Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-06-21
ARMY AND NAVY.
UNITED STATES.

UNITED STATES.
The report circulated that General
Cables has surrendered is unfounded.
Five men were killed and seven were
injured in train wreck at Vestal, NY.
Major-General Samual B. M. Young
has been ordered to proceed to San
francisco to assume command of the
Department of California. He will re-
lieve Major-General Shafter, whose vol
unteer commission expires on July LIST.
General Shafter is already on the retired
list of the regular Army.
In battle with insurgents at Lipa,
province of Batangas, Lieutenant An
ton Springer of the Twenty-first Infan-
try was killed and Captain w. H. Will
helm and Lieutenant Charles Ramsay
OF the same regiment, Lieutenant Fitz-
hugh Lee Jr, and five enlisted men
were wounded.
Lieutenant Wray's command has
had six engagements with the insurg-
ents in the province ofSorsogon, Luzon,
killing six. Twenty-three insurgents
have been captured at Atimon, province
of Tabas.- Several minor captures are
reported from other parts of Southern
Luzon, where the insurgents are still
active.
News has been received at Washing
ton through official channels that Lieu
tenant Richard HI. Townley of the
Navy, has been convicted by court
martial at Manila and sentenced to dis
mlssal from the service. The charge on
which Lieutenant Townley was court
martialed was in connection with the
recent commissary irregularities at Ma
Mia. The sentence must be approved
by the President to become effective.
A letter from Paul ]. Spillane of the
Ninth Infantry, stationed in the Phil
lppines, has been received by friend in
| Watertown, n. Y. 1t states that while
Spillane was prisoner of the Filipinos
at Tariac he learned from insurgent
| officers the fate of Major Rockefeller,
whose mysterious disappearance early
in the war has puzzled the American
Army. Major Rockefeller, according
to the Filiplnos, was taken prisoner and
went mad while in captivity. Soon aft
erward he died. Spillane says that the
story of the Majors suicide after learn
ing that he had killed his own son in
battle is untrue, as Rockefeller was in
lO engagements.
SOUTH AFRICA.
A railroad wreck occurred near Pre-
tOria in which nine soldiers were killed
and many wounded.
Efforts to discover the location of the
| Long Tom" gun in the possession of
the Beers have been futile.
1t is persistently rumored at Durham
that general surrender of the Beers
will take place at an early date.
The British surprised two Boer laag-
ers at different places in Cape Colony
and captured forty-two prisoners, fif-
| teen rounds of ammunition and large
quantity of supplies.
The War Office, London, states off
cially that no news has been received OF
the alleged request by General Botha
for a meeting with Lord Kitchener in
| regard to peace terms. 1t was added
| that if such request had been made,
Lord Kitchener would have informed
the Government of it Immediately.
General Blood's operations in the
Eastern Transvaal have been eminently
successful in keeping General Botha's
forces in a comparatively small area.
| But Botha's command is still south OF
the Delagoa Bay Railway. There are
now only 900 Beers north of the line.
General Blood has denuded the country
of supplies.
Details from Bullock's column, which
is operating in the eastern part of the
Transvaal, show that during the past
three weeks the British have made fire.
quent successful night attacks while in
pursuit of Botha's forces. They have
captured number of Beers and also a
large quantity of stock. Quantities of
foodstuffs have been destroyed.
Colonel Wilson with 24O of Kitchen
er's scouts has surprised and routed 400
Beers belonging to Beyer's command,
thirty-four miles west of Warm Baths.
The Beers resisted stubbornly, but they
finally broke and fled, leaving thirty
seven dead, 100 prisoners and all their
wagons and supplies, including 5000
cattle, in the hands of the British. The
loss to the latter was three men killed
and fifteen wounded. Beyer's main
command arrived on the scene soon
after the engagement, but failed in an
attempt to recapture the supplies.
Grave military scandals are being
smOthered just now by the British Wal
Office. Five officers and several pri-
Yates of the irregular corps employed in
South Africa are now undergoing penal
servitude for life in the Portland and
Lewes .jails for traitorously assisting
Beers to smuggle ammunition through
the Britishli mes. They were sentenced
to be shot, but General Roberts com,
muted their sentences. In doing so he
returned them as dead from enteric
fever. Since then three other officers
and eleven men have been caught al
the same game and General Kitchener
had them shot and returned them as
| fever victims.
| CHINA.
Trouble between British and French
soldiers at Tien-tsin continues.
Despite all denials, Mrs. Botha, wife
of the Boer commander in chief, acting
in the role of peace envoy, visited the
Colonial Office and was received by
Earl Roberts at the War Office.
The Chinese troops have failed to sup
press the Boxers in Central Chilli, and
the French have therefore decided to re-
sumo their occupation of Chengting-Fu
and other places in that vicinity. The
| Chinese themselves have no eXpecta-