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ESTABLISHED 1884 lfl[ OLDEST Marvill, of Vermont, Dving at the Age of 88. mn-tffiWifSM The Longest Continuous Service In the History Os the Body Strdden Failing. *JBy Associated Press. Waßhlngron, Dec. 27—tor Morri®, of la seriously JU of an 1 of grin complicated with lung and heart'; trouble arid death, it is -said this after oon, is but a mailer of short time. The J • mater is 88 years of age and to weakness consequent on his great age can .o: shake oil' the attack of grip- The grip complicated with a touch of pneumonia #ind latterly his heart also become affected •so his physician l this afternoon held out I co hope of recovery. The senator has been for some years the ' uti.riarch of the senate and held a warm place in the affections of his: associates. ! i .. ktwise he enjoyed the fullest confidence of his constituents who, notwithstanding nis years, re-elected him in 1896 for_ the fifth consecutive term which will not ex-* pirn until March 3, 1903. It has been his 1 annual custom for several years past to i make a. formal address on some topic of 1 live interest to the senate and this has, been listened to with attention by bis col- ' leagues who regarded these speeches as j remarkable i.n view of the age of their j author. His last adidrese was delivered a ' week or more before the Christmas holi day adjournment, the subject being the need of a building for the use of the Uni- , ted States supreme court and other courts. ‘ The deliverance showed few signs of les- • sened vitality and at the conclusion the | I honor was done the senator of the unan- , imotus passage of the resolution on which he spoke. Senator Morrill was born at Strafferd, I Vermont, April 14. 1810. In early life he I was a merchant and later an agriculturist. ' He was elected to the of representatives ; of the thirty-fourth cong:ess, and for four succeeding terms. He then was transfer red to the senate as . a < Union Republican taking his seat March 4. 18G7. Since that time his nervine has been continuous and his record jhe longest unbroken term the service in the history of the senate. • COAL FOR OUR WARSHIPS Well Supplied Stations to Be Established In Our New Possessions By Associated Preec. New York.. Dec. 27. —A special to the Herald from Washington says: Had the war with Spain lasted a short .time longer it is probable that the United States Hag would now be floating over the Caroline Islands, as the navy, from the time of Rear Admiral Dewey' victory, was anxious to take this group. The islands would probably have been taken anyhow, but for the fact that Secretary Long, by direction of the president, cabled Rear Ad miral Dewey forbidding him to do so. Officers of the navy still hope that some wax- may be found of accepting these is lands, which it is believed Spain would sell for a reasonable compensation. They do •not want any other nation to obtain the power to establih coaling stations and and naval bases there. In the meantime the navy is taking ac tive steps to prevent a recurrence ts the conditions as to coal supply, which pre vailed at the beginning of the war with Spain. Coal sheds are being erected at .ill the navy yard*? and stations in th? United States not already amply supplied with shelter, for large quantities of fuel and ecal are to be shipped to Havana. Santiago. San Juan. Honolulu, Guam. Ma nila and Pago Pago. As there is little good steaming coal on on the Pacific, it is the intention of the department to supply all the Pacific.sta tion* with coal from the Atlantic. which will be sent around Cape Horn in colliers. supplies will be stored at all the stations, but San Francisco will be lite great coal basis, and it is proposed t-0 store there not less than 100.000 tons of the best quantity of steaming coal. GREAT SHOE STRIKE. All Factories at Marlboro, Mass., Tempora rily Closed. By Associated Preaa. Marlboro, Mass., Dee* 27 —Eight of the shoe factories in this city which ha* in volved a general strike of shoe worker?, opened oday. Such as chose accepted work independent of the unions. At the factory of J. A. Frye & Co., which em ploys when running in full about four hundred hands, all cuters went to work and there was one hundred hands working in various departments. The shop cutters of the Coning avenue factory went to work Today but there were very few hand* in ' other departments. At the four factories cf the S. H. Howe Shoe Co., no effort was ( made to resume operations. I THE MACON NEWS. AFTEK THE LIKES Street Car Capitalists Grab bing Havana Franchises. STO(X FORCED UP ■ English, Canadian and American Syndicates Outdoing One An- j. other in the Bidding. By Associated Pres*. New York, Dec. 27. —A special to the , Herald from Havana cays; A four cornered contest between rich I syndicates is now going on here, with the pcrasewlon of Havana’s streets .for rapid ■ transit purposes as the jtrize. The contest ; has developed into three /igainst one, the 'Harvey syndicate having gained so great ' , -an advantage that the others have, coin- . b ned. i Should this cambi».atk>n fail there will i I be organized under the laws of New Jer sey the Havana Street Railway Company, issuing stock amounting to $5,000,000 and bonds for $3,000,000. In the meantime a prosecution is threatened against repre- , sentdtives of the Harvey syndicate and j the officials of the company now owning I the Havana street railways, the civil au- I thorities having avowed the intention of j | stepping what they pronounce a bold rob- I ' bery. I The Havana street railways are owned j t by the Ferro Caril Urbano * Company, j which operates abiut twenty-five miles in l ail. These linns, which are equipped in ; mediaeval style, have never been devel- ; oped. The company has been robbed in j various ways, and yet it has paid 7 to 9 per cent annual dividends on a capital o’ I • $1,000,000. TiburecJ Castenada, re presenting an ; English syndicate, made .a deal in No . vtmber with the director* of the Hrninn j Company to Ulue over the.property ar l-5c > I on the dollar. Bt,for« the deal was consummated Per- j I cival Fit jut-ar, representing he Harvey j syndicate of New York, came to Havana ’ | and began so vigorous a fight that the i ' English syndicate proposed to consolidate ■ which was accepted. After this consolidation it was thought j i best to raise the offer for 'Urbano stock from 85 to 92. This oiler was accented j ! and ten days was given for the money to i | be paid. Richard Naarganes. representing the American Indies Company, entered a pro- ' test and placed in General Castellanos’ j ' hands a guarantee to pay par for the Ur- i j ba no stock. “Tom” Johnson, the iron manufacturer i and former congressman, of Cleveland and Brooklyn, who is associated with Chicago ; I capitalists, ins’ riicitd his representatives j ’ to raise the bid to 102 with -a promise to go higher if necessary. A Havana banker ' 1 has posted a million dollars to make good I . any offer Johnson makes. In the meantime Canadian capitalists, headed by McKenzie & Co., of Toronto, bankers, promised to bid 125 for Urbano ' ! stock. In spite of the higher bidding Farquhar | seemed to hold the whip hand for the ‘ Harvey syndicate. Then the minority stock holders Appealed to Civil Governor De Casuo. who declared the alleged sale and illegal, prohibited its com pliant and ordered a public sale of the • Urbano Company, to be held December 30. Segundo AlvaVez, president of the Ur bano Company, who is a Spanish senator, defied De Castro and said the sale would be completed. De Castro will issue a | proclamation saying that Alvarez' senat ership will not-save him from arrest if he ‘ signs the papers of sale. Warrants for ; arrest are held against Alvarez' secretary, Pendas, and Carro, the attorney, who must complete the sale for Urbano Com pany, and Castenada Farquhar.and Zaldo, who will sign for the purchasers. De •Castro will advertise for bids for the Ur bano Company, as they must return to Havana to sign the papers. December 29, 1 their arrest has been ordered for that I I date. j I If the Harvey syndicate succeeds in ac- i quiring the property the lines will be j equipped with a modern electric plant and ' the lines extended to Mariano, where a , pleasure resort will be established. The future earnings are estimated at one mil- ; lion dollars annually. The American In dies Company is also to make a fight to : secure the independent right to operate electric cars in the down town streets, i Opposition to this comes from the Harvey ■ syndicate, which expects to control all rights by means of its purchase of the Urbano Company. . REAL FRENCH DUEL A Mayor and en Editor Fight l Furiously I Without Hurt ing One Another. By Associated Press. ’ New York. Dec. 27. —A dispatch to the Heral 1 from Paris says: The duel with . swords between* Max Regis, the anti- I Semite, mayor of Algiers, and M. Lepre, ; one of the eoHors of Les Drotts de I'Hom- 1 me. nook place at 3 o’clock today at Pue- I teaux. Max Regis attacked his opponent with . fury snd Al. Pepic defended himself ■ energy. Six rounds were fought and rhe j two combatants were so played out that the duel had to be brought to an end. TWO FIRES IN WAYCROSS. Waycross. Dec. 27. —(Special.)—The res idence of Herbert Murphy, president of the waterworks commission, caught fire | Sunday morning from a spark fal’i ig on ' tie too* By prompt work t was put < j and no d im; ge done. Li'cf In the day the res ’.-t e of P?si Cmw’jrl tavfrhi in the b.v room. '-vhi?o wis heated up by a ga--,l : »ie slove. The i Lt.i’. Ung was destroyed, but the fumit ir-i *««td FIRST BATALLION LEAVES. Huntsville. Ala.. Dec. 27.—(Special.)— , Fiist bat-Mion. firs’ United States infan t try, departed yesterday afternoon for Cuba via Port Tampa. MACON NEW'. TUESDAY DECEMBER 27 1898. . I M, CJ, WORK Comodore Philip Helping to Build Soldiers' Rests. FINE HOMES ALONG SHORE Energetic Action of the Association to Provide Comfort For Jack Tars.* By Associated Presa. New York, Dec. 27. —Ggjmnrodure J. W. Philip is at the head of a sub-cojnminee of the international committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association, which 's planning to build a home, for Jack Tara ' near the Brooklyn navy yard <to cost SIOO,- i 000. But the home in Brooklyn will not be the only one. Tnere will be others, easting almost as much, an Boston. New port, Norfolk, San Francisco and perhaps 'Manila and Havana. These buildings will i be for enlisted seamen and laser there will i be similar buildings in it he large cities for ' enlisted soldiers. i The Brooklyn building will look some i thing like a hotel and will be modeled in -1 ternally like similar ones in Portsmouth i and Dcavenpori, England, under the charge lof Miss iWesion. The cabins or rooms will i resemble state rooms on ships but will be I separated with wire screens, so that each lodger will be by himself. They will be j kept scrupulously clean, and the nightly ! charges for them will be from ten to twenty cents. On this basis it is expected 'to make the branch self-supporting. There will also be a bar. but no intoxicating j drinks w ill be sol-d. There will be a libra ; ry and reading room and small rooms for I Bible and educational classes and a gym ! nasium. ! Although the building will be under the I management o>f the new army and navy I department of the Y. M. C. A., the religious i features will not he made too conspiou i ous. The Y M. C. A. sent Secretary M’m. B. I Miller to England, Scotland and Fiaucc as I scon as the peace protocol was signed. He ’ 'has just returned. His ideas gained from | the trip will be put into effect fcr the i binefit of the enlmed men. ! THE CHINESE Dewey Orders the Flag to Be Much Displayed at Ports. By Associated Press. New York. Dec. 27.—Captain C. L. Hoop er, of the revenue cutter McCulloch, in a letter 'to Captain C. F. Shoemaker, chief of the revenue cutter service, dater Hong Kong. China. November 21. indicates, says the Herald's Washington correspondent, that Rear Admiral Dewtey desires to have the stars and stripes known as well as'pos sible in Chinese waters. 'Captain Hooper says .he .McCulloch sail ed from Manila November 16th and arriv ed at Hong Kong the •evening of the 18th, dropping anchor in lower bay until the following morning. After 'Cleaning shi-p he came up and anchored in the upper har bor and made official calls on our consul ; general, the governor and the British ad- I tnival. We coal tomorrow and next day and go on. I “At the request of Admiral Dewey we will stop in several Chinese ports, includ ing Amoy and Shanghai. I intend going up to Canton this trip, but am not sure of the waters. The admiral asks that we show rhe flag in as many ports as possible. They gave us a great send off from Manila. “The admiral said many nice 'things about the vessel and was on the quarter deck with his officers when the weather became warm. The entire crew' was lined up in each ship and all officers on the quarter deck. After answering each cheer our men gave three more for the admiral and we sailed away.” TWINING THE COLORS. The Spanish Commander Allows Cuban and American Flags Floated. By Associated Press. Havana, Dec. 27 —The citizens of Havana ' read in their papers the order from Cap tain. General Castellanos permitting the display of Cuban and American flags In j side the lines of the Spanish jurisdiction and early this morning the stars and ‘ stripes and the lone star of Cuba floated > over many buildings in the heart of the | city and in the streets where Spanish sol diers still keep guard. The only buildings 1 excepted in the order are the government ; offices. Havana is, therefore, now bright I with color and fire crackers are being ex ploded in the streets and on the plazas. The fear of Spaniards disappeared with the appearance of this order for out came thousands of flags secretly made by women of households or clandestinely purchased from adventurous peddlers. Robert A. i Scott, formerly city treasurer of Jackson ville, Fla., succedded in getting, a small cargo of flags into Havana some weeks ago and flags originally costing about four cents have been selling at about a dollar each. The order of Castellanos was issued after conference with General Ludlow and it will be followed tonight by an order closing cases at 10 p. m. General Ludlow ■ rode around the city late last night watch ing the temper of the people in the streets. Fourteen persons were wounded by people who fired different kinds foweapons In the jstreets. DUEL YESTEROAV Bloody Row in Hammond’s I Dance Hall. W ARMY MEN KILIED Third North Carolina Negro Par-i ticipated—The Coroners In quest. Two men dead and one is a prisoner at the provost guard barracks a* a result of a Christmas celebration in Henry Hom mond's dance hall in an alley between 'Plum and Fine on Fourth street. A large crowd of colored soMiers and civilians had I congregated in the place during during : yesterday afternoon and were enjoying ! themselves, when suddenly two men in the . uniform of Uncle Sam commenced shoot ing at each other. Others joined in the shooting. The place was crowded and a regular stampede ensued at once. When ' the police and provost guards had cleared ' aw.ay the crowd .that had gathered W. A. ' 'Ross, who has been acting ns a cook for the teamsters of the Third Engineers, was I found to be dead and Lee Alexander, a ' private of the Third North Carolina, was fatally shot in the abdomen. The body of 1 Rose was lying in the little passage way 1 leading from the alley to the dance ball and Alexander was just ins’de the hall. The body of Ross was taken to Keating’s ; undertaking establishment and Alexander ■ was removed to the division hospital, i where every thing possible was done- for j him by the surgeons, but to no avail, for . 1 he died last night. During the excitement that immediately followed the shooting Hayward Abernathy, a private in the Third North Carolina, who had also participated in the shooting, made his escape from the place, and was legging it at a good -rate of speed -down the alley, when he was spied by Private Ben jamin Edgerton, 'Company M, Second Ohio., who was on provost guard near the place., and he immediately gave chase. After a long sprint .of nearly a mile Edgerton overtook the fleeing man wav out on Pine street and placed him under arrest, but not until after he had fired a shot at him from nis magazine rifle. No one seems to know exactly how the trouble started, but it is believed that Ross and Alexander quarreled over a j woman and attempted to exterminate each ■ ether. \b< raai.iy, who is still locked up and securely guarded at the provost guard quarters, refuses to make a staL ment. Coroner Hollis held an inauest in the case of each of the two negroes who were 1 shot vesterday this morning. His verdict was that Ross shot Alexander, and that AbernatJiy killed Ross. Abernathy is be ing held for murder and has been trans ferred to the county jail. The remains of the two dead men w’ill be sent to homes in North Carolina, Ross br Un:l?r . i taker Keatans and .Alexander by Under- > : taker Wood. LYNCHED A NEGRO. 1 Mob Avenges Two Crimes At Harmony Gro/e. Harmony Grove, Dec. 27.—(Spec'ai.)—A .Mob of unknown persons lynched Jeff dol d.n. colored, near here Christmas night. Ihe negro was accused of attempted murder and of arson. He had been given ■; a ;:eliminary hearing upon these charges 1 and remanded to jail. It was while the , oiticers were carrying him to tae county site for imprisonment that he was hanged. The crime for which the negro met his ; death was perpetrated only a day 01 two ago. His dead body .was yesterday .found swinging to a limb of a large hickory tree near Wood's bridge on the Oconee river— close by the spot where Grjidy Reynolds 1 and Bud Brooks assassinated Merchant . ; Hunt two years ago. POLITICS IN PARIS Socialists Awaiting Their Opportunity- Counter Proposition. « By Associated t’ress. London, Dec. 27. —Special dispatches from Paris says in view of dily prepar , ations for a coup d’tat the revolutionary socialists have organized a vigilance com i mittee in each district, charged with the f observation and detection of the anti-Re publican movement. Counter preparations ’ are also being made, officers of the higher ' ranks of the army are said to have been j sounded on the subject of the coup d‘tat, | but the results are said to be disheart- I log- * .. « PET STRAHAN’S HUSBAND. iHe Gets the Long Sentence of Ninetsen Years. I t By Associated Press. I New York. «Dec. 27 —W. A. E. Moore, convicted of robbing Martin Mahon, a I hotel keeper in this city by the badger game, was today sentenced to nineteen i years in the state prison. FIVE OLD CITIZENS DEAD* Chattanooga. Dec. 27. —(Special.)—Chat- , tanooga lust two of its nonogenarians yes terday by the death of H. H. Paddock, aged 93. and Arthur S. Randolph, aged 91. and the third. M. H. Sellers, aged 94, is . quite ill, hardly expected to survive. KILLED IT SIGHT J. L. Smith Arrested For Shooting a Soldier. I i HEMS AN MINI I Woman Insists Ht is the Man —A Very Mysterious Case—Coro ner Waiting. t About midnight last night a man named Hayes, who has been employed as wagon master for the Third Engineers, was shot I and fatallv wounded at the home of : Blanche Taylor, a disreputable woman liv ing near t£e corner of Plum and Second streets. 1. L. Smith, a well known business ' man of Mulberry street, is locked up t the police station with doing the shooting. Ther is considerable my.-tr". surrounding the affair, as Hayes did not know his assailant and the authorities re fuse to allow Smith to be interviewed until after the hearing, which will be had before Recorder Freeman this afternoon. t The Taylor woman, however, claims that I Smith did the shooting, but his friends I claim that he can prove an alibi. About midnight last night some man whom she insists was Smith, called at the I apartments occupied by the woman, but | found that another man was there, aad ' began to raise a row. Hayes, who was the I I intruder, believing that an irate husband . ! had happened on the scene, attempted to ' escape from, the room, not even taking i time to don his clothes. His flight was cut I short by a bullet from a revolver in i hands of the other man. The ball entered ihe right side of Hayes, slightly to the | rear and just above the hip. He was im j mediately conveyed to the division hospi tal, where his injury was pronounced as fatal. lu the excitement that followed the man j who did the shooting had made his escape, • 'but on the strength of the statement made ; by Blanche Taylor, 1. L. Smith was arre.g- ' i ted by Policeman Tyner this morning at i I 1:30 o’clock at bis place of business. He | I claims that he had not been absent from ‘ his .store during the night. HAVANA HAPPENINGS. i Danger of Spreading Infection From Mer- j cenory Spaniards. | Bv Associated Press. New' York, Dec. 27 —A special from Ha ‘ vana says: A. Wolf, of company F, First j North Carolina, fell into Vento Springs and was drowned while doing.guard duty. A. C. Larsen, of company C, Fourth Vir j ginia volunteers, was fatally wounded by a fellow soldier. Unless stopped by the Americans, the ' Spaniards mean to sell December 30, the i I furniture and contents of the Alfonso i XIII. hospital, including 1,400 beds and i loots used by Spanish patients. Contagious ’ diseases were treated there and the sale j i will spread infection all over Havana. Civil Governor Decastro announces he i will remain at the office of General Lud- ’ low's request some time after the trans- i fer of the government to Americans. WILD WESTERN CHIVALRY. . I Plainsmen Acquitted For Mur der Give the Widow SIOOO In Gold. By Associated Press. j Chadron, Neb., Dec. 27 —As a sequel to ■ a court scene at Hot Springs, S. D., last week in which thirty-two cattlemen were acquitted of killing John Ekman, the sheep herder of Fall River county, S. D., last August, a cavalcade composed of exoner ated cattlemen rode up to a little cabin occupied by the destitute family of the dead man. The leader knocked at the door and Mrs. Ekman responded. Her face grew pale and she trembled. “Mrs. Ek man. “ said the leader, “we come to make you a little Christmas present. We shot your husband but it was self-defense. We know you are without funds. We would gladly restore your husband but that’s im- • possible. So we will do the next best ' i thing. We give you means to support , yourself and children. If you need more call on us.” and he handed her a bag containing SI,OOO in gold. The plainsmen raised their hats, mounted the horser- and j i rode away. 1 . STOVALL’S RIVAL. —■ Savannah Jonrnal Gives Up the Ghost After a Brief Life. By Associated Frees. Savaqnnah, Dec. 27. The Journal, start ed in October last as an afternoon paper, has suspended. Charles Will jam Edwards I of 'Wilmington, Del., was the publisher. Laborers' liens were taken out Saturday by printers and pressmen. The paper was unable to Continue. Edwards has left the city. TROUBLE IN BOLIVIA. Civil War Inevitable— Everybody Going to the Army.' Py Associated Press. Lima. Dec. 27. —Advices from Bolivia say the aspect of affairs is serious. Young i men belonging to the best society are joining either side. The banks have lost nearly all of their clerks and civil war is , inevitable. PRg E Five CEisTo THS MEN ■ WILL PETITION Council to Lower the License to S3OO or Less. COSTS THEM OVER $1,200 A Year to Do Business—Want the Dives Prohibited En tirely. Tae Whisk v Dealers’ Association of Ma con will present a peiii.on to council to night asking that the local liquor license be reduced from $506 to $366 or lefife for next year. It is understood that the p- tition will Lv signed by practically all of the 'oca! deal ers. though ti is known that some of them doubt, the w>sdom of the move. These seem to fear that by reducing the license they will e'mply be making capital for the prohi'bftienists. as many of the latter have openly expressed the hope that the liquor men would make such a mistake. Be that as it may, the petition will go before council tonight and that body will have to act on it one way or the other. The liquor men claim that the present . tax on them is a hardship, amoun.ing, as it dots, to about $1,250 for the average sa loon. Os this amount SSOO goes to the city. The state license has recently been reduc ed SSO, making the state and county li cence for next year S2OO. The government license is $25, but in addition to this t'he saloon men pay $1 tax on every bane! of beer, besides a stamp tax on cigars, wines., etc., which for the average saloon means from SSOO to SBOO annually. The most prominent liquor men say they ) do not object to the pio-t rigid restrictions. 1 but they do not think a hardship should • be imposed on the reputable dealers in or- I der to teesen the number of dives, etc. j They say that the projer way is for the 1 mayor and council to refuse to issue a li -1 cense to a. dive-keeper at any price. They i admit. that there are several such places I in IM aeon now-, and they say these should I not be licensed again. But, in the mean- ■ time they think the burden placed on the , reputable dealers should be lightened. One prominent dealer said that he knew of at least one saloon that would go out of business on the first day of January if the license remains as it is. ANOTHER TRIAL FOR PET. The Atlanta Woman Will Have a New Trial Early In January. New York. Dee. 27 —Assistant District j Attorney Mclntyre says that Fayne Stra i han Moore would be placed on trial again lin the criminal branch of the supreme I court in the last week of January. This j time she will be brought before Justice I Fursman instead of Recorder Goff. Mrs. I Moore’s lawyer. Abraham Levy, says: ■ “I shall* move, on Thursday, for a stay I of proceedings in the case of Moore, and ■ for a reduction of bail for Mrs. Moore. I intend to have her surroundings on New- Year's day more congenial than they are today, it possible.” Members of the jury claim that their dis i cussion was not swayed by sentimental J consideration for the woman on trial, but i those that would not vote for conviction were of the opinion that Mrs. Moore was ' but an instrument in her husband’s hands, .and ihey felt that the sentence that might be given her under a verdict of guilty was too severe for her offense. It was tated here that Charles I). Hill, a brother of Benjamin H. Hill, will defend Mrs. Moore ar the next trial MURDEROUS INSURGENTS. Aguinaldo Failing to Control the Irreconcitables — Brave Americans. By Associated Press. Manila, Dee. 27. —A steamer which has arrived from Samoa reports the Tagal in surgents have been in possession of Kal baon since December 11. All business there was entirely suspended and all the Spaniards of the vicinity sought refuge in the house of a man named Scott, an American. The insurgents threatened to attack the refuge, but refrained from do ing so because it was reported that Amer ican soldiers were on the way there. One Spaniard, however, was shot and another was pluckily rescued by Scott, who rode fifteen miles and demanded the man’s re lease in the face of an armed mob of Ta gala, who were 'looting Viscayan stores and houses, the insurgents being unable to control them. All efforts to induce the Viscayans to join the revolution were fruitless. The situation so far as the in surgents are concerned here is serious. The selection of a new cabinet has been entruste I t? a Filipino named M-.di. a r.i n r anl irr con-liable of unknown an'e ceacnts, and th? Bitter opponent of Aguin aldo. especially on the question of Spanish prisoners. It is reported that Aguinaldo has re fused to release the prisoners, although the cabinet decided to accede to the re quirements of General Otis for their re lease. It is rumored that Aguinaldo has fled to an iccessible region back of Cavite with a few followers, fearing assassina tion. This report, however, is denied but a sudden change of base.is unexplained. The expedition commanded by General Miller left for Iloilo, the capital of the inland of Penay. The troops consisted of the Eighteenth infantry, an Ohio battal on, the Sixth artillery and a detachment of the signal corps.