Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-04-05
ARMY AND NAVY.
UNITED STATES.

UNITED STATES.
The transport Logan has arrived from
Manila, with the Thirty-third and the
Thirty-fourth infantry regiments and
Maior-General S. NJ. B. Young and his
staff.
Without either knowing of the 9TH
er's illness, Mrs Mary Williams and
John Reynolds, brother and sister, who
had been separated for ten years, died
in the Dunning Hospital, Chicago,
within an hour of each other.
About 10000 regulars will be entitled
to their discharges in the current wear.
1t is proposed to let these soldiers re-
turn to their homes and not to fill their
places. Thus the Army can be reduced
to 10000 men in a perfectly natural
way without interfering with its discl-
pline or effectiveness.
| -Four officers and sixty-four rifiemen
who belonged to General Trias' COM
mand have surrendered in Southern
Luzon. Flores, another rebel leader,
mas also surrendered, together with
eight officers and twenty-five rifles.
1t is estimated that 1000 rifiemen with
arms and bolomen have surrendered.
Colonel Rosario, with fifty-one men
and fifty-six rifles, has surrendered to
Colonel Baldwin of the Fourth Infan-
try, at San Francisco de Malabon, Cav
lite province. Lieutenant Dean, Troop
Z, Sixth Cavalry, has engaged a force
OF insurgents at Tubig, Lagtna province,
killing several of them and capturing
seven men and twenty-four rifles.
Advices from the Philippines are so
encouraging for peace that the War
Department is considering the advisa-
bllity OF reducing the garrison in the
archipelago. The reorganized army is
to be recruited to the full strength of
1OO,O men, but it is believed that fur
ther requirements will not compel the
Administration to MAINTAIN this maxi
mum.
General Funston has succeeded in
capturing Aguinaldo. He has reached
Manila with his important captive on
the gunboat Vicksburg. General Fun
stOn, with the assistance of number of
Macabebes, captured Aguinaldo in the
country near Casiguran, nine miles
from Baler, on the northeast coast of
the island of Luzon. The rebel leader
and his entire staff are now in Manila.
General Funston employed clever
ruse to reach Aguinaldo. His plan
worked successfully, with the result
that the head and front of the insurrec-
ton is now where he will do no more
harm to American interests. Recent
dispatches from Manila told of the de-
parture of General Funston on what
many believed was an almost hopeless
expedition. The very audacity of Cen
eral FunstOn's plan, however, was such
that those who knew him intimately
had faith that he would accomplish his
object. Some months ago letters were
captured by Americans showing beyond
peradventure that the rebel leader was
hiding in the northeastern part of the
island. General Funston Immediately
conceived his bold plan to capture him,
which received General MacArthur's
approval. Three weeks ago he started
from Manila with Surgeon-Major Har-
ris, Captain Newton of the Thirty
fourth Infantry, Lieutenant Admire of
the Twenty-second Infantry, Lieuten-
ant Mitchell of the Fortieth Infantry,
six veteran Americans and number of
native scouts, all of whom were selected
for their bravery and extensive knowl-
edge of the country. General Funston's
plan was that after he and his party
landed as near as possible to the place
where Aguinalpo was thought to be in
hiding native scouts were to pass them
selves off as insurgents, who, having
captured General Funston and other
Americans, were conveying them to
AguinaldO. When the supposed pris-
oners were brought by their alleged
captors before Aguinaldo they were to
suddenly appear in their true charac-
ter, sieze the willy Filipino and make
their way back to the coast, where the
gunboat Vicksburg, which had con-
veyed the party, was to wait their re-
turn. 1t will readily be seen that the
adventure was a desperate one, as
treachery was always possible, and Gen
eral Funston had no absolute means of
knowing how many men Aguinaldo
had with him. 1t was possible that he
would have enough to overwhelm the
Americans and their native allies, but
this did not deter them. They accepted
the risk, with the result that Aguinaldo
is now safe in the hands of the Ameri-
can military authorities in Manila.
SOUTH AFRICA.
1t is rumored from Bloemfontein that
General De Wet is again in the Orange
River Colony.
Severe fighting has occurred between
the British and Beers at Manifestations
tein, east of Klerksdorp, Transvaal.
1t is said the Beers lost heavily in at
lacking the garrison at Lichtenburg
recently. More than seventy burghers
are reported to have been shot at one
spot among the wire entanglements.
The dispatch from Vryheid is re-
garded as giving the total of General
French's captures drought his opera
tons. 1t indicates, therefore, the cap
ture of an additional gun and of more
Beers and war material.
General French, with Dartnall's and
Poulteney's columns have arrived at
Vryheid, having killed, wounded or
captured 200 Beers. He has also taken
several cannon, 1000 rifles, 1900 wagons
and 226,00 head of horses cattle and
sheep.
The town guard at Queenstown has
been called out, owing to reports that a
force of Beers is near the town. Bust
ness has been shut down in order to al
low the employees to man the trenches
and forts day and night. The Beers,