Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-30
GOSSIP OF THE GUARD.

LIEUTENANT KrMMEL, Of Battery B, leave,
for Mt. Gretna tonight. He viii act as cap
tain of the team representing the three bat
teries at the shoot this week
A NUMBER of members of Battery B weni
to Butler last Wednesday to take part II
and act as a firing squad at the reunion oi
the Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry.
AT the meeting Of Battery B last Monday
night series of resolutions was adopted
respecting the death of Harry W. McElroy,
one Of the members Of the organization.
TIE members of Company A, Fourteenth
Regiment, are ordered to assemble at the
Central Armory tomorrow evening at 73o P.
II. to transact some business Of Importance.
THE regimental matches of the Twelfth
Regiment were held at Wnliamsport last
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. A
number Of valuable prizes were contested
for.
COLONEL WILLIAM A KREPs, of the Fifteenth
Regiment, who came East to attend the en-
campment of the Second Brigade, left for
Montana last week, where he is interested In
anumber of mines.
In general orders Governor Pattfson
thanks each officer and enlisted man in the
Guard for the improved soldierly bearing
and general appearance as shown at the
recent encampment.
CAPTAIN SIMMONS, Of Company d, Eigh-
teenth Regiment, claims to have the best
company chest yet to be seen. 1t is 1Sx20
inches and 6 feet long, and when opened Will
furnish two tables and nine cots.
COLONEL SYLVESTER BoNAYFoN, late Of the
Third Regiment; Lieutenant Colonel J. G.
Fox, late Of the Sixteenth Regiment, and
Cantains H O. Hastings and George B. Roth,
late of the First and Fourth Regiments, re-
spectively, have been placed on the "rou OF
retired officers"
SERGEANT ROBERT HURLEY, OF Company A,
Eighteenth Regiment, left for Columbus
Barracks last week for the commencement
of a five years service IN the regular army.
Sergeant Hurley has been member of the
local militia for many years and was known
as the best-drilled man in the brigade.
CAPTAIN W. e. THOMPSON, OF the Four
teenth Regiment, has been doing some
splendid work on the rifle range this season,
putting up a score OF SO out of q possible los
one day last week. The Fourteenth team
has lost one Of it's best members by the in
ability Of Captain Thompson to take part In
the matches.
E1aHTY-s1x commissions were issued
throughout the State during the past month,
the bulk of them going to the Third brigade
Two more brevet second heutenants have
also been added to the already long list Of
names OF the gentlemen being Walter Fl.
Camp.of Wyalusing, and Jose FRANK turner,
of Plymouth.
CoMPANY I, Of the Sixteenth Regiment,
claims to have tine best marksman in the
State in the person OF Private Henry O.
Weagraff He is an old member Of the regu-
lar army, but has been in the Sixteenth
Regiment for q number Of years. He has
won % medals in shooting contests of vart
Gus kinds and has been member Of scores
of winning teams. Private Weagraf did the
best shooting in the matches at Salt Works
last Friday.
THE Fourth and Thirteenth Regiments
have taken active steps toward the organi-
zation and equipment Of signal corps, and it
Is expected that by next camp both these
regiments will be able to go into the field
elegantly prepared in this respect. The
New York Guard has given the matter of
signal corps especial attention during the
past two years, and as a result this State is
probably far ahead of any of the others in
this important subject.
THE annual match Of the organizations Of
the Second Brigade for the Delamater
trophy took place last Friday on the range
of the Fourteenth at Salt Works, and, as was
generally predicted. was won by the Six
teenth Regiment, the trophy going perma-
nently to this regiment. The shooting of all
the teams was far below the average, the
scores being: Sixteenth Regiment, SIS; Tenth
50A;- Fourteenth Regiment, ,4s7i Fifth