Amador ledger., 1901-04-12
ARMY AND NAVY.
UNITED STATES.

UNITED STATES.
The surrender of rifles since the cap
ture of Aguinaldo have averaged over a
hundred day.
Chief Surgeon r. H. Hall, of the De
partment of Northern Luzon, died at
Manila after being ill three weeks with
inflammation of the marrow of the
bones.
AguinaldO expresses himself AS pleased
with and impressed by the courteous
treatment accorded him by General
Macarthur. 81 am a prisoner, said
he, "but | am treated like guest.
President Mckinley has rewarded
General Funston for his achievement
in capturing Aguinaldo by appointing
him Brigadier-General in the regular
Army, in accordance with the recon-
mendation of General Macarthur.
Brigadier-General William A. Kobb
reports the surrender at Sumalca, Min
danao, of nine officers, $50 men and 1877
rifles and so shotguns, all of Capistrano's
command. This ends the trouble in
Mindanao so far as Filipinos are con-
cerned.
The War Department has received
information from General Macarthur
that Aguinaldo has taken the oath of
allegiance 10 the United States under
the terms of amnesty offered by Gen
eral Macarthur by direction of the
President.
Lieutenant Commander Jesse NJ. RO-
per ofthe gunboat Petrol was suffocated
to death as result of heroic effort to
rescue the men below during fire
which broke out in the sail room of the
vessel. Twenty-one officers and men
were Frustrated but will recover. The
remains of Lieutenant Roper will be
sent home on the Buffalo.
The President has appointed Calvin
L. Titus to be cadet at large at the
United States Military Academy at
West Point. Titus was the first one to
scale the wall at Picking. General Cor
bin has cabled General Macarthur, at
Manila, to send young Titus home on
the first available transport in order
that he may take the entrance exam
ination to the academy.
The Spaniard, Lorenzo Prieto, who
was charged with assisting the insurg-
ents by furnishing information to the
insurgent General, Cables, in exchange
for trading privileges, was tried by a
military commission, found guilty and
sentenced to death. General MacAr-
thur has committed the sentende to i'm
prisonment for ten years. Prieto was
the agent of Mendezona & Co., and to
a great extent was associated with d.
A. Carman, the American contractor,
also charged with aiding the Filipino
insurgents.
Interest in the capture and fate of
Aguinaldo is well nigh overshadowed
in Manila by sensational developments,
present and prospective, of frauds in the
COmmissary department. How widely
these extend has not yet been ascer-
tanned, but enough is already known to
Justify the belief that they are far reach
ing. Captain Frederick j. Barrows of
the Thirtieth Volunteer Infantry,
Quartermaster of the Department of
Southern Luzon, together with seven
commissary sergeallts, several civilian
clerks, a prominent Government con-
tractor, the assistant manager of the
Hotel Oriente, the proprietors of three
of the largest bakeries in Manila, and
other persons have been arrested. In
vestigations have scarcely begun, but
thousands of sacks of -four, a quantity
of bacon and wagon-loads of other
goods, all bearing Government marks,
have been found in the possession of
unauthorized persons. It is alleged
that the contractor in question, who
has been doing business approximate
ing 100000 month, has spent large
sums in entertaining officers.
SOUTH AFRICA.
The Beers derailed and plundered a
freight train near johannesburg re-
Gently.
A train from Johannesburg was fired
upon near Kaalfontein station, but ex-
cept for wounding two mules, no DAM
age was done.
Two hundred Beers have reappeared
near Richmond, Cape Colony, and the
town guard has been called out to de-
fend the place.
By nigth surprise the British cap
tured lager of sixty Beers near the
town of Rochberg, between Brandfort
and Saltpan, Orange River Colony.
A considerable number of Boer refu-
gees, men, women and children, con-
tinue to flock into Pretoria daily from
the outlying districts. They are being
sent to the detention camp at Irene.
Lord Kitchener reports that Plum
mer has occupied Mushroom and that
French has captured three guns on the
lower Pongolor Thirty-one prisoners
were also captured.
Dispatches from Cape Town and
Brussels talk of Generals Botha and
De Wet joining a gathering of 13, 900
men for operations against General
French in the Transvaal.
The Beers derailed and wrecked a
train near Mount Prospect. Suisse
qucntly General Campbells column at
tackled them and there was very heavy
fighting, General Campbell being at a
disadvantage. Owing to the mist on
the hills the result is not known.
The War Office, London, has received
advices from Lord Kitchener dated at
Pretoria, reporting the capture of sew
enty-two Beers in Orange River Colony
and officially announcing that General
French has taken fifty-six prisoners
and received the surrender of ninety
three Beers. Lord Kitchener also re-
norris uDOn the recent wreckinU of trains