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Show Died like custer. CAPT. C0NNKU8 FATE IN THE PHILIPPINES. Th MtMBtrr nf (ItftnjjIgM Mors TtiftSl forty Amariean Rlllo. hj th rtll-ptatM rtll-ptatM la th Trrlhl 4 ostrKcl Th rrlflTo lMnl t Trn1l. Aa thft Anifiit-mi minim. rii mcHlnNt the flloui uf llm nm ihwi'Hl hail tin Lit tlft Big Horn tnaNpaii', (hat uf th Brttinh aaiiu( th ulna. Ita iMnntliila and that of lha HrHMi atatt lint thr Matalwtrj Km Itiilunayo. ati tht conflict con-flict In tha 1'hlllpp.i.r ha tta inaaiia-era inaaiia-era which will pa into hlHtory - that of ftalat)(ia When tho ainiiraiii:a uf thou tn authority that th rblltoit of the native waa ovr wor muni confident, con-fident, along cotnea th if port of a aliiiKhttr wot-iHi than anything lnr Agulnaldo a pun listniitlon of two yrara ago. fart of Hi nuhjntcwtltig fori-, grown 4nni'inphiouii of Ita foa and roiiHfHiUfiitly carrli'M. In auipr.Hrd anil gi ttf rouira to two ru-ot Ann-rli an homra. For mult time th Ninth regiment, which t'ovciod ttKfir with glory In Cnim and In th Ktllplmi runtpnlKn, hml hern atalloited on the IhIhihI of Hamar, where, the inaiirgeiita art mild to have heen more urtlve than tn any other part nf th arctilpelugo. While at hrenkfuitt (.'""-I'liny (' waa anrprleed hy 4 od of the Inauiginla whom they had l.plh'wd friendly, with the reault that 40 of Ihe men and three nfflrora were killed. Hi-tore the Inaiirgenla run hi get away the Americana killed 140 of them. One of the vtrtlm waa Tho, una V. Connell, raiiluln of Company C, n rent-dent rent-dent of Ni-w York, who hud aee gul-lnnt gul-lnnt aorvii wllh the Ninth during nil Ita i HiiipiilKiia. dipt. Connell waa 28 yea i a of age. It would Hppcur from the rcporta i that mora activity on th part of thai American la neccastiry to Htippntia the tniurrectlou. An officer of tho Ninth. CM'T. THOMAS W. CONNKl.U (Coniuiwdlng otlleer ot Coinpuuy C. who was killed In the maesacra of nnlnnglga.) writing from Kaimir some time ago. said: ' lo not believe ' all you hear about the I'lilllpplne Mauds being nearly pnelfled and roniplete penre being a mutter of a I'uiiipiirstlvely short time. If the Anierlisn government govern-ment does not very soon dlsrover Its mlstuke In rediirlng the military tone here and sending large bodies of troops home to the United Hlutea. aa la now being done. It will find out Ita grave error Inter. It la part of the Filipino rhuraeter to lie deceptive, and thousands thou-sands of so-iulled 'paeifleiis,' who formerly for-merly fought agutniit the American troops, are only waiting for what they consider a good opportunity to renew their warfare against those whom they regard aa their cnniiiieniia, for the average av-erage Filipino will not believe that we are only anxioue to treat them fairly and aid lu the development of their country. Their bulled la constantly elumberlng, and their professed friend-ahlp friend-ahlp for Americana Is, In the majority of Instances, only skin deep V |