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Show UTAH BATTERY AFLOAT. Captain Grant's Gunboat Holds Possession of a Lake. Washington, March 20. The war department de-partment has received the following dispatch from Major-General Otis regarding re-garding operations against the insurgents: insur-gents: "Our improvised gunboats, under Captain Grant, Utah artillery, have full possession of Uaguna de Pay. The troops, inhabitants and property on the shore of the lake are at our mercy. Wheaton"s bigade, on the Pasig river line, drove the enemy northeast into the province of Morong. Last evening the enemy attacked a portion of his force south of Pasig, killing two men and wounding twenty of the Twenty- second infantry. Wheaten immediately immedi-ately moved against this insurgent force, driving it to the south fifteen miles, experiencing very slight loss. Enemy left 200 dead on the field." |