Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-08-31
COME MARCHING HOME.
One Wisconsin Regiment Ready
TO Leave Porto Rico.
SECOND IS TO LEAVE.
First Ordered Back from Jacksonville
Third will Remain i'll
Porto Rico,

nomeWar0 movement nave Deen pfacIlcdl-
" completed.
Gen. Miles and his staff and eight COM
panics of the Second Wisconsin yoluN-
teers leave or Tuesday night.
The Fourth Pennsylvania volunteers
are to start home on Wednesday.
All of the cavalry horses, guns, car
Eiages OF batteries, etc, of Pennsylvania
will leave on the Mississippi on Thursday,
while the men of the three Pennsylvania
batteries and the Third battalion of the
Second Wisconsin sail the same day on
the Concho.
The men and guns of the Missouri, Hi,
nois and Indiana batteries are to leave on
the Alamo Friday and the battery horses
on the Ito on Saturday.
The Sixth Illinois volunteers will fol-
scw or the Seneca and another ship, not
yet named.
1t has been arranged that the whole
detachment of about 5000 men will land
IN BROOKLYN After resting there a few
days they will parade across the bridge
TO Wall street, to Broadway, to Fifth
avenue and thence TO Central park. The
men III line will be commanded by Gen.
Wilson, and Gen. Miles will review them.
Coam0. Porto, Rico, Aug. 1S.-t SDe-
cal w neither or not the Third Wiscon-
SIN regiment is to be kept on the island of
Porto Rico When the remainder of Gen.
tSrnSt's brigade goes home is creating
much discussion among 1900 men just
row. The 'rumor' is that the Third
Wisconsin has been selected as the regi-
mcnt to remain here. 1t is pretty certain
chat some of the volunteer forces will be-
kept on the island until next spring in
any event. On account of the well
dFliied men, their hardness and the show
1nG they have made on marches and
against sickness it is stated that this as
Segment will fall to Col. Moore's com
maHd, The men who would just as soon
so home have not much to say il favor
OF the proposition, but if it comes they
Will take it as any other order
Abe barracks at Ponce formerly occu-
pied by the Spanish are being renovated
for occupation by United States troops
The entire place is being fumigated and
white washed and when some changes are
made LA the arrangement Of the interlO" it.
viii be very comfortable place. pSpe-
GIally through the rainy season.
a Permanent Camp.
Preparations are certainly hping made
for permanent camp here. The wall
tents for officers and men have been
brought from Ponce and erected. When
Gen. Wilson gave orders to bring along
every wall tent to Porto Rico there We're
some demurrerS heard, and when he or
dered the big tents brought in the wag-
onS TO the exclusion of the mems KNAPP
sacks there was Il protest resulting in
Ing. So another trip of the wagon train
was made.
The rainy season has apparently begun
From light showers Tuesday. to heavy
rainfall yesterday, the downfall has been
continued and the men III the small shell
Ger tents suffered. Their temporary tents
are now replaced by the large wall tents
Zen, u lIsOn probably fOresaW q camp
here IN the rainy season when he ordered
the tents brought Somehow the regi-
mont Is about twenty tents short of its
8uI quota and companies will be cut
down accordingly. The decrease in the
regiment through sickness, however will
about equalize the matter and the tents
will not be more crowded than they were
back ii Camp Thomas.
Short on Officers.
The Third Wisconsin is somewhat
short on commissioned officers. Lieut.
kamereau Of Co. y and a lieutenant of
Capt Newton Of Co. l and Lieut. Swift
OF the same company were left at
Charleston with typhoid fever. Capt.
Newton is convalescent. but Lieut.. Swift
died July -. Lieut.. John Barron Of Co.
Il has returned to his home in Eau
Turner OF Co. D is laid up .~ith Il
srrained knee and there are q r>.uDle
more officers threatened with the porto
Rican fever
The Wisconsin regiments today got an
issue of Alnerican-made chewing tobacco.
There is no scarcity of tobacco here and
IT y as good as any in the world, but
the American soldier can't chew it, The
natives make II up III q shape that looks
like tarred rope and about as long. It
Is entirely unSWeetened and the men
can't use it. Smoking tobacco is plenti-
sui ar l cent per cigar, and the cigars
contain tobacco as good as the best H.
gent article in America.
A regular mail service has been estab-
iishcd between here and the port of Ponce.
The regimentaI mail carrier makes q triD
every two days with mail in and out.
The last steamer in brought six and one
Aaif tons of mail matter for the soldiers
NOW Oh the island.
\ jag is the cheapest thing here. Wine
at cents for a water goblet full or a
zs.ass of the stiffest kind Of rum are the
Ingredients
Washington. D. c., Aug. 29.-The fol-
lowing troops have been ordered mustered
ont:
Ninth Massachusetts, from Montauk
Point TO South birmingham, Mass,
N'here they will be mustered out.
$Seres1th Illinois, from Middletown to
Springfield.
First Illinois, Montauk Point to Spring
2eId
Fifth Illinois, Lexington to Springfield.
Sixty-ffth New York from Camp Alger
70 BUFFALO.
FTFth Ohio infantry from Fernandina,
9Nia., TO Columbus, O.
First Wisconsin from Jacksonville to
Camp Douglas, Wis.
Third L. S. V. cavalry (Grigsbys3 at
Shickamauga.
Fourth Texas at Austin. Tex.
Madison. Wis, Aug. 29.-Gov. Scofield
last night sent a telegram to Secretary
.3lgex of the war department demanding
-sliat MS several dispatches of inquiry re-
e:arding the mastering out of the First
Wisconsin regiment and the Transporting
ot its sick members to their homes be an
sWeTed.
During the past week the governor has
sent several dispatches asking for this in
Fo-mati0n for the benefit of the parents
nd relatives of the men of the regiment,
VINO are seriously alarmed ct the sickness
IN the regiment.
Petitions have been poured on the gov
crn0r in a deluge during the past two
weeks asking him to have the regiment
mustered out and the sick members sent
homo, and he was notified about a week
ago that the regiment would be mustered