St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-24
MILITARY MATTERS.
What Is Going On in This and
Other Departments of the Army.


Other Departments of the Army.
Leave of absence for three months is
granted First Lieut.. Thomas G. Town
send, Sixth infantry.
The resignation of Cadet James M.
Lambdin, second class, United States
Military academy; has been accepted by
the secretary of war.
Capt. Henry Romeyn, Fifth infantry,
Fort keogh; Mont, has been granted
brief leave OF absence on the authority
of his post commander.
Capt. James G. Worthington, assist
ant surgeon, U. S. A., has been granted
leave of absence for four months, to
take effect May Is, 1888.
Sergt. Louis ID. Schattner, Troop G,
First cavalry, Fort Custer, Mont, is
ordered discharged the service. He is
not entitled to travel pay.
The war department order directing
the discharge of Hospital Steward Will
lam w. Dolman, now on duty at Fort
Walla Walla, W. T., is revoked.
Private Richard S. Noaks, hospital
Fort Meade, OAK, and to proceed to and
report for duty at Fort Riley, Kan.
The official order confirming the re-
tirement of Post Chaplain John W.Jack-
son. United States army, was yesterday
received at department headquarters.
The commanding general of the de-
partment has been directed to issue
furlough, for two months, to Post Quar-
termaster Sergeant Charles Harvey,
United States army.
Private Emanuel Haus, Company 81,
Fifth infantry, now with his company
at Fort Keogh, Mont, is ordered imme-
diately discharged the service. Travel
pay will not be furnished him.
A court-martial has been ordered to
convene at Fort KeOgh, Mont, of which
Capt. Thomas III. Logan, Fifth infantry,
is president, and Second Lieut.. Edward
S. Avis, Fifth infantry, judge advocate.
Upon the recommendation of his COM
pany commander, Private Joseph Nc
Nally, Company B, Third infantry. Fort
Shaw, Mont, has been promoted to the
rank of corporal, vice Sullivan, dis
charged.
The commanding officer Of Jefferson
Barracks, Mo-, has been ordered to for
ward all military cOnvictS now at that
depot and awaiting transfer, to the Fort
LeavenwOrth military prison, under
proper guard.
The secretary of war has ordered that
Militia ry Convict Frank A. LavOy, late
of Light Battery E, First artillery, and
now in Fort LeavenwOrth military
prison, be released from confinement
and set at liberty.
An army retiring board has found
Capt. Randolph Norwood, Second cav
airy, incapacitated for active service,
and he has been relieved from further
duty with the army and granted leave
of absence pending his retirement.
Special Orders No. 40, from headquar-
tiers of the general recruiting service,
directs that eight available general
service recruits from the rendezvous at
st. Paul be reported to Gen. Ruger for
assignment to the Twelfth infantry.
Corp. John W. Barnes, Company A,
Fifth infantry, Fort Keogh, Mont, has,
upon the request of Capt. E. l.. Randall,
been promoted to the grade of sergeant
in said company, vice Baylies, who has
been commissioned second lieutenant
Of the army.
Privates Amer Bevan and Charles A.
Schwenke, Company B, and John j.
Stewart and Patrick f. COSgrOve, Com
pany /, Fifteenth infantry, now with
their respective companies at Fort Penn
biIa, OAK, are transferred to the hos
pital corps of the army.
Sergt. Theodore Moldenhauer, Com
pany l, Fifth infantry, now with his
company at Fort KeOgh, Mont, is by
order of the secretary of war transferred
to the hospital corps of the army and is
assigned for duty in the medical depart
ment at the post named.
Capt. Marlborough c. Wyeth, assist
ant surgeon, U. S. A., is authorized to
avail himself of leave of absence for
two months, to take effect April l, and
Maj. Harvey E. Brown, surgeon U. S.
A., is assigned to the duties from which
Assistant Surgeon Wyeth stands tenn
porarily relieved.
Having performed the special duty
assigned them, Chief Musician Michael
G. Meyrelles, band, and Private Emory
Brain, Troop E. Second cavalry, are or
dered to proceed to their station at Fort
Walla Walla, w. T. The subsistence
department will commute the rations of
these men for eight days at the usual
rate.
Congress has passed the bill providing
for the sale of the site OF Fort Omaha,
Neb., together with the buildings there
on, and for thes purchase of new site
and suitable buildings, in accordance
with the recommendations submitted
by the secretary of war and lieutenant
general commanding the army. Also
bill allowing soldiers and sailors who
have lost both hands, OF the use of both
hands, pension of 500 a month.
Second Lieut.. Thomas 81. Mcclure,
Twenty fifth infantry, registered yes
terday morning at department head
quarters, en- route to his station at Fort
Smelling. Lieut.. Mcclure was formerly
a sergeant in Company B, Eighteenth
infantry, and was one OF the ten sue
ceSSful nOn-cOmmiSSiOned officers who
recently won his commission by Compel
tive examination atFort Monroe, Va.
The superintendent of the general re-
cruiting service has been ordered to pre-
pare and forward to such point or points
in the department of the Platte as the
commanding general thereof may desig-
nate fifty recruits for assignment to the
Seventh infantry. The recruits will be
distributed with view to the equaliza-
ton of the companies OF the regiment.
Private George A. Keyser, Company
G, Second infantry, now with his COM
pany at Fort Omaha, Neb., is trans
ferred to Troop II, First cavalry, and
will be sent without delay to the station
of his troop-Fort AssinibOine, Mont.
The entire cost of this transfer trans
portatiOn and subsistence will be
charged against the soldier on the next
muster and pay rolls of Troop ii, First
cavalry.
A telegram from Fort Buford, OAK,
reports the destruction by fire OF two
sets of officers quarters. Fort BufOrd
is a Fsix-company post. 1t is the head
quarters of the Fifteenth United States
infantry, of which regiment Companies
E, F, G and K are stationed there, to-
gether with Troops G and l., First cay
airy, two officers of the medical depart
ment and one post chaplain. The post
is under the command of Col. r. E. A.
Grafton, Fifteenth infantry.
Mai. Abram G. Wildrick, Fifth artil-
lery, has been assigned to the command
of the regular troops which have been