Show FILIPINOS ARE RE CERTAIN J THAT AGUINALDO IS DEAD DED Insurgent nt Officers Believe Be He Was Killed Ki led by Hostile in Last December Rebels Attack ack Body of Americans and an Annihilation n is Nar Par Narrowly Narrowly Escaped Manila May 2 The belief to Is grow growing ing that AguInaldo was WILS wa killed by the There In 10 DO proof that h b hhas has been alive since Major Peyton C CMar March Mar h of the regiment I abandoned the chase after the Filipino leader in the mountains II An tn insurgent officer who recently surrendered to General You Youn r says that the insurgent general Inlo holds this belief held regular communication communication with Aguinaldo until Dec 28 S I since which time he has heard nothing from him and thinks think A would fine means to communicate with him if alive Major information was that I there were only oly half balf a soldiers with w ith Aguinaldo when he fled beyond the wilderness where the sav say savages savages ages are hostile hoti to all st strangers ers Friends of or wife assert that she has heard beard thing nothing n from him since finE they parted She is in delicate A condition and nearly prostrated with I worry orry Therefore she sh has lIas not been in informed formed of the death of her ber child and thinks it is with friends Mends at The American garrison at Catubig Island of Samar Santar consisting of thirty I men belonging to the regi regiment regiment ment has been pen attacked by rebels Twenty of the Americans were killed The remainder were rescued r Were Fiercely Attacked The Americans were quartered in the Catubig church which the enemy numbering several hundred men sur stir surrounded surrounded rounded and fiercely attacked The Americans fought for t ico o days and then the rebels managed to ignite l the roof of the church and it burned away and finally Jl fell upon upi those inside the The walls waIls remained intact however and were used as a shelter by bythe bythe bythe the besieged Americans for three days davs longer the enemy attacking the build building building building ing on all sides at once The Americans continued firing from the windows nd d doors of o the church and did good execution among the Fill Fili Filipinos pinos It is estimated that over GOof of the latter were killed many dead bodies bodles having bavIng been removed from the scene cene of the fighting After five days dan resistance le by the Americans a lieutenant and eight men arrived from Loan and und engaged the besiegers besle eri who thereupon retired The fortunate arrival of these ein rein prevented the annihilation of ot the American forces foIs entrenched in inthe inthe inthe the church who had bad repeatedly r de dc declined declined dined to surrender when ordered The Theten ten survivors were without food had hM ad little lIt ammunition 8 and were ex ox exhausted hausted bausted when relieved r This Th s fight has hns encouraged the Filipinos Fm inos who are tire now acting in an ve manner and j threatening threaten Jag that section of the coast j I particularly the town cf of j i whence the garrison will be I withdrawn to I Sultan is Displeased I The sultan of Sulu with a retinue including several of ot his wives has sailed for Singapore ostensibly a religious religions mission A dis dispatch dispatch dispatch patch to a Manila paper says the sul sultan sultan sultan tan has hu gone to Singapore in order to protest to the British against the Americans establishing a tariff against imports claiming that it is a violation of oC the treaty of 1877 between Great Britain and Germany Germany guaranteeing the Sulu Islands free trade whereas the Americans have es a tariff nearly doubling the prices of oC tobacco rice and the Sulu Sum staples of life most of which are im fin imported imported ported from Singapore The Filipino crew on the Escano E cano recently mutinied in m the chan channel nel net between Cebu and Leyte and killed the captain the mate and the owners owner Senor Escano and his son n with knives after a 8 desperate struggle The muti mutt mutineers mutineers then scuttled the ship and es escaped called to the Leyte mountains with General Funston has discovered a rebel warehouse near province of New containing all aU aUthe the Archives of the Malolos Maiden government correspondence up to the time of his flight ht and aDd much valuable Historical matter 0 |