The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-12
THE ARMY AND THE NAVY.
ARMY NOTES.


Twelve recruits have been ordered to Fort
Leavenworth, Kan.
The leave of absence granted Second Lieut..
Iebulon b. Vance, Jr., Nineteenth Infantry,
has been extended one month.
First Lieut. Charles II. Cabaniss Eighteenth
Infantry, having been found incapactated for
active service by an Army retiring board, has
been ordered home.
First Lieut.. Ernest A. Darlington, Seventh
Cavalry, has been ordered from Charleston,
s. c., to West Point, n. Y, to report in person
to the commanding officer of that post.
Second Lieut. John E. Mcmahon, Fourth
Artillery, has been releued from duty at West
Point, June Is, and ordered to duty as aide-de-
camp to Brig. Gen. Alexander McD. McCook.
Maj. James r. Roche, paymaster, will be
relieved from duty in the Department of
Texas, and will proceed to and take station
at st. Louis, Mo-, not later than the Both in
stant
Capt. Charles W. Miner, Twenty-second In
fantry, has been ordered to report in person to
the commanding general Department of the
Missouri for assignment for temporary duty as
assistant to the inspector general of that de-
partment
Secretary Proctor by telegraph on Tuesday
directed the immediate issuance of an order
assigning Brig. Gen. Ruger to the command of
the Division of the Pacific on the retirement of
Gen. Gibbon, April 20. A new brigadier will
succeed Gen. Ruger in command of the De-
partment of Dakota.
The following transfers in the Twelfth In
fantry have been made: First Lieut. Frederick
Won Schrader, from Company G to Company
X; First Lieut.. William W. Wotherspoon,
from Company to Company 1; First Lieut.
Guy Howard, from Company l to Company d;
First Lieut.. Charles FL. Barth, from Company
K to Company G.
First Lieut. Frank Greene, Signal Corps, has
been ordered to proceed from Santa Fd, n. NJ,
to Los Angeles, Cal, for duty as signal officer
of the Department of Arizona. Lieut.. Greene,
in addition to performing such other duties
pertaining to the Signal Corps as may be as
signed him by the department commander, will
retain charge of the military telegraph lines in
the Department of Arizona.
By direction of the acting Secretary of War
the following changes relating to commssary
sergeants are made: Commissary Sergeant
William Haupt, now on furlough at McHenry.
Md, will report in person at its expiration to
the commanding officer Fort Mcintosh, Texas,
for duty, to relieve Commissary Sergeant
lsldore Kalmus. Commissary Sergeant Kali
mus, upon being thus relieved, will be granted
furlough of four months by the command
ing general Department of Texas Second
Lieut.. John E. McMahon, Fourth Artillery,
will be relieved from duty at the Military
Academy, June Is, 1884, and report in person
as soon as practicable to Brig. Gen. Alexander
McD. McCook for duty as aide-de-camp.
By direction of the acting Secretary of War
and in accordance with the provisions of an
act of Congress approved February "a, 1891,
a board of officers to consist of Lieut.. Col La
Rhett L. Livingston, Third Artillery; Mai.
Charles n: Byrne, surgeon; Capt. John Il.
Myrick, Third Artillery; Capt. Edward C.
Knower, Third Artillery; Capt. Walter Reed,
assistant surgeon; First Lieut.. Charles W.
Hobbs, Third ARTILLERY, recorder, have been
appointed to meet at Fort McHenry, Nd. on
Tuesday, April = 1891, or as soon thereafter
as practicable, to ascertain and report as to
the physical condition of William G. Spencer,
late captain Seventeenth Infantry, at the time
of his resignation in December, 1862, and the
disability, if any, under which he was then
suffering, and whether by reason of the same
he was entitled to retirement at the time of
his said resignation.