The times., 1897-11-30
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS.

The following Army ana Navy orders
were issued yesterday:
Inc following assignments Of officers
10 regiments are announced
flrsU Lieut.. Ross l. bush tpIomuted from
second lieutenant, Fifteenth InIantrv.D to
tne Iwenty-fifJn Infantry, Company *,
To date from November Is, 1897, wee
Green, retired.
AdutionaI Second Lieut. Edward A.
Roche, Twenty-iirSt Infantry, To va
cancy Of seCoEd lieutenant Fifteenth In
iantry, Company H. Nov ember 10, S91,
with rank from June II, 1897, vice Bush,
promoted. lie VIII proceed to Join his
coupuny-
49, erection Of the acting Secretary
of War, the ordinary leave Of absence
granted First Lieut.. Frederick T. Van Lew,
Second Infantry, June >, 1857, non this
oiIiCe, Is vsNt-uaeti 81 zen ua SIS Oh surgeon s
cerCincate OF disability.
Nun the approval OF the Acting Secre-
tary OF war the leave OF absence, on sur
gcon's certificate Of disability granted
second Lieut.. henzle W haIAer, hintu
Cavalry, from TINS oiIicc Is exrenaed four
months on account OF sickness.
tpon the request OF tie board of com
misSioners of the Soldiers Home in the
District OF Columbia, the quarUerIuaSters
department viii FURNISH trans portatlou the
cost of winch VIII hc reiundrd by the treas
urer Of the home, for the roilowln grained
men from tile places mentioned to this
CITY 10 enable them TO enter the home.
J0nn SJre.p, lace corpora Company T.,
Nineteenth infautry, nom san antonio,
7 eNas. FRANK BusH, late private Company
6. Fourteenth Infantry, from Vancouver,
y Nasn.; James c. Nolan, Late private Com
pany Il, Twelfth Infantry, nom USnkosn,
Wis.
Leaveof a bsence for three months. totake
effeut december 1, 1897 Is granted Capt.
NoUOu rtluuE, assistant surgeon.
Private AduisOn II ASH, Company i,
Fourteenth Infantry, now at Vancouver
Barracks, asn. VIII be discharged the
service OF the United states by the com
mandLng officer of ns station.
Private Jonn Ii jackson. Battery &,
Second Artillery now in the hands ui the
! Civii authorities, serving sentence Of iHl-
prlsDnment viii be discharged without
noD0r from he service OF tae United stat IS
on receipt OF this order by the commanding
officer of Fort Adams, RI.
Private George G. Douglass. Hospital
Corps, now al y esI Point. y Y, is detailed
as acting hospital steward ana assigned 70
/ duty at that post.
Tne following named privates OF the Hos
/ pitai Corps are detailed a. acting hospital
/ stewards, assigned 60 duty at and VIII be
/ sent Co the posts designated after their
! respective names
{ Jonu b Anderson. now at Fort Smelling
/ Mimi, to Washington barracks. District OF
/ Columbia, FOR duty with the Hospital Corps
/ Company OF Instruction James j Carter,
/ now at Fort smelling, aiinn., to Fort >heri-
/ dan, Ills.
By direction OF the President the two
batteries OF teu-inCh guns on staten Island
near Fort Wadsworth, \. Y, now desig
mated as the Clifton and Ravenna batteries
together with any adjacent GefeBses yet
to be built, viii hereafter be known and
| designated as Fort Newton in honor Of the
late Gen. John Newton, chief OF engineers
[. ) Army who FOR 50 many years was
in direct charge Of the works in New
York harbor
Passed Assistant Surgeon 5. S. White
has been detached from the Concord and
ordered to the Wheeling.
Lieut.. W. H. Switzerland, OF the Dolphin
is here for duty in the bureau of equipment
He is at 923 street.