Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-05-10
ARMY AND NAVY.
UNITED STATES.

Lieutenant William Patterson of the
Coast Artillery, formerly a Philadel-
phla lawyer, is to be tried by court-mar-
tlal for misappropriating the company
funds.
In consequence of advices received
from General Macarthur in the Philip
pines, stating that no more men or ami
mails were needed in the islands, the
transport officials. will not send the big
steamer Samoa to Manila with horses.
as was intended. The Samoa will only
carry freight, and is expected to carry
5000 or 10000 tons.
The administrative features of Albay
province are backward and the military
situation is improving slowly. General
Belarmanio is still operating with 200
rifles. The Federalists have requested
Agulnaldo's assistance in securing his
surrender.
Commissary Sergeant John Weston,
charged with completely in the COM
missary frauds, has been sentenced to
dlshonorable discharge and to two
years imprisonment. The sentences of
the other sergeants and clerks similarly
implicated will probably be greater.
| Captain James III. McRae, with Com
panies q and F of the Third Infantry,
recently encountered a force of insur-
gents near Norzagaray, in the province
OF Bulacan, killed five of them and cap
tured twenty-five rifles. Soon after
ward General Morres, with six men,
came to Norzagaray and surrendered.
Owing to his illness, the appointment
OF Brigadier General William Ludlow
to be Military Governor of the Depart
ment OF the Visayas has been revoked.
A board of surgeons has made an ex-
animation and reports that General
Ludlow suffered from an attack of grip
and localized congestion, which has de
veloped into dangerous case of tuber-
culosis. General Ludlow will return to
the United States by the first transport.
The War Department is about to is
sue an order replacing all white tents in
use in the regular Army with khaki,
which is regarded as more suitable and
serviceable than white. The white
tents now in use will be turned over to
State militia organizations, to be in
turn replaced by khaki as soon as they
are worn out. An Army Board has
also decided to replace all blue flannel
shirts with khaki in tropical service.
The objection to making this change
has heretofore been the way in which
the dye was affected by perspiration,
but it is understood that this difficulty
has been overcome by the substitution
of new ingredient in the dye, so that
khaki will be adopted as the tropic SER
vice shirt.
Notices have been placarded during
the nights, calling on patriotic Chinese
to rise May 18th and expel all foreign
ers.
General Voyron intimates that he in
tends to evacuate the neighborhood of
Shang Ting and return to Pao-Ting-fu.
His extreme outposts remain at Sinlei,
and he is keeping force at Ansuling
pass,
Colonel Hoffmeister, commanding
the Fourth Infantry and two compa-
MES of mountain artillery, attacked the
enemy April 23d by the great wall and
forced them to retire with heavy losses
into Shansi.
In the Mancheng district, northeast
of Paoting-fu, a strong band is commit
ting depredations, and has announced
its intention to attack the city of Man.
| cheng, where there is a post of twenty
German soldiers.
The headquarters staff at Picking has
| received information that a German
mounted force, which proceeded be-
yond Kalgan, found the country quiet.
No garrisons were encountered. The
Germans only saw Chinese police.
The evil continues to grow, and the
state of affairs is even worse than it was
three months ago and it must continue
to grow worse until the allies form an
efficient government, or allow Chinese
to deal with the situation in their own
way.
A disatch from Picking says band of
Boxers, estimated at 1000, is operating
twenty miles south of Paoting-fu. It
has raided three villages within week
and threatens to massacre the Christians
in that vicinity, many of whom have
fled to Paoting-fu for refuge.
Marshall Won Waldersee, in dis
patch from Peking, reports that ma
rauding has increased near Hoswu and
Matu, and that junks, used as trans
ports between these places, have been
attacked. Lieutenant-Colonel Arm
stadt has been sent from Tien-tsin to
the disturbed district in command of a
composite column.
The efforts of Mr.. Rockhill, special
American Commissioner, to persuade
the Ministers to reduce the amount of
the indemnity to be demanded from
China have failed. The Ministers are
perfectly willing that the United States
shall forego compensation, but as for
their governments they will require and
exact compensation for all losses.
The Chinese regulars, who retired be-
You'd the great wall, have reappeared
at another point within International
area. Strong representations have been
made to the Chinese plenipotentlaries
in regard to the necessity for their i'm.
mediate retirement. The French force
is in readiness to renew the operations,
but has been ordered to await the re-
suit of the imperial edicts.
General Chaffee, the American COM
mander, has assented to the decapita-
ton of nine armed robbers, who were