New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-22
ARMY IND NAVY NEWS

Washington oct. 2l.-By direction Of the Presi-
dent Captain w. II. Clapp. OF the 10th Infantry
was to-day relieved from duty a. acting indian
agent at Fort Berthold Agency. S. D.. and assigned
TO duty acting agent at the Pine Ridge Agency
s. d., relieving Captain c. @. Penney. 9TH infantry
who is ordered 10 join his own regiment.
The leave granted Second Lieutenant Samuel b
Arnold 1st Cavalry on August %. is changed 10
leave OF absence surgeons certificate OF dlsapii-
ity to date from October 5. and Is extended one
month. The extension OF leave on surgeons certi'-
icate OF disa ability granted Captain Douglass NJ
Scott commissary OF subsistence, on September &c.
IS stll further extended five months on account OF
sickness The leave granted Captain Thomas c.
Woodbury., 10Th Infantry, on September 49, is ex-
tended one month Lieutenant Colonel william VI.
Wherry % Infantry, will report by letter to the
commanding general. Department OF the Platte Tor
assignment TO a station. and upon the expiration
OF his present sick leave will join the station TO
which he may be assigned. The leave granted
Major Camille c. c. Carr. sh Cavalry, on Septem-
Der IL. is extended one month
The following transfers in the 4th Infantry are
made: Captain Henry Seton from Company "A 10
Company l. Captain Charles W. Mason from Com
pany to Company A: Second Lieutenant John H.
Wholley from Company q TO Company *: Second
Lieutenant Guy II. B. Smith. from Company b to
Company L. Second Lieutenant John II. Swtzer.
from Company X to Company G: Second Lieuten-
ant Daniel Duncan. from Company to Company Is.
The leave granted Major James ~ Wheelan. sth
Cavalry on September % IL extended three months
The extension OF leave. surgeons certificate OF
disability granted Second Lieutenant Leonard NJ
Prince ID Infantry. on August 49, is extended two
months account Of sickness
The following transfers In the 9th Infantry are
made: Second Lieutenant William A. Campbell
from Company A TO Company X; Second Lieuten-
ant Thomas ". Darrrah. from Company X TO Com
pany A.
After careful consideration OF the advisability oil
docking the new battle-ship Texas at the Norfolk
Navy Yard Secretary Herbert has decided that the
naval drydock there Is not suitable for the purpose
and he has accordingly ordered the vessel to the
New-York Navy Yard, where the docking will be
done The Texas was recently ordered TO go into
the Norfolk dock. where she had been twice before
actual completion but the naval constructor at the
navy yard informed the Navy Department that the
Texas was much deeper In the water since taking
on her armament that he OF the opinion tha
she could not get into the dock. Investigation
caused the Department to coincide with thl, We"
and the orders have therefore been changed.
Dispatches received at the Navy Department TO-
day announce the arrival Of the Castine at Bahia
the San Francisco at Gibraltar and the BaItlmor.
The trial OF the harbor-defence ram Katahdir
has been for November |. Commodore Selfridge
will be president OF the trial board.
Fort Monroe. Va. oct 2-Admiral Bunce. with
to-day for a weeks target practice and fleet man
Bethlehem. Penn. oct. 2l-The coming tower
armor and three armor plates for the new battle
Iron Company to Cramps shipyards at Philadelphia
The armOr weighed fifty tons.