The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-04

"dSLlIs koH. SplcIllDSE 80 At AOA-
lowing order for the occupation OF
Cuba was issued today:
Headquarters OF the Army. Adjutant
Generals office, Washington, d. c.,
September 90, 1898.
BY direction OF the secretary OF
war. h Fourth United States volun-
teer infantry, detached from the Sew
enth army corps, will be placed in
readiness for immediate service in
Cuba, pursuant to General Order No.
154, current series, form this office. and
proceed fully armed and equipped to
take station at Manzanillo: the com
handing officer reporting his arrival
by telegraph to Major Genera James
F. Wade, United States volunteers.
Havana, who will give Instructions a.
10 its duty and disposition.
The quartermaser's department
will furnish the necessary tr~ansporta-
ton; and the subsistence department
will provide the necessary suitable ra-
tons, and the general make
ample provision for necessary medical
attendance n supplies for the troops
en- route and after arrival.
BY command Of Major General
Miles.
III. c. CORBIN,
"Adjutant General"
The Fourth regiment of immunes Is
commanded by Colonel James S. Pet
tit. who was captain of the First Uni
ted States infantry. Transports will
be sent from New York to Jacksonville
to embark the troops.
ARMY OFFICERS PROMOTED.
Washington, September 29.-Major
General Hamilton 5. Hawkins, United
States volunteers, colonel OF the Tween
tieth infantry, who commanded the
division which captured a Juan hill
in the second days fight at Santiago.
has been appointed a brigadier general
in the regular army to fill the vacancy
caused by the retiremnt of General
William H. Graham. Immediately af-
ter receiving his commission, he was
placed OF the retired list on his W
application under the thirty years SER
vice clause and this will enable the
president to similarly advance Major
General J. f. Kent, United States vol
unteers, colonel of the Twenty-fourth
infantry, to the grade of brigadier gen
eral, in the regular army. General
Kent commanded the wing of General
Skaters army which effected the
gallant capture of Caney in the first
days fight, for which service he was
promoted to the present rank of major
general of volunteers. Generals Hawk
ms and Kent are veterans of the civil
war and were both brevetted several
times for gallant and meritorious ser
vices during hat conflict. General
Hawkins was born in South Carolina
but was appointed to the army from
Ay1- VII ~
of Pennsylvania and was appointed
from hat state. Both officers are
graduates of West Point.
NOTICE OF DEATH OF QUEEN OF
DENMARK.
Official notice of the demise Of the
Queen of Denmark was received 1T
the State department today in the
shape of the following telegram from
the Danish minister in this country,
who is temporarily stopping at the
place named:
Bar Harbor, Me-, September 90
Secretary of State
Il have the painful duty to inform
your eXcellency of the death OF her
majesty, the queen OF Denmark. de-
ceased this morning. BRUN,
Danish minister"
WAR DEPARTMENT COMMISSION.
The war investigating commission
confined itself at its afternoon ses-
sion today to the examination and clas-
sification of complaints which have
been made to the president. A large
number of such complaints have been
received at the white house. They
came yesterday in the form of letters
and are for the most part from rela-
tiveS of enlisted men. Those Exam
ined in this session deal in the main
with Camp WikOff and Camp Thomas.
but some of the letters also make
charges concerning other camps. They
relate especially to the food served
the soldiers n to hospital accommo-
dations. and none of them was OF a
very striking character.
One lady, whose son is stationed at
Honolulu, wrote that he was en-
camped OF a centipede hill and said
that his food was insufficient to meet
his She asked the president
to see that he had better care. Circu-
lar letters were sent to the writers OF
all the complaints asking them TO make
their charges specific and to state
whether they spoke from personal
knowledge or only from report.
One of the letters received today was
from DR.. Sims, of Chattanooga. 1t
was written to a friend in Ohio in re-
SpoASe " al lIQuIEg LOT the IdGs III
regard to Camp Thomas and was
forwarded by the person who had re-
&C ed il to the president. DR.. Sims
sal in this letter hat there was no
ju. -.ication for the charge hat the
site Of the camp was not desirable. II
was, he said, admirable. The doctor
said that at the beginning of the
camps career the hospital facilities
were limited. but that these had been
increased until they We're adequate II
meet the demands upon them.
The committee expects to begin 70
take testimony next week. General
Wheeler is expected to be among the
first witnesses called.
The examination Of complaints TO the
president vas continued at the after
Don session.
A decision was reached at this ses-
sion to include in the work an inuuir
into n conduct of the war depart
ment in the Pacific as well as in thu
| Atlantic region. and TO this end let
tiers were written to General Merriam
in command of the department Of the
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