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Show UTAH'S SOLDIER SAILORS. Making It Extremely Warm for the Filipinos. Manila, May 12. The army of tin-clad tin-clad gunboats Laguna de Bay and Covadongo under the command of Captain Cap-tain Grant, steamed up the Rio Grande to Calumpit Tuesday, clearing the entire en-tire country of rebels from the bay upward. When the vessels reached Macabebe, about a thousand of the inhabitants of the place assembled upon the banks of the river cheering the expedition lustily. lus-tily. Captain Grant was given an vatlon when he went ashore. Many of the Macabebeans expressed themselves as being anxious to enter the service of the American navy for campaign against the Tagals. |