Amador ledger., 1901-05-24
ARMY AND NAVY.
UNITED STATES.


| The trial of Commissary Sergeant
, henry wilson on the charge of stealing
supplies, has begun.
Captain Murray Baldwin, Twenty
sixth Infantry, upon relief at Alcatraz
Island, is tojoin his company.
Colonel Astilla, the insurgent COVER
nor of Infanta province has Surrendered
with ten officers, $50 men, 10 rifles and
ten cannon.
Flfty-seven recruits, the product of a
weeks work by the naval recruiting
station at Omaha, Neb., have been sent
to San Francisco.
A detachment of the Twenty-first In
fantry routed $50 rebels at Zurbanos
camp, near Luhban, and captured a
large quantity of supplies.
A hundred insurgents attacked Pag-
ll0ac, in Tayabas, which province was
considered to be pacified. The insurg-
ents were repulsed without loss.
| General Funston recently had con-
erence with General Lacuna, who
promised to surrender with all his men
as soon as he could collect them.
A civilian, Sylvester C. Fletcher, an
employe of the Depot Quartermaster,
mas been sentenced to five years i'm
prisonment at Manila for selling Gov
eminent bacon and coffee.
Cables, the insurgent leader of La
gqna province, is being closely chased.
he Is supposed to have gone southwark
OF Laguna province, and is not likely to
surrender, fearing the death penalty for
MS numerous assassinations.
Colonel William P. Rail, assistant
AdJutant-General, Department of the
Lakes, is ordered to proceed to the Phil
ipplnes and relieve Brigadier-General
THOMAS II. Barry, volunteer, who will
then proceed to San Francisco and re-
port to the Adjutant-General of the
Army.
The United States cruiser Buffalo has
arrived at New York from Manila, via
Colombo and the Suez canal. The Buff
falo left Cavite, Manila, April 4th, and
arrived outside the bar at Sandy Hook
at midnight, making the run in forty
eight days. The Buffalo brought SCI
seamen and fifty-seven marines, most
of whom had enlisted for the war or for
three years. They will be discharged
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
For sudden and violent changes of
temderature Chicago holds the record.
recently the thermometer registered 80
degrees Fair, at 2:45 and the people
were Frustrated by the intense heat.
At three o'clock the mercury stood at
46 degrees, having dropped A degrees
In fifteen minutes, and overcoats were
in demand. 1t is said the records of
the Weather Bureau reveal no parallel
to it.
| A gun that weighs 100 tons and can
throw projectile weighing about 237O
pounds distance of twenty-one miles,
is being completed at Watervilet arse
nal under the direction of the War De
partment. If successful, this great rifle
will by all odds the most terrible engine
of war possessed by any nation. It is
an experiment, but there is every rea-
son to believe that it will be all its
builders expect of it. The gun will be
eighteen inches in muzzle diameter and
over forty-nine feet in length. Each
shot will consume a charge of SIS
pounds ofsmokeless powder. Captain
Wheeler of the ordnance bureau has
been ordered to inspect the completion
of the gun. The weapon when COM
pleted, will be sent to the Buffalo Expo
sitfon. If the tests are satisfactory the
Government will order forty of them.
Of this number eight will be placed in
New York harbor, ten at San Fran
cisco, eight at Boston and four at
Hampton Roads.
The China Times reports the capture
of brigand headquarters where the
Chinese were pillaging the neighbor-
hood under the leadership of ten foreign
soldiers. The Germans killed twenty
nine Chinese and captured junk on
which a cannon was mounted.
An official dispatch from Peking an
nounces that band of Chinese bri-
gands from the Province of Kwang ST
recently attacked the French post at
Ling-Ian and drove out the garrison,
killing five and wounding seven men.
A few days later the brigands attacked
the French post at Sooglang, but were
driven off, leaving thirty-three killed.
The band was finally driven back into
Kwang ST with heavy loss. Ten of the
Frenchmen were wounded during the
fighting.
| SOUTH AFRICA.
OeHeIdl LIE wet, according 10 q us
patch from Pretoria, has resumed his
operations and is reported to have gone
into the Transvaal with 1000 men.
| According to dispatch from PETER
maritzburg, Lord Kitchener is about to
try new plan of burning the veldt in
order to compel the Beers to surrender.
Mrs. Louis Botba, who has obtained
consent to interview Mr.. Kruger and
urge him to advocate peace, has sailed
for Europe on the steamer Dunvegan
Castle.
The British Government has rented
Tucker and Morgan islands, to be used
as detention camps for Boer prisoners.
Active preparations continue at Oar
relPs island, obtained for the same pur-
pose.
At banquet held in London, Major
General Pole-Carew said: "At the be-
ginning of the war, had the Beers fully
realized their strength and our UMPIRE
paradness, we would have been driven
into Durham and Cape town, and would
have presented the spectacle of con-
quering South Africa from the coast. Z"