Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-01-30
Til, PHILIPPINES.

uprising last month in the southern part
of the island. in which Lieutenant A.
G. Ledyard, Sixth infantry, was killed.
Instead of being an unimportant revolt
of native police, as was at first report
ed, it appears to have been an attempt
b. overthrow American authority. The
movement was started by the chief Of
fcials of the autonomous government,
the men who were elected and inaugur-
ated with so much ceremony last No
vember.
Eleven of these officials, including
the president and several councillors.
were lodged in Jail on a charge of plot
ting treason. Several secured tbs re-
lease under heavy bonds, but others re-
main in prison.
General Smith found evidence that
the revolving police We're following the
orders of the autonomous government,
which designed to use the forces under
its control TO overthrow the Americans.
The plot failed through being started
prematurely, but Negros was in state
of uneasiness for week. Two conf
panies of the Forty infantry were
hurried from Iloilo to reinforce the
garrison at Bacolor.
The officials arrested include some Of
the most prominent men III Negros. 1t
is believed that they will be expelled
from the island.
MANILA, January %. Two companies
of the Forty sixth infantry under Major
Muir, defeated 500 insurgents at Taai,
province of Batangas, Saturday, taking
the town
Tie United States gunboat Marietta
also shelled the place The insurgents
had four cannon, two of which We're
captured. Two Americans We're wound
ed and ten insurgent dead We're found
on the field
The plague statistics now show total
of II cases and II cases deaths
Colonel James NJ Bell of the Twenty
seventh volunteer infantry has been
made hrigadier- general of volunteers
as reward for good services i'll the
Philippines
An association composed of women
has been organized in Illinois for the
purpose of opposing suffrage to women.
General Joe Wheeler has resigned his
commission in the army and is on his
way home from the Philippines. He
could get no field service with the army
and garrison life was too irhsome.
India is again confronted with
famine. The official estimates show
the cost to the government OF the re-
lief works, etc, to the end OF March
will be 40,000,0o1 rupees About 3D.
900, 900 persons are now affected III
British territory and about q, f,0O), ,090 i'll
the native states. The vieeroy, Lord
Curzon of Kedleston, said that the
famine area had expanded, surpassins
the first fears, and they were now fac
ing cattle, water and food scarcisf OF
terrible character. About 3,25a,00]
persons, he continued, Were already re
ceiving relief.
News We're received at Carlo, Egypt,
that Osman Digna, principal general OF
the late Khalifa, has been captured.
II has been known that he was once IN
the neighborhood of Tokah six days
ago and several expeditions were or
ganized from Suakim, under Captain
Burgess, with the result that Osman
Digna was taken unhurt i'll the hills.
A beautiful gavel made out of a piece
of oak taken from the battleship Ore
gon, and bound with bands of gold
from California mines, has been pre-
sented to Speaker Henderson by the
California delegation in congress and
other of his friends in California.
B. II. Roberts elected to congress
from Utah has been declared guilty of
polyganly and will not be seated.
Martin Bergen, the catcher of the
Boston baseball team of the National
league, killed his wife and two children
and committed suicide at his home in
North Brookfeld, Mass. Mrs. Bergen
and one child were killed with an AK,
and then Bergen used razor to cut the
throat of his other child and his own.
1t Is thought thesaction was due to in
sanity. Ii has been suspected for some
time that Bergen was II victim of men,
tai arrangement.
Representative Lacey of Iowa has re-
introduced in the house his bill for tn,
protection of game birds modified. how
ever. so as to make it unlawful to shin
in interstate commerce game killed III
violation of the law.
Orders were issued recently, formally
detaching Captain Sigsbee from the
command of the Texas and assigning
him to the head of the naval intelh-
gence bureau
The chief and head men of the Black
feet Indian nation held great council
on the reservation in Montana and de
termined to sue the United States gov
ernment for damages growing out of an
alleged violation of the treaty of 1885,
by which 3O,0O0,00o acres Were taken
from the Indians without compensation
by the government Fraud by govern
ne.lt agents in subsequent treaties i.
also alleged
War between japan and Yu-sia is
aansiaer lif. q ''e. rec - - 90 well
nfarn i ,s,,st. t,fsea. a..4s - tU.
The December statement of the col
lection of internal revenue shows the
receipts to have been $2i, ,2le,3OS, an in.
crease over December, 1898, of S2,o26,
4l6. The total receipts for the siN
months of the present fiscal year We're