Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-24
THE CITIZEN S0LDIERY.

CAPTAIN o. @. Coon has removed his place
Of business from McKeesport to Homestead.
MAJOR GREENLAND, quartermaster OF the
Second Brigade, was in the city for few days
during the past week.
COLONEL w. J. HULINGs and Adjutant Nc
Sweeney. of the Sixteenth regiment were IN
tne city during the past week.
COLONEL SMITH has received q warrant
from the Adjutant General for the horse hire
1or the mounted officers OF his command.
The State Fencibles haye had issued to
them go Springfield rifles, caliber As. and have
been ordered to the Hartranft range for rihe
practice.
COLONEL SMITH has issued an order for in
spection of quarters for next Saturday night.
Company commanders will have to hustle the
coming week to prepare for it.
FROM reports it seems that the First Regi-
ment of Philadelphia will head the National
Guard. 1t is also rumored that the Fourteenth
and Eighteenth Regiments will not be far be-
hind.
LIEUTENANT JOSEPH B. KAERo HER, OF
Company F, Eighteenth Regiment is at pres
ent putting in all his spare time drilling com.
pany of 200 men for the society parade next
month.
THE shoot for the Fourteenth Regiment
medals now held by Sergeant England and
Captain Coon. of Company L Eighteenth kegi-
ment, will occur on October 10 at the Four
teenth Regiment range.
THE mady friends of n. ]. Langham, ex-
quartermaster sergeant of the Eighteenth
Regiment. will be panied to learn of his serious
illness. He has been confined to his bed tor
over month with pneumonia,
DURING October the Worcester Continen-
tails of Massachusetts. a battalion Of four COM
panies armed and equipped in the style OF the
Revolutionary times will visit Philadelphia as
the guests OF the State Fencibles.
IN general order it is announced by Brig
adler General Robert P. Dechert that he has
assumed command of the First Brigede by
virtue OF his commission and special order NO.
ID from the Adjutant Generals ofhce.
THE much talked of court martial will be
held soon, as the charges and specifications
were sent to brigade headquarters shortly after
the return from camp. Both of the officers In
terested think they are in the right A num-
ber of witnesses will be subp9naed for both
sides.
SERGEANT MAJOR LLOYD FLINT, Tenth
Regiment, has accepted position in the Pitts
burg postofice, and will make his home in this
city. He will in all probability ask for his dis
charge from Colonel Hawkins, as be has re-
moved from the regimental limits He would
be q valuable acquisition TO the local guard.
SPECIAL order No. IS from the Adjutant
Generals Office 6isbands Company X, Second
Regiment; the commanding officer to turn in
all State property and issue proper discharges
to the enlisted men. Captain Theodore
Geppert and Second Lieutenant Charles @.
Lister, Company K, Second Regiment are
honorably discharged and their company dis
banded.
THE pay for Musicians Lawlor, McKelvey
and Davies for Camp Rippey, 1889, has been re-
ceived by Adjutant Reese, just one year after
the service had been rendered. Their pay was
refused on some technicality, but through the
efforts of Adjutanr Reese he finally convinced
the Adjutant General that they were entitled
to it.
CAPTAIN ]. P. PENNEY, Company G, and
Lieutenant Horace F. Lowry. Company E,
Eighteenth Regiment left Monday evening
for New York, where they will join Captain
Davis and Lieutenant Pearson. The party will
visit Albany and Boston and on the return trip
will stop of at Philadelphia. While in the
above named cities they will visit the different
sarmorles to get pointers for the interior of the
new armory for the Eighteenth Regiment.
1T is understood that Major General George
R. Snowden will make the following appoint
ments on his staff: Lieutenant Colonels,
George H. North. A. A.-G.: Edward w. Pat
ton, Commissary; R. F. Cullinan, Quartermas-
ter; Charles s. Greene, Ordnance Officer;
Charles II. Townsend, !. r. p; T. De Witt
Cuyler, Judge Advocate; William T. Elliott,
Inspector; r. &. Hindekoper, Surgeon, and
Majors Barton u. Evans, ]. A. G. Campbell
and possibly A. Lawrence Wetherill, as A. D.
.. The promotions are Cullinan Townsend,
Cuyler Hindekoper and Campbell.