Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-21
Army News.

WASHINGTON, April 20.--[Special tele-
gram to the BEE. Colonel John p. Parke,
engineer corps, Prof. James Mercus, military
academy, and First Lieutenant William @.
Brown, First cavalry adiutant military
academy, are ordered to assemble at West
Point to consider the extension of the limits
on the south of the reservation.
First Lieutenant William A. Nichols,
Twenty-third infantry, is granted TWO
months extension of leave on surgeons GER
tificate.
The operation Of so much of paragraph II,
special orders No. 10, April 6, 1883, as relates
to Captain George e. Bushnell, assistant
surgeon, is suspended until May l, 1888,
when he will be relieved from duty at Fort
Preble, Me-, and proceed to Camp Pilot
Butte, Wyoming Territory, as directed.
John Beran, late private Company A,
Eighth infantry, now in confinement at the
Leavenworth military prison under the sen.
tence of q general court-martial will be
released June 1, 1888.
The following officers will be released from
duty at the Leavenworth military prison, to
take effect May /, and join their proper
stations Captain William H. Harmon,
Twentieth infantry; First Lieutenant
Thomas G. Townsend, Sixth infantry; First
Lieutenant Benjamin II. Cheever, jr., Sixth
cavalry.
The following officers will report in person
May to the commanding general of the De-
partment of the Missouri for duty at the
Leavenworth military prison: First Lieu
tenant George S. -Hoyt, Eighteenth infantry;
First Lieutenant Charles w. Mason, Fourth
infantry; First Lieutenant Harvey d. Reed,
Twenty-tifth infantry.
I),.i,y ~
cavalry, now with his troop, is discharged
from the service.
The following general orders have been
issued by General Sheridan as amendments
to paragraph rs of the regulations, service of
1886:
A leave of absence commences on the day
following that on which the officer departs
from his proper station. The expiration of
his leave must find him at his post.
A leave of absence granted to an officer in
the field or on special duty at the time of his
application, shall take effect respectively on
the termination OF the campaign or the COM
petion OF the special duty to which the officer
was assigned, unless in the opinion of the
department commander his services can be
sooner spared, when it will take effect at
such time as the department commander may
direct In all other cases an officer is
expected to avail himself of leave
granted as soon as proper facilities
offer for leaving his station unless a specific
date upon which the leave shall take effect is
stated in the order granting it. Unavoidable
circumstances preventing the obeyance of
this rule must in every case be reported for
the information and action of the authority
granting the leave.
Leave for one month, beginning on the first
day of a calendar month, will expire with the
last day of the month, whatever it's number
of days. Commencing on an intermediate
day of the month, the day of a month will
expire with the day preceding the same in
the next month. The day of departure,
whatever.the hour, is counted as day Of duty.
The day of return, whatever its hour, as a day
of absence. The pay account of every officer
on leave should, throughout the period of his
absence, exhibit the date of commencement
of leave, the .authority for his absence and,
| in case the account is for the month in which
| the absence terminates, the date of return TO
relief from duty will be counted as day of
duty, and the day of return as day OF
leave. .-.s4, ...s