Show IAMfRCANS WILL AVOI CONfLCT I i Filipinos Not Attacked By 1 General Millers Forces + TROOPS TO BE LANDED BUT NOT AT ILOILO + 9 Insurgents Will Destroy the Town If Bombarded J Eave Kerosened the Buildings and A Is Ready For the Torch American Troops to Be Encamped Upon A Island JiTcSonleys Proclamation Ridiculed By the Natives Denial of Story About 2Eassacre of Spaniards I Manila Jan S Colonel Potter tha special emissary of General Otis between Manila and Iloilo arrived this afternoore aferoon I with dispatches from the latter point The T6 situation when he left there was prac wa Drc o tically unchanged The steets were bar ricaded and it was reported that the prin cipal buildings had been kerosened1 the insurgents having threatened to destroy the whole business section by fire destoy first shot of bombardment The banks were shipping treasure to the United States by the transport Newport and other vessels The family of the American vice consul has gone on board the Newport conul Colonel Potter reports that President McKInley proclamation had to Pesidet written aboard ship a the printers ore on shore declined to do the work and when the text of the proclamation was read to wa them ridiculed the notion that concilia tion wan possible conca Privates Harry Silvey and Frank Kirk Patrick of the Sixth United States artil lery while guarding a water boat astern of tho Newport were attacked by the t natives of the crew Private Silvey was fatally wounded and Private Kirkparrick fell overboard but escaped Kr a flesh wit wound lesh The United States gunboat Petrel arrived gnbat Petl rive at Iloilo on Friday and Colonel Pot a ter reports that the United States trooas will probably land on Guimaras island about midway between tho island of Panay and tho island of Negros where a camp will be established Hongkong Jan According to statements state-ments of people who have just arrive t here from the island of Balabac south ot tho island of Palawan there is no truth in the report that the Spaniards there have been massacred by the Filipinos They say the story is an invention of priests to prejudice the Filipino cause declaring de-claring also that there are not more than half a dozen Spaniards in the island and fare that all who have been killed fell in war fareMadrid Madrid Jan Advices were received hero today from a leading merchant at Iloilo to the effect that agricultural operations opera-tions in the vicinity of Hollo have not bee interrupted and that all the insurgents respect the Europeans both at hello and on the island of Negros |