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Show FIGHTING ON NEGROS. Haudlts Captured and Rebellion Ouelled at the Very Outlet. Manila, April 3. Colonel Smith, the governor of the inland of Xegros, reports re-ports that a number of bandits, headed by a man named Papaissio, attempted a rebellion on March 11 and killed several sev-eral oflicials of Jummaylan. lie also captured other oflicials and issued a proclamation calling upon the natives to rise and exterminate the Americans and Spaniards. Major Siine and two companies of the California regiment were dispatched by water to the scene of the disturbance and Colonel Duboce and two other companies of troops were sent overland. On April 2 this force marched twelve miles and captured cap-tured Labzib, the headquarters of the bandits, and destroyed the town. The troops also captured thirty-rive prisoners prison-ers and scattered Papassio's forces, thus effectually quelling the rebellion at the outset. |