Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
GOSSIP OF THE GUARD.

CAPTAIN A. p. SHANNON, OF the Washington
Infantry. is confined to his home with
badly spratned ankle.
ADJUrANr GENERAL McCLELLAND and Gem
eral Snowden spent the greater part of last
week in Chicago on business connected
Fair.
INSPECTOR GENERAL McKIBBIN qualified on
the range of the Eighteenth Regiment last
week with a score of 40. 1t was Colonel Nc
Kibbin's first attempt at shooting, and the
score was good one
Eastern military organization, is making
tour Of the South in body. The organiza-
tion is 80 strong, and last week it was re-
ceived by President Harrison in Wash
tngton.
TIE regular monthly meeting Of the Wash.
ington Infantry will be held in the armory
on next Tuesday evening, November 8. at
O'Clock. A full turnout is requested, as bus
mess Of Importance to every member will be
transacted.
LIEUTENANT JOHN Posr, Of the Eighteenth
Regiment, Is proving himself quite terror
to the toughs who infest the vicinity Of the
regimental armory. Last week he arrested
two of them, and they are now ruAticaring
In the comfy Jail as consequence.
COMPANY I, of McKeesport, has succeeded
in getting new rifle range on the line of the
Baltimore and Ohio road. 1t is said to be a
good one, and will have all the distances up
to 600 yards. The company held its annual
shoot on the Saltworks range yesterday.
CAPTAIN W. H. WAssELL received his Or
ders from the War Department. in Washing
ton last week, and wil1leave for Fort Keogh,
Montana, about the 10th Of November. Mr..
Wassell has been assigned to the Indian
fantry.
THE annual report OF the Adjutant General
OF New York shows the State forces October
to be: Fourteen regiments, one battalion
Of infantry and IS separate companies of in
fantry, battalions of artillery, l troop Of
cavalry, and signal corps. There are Isl
York service, and it has been decided to re-
place the Remington rifle which they now
have by the modern Springfield rifle, as used
In Pennsylvania.
THE shoot for the marksmen's buttons
offered by Captain Henry Schmidt, of Com
pany A, Fourteenth Regiment, took place
last Thursday afternoon on the Saltworks
range Of the Fourteenth Regiment. There
and one from Battery B. Corporal Stewart,
of the battery, and Sergeant Templeton, Of
the Fourteenth, tied for first place, hut in
the shoot off Templeton won. The scores
were: Templeton, "a; Stewart, "a; Turner,
81; Knox, 53, and Brody, ~. The possible
score was loo.
THE much talked Of match between Serge
ant Templeton, of Company A, Fourteenth
Regiment, and Lieutenant Hull, of Company
B, took place last Monday at Saltw orks. The
shoot was for purse Of $50, and was won by
Templeton with q score of IS. Lieutenant
Hull's score was 81 Hull was the winner of
the Robb medal q few weeks ago, and the
match last Monday was the result of the first
contest. Sergeant Templeton's score was
vania. Another match between the same
men is spoken OF
ACCORDING to circular issued by Colonel
Herman Osthans, the General Inspector Of
Rifle Practice, tho season Of rifle practice
has been extended to November L. The
season was to have closed yesterday, but in
view of the good weather and the general
an extension, two weeks additional has been
added in which to qualify men. According
to the new order, regimental inspectors
must have their consolidated reports in the
hands OF the brigade ordnance officers by
November 6, or they will not be included in
the regimental ratings and will be too late
for publication.
ORDERS have been issued by General
Snowden for the court-martial Of Colonel
W. B. Smith and Lieutenant Bell, both of |
the Third Regiment. The court will sit at
division headquarters in Phfladelphia No
vember u, and will be composed of General |
Goblin, Colonel Hawkins, Of the Tenth Repf-
ment; Colonel schall, Of the Sixth Regiment;
Colonel Smith, of the Eighteenth Regiment; |
Colonel Frank Magee, Of the Eighth Regi.
ment, and Lieutenant Colonel Cuyler az
Judge advocate. The officers selected bv
General Snowden are the oldest command |
ants in the three brigaoes and most of them |
veterans OF the late war. No nonsense will
against Colonel Smith will be sifted to the
bottom. OF course the possibility of the
Of the Third Regiment is the
principal topic OF discussion in the First
Brigade, and, as consequence, considerable
1guring Is being INDUCED In as to the own
,rshfp Of the armory building in case of
Juch an event. 1t was built bv popular sub. |
but maintained by the State, The
inal ownership would evidently have to be
ettled by law suit.