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Aguinaldo's seal and dating back as far as last November.
An ineffectual search was made for the officer's body and then the men struck out to overtake the enemy again. The next day they encoun- tered a patrol of the 49th U.S. Volunteers, doing duty in the river valley. They reported that a frat containing a body and two natives, ap- parently guarding it, had floated down the stream, but the width of the river and the rapid current, increased by the recent rains, had pre- vented capture. The same day the Thirty-third men, marching up the river bank, ran across a bundle of papers belonging to Dr. Barcelona, who was Aguinaldo's physician.
All these incidents grouped together make it just possible that Aguinaldo may have been killed. He was believed to have been with the band that March was chasing, and one of the officers in that band was killed, and in his saddle bags were found personal papers of Aguinaldo.
That is all the definite information that we have.
GENERAL CAMPAIGN NOTES.
The general campaigning through the islands for last week resulted in the surrender or cap ture of one hundred and eighty-three men, in- cluding a colonel and seven officers. Forty- six insurgents were reported killed, and 208 rifles were captured. The main skirmishes occurred in northern and east central Luzon in the brigades of General Young and Fung- ton, and in the Camarines provinces of South Luzon. In the last provinces over four hundred
natives have been killed since the American oc- cupation three months ago. Two additional troops of the 11th Cavalry U.S. Volunteers have been sent to the mountainous districts of the Comarines. This is the rich hemp-country, and the guerrillas and insurgents between them are playing havoc with the crops. The hemp plant forms a splended shelter for roving bands, and a squad can run twenty yards off the roads, and be completely hidden. When the insurgents are beaten back they usually destroy the plan- tations as they desert them. With the addition- al Cavalrymen it is hoped to maintain a patrol sufficiently strong to insure the safety of peace- fully inclined natives.
THE LOCAL OUTBREAK.
The agitation over the threatened uprising in Manila has temporarily dwindled, and other things are occupying the public mind. Rumor has it that the insurrectos will hold off their little performance until the arrival of the Amer- ican Commission. A telegram which appeared this morning in the local papers has occasioned laughable comment. It stated that Judge Taft will probably not administer the Philippines until the 1st of September, as he desires to give the army of General McArthur a free hand, also in an interview with Artocho, it was stated
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that "further bloodshed will be averted." Very good, but very contradictory statments. Judge Taft is able to assume supreme control of the Government of these misguided islands by September he will greatly suprise the military During the first four monthis, it is generally
believed that the commission will devote itself to the study of the chief questions of government and administration.
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DEWEY.
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Admiral Dewey's political fever is casioning no end of fun in Manila. Here if in any place he has staunch and loyal friends, but they are all agreed in regretting his weak- ness in going into politics. An American cartoon, representing the eight-inch turret guns of the Olympia with the words presidential boom" stamped on them was pasted up on the wall of a public building yesterday. Underneath the guns stands Mrs. Dewey in uniform, and a fer feet aft is the Admiral making a salute, as Mrs. Dewey tells him you may fire when you are ready, Georgə.”
Japanese papers report that five Americans were arrested at Nagoya on the 24th inst., on suspicion of the terrible crime of taking photo- graphs of the Prince and Princess Imperial in the neighbourhood of the railway station while their Highnesses were travelling by train. The Americans were examined last week by the police, who, however, keep the matter a pro- found secret.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
SANDAKAN NOTES.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
Sandakan, 28th May.
[June 9, 1900.
At the Magistracy on the 7th inst. the Chinaman who was arrested for attempting to murder his wife at Shankiwan was committed for trial.
THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.
The Plague Returns for the week ending 2nd The Queen's Birthday was loyally observed June show 81 cases and 75 deaths. Apart here, a Royal salute being fired, and also a "fen from Plague, the only cases of communic de joie" at the early morning special Constabu-able disease in the colony during theweek lary Parade, whilst the Royal Standard was ending 2nd June were five of Enteric Fever, three in the city of Victoria and two in flying at the Government House Flag-staff. ford with the order of C.M.G. has given intense outside the limits of Victoria. None of these The Birthday decoration of H. E. Hugh Clif- the harbour, imported; and one of Diphtheria
satisfaction here, though it is, of course, recog-
cases ended fatally. nised that the honour is for His Excellency's work in Perak, and has nothing whatever to do with the most excellent service he has already done for this territory.
THE KUDAT RAID.
Twenty-six of the natives concerned in the recent attempted raid on Kudat were very smartly captured last week. The Governor and a number of the Constabulary Staff left Kudat in the steamer Labuan, and, touching at three points between there and Bandassan, at dead of night. arrested the men, and secured a large carried out so successfully that there was not quantity of arms, etc. The whole thing was "confessions" have the slightest hitch, and been the order of the day. This carrying of the war into the enemy's own country, so to speak, will doubtless have a most salutary effect, and little, if any, further trouble is looked for. This, as an example of our new Governor's methods, is an index to his energetic and thorough mode of business.
A CURRENCY IMPROVEMENT.
Another important improvement we have to thank H. E. Hugh Clifford for is the legalisa- tion of the tender of Singapore Bank Notes. The currency question. ... the tightness of money, owing to the small issue of Government Notes, has been the cause of growing discontent for some time past in the commercial com- munity, and the legalising of Singapore Bank Notes in the territory is causing the greatest
satisfaction
SHIPPING NEWS.
The Chinese-owned steam-launch Defiance has capsized, through the breaking of a rope, in the Segalind river, and, it is feared, will prove a total loss.
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Among those who left on the 6th inst. by the Empress of China was Mr. Herbert Smith, whose departure, so soon after his appointment to the Legislative Council vice Mr. T. H. Whitehead, will cause general regret. Mr. Smith will be a great loss to the colony, whose good wishes he
carries with him.
The musical box stolen from the office of Mr.
Mumford, Lloyd's agent, in Beaconsfield Arcade last week has been recovered by the police, who found it in a secondhand furniture shop in Holly. wood Road. The dealer, who was arrested for had been left with him to sell, but that he did being in unlawful possession, said the article
not know the person who had left it. The defendant appeared before Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy on the 1st inst., when a clerk from the office of a local solicitor appeared and asked for afremand. His Worship, however, declined to listen to the application until it was made by the solicitor himself.
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The police have had a lively time of it lately, two cases of assault upon them being enquired into at the Magistracy on the 5th inst. In one case the defendant was a naval officer who was charged with being disorderly on Sa- turday night and with assaulting the police. The story told by the police was to the effect that at about 11.45 p.m. on the 2nd inst. an Indian con-
stable had occasion to reprimand the defendant. The latter resented this, and pushed the constable into the channel and went away. The Indian re- ported the matter to P. C. Moore, and on the de- fendant again making his appearance Moore told him he had no right to push the constable, and he had better come up to the Police Station and see the Inspector. The defendant said he would
The steam-launch W. B. Pryer recently built here by The North Borneo Trading Co., Ltd., has been sold to Messrs. Paaling & Co., the Con- tractors for the new Railway, for twenty thou-do no such thing, and on the constable putting his hand on him struck him a blow in the face. sand dollars.
The Indian and a Chinese lukong-who inter- fered were also struck by the defendant. The latter then tried to run away, but was stopped by Sergeants Smith and MacSwayed. The police had considerable difficulty in getting the defen- dant to the Police Station.-Mr. Mounsey, for the defence, contended that his client should have been summoned instead of arrested. He did
the assault was but a slight one he suggested not like being handled and lost his temper. As
that a small fine would suffice.-A fine of $10 was imposed.
HONGKONG,
that Warrant Officer Milligan, who will long It will interest many of our readers to learn
be remembered as one of the most popular and able instructors the Hongkong Volunteer Corps has ever had, leaves for home to-day.
Library and Museum for the week ending 3rd The return of visitors to the City Hall June shows that 363 non-Chinese and 67 Chinese visited the former, 177 non-Chinese and 1,934 Chinese the latter.
information at No. 2 Police Station that a man On the 1st inst. Inspector Ford received
had been seriously injured by falling from a verandah in Ship Street. On going to make enquiries he found that while endeavouring to get from the top verandah at No. 13 to No. 11 a Japanese missed his footing and fell a dis- tance of between 40 and 50 feat. He alighted on his head, the result being that his skull was fractured. He also received other injuries and died before he could be removed.
At the Magistracy on the 7th inst. a Chinaman was charged with kidnapping four youths from Pakhoi. On the 2nd inst. Ser- geant Smith (35) was standing near the Bank Wharf when he noticed a sampan going to wards a steamer which was about to sail for Singapore. From the appearance of the oc- cupants of the sampan his suspicions were aroused, and he followed them, and brought them back. It was subsequently found that the men had been brought from Pákhoi, being told that if they would come to Hongkong they would get $15 a month and good food. When they arrived in Hongkong they were told that it would be necessary for them to go down to Singapore. The defendant was sentenced to six months' hard labour.
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In the other case three Norwegians from the John son, Seawood, and Libson. Johnson was Liv were the defendants, their names being charged with being drunk and disorderly, and the other two with assaulting the police. John- son and Libson pleaded guilty, but, Seawood protested that he knew nothing about the affair. Sergeant MacSwayed said that at 25 past nine p.m. on the 4th inst. he and Constable Last took Johnson into custody for being drunk and dis- orderly. Seawood was present at the time and attempted to take Johnson from their custody. Witness pushed him off and he went into the porch of the Central Hotel and struck Constable Last on the head with his fist, also giving him seve- ral blows about the neck and breast. He released his hold of Johnson, leaving him in the custody of the constable, and seized Seawood, over- powering him after a struggle. He told him what he was going to charge him with. He turned round to pick up Seawood's hat when he saw Johnson and the constable on the ground with the third defendant Libson striking the constable with his fists on the back. He drag- ged his prisoners towards Libson and caught hold of him. At the same time he drew the constable's truncheon and struck Libson, who had rushed at him, on the head. The second defendant then broke loose, but was caught again. All the defendants were then taken to the Police Station.-Johnson was fined $10 or a month, and the other men were sentenced to s month's imprisonment without the option of
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