San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-01
ARMY NEWS.
Breezy Brevities Containing Current
Information of Our Military
Friends and Their
Doings,

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Payment of troops will probably take
place next Tuesday morning.
Sergeant Mohlenhoff, troop c, Fifth
cavalry. has been granted a furlOugh, to
take effect early next month.
Private Frazier, of the ho.p ital corps,
Fort Brown, has been given three
months furlough. At its expiration he is
entitled TO his discharge,
Upon request of the chief pavmaster of
the department, Major Manner. the pay
master will report in person, without de-
Law. at department headquarters on pub
lie business in connection with payment
of troops.
"a grand ball will be given in the new
mess hall. at Fort Sam Houston, on Sep
TENDER %. 1894. by Columbia Garrison No.
81, Regular Army and Navy Union.
Burroughs have been granted to the
following three year men.
Private Abbott, troop c, Seventh cav
airy.
Corporal Doyle, Co. C, Eighteenth In
fantry.
Corporal Cough, same company, and
regiment.
Private LeMaster, Co. Il, Twenty
third infantry.
Private Bemiss, troop |, Eff tn cavalry,
and Private Davenport, same troop and
regiment.
AT the expiration of furlough the
above are entitled to their discharge
they know they can make the rifle out
side.
Sergeant Bright and Private Doherty
aud Adelbert Fey, all of Company A,
Thirteenth infantry, now stationed at
Fort Reno, have been transferred TO the
Provost guard military prison at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas.
Chief Trumpeter Sutcliff, 5th cavalry,
has been appointed steward OF the post
canteen, vice Sergeant Murray, relieved.
Sergeant Sutcliff has had considerable en-
perience as steward in this position and
his appointment is hailed with pleasure
by every member of the garrison. He
took charge this morning.
4 New Brannfels avenue from the caval-
ry stables to Mason street is in a most
wretched condition and is disgraceSto
the ward. Between Carson and Mason
streets the street is not graded and the
mesquite brush and StumpS flourish in he
centre of the road, making IL dangerous
on dark nights, there being no lights on
the corner of Mason as there should be. In
front of Johnny Mueller's establishment
the water collects in such quantities when
it rains that the S8ddler and quartermaSt-
ter sergeant of the battery have been
observer IN Tile QuleJ VI Tue eNeulug,
shortly after rushing the growler a
couple of times. fishing with hook and
line in the pond formed; the mud and dirt
of this avenue scales the paint off bug
gies and artillery carriages and IL is al
most a helpless task for pedestrians to
try to cross it at numerous points: the
street should be paved and rolled and Al
derman Limburger should use his influ-
ence to have light put in at the corner
of Mason street.
Mr.. Williams. of Percival. Neb, has
found ring on the Custer battle field. En-
graved around the band are the names OF
fifteen principal battles of the civil war.
The owner of the ring, Mr.. Williams
thinks, probably persisted in the massacre
on the Little Big Horn. Every effort has
been made to discover the whereabouts
of anyone who could recognize the ring,
but without success.
The leave of Dr. WOodson, post surgeon
of Fort Mcintosh, has been extended one
month.
The resignation OF Captain John B.
BellingeT, assistant Quartermaster, of his
commission as lieutenant of 5th Cavalry,
has been accepted.
There will be sale of condemned
cavalry horses at the quartermaster'
depot at 10 a. m, September 3.
Sergeant Werner, troop Il. 3rd Cavalry,
now at Hot Springs, Arkansas, has been
ordered to Fort Bliss, Texas, for medical
treatment.
1t is reported that a marriage in Army
circles is soon eXpec Jed to take place
here.
Sergeant Major Seymour, with his
whole clerical force, is busy with the
monthly reports and returns.
Yesterday was pay day for the clerical
force aud quartermaster's employees.
Mr.. Pollock, of the Quartermaster'S Of
fee, was the lucky winner of valuable
horse put up at rattle. He Immediately
disposed of the animal for a considerable
sum.
Thrty-fve recruits in charge Of Cap
tain Reitzpr arrived this morning.
Two new desks have been put into the
adjutant'S Office.
The court martial for the trial of Cap
tain Plummer, 9th cavalry, Is in session
at Fort Robinson, Neb.