Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18

cep.ion and entertainment OF comrades VINO 80
to the national encampment are rapidly being
pushed forward Milwaukeeans deserve al
the praise that can be bestowed upon them.
NATIONAL COMMANDER A. L PEARSON, OF
the Union Veteran Legion, has issued stirring
circular letter to the members of his stan ana
others IN the U. V. L., urging increased actiy-
ity in the WORK OF organizing new encainp-
ments.
SOME of the members of Post 296 are busy In
preparing for the trip to Milwaukee. Some OF
the ladies' iicluding Mrs Coblie, Mrs. McCabe
and Mrs Jones' will also 90. Other comrades
of 2S6 are busily engaged in preparing 10 20 10
Gettysburg.
TEE joint reunion of the regimental associa-
lions of the One Hundred and Second, the
One Hundred and Thirty-fourth and the one
Hundred and Thirty-seventh Regiments az
Butler on Thursday was very successful and
enjoyable event.
THE monument to the memory of the late
Thomas A. Armstrong will be placed In the
Allegheny Parks. On one side OF II VIII De:
Erected by the working people OF the United
States:" and on another Will be the late com, ON,
rades career as q soldier The monument WIZ
be dedicated in October.
THE members of Encampment No. ], U. v.
L. are requested to meet at their hall, over
the Pittsburg Gas office, on Sixth avenue, To-
morrow at o'clock p. NJ. to attend the funerai
of Comrade William Powers, who was kliieo
from the regimental reunions at Butler.
A MONUMENT will be erected to the memory
of General Jesse l. Reno on the site where he
was killed at the battle of South Mountain,
Nd, on the l4th of next month, the twenty
seventh anniversary Of that battle GeneraI
Reno was in command of the Ninth Corps
that day, The monument is being erected by
the survivors of that corps.
On Thursday, August %, the cornerstone OF
the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at Indian
apolis. Ind, will be laid. The monument will
cost so 900 and will be very handsome, Presi-
dent Harrison will probably be presena a. Tbe TSe
Seventieth Indiana. which ne commanded.
holds reunion the next day.
THE organization of post of the 6. A. R at
Fort Sumter is an event in the work of that
organization, and also something that recalls
the exciting days Of July: 1851, when the little
band of patriots there held in check large
force of Confederates. The post has properly
been named Robert Anderson" after the
hero Major Anderson, then in command OF
Sumter.
THE death of Comrade William Powers
and the injuries of Comrades Rowley, Jones.
Lyon, Kilgore and others, caused by the ac-
cident on the Butler branch Of the West Penn
road, occasoned great regret among the COM
rades of the city. Comrade Powers was at one
time a member Of Post l5l, and later OF
Post II.
Of the Sherman Brigade, the late President
Garield's command during the war, was held
last week at Canton, O., commencing Tuesday
and ending Friday. The city was handsomely
decorated and prominent speakers were in at
tendance, including Comrade Foraker, Cover
nor. The next meeting will be held in August,
1890, at Mansfield, o.
MANY Pennsylvania comrades are dissatis-
fed with the construction the Attorney Gen.
eral puts upon the law passed by the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature last winter. which orders
free transportation to all Pennsylvania Regi-
ments and other Federal organizations which
participated in the battle of Gettysburg to thas
town at the time of the dedication of the mon
uments in September.
AT the annual reunion of the Northwestern
Association of the G. A R. at Greenville, Pa,
next Tuesday, over 1000 old soldiers are ex-
pected to be present. Addresses will be deliv-
cred by Governor Beaver. Department Com
mander Stewart, Colonel Chill Hazard, Hon.
Harry White and Others. Miss Lillian Burk-
readings in the evening.
COLONEL FREDERICK l. Locke l34 Broad
way, New York, is Secretary of the Fifth
Corps Association. He desires all who are In
possession of data that would be desirable in
the preparation of a history of that corps, to
communicate with him, As the services Of
this corps were surpassed by no other, and as a
number of Western Pennsylvania Organiza-
tions were in it, Colonel Locke should hear
from many in this locality.
For nervous prostration and impairment of
mind, the Pension Office in 1888 granted Rich
ard Whitney pension of sz4 per month. This
allowance was subsequently increased to $50
per month. Through an error made by a sur
geon who examined the pensIoner, the pension
at a later date was reduced to IS per month.
Under decision Of Assistant Secretary Bussey,
the pensioner has been granted an allowance
of s72 a month and pension arrears from the
date of his discharge in 1865 at the rates pro-
.1s.1 s, NhaG .NnI
from time to time. His arrears will aggregate |
about Sl2,0 900.