. Students st Princeton attacked a parade of Pawnee Bill's Wild West show and a pitehed battle took piace, ln which many wers injured, The Bouthern Baptist Convention, in ses. sion at Loulsville, Ky., selected Ex-Mayor Robert C. Davidson, of Baltimore, to Pin a delegation of English Baptists in a personal appeal to the Czar ia behalf of the persecut- ed Russian Baptists, After this week no miner inthe Cour D'Alene district of Idabo will be permitted to work there unless he rencunces member. ship in the anion that Is held responsible for the present strike, The steamer Dauntless, formerly famous as a flilbuster, was released by the United Htates Court at Jacksonville, Fis, In the case of Halael Ortiz, a native of Porto Rico, who was found guilty of the murder of Private John Barke, Company C, Forty-seventh New York Hegimest, at Cag- uas, Porto Rico, on February 24 last, and whose sentence of death was commuted to imprisonment for iifle, the President bas directed that be bs confised in the Minnesota Htats prison, at Stillwater, The organization of the Paulding County (Ga,) Cotton Mills bas been perfected. The officers are: E. Davis, president; B. T. Drake, vice-president; W. Z. Spinks, secre tary; R. P. Gann, treasurer, The company will erect a cotton factory and cottonseed ofl mill. It is proposed to do the work en- trely with home capital, Citizens of the town and county are subscribing liberally, The Derwind White Coal Mining Com pany, which has mises in Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson, Cambria asd Somerset counties, Pa., and which is one of the largest pro- ducers of bituminous coal in the world, has notified its employes of an increase in wages, to go Into efloet June 1. Miners will re- ceive 50 cents a ton for pleking and 25 cents a ton for loading after machines, NEW KIND OF WAR CLAIMS, Vessels Want Damages for Being Held Up by the Blockade, Washington, D. Q., (Bpecial, )The State Department has bad presented to it the first claim for damages on account of the opera~ tions of our bioekading vessels during the inte war. This is the claim of the owners of the British ship Nickerson, which sailed from Kingston, Jamaloa, with a cargo of food supplies for Cuban ports just before the blockades was declared. She was seized by the Hornet, but was discharged by a prize court, The claim fs for $0,000, on nceount of detention and minor losses, If this is found to be sound, the Department of State will be obliged to submit estimates for payment of such claims to the next Con. grese, for there Is no authority of law for thelr payment at present. FOREIGN AFFAIRS, The papal bull, declaring a universal jubl- les in 1000, was promulgated in Rome, Dr, Soll, the new muuloipal president of Ain, Samos, has arrived there The Arab rebels in Yemen have loreed the Turkish army to retreat, \ Ambassador White and Baron Von Baslow Washington, DD. C., (Special, )-—~Assistant Beeretary of the Treasury Vanderlip, as chairman of the Admiral Dewey Home Fund Commliitee, is busily engaged in making preparations for the systematic bhandliog of subscriptions, The plan to present the Hero of Manila Bay with a Washington residence is receiv- log much popular support, The commitice Laving the matter in charge consists of As sistant Secretary Vanderlip, United Btates Treasurer Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasurer Allen, First Assistant Postmaster General Heath and Adjutant General Cor- bio, The Governors of all the Btates will also be members of the committee, The funds will be taken in charge by Treasurer Hoberts, The committes in this city met and deeld- ed to Issue subscription books at ones, The Bureau of Printiog and Fograviog will fur- nish handsome receipts at cost prices, and the nmonut of bis donation and have a neat souvenir to preserve, than §100,000 will be contributed, Grent Popular Enthusiasm, Chalrman Vaoderiip is confident of most generous and hearty response, ‘The idea is meeting with so much popular favor,’ said Mr, Vanderiip, “that no trouble will be experionesd in raising any reasonable amount, Since the proposition was sug- gested and the appointment of the commit- tee made publis we have recelved hundreds of ietters on the subject, The enthusiasm Is not loeal, loquirles coming from the Nazth, South, East and West, BSome estimaie of the enthusinsm kindled by the suggestion may be gathered from the amount of correspondence of the subject, 1 have been busy opening letters the entire day. Bome patriotic orgasizations have al- roady offered to make Inrge coniributions, The amount necessary to build a jalace could, in my opinion, be easily raised were it the desire to erect one for Admiral Dewey, “Iu regard to the matter of limiting the amount of subscriptions, which is a question that bas been asked me many times, | see no necessity for so doing. Let the subserip- tions come in, the more the better, The fuad should be at least §100,000, But thie does pot iar the small subseriber to this movement to pay tribute to Admiral Dewey, and the deed of trust will contain the name of ench doner, no matter what the smoont may be, “So far as I am aware now the selection of the site and construction of the house will ba lef: until the Admiral can be consulil- ed. He bas not been notified by the com. mittee or in aay other way of the tribute that is to be paid bim by the American people. Atl] can say for the committes at present is that it is ready to receive contri butions, and as soon as any piace ars form- ed they will be given to the public.” Address to the People, Wasbingron, D, C., (Special )--The na tional commitions of the Dewey Home Fond, oons'sting of Frank A, Vanderlip, assistant secretary of the treasury; Charles H. Allen, sen stant secretary of the navy; Brigadier General Hoary O. Corbin, Perry 5. Heath, first as'sinnt posimanter general, and Ells H. Boberts, tressurer of the United Stat s, have Lian followlog address to the people of ti United States 3 prope are anxious to do Dewey. Thelr zeal hss { invitations to banquets in of esinbrations, Obviously, it will bim to attend all the bas. ght be invidious to select ons or a few for the honor of his pressnes, The common { our countrymen does not find suitable expresdon for Its admira- tion and rateem for our great naval hero in methods effervescent and transient, “A grateful nation rannot do better than provide liveraily for Adwiral Dewey's con. fort la a home Gtted to his tesies, worthy, in some measare, of his services, asd indlea- tive, fo a smail degree, of the gratitude which Is not of a day, but of all time, A popular sut scription will afford all the priv. lege to join in such & testimonial, in whieh patriotism will havea monument, “The eareer of Admiral Dewey ic 8 part of our national history, a glorious chapter in the magnficent record of the recent war with Spats, Not in ourown conntry alone, but in all the world, bis name is emblazoned with those that shail not die, His services all know in part—ihe future will add to ap preciation of his greatness, to the solidity and brill wney of his fame, “On bis retara from the scens of his vie- tories and bis statesmanship the official duties of Admiral Dewey will be performed in Washington, He should have a home there. The national espital cannot fall to have attractions for bim in the present and the fatare., For a winter residences during bis life he can hardly flod a more desirable pince, It is for a home for Admiral Dewey in Washiogton that subscriptions are in. vited, “Saggestions to this general effect Have been put forth io several quarters, Assur- ances have been conveyed to the under. signed that the general enthusiasm ean be directed into a single current through thelr agency as a national sommittes, Each of us, busy with manifold occupations, necepts os 8 doty not to be set aside the task of or. ganizing the popular muniflcenes for this purpose, and of administering the patriotic trust for a Dewey home fund, “Habserigtions may be sent at once to the treasurer of this fund atthe Treasury De partment, Washington, D. C. Temporary receipts will be promptly returned, apd we Boon as It can be prepared a doplicate of the sama date and number, bearing a fine por. trait of Admiral Dewey, will bs forwarded to avery subtseriber, “Immediate response will enabis the na- honor to taken the form « many diffe rados and impossible for quets, and it x ent oiliew, r dispiaye, be sofks tional committe to convey to Admiral Dewey, ns soon as he lands, practical evi- dence that the American people have pro- vided for him a home at the nation’s cap- ital, "The committees invites the newspapers of the country and the governors of ail states to co-operate in thls movement.” BROOKE TO PAY CUBANS, Change of Plan Owing to Position Taken by Gomez. Havana, (By Cable,)-Gen. Maximo Gomer informed Gov. Gen, Brooke that be must withdraw from the plan for distribut. { lng the $3,000,000 appropriated to the pay- | ment of the Caban troops to the extent that | he will not name other commissioners to re. | piace those originally named by him, who | have refused to serve, Gov. Gen, Brooke is to go ahead with & naw plan, Gomez remalning io an attitude of friendly inactivity, Gen, Brooke will lssue ap order for Cuban privates and non-commissicned officers to | meet at specified places on specified dates | to receive payment. They are to be secon - | panied by their company officers for the ! purpose of identification, Both Gep, Gomes and the Governor Gen- eral feel that the privates ought not 1o lose thelr share in the American gratuity merely because the schemes of certain bigh officers in the Cuban army have interposed obatucies, Gen, Gomez bas written a history of his relation to the army payment question, It includes the correspondence that bas passed between himself apd the Governor General, and it Is Intended to make his position clear to the publie and to contrast his conduct favorably with that of the other Cuban jead- ers, led by Gens, Hodriguez, Manuel gully, Juan CGaulberto, and other Bat officers against him, apparently. Gen. Brooke in an interview, which tinued for an hour and a half General was attended by Col. Carlos Ces- pedes, son of the former Cuban President of that name, who bas candidate for the Presidency of Cuba, Gen, Brooke expressed sympathy with Gen, Gomez aud sald be regretted the posi. tion he bad taken, but, the American com- mander added, if bis decision was snechange. abies he would proceed to deal with the ques. tion alone, Gen. Brooke is determined not to be trifisd with, A floreibis disarmamect of the Cuban troops will be the ultimate procedure, pro- vided the events of the next two or three wosks show that such action Is necessary BOASTFUL AGUINALDO, The Situation ss Dmseribed ‘an a Cable gram to Filipino Junta London, Esg., (By Cable. )—The Filipino junta here has received the followiog mes sage from Aguisaido, eabled from Hong Kong: decided to continous the war, at all costs, until independence is secured, Americas peace overtures, based on re stricied autonomy, coupled with promises of subsequent seil-government, “The Filipinos demand a strict fulfilment of the articles of the American Constitution and treaties contracted by the American representatives when imploriog a Filipiso siilanee in combating the Spaniards, “All the Filipino Generals support Agui- nalde, Gen. Lana's reported overtures for peace are untrue. Our army is near Manils, can Hue, The heat and ralss are causing many casuaities in the Americas Army. All ihe hospitals are crowded with sick and wounded. Four bundred of the Cincinoat! regiment have been imprisoned by Gen, Otls for insubordination In refusing to fight. The regular troops quartered in Manila and other towns are quiet. The woluntesrs are abused and scanty rations asd Europeans is general.” CYCLONE IN THE WEST, Damage Reported Throughout Nerth western Ohio and Pennayivania, Akrow, O., (Special. )-A cyclone struck this city and did mush damage. The storm struck the tents of Maln’s Circus, and they coliapsed upon the crowd, Policemen had hard work to prevent a panies, hut the spec. tators were floally released without injury, Iu East Akron the Biggs Boller Company shops were badly damaged and a portion of a stone wall teil upon the office roof, crash. ing through it and completely wreckiog the tuterior, The shops of the Akron Sewsr.Pipe Con - pany siso suffered beavily., More than 150 feet of the malin buliding wis blown dows and three men were slightly Injured. Other shops and Lulldings about the city were damaged more or less and many trees were destroyed. Carriages were overturoed Ip ihe street and awnings were torn away. Behoothooes Wrecked, Canal Faitor, 0., (Special,)~ During the storm the wall of a seboolhouse was biown in and the pupils were injured, some of them quite seriously. Four scholars were buried beneath the debris of bLrick and wooden beams, They were extricated by fhe teacher, Charged with His Danghiter's Murder, _ Bentonville, Ark, (Special. )-J1. C. But ler, a prominent eitizsen living eighteen miles south of this place, has been lodged in jal here, charged with fhe murder of his Altesn-your-old daughter, The girl's head was spilt open with an ax and hor throat cut, Killed by Lightning. Dubols, Pa, (Special, )-Willlam Mackeye, aged 17 yoars, was killed by lightning at Brookville daring a terrific storm. The boy bad sought shelter In an outhouse during the storm and the bulldiog wasstrack, The storm did great damage ja. 50 Way of ups ing tele and telephone wires, Fatal PIELD OF LABUK, Detroit Has a girls’ union, Omatia palaters get #3 for eight hours, Pittsburg thleclayers want plecs work abolished, : : Tue Horseshoes’ Union in Boston won its fight for #19 a week tor Otters aud $17 a AFTER A BLOODY FIGHT, Murderer Humphrey Taylor is Captured in Georgetown, DD, C. Washington, D. C,, (Bpecial, )— Humphrey Taylor, or Brown, the vegro charged with the murder of the Rosonsteins, at Hildell, was captured In Georgetown alter a siege of nekrly two hours, Before surrendering be shot and killed Police Bergeant Vrnz Fa sau, The negro at first denied the murder of the Bosensteins, but subsequestly eop- fossed balug concerned in it, and implicated John Brows. Tho Weshingion police suspected from the outset thet the murderer of Rosenstein would soek refuge In Washiugion, There is an enormous colored population here, and de- teotion seemed Jess likely than in the lonelier rural sections, The Georgetown police ac cordiogly watched all the baunts of colored men. They learsed that a sirango negro spswerlog in some degree Lhe description of Taylor bed bought a pistol and & box of oxrtridges, Later he bought =a ring, und displayed a lot of mosey. Then the police were informed that the sume negro bad rented a two-story bLouss in a section of Georgetown kuown as Fowlers Hill, bad furnished it, and bad boasted to the ¢o ored people of the neighborhood of his ample supply of money. The police decided to have = look at the man, A detall of men, lo command of Ser. weant Passeu, surrounded the bullding, reply, the door was broken open, The poliermen, with Passau ahead, searched the first floor, sinire, revolvers iu band, ready to fire, second story, too, seemed deserted, The Pasenu and as he entered the second room icoked bebind the door. That moment the policemon following heard a revolver shot and saw Passau fall. They the celling, whieh led to & cockpit above the rooms, cape ushort, His firing bad been Leiter than that of the police, his revolver hit the foremost poileeman, off. Another shot foliowed pollesman’s band, Hisdeadly alm and the faliore of the policemen to reach him with thelr fire convinced the latter that they must retreat. Passau, the sergeant, had died al- Wisely tnupghbt reserves st the sintion house were slied, and theses were inter reinforoed by the reserves from a secord station, force was also suzmoned, They thelr hands, and house where the their revolvers in from the For pearly two bours the Menuwhile the the ruiers of the city, bad consuit-d with Major Sylvester, the chief of police, as 10 the best means of taking the erimingl, Tay ior, the possible murderer stoins, had been lost sight of mination to take Taylor, or whoever else oe might be, who bad murdered a policeman. It was decided 10 cali on the man to sus- render, and if be refused, to set fire to the kili him as be came It is said that the author law officer of the bis assurance thai they were fully justified in burning the bouse to capture the murderer, learning this, Major Svyvivester started the siege. But be arrived The police had wearied of emptying and 4 Taylor. His ure, consulted with the On for {00 lair, dodging uncomioriably good, He could not faker, because be had retired into the coek- pit, and when be war pot firing out of window be was grazing the ears or the cheek any vepturesome officer who raised the trap door to climb inio the loft, Aeccord- fugly, the men decided on the very program which Major Sylvester was then on his way to order. They cleared some of the fursi. ture out of the buildicg. A mattress on the second floor of the house, just under the loft, was saturated with oli and Taylor was told be could ~omwe down or be burned ont, Hs preferred the former, He surrendered. the PRISONERS RELEASED, Filipinos Let An American and a Cena dian Go Using Arrows. Manila, Puliippios Islands, (By Cable.) and Canadian civillave eaptured at the Caiumpit rice mill, have been released ty the rebel General Lusa, who saw them through his lines with several Englishmen, who received 4% hours’ notice to Jeave rele territory, The United Blates eruisrr Charleston has arrived bere from Hong Kong, Sbe touched at Apartl, communi-atiag with the Usited States gunboat Concord, stationed at the mouth of the harbor, Boome pative archers shot arrows at the Concord’'s bont, which was sent ashore for sand, and no farther at. tempt to land was made, The Charieston aso spoke the United States gunboat Wheeling at Lingagas, All was quiet thers, General Lawton's sdvanerd fores has leit San Miguel and 1s movieg in the direction of San Isidro. A rainstorm impeded the progress of the troops and severed the line ef communiontion when the force was within soven miles of its destination, Rios and Otis Agree, Madrid, Spaie, (By Cable, )=lisneral Rios, in sommand of the Spanish troops remain. ing fu the Polilppine Islands, bas cabled 10 the War Office here, abnouncing that he bas entered into an agreemont with Major General Otis, tbe American commander, fot the immediate evacaation of Zamboanga and Jolo, Consequently, the dispatch adde, the steamer, Leon XUIL bes started with Amer jean troops, who wiil occupy Jolo and rene der honor to the Spanish flag on the departs ure of the Seanish troops, The Leon X11L will proseed from Jolo tn Zumbonngs, where the vessel will be met 1y General Rios, with the steamers Porto Rieo and Uranus, The Spanish General wil superintond the evacuation, disprtoh furthur says the Amezicans wiil not occupy Zamboangs, ED BY BRITISH, SURRENDER ASSURED. Aguinaldo Again Sends Com- mission to Seek Terms. ———— FORCES DEMORALIZED. Commission From the Rebel's Hendquar tors On the Way to Manila to Consult General Otis—-A Belief at the War De partment That This Time the Filipinos Are Ready to Yield, Manila, Phillippines Islands, (By Cable. j— | Philippine commissioners to confer with the American commission regarding sur. render hava arrived at Manplis, The people of Manila are confident that the insurrection is ending. Westington, D. CG, (Bperial,j— War De- partment officials are firmiy eonviseed that | the end of the insurrection in the Philippines { Is ot band, and that the reprefntetives of | she Insurgent cabin t and of Aguinaido, who | 8re to meet General Otis, will suceumd 10 ; inevitable surrender, Following is Gen. Otis’ cable: | Adjutant General, Washington: Representative insurgent eabinet and | Agulnaido in mountains, twelve miles north | of Ban Isidro. Will send in commission to { soak terms of peace. Majority of force coo { fronting MacArthur at San Ferpando bas re- | tired to Tarlac, tearing up two miles of rail i way; this force has decreased to about twen- | ty-five hundred. Boouting parties acd de- { tachments moving In various direstions, | Eobbe with column at Candas a, on Rio Grande, Great msjority of iphabliapts of i provinces over which troops have moved nuxious for peace, supporiod by members of | iosurgent eabinet, Aspeet of affairs at pres. | out favorable, Oris Hebel Forces Demorslized. The Filiploo forces, it is said at partment, are evidently so utterly demoral- { lzed by the persistent sdvance of the Ameri- { caus thal they are ready to acespt pesce on {the bast terms they ran obtain, Driven sorthward to the foothills of the mountaios 16 they have been, their fleeing and seatter- od forees digiptergrated and disheartened, {| BO Jonger can be made to lace our ious advance, Less than a week ago Gen. ‘ral Luna was reported just north of San | Fernando, where Geperal MacAribur's { 'Tuops are concentrated, and in the neigh. i borbood of Bacolor, with about 5.000 rebe's, | General Otis reports that the remuast of bas withdrawn ‘to Tarins, over twenty miles north of San | Fernando. It fs probable thst the remain | der of this force moved east and joined the i mais body of the insurgents, which aban- | dosed San Isidro and fled northward to { point from whieh Aguinaido is now sending his commissioners to sue for peace, Prepared for Any Ruse, If this ‘a & ruse to gall time, which none of the officials of the War Department be- | eve, it will avell them nothing, as the | Americans will utliize the period during the pegotintions in reconnoitering the country i shead of them preparatory 10 the resump- i ion of operations the minutes the negotia- | tions fall, The dispateh of two battalions of | the Twenty-third Iofantry to Jalo, the prip- i oly al town in the Sulu Archipelago, Is the { fourth military exp-dition denched from { the main body of our troops at Manila, The | Bula Archipelago is 8 group of 150 small is { innds, extending in the forn like the Aleutian Islands, south of the i ippines, the de- vietor- {this Toree, about 2.500 men, ih the of a creseept, Poi.- The American Vorces, There is no slsciule information at the War Department roacerning the present strength of the American forees under Mae Arthur, Lawton and Koble, whieh bave been operating agaiust the Insurgents north of Manila, The nember of mer, if euch 01. ganization were up toils maximus strength, ; would be 16.500, but it ls doubtful if their {strength totais 11000 ther, MacArthur's | troops, exoept one regiment, are volunicers, All of Kobbe's men are regulars, recently arrived. Taree of the six regiments under Lawton niso are regulars. There is one radical differsnee Hetween the yolunteer aad regular organizations, the for- mer are permanent, while the gaps in the ranks of the regulars are belug constantly filied by new recruits, It is suimated that MezcArthur pow bas about 4.500 men Tor ao- tive service, Lawton about 5.000, snd Kobbe 1,500, Losses in HAS LOST PRESTIGE. | Aguinaldo’s Army Dissclving Into Bands of Fillagers, Manila, (By Cable