Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-05-03
ARMY AND NAVY.
UNITED STATES.

UNITED. STATES.
| General Macarthur has sent another
long list of deaths among the troops in
the Philippines.
.Agulnaldo says he is urging all Fill
pinos to lay down their arms and swear
allegiance to the United States.
Aguinaldo has been removed from the
Malacanan palace to private residence
at 56 SOlanO street. The guard placed
over him has been modified.
Russian, Fabella, Cosmo and Webb,
who were implicated with Carman in
trading operations with the insurgents
OF Laguna, have been released on S1O,-
600 bail.
General Macarthur has informed the
representative of the Associated Press
that the effect of Aguinaldo's address to
the Filipinos would undoubtedly be
beneficial.
Aguinaldo is not anxious to visit the
| United States and it is considered best
that he should remain where he is,
pending the completion of the work of
pacification.
An order has been issued at the War
Department discharging a number of
| captains who have been serving as Ma
jors in the volunteer service, but hold
commissions in the regular Army.
Major John S. Gilmore of the Forty
seventh Volunteer Infantry has cap
tured high insurgent stronghold in
Western Leyte. Lieutenant NJ. o.
Avery of the same regiment has des-
troyed another camp and killed six in
| surgents.
Aguinaldo composed his address with
out assistance. The original draft was
in Tagalog. 1t was afterward trans
lated into Spanish. 1t is believed that
Aguinaldo is sincerely DESTROYS of peace.
He is not an educated man, but he has
| considerable character, and improves
on acquaintance.
Sixteen hundred and eleven officers
and men of the Volunteer Army have
arrived on the transport Thomas. The
troops comprise SS6 men, including staff
and band of the Twenty-ninth Regi-
ment; 666 men, including staff and
band of the Thirty-second Regiment,
and seventy-nine men of Company F,
Twenty-siXth Regiment.
The trial of the members of the Man.
do-Ducat Secret Society, charged with
burning alive Filipinos who were OPP
posed to Instruction, and the trial of
Insurgent agents, has elected the fact
that in one locality all the local officers,
the parish priest and the president We're
the chief offenders. A reign of terror
was secretly inaugurated and persons
refusing to contribute to the insurgent
cause were burned alive by the direc-
ton of the president. All the details of
the conspiracy have been unearthed;
there is abundant evidence, aud it is
probable that all the ringleaders will be
hanged.
SOUTH AFRICA.
The force under Commandment Box
burg, composed of LOG men with their
wagons and rifles, have surrendered
near Middleburg, Transvaal Colony.
Lord Kitchener says since his last re-
port the British columns have captured
242 prisoners, 24S rifles, some ammuni-
ton and wagons and carts. A few men
also have surrendered.
The Petit Bleu, Brussels, has pub
lished dispatch saying that DR.. Leyds
| has sent to the German Foreign office
formal protesd against the supplying
of arms and guns to England by Ger
many.
General DeWet is said to be located
near Kroonstadt with but few followers
and is unable to recruit a sufficient
force to make an offensive movement.
There have been numerous surrenders
of starving Beers.
A train loaded with cattle and coal
has been captured by the Beers near
Monteno, Cape Colony. The forward
locomotive escaped and ran to Storm
burg and returned with troops, who
found the train on fire. A couple of
natives were killed. The tram hands
were stripped and then released.
Lord Kitchener has issued procla-
nation to the effect that any citizen in
the martial law districts of Cape Colony
found in arms, melting to fight, aiding
the enemy, or endangering by overt act
the British forces, will be tried by court
martial and be liable to the most severe
punishment. Such persons may even
| be shot.
Albert Cartwright, editor of the
South African News, who was arrested
in February on charge of sedition and
defamatory libel in having published
in his paper statement that Lord
Kitchener had secretly instructed his
troops to take no prisoners, has been con-
victed and sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment.
CHINA.
The situation in Southern Manchuria
is disquieting, and an another advance
of Russian troops will be made soon.
Owing to the departure of most of the
Russian troops from Moukden, the city
of Culo has become very unsafe. Al
most nightly Russian sentinels are shot
in the back.
General Voyion, the commander of
the French troops in China, has in
formed General Chaffee that 10000
French soldiers will leave China dur
ing the month of May.
The Tartar General at Fong Tien,
Manchuria, has borrowed of the Rus
slams on the security of land and poll
taxes the sum of 100000 taels, to be APP
piled in forming force of military
police.
Chinese rebels have again attacked
| the Manchurian Railway. They de-