MANILA, Feb. 7 -- A rare news clipping documenting the declaration of Philippine independence from the United States in 1899 was unveiled in a US museum last week.

Spain ceded its colony of the Philippines to the United States following its defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898 in the Treaty of Paris.

Expecting independence from any colonial ruler following the Spaniards' loss, Emilio Aguinaldo on Jan. 5, 1899 declared the Philippines independent from the US.

That night, the La Independencia newspaper published his document of declaration and put them up all over Manila, an original copy of which will be displayed at the General Douglas MacArthur Memorial Museum in the US state of Virginia.

One clipping was ripped down and obtain...