The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03

ent companies were officially made yester-
day: Private Clemens Kiner from Company
n lAuDurm to Company | (Waterloo; Mel
vim MagowE, from Company X to Company
Ihomas J. Ramey, from Company
North Manchester) to Company 1; Richard
Company O I; Th Thomas MitcheIj from nyAcct Conn
pany G to Company /; Barney SwartZ, from
Company (South Bend) to Company i;
Charles Sessions, from Company + to COM
pany /.
Second Lieut.. William Lankenaw, of Com
pany NJ, plymouth, has been acting as regl-
past Since the orders have come to pre-
pare for embarkation on the transports he
has been busy from morning until night,
being on the way to the supply depot with
the wagon train as early as clock IN the
morning in order 10 procure the forty-nVe
days rationS and have the same loaded on
the transports. He is a very efnclent ana
capable officer, and is just the man for the
position, as 1t takes person with untirlng
energy to get the acquisitions nIled he
camps on the necks OF his superior ofncers
until he gets what he wants. Second Lieut..
John S. Johnston has been appointed TO as
sist him and represent the One-hundred-
and-fifty-seventh Indiana on the transport
assigned to this regiment to see that com
plete rations are srored thereon TO meet the
requirements of the troops in case the
transport is diverted.
Twenty-six recruits have arrived from
Waterloo, Ind, for Company /. Capt. Lew
tions of the recruiting officers. Marx wal
len, recruit, was lett pehlnd at ANDERSON,
officer to make arrangements to send nm
alcng The following are the Waterloo re-
Greenwood. Curtis Casebeer, A. Eugene
Bryant, Frank Anderson, z; victor Geer'
George Lewis Winegart, Oliver A. Lint,
Richard Shade. David H. Enzor, Grin Hook,
William 4. Cheney, Benjamin Franklin -i,
Kepler. Frederick Ritter, Jesse Clark VII
jackson Barton Harper, Todd Emmett Var
ner, William Frederick Kiehl, George Oren.
Alva Engle, George Mitchell and Charles
Target practice was held this morning on
the range by Company l. captain pennl-
son made very good dn Teco af 4 1ang ei Of
100 yards he scored 16, and at range OF ZOO
yards IS points Other good records were
man, D. E. Carten, Charles Harper, F. J.
Geeting, Corporals H. and Fred Beidler.,
DR.. Harley A. Moore states mat Inc ine
call this morning was answered by fifteen
men, nearly all complaining OF minor Ills.
The effective strength of the regiment is
The following recruits have arrived from
Ligonier for Company l.: Edward Benthen,
brand, Walter Draper, James S. Golden,
Charles w. Fritz, Amos F.. Greenhouse,
Seymour Heltze, Frank F. Hadley, Herbert
Horne a~ valentine g. Horne, Marion Pen
land, Claude N. Kriger, Gustavus Riska, z.
Envq Nary Arthur Fl Tea Wam K van G
Scoyke, Louis o. Todd, Harry w. Wier,
George A. Wills and Charles A. Britzius.
The recruits are feeling very good over
the prospect Of going to Cuba with the next
expedition.
month Of June. The soldier boys are in
hopes that the money will arrive before
they depart for foreign shores. The pay
received for the month of May has been alb
sorbed by the many necessities that have
been wanting for some time. Some Of it has
been sent to their homes in the North. thus
leaving the boys with only small supply
on hand.
The rainy season in Florida has COM
menced. Nearly every afternoon during the
week a shower a refreshing shower, has
fallen, and marked difference is noticed in
the number Of flies and mosquitoes. The day
prior to our arrival here this district was
visited by the first rain it had seen since
the autumn of 1897, and since then the
noying insects are becoming more numer-
Gus. B. J. E.