San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-12
ARMY NEWS.

Michael Mcdonald, company h, Fifth
| infantry, received his discharge this
morning under the provisions of the three
year act.
| A special consignment of four recruits
has been made to this department
Private August Shultz, troop H, Fifth
cavalry, has been granted furlough I'M
| der the three years act.
1t is very likely that First Lieutenant
| John NJ. enthusiastically second lieu
! tenant of the Fifth caValry-will be trans
| ferred from the Ninth cavalry to his old
| regiment, and that Lieutenant Evans, re-
Gently promoted to the Fifth, will be as
| signed to the Ninth cavalry.
Lieutenant w, H. Gordon, Eighteenth
| infantry, left Fort Bliss, Texas. on the 9th
inst. for Baton Rouge, La, TO take charge
of his new duties as professor of military
science at the state university.
The following enlisted men have been
placed on the retired list of the army:
Corporal Frederick Adams, Battalion of
Engineers; Sergeant Bowers, Co. G, 18th
infantry; Ordnance Sergeant j. Mitchell
and Private Patrick O'LOughlin and Pat
rick Golden.
A few days ago charges were preferred
at the war department by woman that
one OF the applicants now undergoing eX-
animation at Fort LeavenwOrth for ap-
pointment to the grade of second lieuten
ant, a corporal, was her husband. In case
it is found that the young man is married.
he will, OF course, be barred from APP
point ment as under the law unmarried
men only can enlist. The examining
board has been directed by the war de-
partmenG to investigate the report in the
case. Upon its decision will depend the
question as to whether or not the cor
poral will &C on with his examination.
Captain Glass, signal corps, has been
experimenting with signalling by sun
light lately with considerable success.
His latest experiment was from the top
of the Equitable building, Denver, to the
summit of Pixies Peak, a distance of six
ty-siX miles. The flashes of the mir
rors could be distinctly seen by the naked
eye during the transmission of messages,
and within five minutes after the oper
atorS began their work, the response
came.
1t is proposed to use the bicycle as
means of distributing and taking up the
telegraph wire used by the Army Signal
Corps. 1t is suggested that a reel attach
ment can he arranged to pay out the wire
as the bicycle is propelled, and it is
planned to arrange, by an ingenious SyS-
tenn to use the power of the front wheel to
collect the wire. Experiments will be
made in San Antonio.
Monday night last, according to the
Chicago Times, four young men of Evans
ton, a suburb of Chicago, where there are
number of troops in camp since the
strike, dressed themselves up as fashion
able young ladies and enticed four troop
erS of the Sixth cavalry for a walk on the
lake shore, where they took the cavalry
men by surprise by jumping on them la
Sullivan. The Times says everything
but hare-lip goes with the soldiers.
Twenty. eight Government mules, most
of them being in good condition, will be
sold at auction at the Sally Port on Sat-
urdaY next at 10 o'clock a. m. This is to
abolish the pack train and will be rare
opportunity for persons desiring to buy
mules.
At 6:1O o'clock Sunday morning Lieu
try, stationed at Fort Russell, Wvo., ar
rived in Omaha on his bicycle, having left
Cheyenne, a distance of GOT miles. at six
O'Clock Monday morning. He made the
trip for the purpose of demonstrating to
the War department the efficiency of the
wheel on a long march. lie had his
wheel rugged up for the purpose of carry
ing the usual eQuipage of a soldier in the
field, which includes three days, rations, a
Springfield rife, a Colts revolver, canteen,
blanket, dog tent, and fifty rounds of am
munition. He consumed five days and
half of actual travelling time. Lieutenant
Dawson said he did not make any special
effort to cover the 800 miles in better
time than the infantry is required to
make. He will make detailed report to
General Bro ks.