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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1899
Page
1
A March 7 battle described with forty American casualties. Aguinaldo led insurgents in person as MacArthur’s forces pressed toward Malabon Malolos with heavy fighting and bridges destroyed. U S gunboats shelled Malabon as Filipino troops withdrew toward Malolos.
Manila dispatch reports General McArthur's division overnight near Polo and advancing toward Malolos after reconnoitering the front. Three dozen prisoners indicate the enemy retreated to Malolos while circulars from the Filipino commander threaten shot for spies and looters and orders to burn towns abandoned by Filipino troops.
The shelling of Paranaque followed a stand by insurgents emboldened by ship silence. The turret Monadnock anchored offshore and the attackers used muskets, killing one and wounding three, then destroying half the town including the church. The Washington regiment also displayed gallantry at a stone house with a French flag, where a volunteer set fire and troops cleared the building after a sudden volley.
At Mantua near Manila a clash leaves six Americans dead and forty wounded as Gen Otis and Gen Hale push rebel lines. U S troops capture prisoners, burn huts, and advance across the river toward Malolos amid heavy fighting and a mass of wounded.
U S troops under Brig Gen Lloyd Wheaton seized Malinta beyond the Tuliahan river after a sharp battle. Col Harry C Egbert of the 22nd Regular Infantry was killed. Prince Lowenstein, former aide to Brig Gen Miller at Leilo, was fatally shot, a German companion wounded. Fighting was the fiercest of the campaign so far, with heavier Filipino losses.
American forces under Gen Harrison G Otis pushed the insurgents back toward Malabon today. Otis's brigade led in front of La Loma as troops advanced across rough open terrain, with trenches four feet deep offering cover. Natives stood until within 200 yards, then broke and ran.
General McArthur's division along with Otis Hale Hall Wheaton brigades advanced at daylight and split the enemy, capturing Polo Novaleche San Francisco del Monte and Mariquina. They cleared trenches from river to Caloocan and secured the railroad, cornering Aguinaldo's flower at Maladen and Singalon. Casualties were light.
March 25 report describes Wheaton and Otis brigades moving behind lines, dawn attacks across rebel trenches, and McArthur division sweeping left. Otis Hale and Hall brigades strike through La Loma to cut rebels, capture San Francisco and del Monte Mariquina, with Wheaton holding trenches and Malabon river action noted.
Manta date 25 March reports late afternoon action as the Montana regiment and the Third artillery crossed the Talighan river moving toward Polo. General Mc Arthur with Otis and Hale brigades advanced south of the river amid fierce fighting.
General Hall's brigade shifted to Ballytanic while Hale's position held firm. Oregon regiment and Utah battery on the left faced heavy cross-fire from insurgents at Malabon. Montana regiment discovered a dock house masquerading as a leper hospital, with four artillerymen killed and seventeen wounded. American losses total about sixteen killed and 130 wounded.
Washington reports General Otis dispatch from Manila noting a brilliant charge by Captain Frost of the Twenty Second Infantry and the South Dakota volunteers against Aguinaldo's troops at Malolos. Four enlisted men and three officers were killed, with one lieutenant and twenty two enlisted men wounded. The Third Infantry replaces the Twenty third at the front as two battalions link with Oregon volunteers. railroads partially destroyed and being repaired. US river gunboats on the Bulacan river.
Adjutant General Corbin cites messages from Iloilo and Manila dated March 28. Troops arrive with gladness at Enrique to bolster Colonel Smith against hill robber raids. Negros shows promising self government under Smith. Oregon second battalion gains on the firing line where Officer Loswenstein is killed and a comrade wounded. his body given to friends in the city.
Paul and John Zeltn er brothers who killed G H Westen baker North Baltimore and Clarence Wittenmier Hoytville gave up after a 34hour siege. State militia Bloomfield rifles and North Baltimore cadets aided as mob violence loomed. The men were escorted to Bowling Green jail with four rifles, two revolvers and ammunition surrendered. Mrs John Zeltn er fired five times into the crowd wounding none.
An Anperson Indiana report says the window glass trust is mounting a final effort to absorb independent plants this week. If unsuccessful the trust will dissolve by year end. It claims 1 950 plants under control and independents 600 pots, up 300 from last year. The independent output now jeopardizes trust cohesion. The trust seeks absorption by purchase or agreement to bring independents under its umbrella. dissolution could depress market prices.
United States cruiser Chicago arrived in Hampton Roads at 11 today with ex Secretary Sherman aboard. He stood the voyage well and is in better health than since his illness began. At 1 50 he was taken ashore to the Chamberlain house where his daughter has stayed, amid cheering crowds. Secretary MacGill and four nurses accompanied him.
A major snow storm swept the region last night across the southwest. Webb City fronts collapsed under snow weight, Pittsburg streetcars stopped, Independence drifts rose high, and Oklahoma faced blizzard conditions with sleet and snow. Wheat may benefit in Kansas while fruit crops risk damage in the territories.
Ed ward C. Backer of the American Base Ball and Athletic Exhibition company says the 1900 Cleveland Browns will be moved to St. Louis and become the new Cleveland club. The present St. Louis team will be rebuilt with no players from last season, with M. Stanley Robison as president and M. J. Muir as secretary guiding the changes.
Gunboat Yorktown arrived at Masia with the Mandara, owned by Mendezona of the locality, after a pursuit in Lingayen gulf 245 miles north. The Mandara was steered seaward and overhauled after two shots. Also, Brakeman J H Miller of Hamlet Pittsburg injured his right hand and had parts of thumb and little finger removed. He lives at 17 Walnut street.
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