Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29
OUR MILITARY BOYS.

ADMIRAL UPsHUR, of the United States
Navy, is visiting friends in this city.
CAPAIN JAMES K. MURDOCH, of the Second
Brigade staff, arrived home from the East yes
terday.
THE Washington Infantry held very sue
cessful reception at Silver Lake Grove on last
Wednesday,
A MEETING of the members of Battery B
will be held tomorrow evening for the purpose
of raising funds to purchase extra rations for
camp,
THE Duquesne Grays INDUCED in target
practice at Corcoran station, on the B. & o. r.
R., last Friday. Several medals were con-
tested for.
THE number of prominent officers of the Ma
iional Guard from all parts of the State, at the
convention at Harrisburg last week, was some-
thing remarkable.
MAJOR HARRY EVANS, an old member of
the guard in this vicinity, but for several years
a resident of New York City, spent several
days among his friends in this city last week.
A MEETING of the Second Brigade Examin-
ing Board has been called for Monday evening,
July 2, at $50 O'clock at the Seventh Avenue
Hotel. The number of candidates to appear
are very few, as two meetings have been held
lately.
No action has yet been taken by either of the
local regiments relative TO turning out for the
para de at the Allegheny semi Centennial on
July H. 1t is probable the Tenth Regiment
will take part in the ceremonies that day, and
leave for camp that night.
LIEUTENANT McLAIN, of Company E, Four
teenth Regiment has been appointed acting
Inspector of Rifle Practice of the Fourteenth
Regiment, TO take charge Of target practice in
the regiment during the absence of Lieutenant
Brown. who leaves for Europe shortly.
DIR. W. T. ENGLISH, Assistant Surgeon of
the Eighteenth Regiment, has rendered his
resignation to Colonel Smith, on account of the
pressure of private business The probable
successor of DR.. English Is hard to name. but
the appointment will be made before camp.
SINCE the passage Of the bill favoring the
appointment of members of the National
Guard to commissions in the regular service,
several hundred applications have been filed
at the War Department in Washington. The
chances are that not a single appointment can
be made for several years to come.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM M. AwI. of Company F,
Eighteenth Regiment was unanimously elected
to the command of the company last Friday
night for an ensuing term of FIVE years. Forty
one men were present, and although considera-
BILE talk had been INDUCED in regarding the
candidacy of former officer of the company,
no opposition appeared at the election.
AT the meeting OF the Board of Control Of the
Fourteenth Regiment, last Monday night, It
was decided to have the regiment leave for
camp on Saturday evening, July 10. The motion
officers present. and it is probable an effort will
be made to change the date to Friday night, as
considerable difficulty will undoubtedly be ex-
perienced by arriving on the grounds on Sun
day morning. Most of the regim ents of the First
Brigade will arrive in camp Sunday, so those
organizations that get on the grounds before
that day will get the benefit of the use of the
wagons. and other necessaries before the gen.
eraI rush.
BRIGADE QUARTERMAsTKR GREENLAND,
with several of the regimental Quartermasters
from this end of the State. visited the camp
ground at Mt. Guthrie last Wednesday. The
grounds are being prepared in good shape for
the coming tour of duty, very much Of the
wooded portion beng cleared away. so that all
the regiments this year will be out in the open.
The arrangements first decided on, which
placed the Second Brigade down near the grove
occupied by the First Brigade three years ago,
have been changed and all the brigades will
occupy exactly the same ground as at last en-.
campment The various brigade and division
headquarters viii also be in the same plans.