Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-02
GOSSIP OF THE GUARD.

LIEUTENANT ALFRED EAsroN, OF Company
| of the Fourteenth Regiment, returned
| from Chatauqua last week
CAPTAIN CHARLES e. RoEssIHa, who hae
been soiourning at Atlantic City for the past
| month, returned home yesterday.
COLONEL HILL and Colonel Grey have rent.
| ed cottage at Arnold station for the use OF
their families during the coming camp.
| TIE McKeever cartridge boxes will short.
| iy be issued throughout the Second Brigade,
| as will also new have-sacks and bayonet
| scabbards.
W.R. KUHN, the caterer, has decided to
run q restaurant at the Arnold camp next
week. HE has obtained the privilege from
Major A. j. Logan.
CoMPANY A, Of the Fourteenth Regiment,
| has gotten a full outfit OF the regulation
leggins, and OF the coming tour Of duty will
be the only company in the regiment SO
supplied.
TEE Board Of officers OF the Fourteenth
Regiment meets tomorrow evening. The
meeting will be the last before camp and
considerable business Of importance will be
transacted.
TIE Board of Control Of the Eighteenth
Regiment met last evening in the Diamond
Street Armory. The meeting was well at
tended, and final arrangements for camp
were settled
THE monthly meeting Of the Washington
Infantry will be held next Tuesday even
ing. All baggage for camp must be at the
armory the same night as the company
leaves Thursday evening.
CAPTAIN J. A. LoAR, Of the Tenth Regi-
ment, spent few days in the city last week.
Captain Loar is the gentleman who received
such unpleasant notoriety in connection
with the strike at Mt. Pleasant.
LIEUTENANT BENNETT GRoFF, of Company
D, Eighteenth Regiment, has rendered his
resignation to Colonel Smith. Mr.. Croft was
the heavyweight of the regiment, tipping
the scales at close to 500 pounds.
AN election has been ordered in Company
!, of McKeesport, for August IL, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation Of
First Lieutenant Thomas Wiley This
election will occur while the company is in
camp.
ADJUTANr CHARLES REESE, Of the Eight
eenth Regiment who has been travelling
through the eastern portion of the State for
some weeks in company with Major Alex.
McCandless, of the Fourteenth Regiment,
will be back in the city next Tuesday.
MR.. A. j. FRIcK has recognized the serv-
ices of Company E of the Tenth Regiment
at Mt. Pleasant during the recent coke trou-
bles by presenting them with complete
new outfit of uniforms together with flag
and set OF musical equipments The bill
came to $1,000
Mr.. FRED TURNER, formerly an officer of
Battery B, was in the city yesterday. Mr..
Turner who is now located at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, has been acting as Quartermaster Ser
geant of the Ninth Regiment for some time
and was elected Second Lieutenant of Com
pany D Of the same regiment last Friday
evening.
THE Second Brigade Examining Board
m eets at the Monongahela House tomorrow
Qt oon lot for
sions who have not yet appeared before the
board should be present at this meeting, as
it is the last before camp, and no officer will |
receive pay for the coming tour who does |
not hold commission. |
MEETINGS Of the Third Brigade Examining |
Board have evidently not been held as fire. |
Quently in the past as they might have been. |
Several officers in this brigade who have |
been reelected to commissions have had |
trouble in holding their original rank on ac- |
count of the failure Of the board to examine |
them within the six months allowed BY the |
oode.
MAJOR THOMAS R. CowFII, Of the Sixteenth
diei suddenly at Oil City last
week. He had been connected with the
National Guard for many years Special
orders were sent out from Harrisburg to I'LL
he vacancy caused by Major Cowell's
leath and also that caused by the resigna-
ion of Lieutenant Colonel Foote, Colonel |
1ulings of the Sixteenth Regiment, re- |
urned to Oil City yesterday after an absence
If some weeks
TIE official attendances at the Inspections
# the First and Third Brigades during their
ecent camps were as follows: Gray Invinci-
lies, $50; State Fencibles SIS; City Troop,
l; Battery A, 9s.7; First Regiment, es1; Sec
nd Regiment, 95.5; Third Regiment, $50;
ixth Regiment, 96. Total number of officers
nd men present in the First Brigade 1859.
n the Third Brigade-Governor's Troop, ,9S5;
sattery C, 100; Fourth Regiment, 9937;
Eighth Regiment, 1886; Ninth Regiment