Amador ledger., 1901-07-12
ARMY AND NAVY.
UNITED STATES.

Colonel H. McGregor, Ninth Cavalry
has been retired from active service.
| The transport Hancock sailed June
10Th direct to Manila, from San Fran
cisco.
| Lieutenant Nina McNair has cap
tured hfty-four insurgents in the north
western part of the Province of Tayabas,
Island of Luzon.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Allen, Sig
nal Corps, has been honorably dis
charged as Brigadier-General of the
United States Volunteers.
Lieutenant-C Colonel Benjamin f. Pope
deputy surgeOn-general, has been Or
dered to duty as the relief of Colonel
Charles Greenleaf, chief surgeon of the
Division of the Philippines.
There is no intention on the part of
the War Department to reduce the mill
tary force i'll Cuba at the present time
or In the near future. The present force
OF nearly 5000 men is held there on the
recommendation of GOvernor-General
Wood, and the Secretary will depend
on General Woods advice as to the re-
duction of the force
Lieutenant Edward Downs of the
First Infantry and one private of that
regiment have been killed in the south
ern part of the Island of Samar. Cap
tam WOODBURY. of the Ninteenth In
fantry, has captured Samson's camp i'm
the Island of Bohol. Private Kraus Of
that regiment was killed and four men
y were wounded.
By the arrival OF the transport Kill
patrick the last of the volunteer regi-
ments from the Philippines have been
landed on United States soil. The Xii.
patrick brought 1011 men of the Forty.
third Regiment, which has a record fol
fighting and continuous activity. All
of the officers have made a record fol
fighting, but the palm is held by Second
Lieutenant Charles 9. Estes, who was
in forty-four different engagements and
emerged from every one with credit.
! Without regard to ministerial investi.
cations, and without consulting the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
the United States War Department
will take up the canteen question and
gather its own statistics. Commanding
officers at all the forts and posts in the
country hereafter will take exact mem.
oranda of what occurs during and after
pay day, the number of arrests, the
number of absentees and the number OF
deserters. This will be done at each OF
the next four pay days, and the result
will be laid before Congress at its next
session.
Over 1000 volunteers were discharged
from service June 30th. Four regi.
ments of infantry, the Thirty-eighth,
FOurty-fOurth, Forty-eighth and Forty.
ninth, were paid off and mustered out
there was no lack of money among the
newly made civilians, as they received
) pay varying from $40 to $1,000. In spite
} of the large amount of money they had
to dispose of, there was no disorder Oh
drunkenness, Tho Preside was busy,
but without noise or excitement. BY
half-past-four some 100 soldiers had
been paid off and mustered out and by
s o'clock the entire 4076 had become
civilians. Two of the regiments mus
tered out were colored, the Forty-eighth
and Forty-ninth.
CHINA.
The Taotai Sheng at the request Of
Liu Kung vi, Viceroy of Nankin, has
called on the COnsuls and urged that as
the foreign forces were leaving Picking
they ought also to evacuate Shanghai.
The COnsuls are referring the matter to
their respective governments.
Word has been received at Peking of
the arrival of Duke Ian and Prince
Tuan at Ulumski, Turkestan, in which
place of Punishment they have been
sentenced to reside. A Russian Consul
is stationed at Ulumski, and he will no
tify the Russian Government should
the banished Chinese leave that place.
A dispatch from Chefoo reports the
entire province of Shantung in revolt.
The rebels are said to be overrunning
the country, pillaging and burning. II
is asserted that in the vicinity of Muk-
den all the villages are being burned,
and that hundreds of inhabitants have
been killed. The dispatch says the
Russian forces are not sufficient to
maintain order.
4 curious discrepancy concerning the
amount of the Chinese indemnity has
developed, by which it appears that
China has agreed to pay about 35, 0O0,-
600 taels, or $24 500, 900, more than the
united demands of all the powers. How
this occurred is not clear to officials but
it appears to have been an error of cal
culation at Peking in the first place by
those making up the Indebtedness, and
later by the Chinese in their hasty &C.
ceptance of the total. AS finally made
up this total was 100000 900 taels, but
the present calculation, after taking in
all of the demands that are known, will
make total of only 415, 100000 taels.
In the meantime China has agreed to
pay the larger amount, so that the ques-
ton now arises, what will become OF
the excess of So, 600, 900 taels?
SOUTH AFRICA.
A cablegram to the New York Sun
from Cape Town says that five Beers
were killed and eleven wounded in the
attack on Richmond.
1t appears that, including the Boel
prisoners and those in the concentra.
ton camps, the cost of supporting the
10000 Beers is falling upon the British
taxpayers.
General Touches two BOer COM
mands have advanced beyond Glen AL
lmOnd which is about ten miles south.