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Show CAPTURE INSUROENT CAPITAL General Ijiwlon'e Adtance Guard and Graut'iTlncled lloaU Take Ban Iildrn. Manila, May 18. Gencrul Lawton'a advance guurd, under Colouel Summers of the Oregon troops, took San Isldro, tho Insurgent capital, at 8:30 Tuesday morning. Tho expedition under Major Kobbe of tho Third artillery, consisting df tho Seventeenth Infantry, ono battalion of the Ninth and ono battalion of the First artillery, left Calumplt at daybreak, day-break, mrrclilug up tho RIo Graudo to General Lawton's at Aruyal. A flotlla of canoes loaded with supplies also proceeded up tho river. Roth forces wore couveyed by the "Unclad" army gunboats under Cuptuln Grant. |