The times., 1898-08-31
WAR BREVITIES.

Brig. Gen. Francis b. Greene is ordered
TO return to San Francisco and report
TO the adjutant general Major Simpson
has also been ordered to return. He will
resume his duties in the adjutant gen.
erals office.
Brig. Gen. John /. Rodgers. United
States Volunteers, formerly colonel of the
United States artillery, has been assigned
as chief of artillery of the army.
The new pavilion hospital now being
erected near Fort Monroe is hereafter
to be known as the Josiah Simpson U. 8.
A general hospital. in honor of Brevet
Col. Josiah Simpson, medical department.
who died March 3. 1874.
The following was received yesterday
afternoon by the War Department:
Fort Mcpherson, Ga, Aug. 80.
"Adjutant General U. s. A, Washington.
ID. c.:
Second Lieutenant Joseph D. Bradley.
Fifth United States Infantry, died at lO:30
a. m of typhoid fever.
TAYLOR. Surgeon"
1t was stated at the War Department
yesterday that Lieut.. Johnson and his oe-
tachment left the camp OF Gen Gomez
on direct orders from the department. IL
remove his command and return 10 the
United States, and that he was not order
ed away by the Cuban chief.
Information was received by Secretary
Alger yesterday of the death of Col. j. j.
Van Horn, of the Eighth Infantry, at
Fort D. A Russell, Wyo- His death was
due to heart disease, which was aggra-
waited by hardship. exposure, and exer-
ton in the campaign before Santiago
Col. Van Horn was born in Ohio Febru-
airy 6. 1885. and served gallantly through
out the civil war.
Surgeon General Sternberg has received
a dispatch from Surgeon Borden. III
charge of the ship San Marcos, which
conveyed a number of sick from Key
West to New York. He denies the pub
lished statements that the sick on the
San Marcos had no bedding except bian-
kets, and says they had pillows and mat
tresses.
The Navy Department mas been in
| formed that the Niagara, Saturn, and
Sterling left Caimanera on the 2Ith in
slant for Fort Monroe: that the Olympia
and Raleigh have arrived at Hong Kong
! to be docked, and that the Yale is at
! Tonpkinsville n. Y; the Nesuvius at
/ Newport. the Prairie at Fall River, and
the Suwanee at Norfolk.
! Lieut.. Richmond p Hobson has reached
/ Santiago on the steamer SeguTanca he
will superintend the work of floating the
| sunken Spanish cruisers Cristobal Colon
/ and Infanta Maria Theresa. Lieut.. Hob
! son will be quartered with Cen LaWton
! while in Santiago.
| The resignation of Second Lieut. Charles
! r. Hickox. jr, Second L. s. Infantry, has
| been accepted by the President Also
! those of Major John S. Harding, Ninth
PENNSYLVANIA Volunteer Infantry; fHs'
/ Tje,lt Hugh Bancroft, adjutant Filth
/
| Machold Third Pennsylvania, and Second
Ijeut. kinney Funk, Fourth Ohio
Cen. Fitzhugh Lee. commanding the
seventh Army Corps, has asked tbs
| Secretary OF War to visit the camp a.
/ Ferpandina. in order that he may examine
| for. himself the condition of the troops
| Secretary Alger replied that. although
| he should ike to visit Fernandina, anC
every other military camp in the coun
trv. he feared the time would not perml
| il.
Lieut.. Col. John w. Clous. of the Judg'
Advocate Generals Office. who was in
structor of military law for several years
at West Point, will accompany the Gu
ban Commission as legal advisor He wa:
at the State Department yesterday Il
get final instructions
II is the intention of Secretary Long L
| have the war vessels which have been il
active service gathered At the navy yard
where they will be thoroughly overhaule'
and repaired as soon as possible.
The naval militia from the severa
States will be mustered out in bodies in
stead of individually. as heretofore tn
| Navy Department officials pay glowing
tributes to the efficiency. valOr, and faith
fulness of these citizen Jack Tars.
Rear Admiral W. s. Schley has bee
| formally detached from command of hi
squadron and ordered to Porto Rico a
| a Commissioner.
The War Department is beginning Il
make little concessions, which may soor
ripen into widespread apologies. There
| were several yesterday, the most notable
being that wherein permission was grant
ed for food. medicine, delicacies. etc. i
| to be furnished the Illinois troops or
board the transport City of Berlin. whici
is now due at New York Citz ms of Chi
cago who will foot the bill and are nov
in New York, at once left on a chartered
tug to greet and do all they can for thei
friends and relatives. When the City o
Berlin reaches Montauk Point they viii
go on board.