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Show ACUINALDO WOUNDED. I Knij(!l by .Major .Mureh With 125 M'.en, and Carried off the Field. Major March, with his detachment of tho Thirty-third regiment, overtook what is believed to have been Aguinal-do'a Aguinal-do'a party on May 10, at Lagat, "about 100 miles northeast of Yigan. The Americans killed or wounded an officer, supposed to be Aguinaldo, whose body was removed by his followers. fol-lowers. Aguinaldo had 100 men, Major March Mr,. Major Ma i-chs' men entered Lagat on the run. They saw the insurgents scattering into the bushes or over thu plateau. A thousand yards beyond the town, on the mountain side, the figures of twenty-five Filipinos dressed in white, with their leader on a gray horse, were silhouetted against the sunset '1 he Americans fired a volley and saw the oflicer drop from his horse. His followers Med, carrying; the body. The Americans, on reaching the spot, caught the horse, which was richly saddled. Illood from a badly wounded man was on the animal and on the ground. The saddlebags contained Aguinal-do's Aguinal-do's diary and some private papers, including in-cluding proclamations. One of these was addressed: "To the Civilized Nations." Na-tions." It protested against the American Ameri-can occupation of the Philippines. There was also found copies of Senator Jieveridge's speech, translated into Spanish and entitled, 'The Death-Knell Death-Knell of the Filipino People." |