The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26
Preparations in Progress for Muster
Batteries at Camp Thomas.
STUDEBAKER'S MEN PLEASED
PREFER GOOD WAGES AT HOME TO
TENTING IN FLORIDA.
Unjust Charges Against the 16Oth by
Two Lexington WOmen-COndi-
tiOn of Private Jones.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2o.-OrderS have
been issued to-day to muster out the fol-
lowing:
Fourth Pennsylvania Infantry.
Sixth Illinois Infantry.
Second Wisconsin Infantry.
Three Louisiana light batteries.
Two Rhode Island light batteries.
Two Iowa light batteries
Two Oregon light batteries.
First Wisconsin Light Battery.
Two troops of Kentucky cavalry.
Light Battery A, OF Missouri.
Twenty-seventh Indiana Battery.
Batteries A, B and c. of Pennsylvania.
Where the troops mustered out are not
specially designated they include all of that
arm of the service of the States named.
Orders have been issued General Miles to
send home from Porto Rico all troops not
actually needed for service. No point has
been designated as yet for their disem-
barkation in the United States, but ex-
animation of several sites is in progress
1t is desired to secure a healthful camp.
and at the same time one where the dis
embarka ton can take place at once without
any delay such as occurred at Montauk
Point. 1t is expected that some of the
troops to be sent home from Porto Rico will
sail to-day or tomorrow. The first arrivals
will be landed at New York city.
General Coppinger has been ordered to re-
move all his corps now at Fernandina to
Huntsville at once. This movement is to be
expedited in every way possible.
Acting Secretary Meikeljohn of the War
Department, to-day sent an order by wire
to every military hospital in the United
States calling the attention of the surgeons
in charge to the order of Aug. 10, which al
lowed the expenditure of 90 cents per day
per man for the purchase of deicacies for
the sick soldiers. He directed that this
amount and as much moro as was necessary
for the comfort of the sick be expended in
making the troops comfortable and in get
ting for them such things as might be neces-
sary in the matter of food.
Mr.. Meikeljohn did this when he received
information from the hospital at Fort Myer
that not a cent of this fund had been ex-
pended. 1t is probable many surgeons in
charge of hospitals are ignorant of the ex-
istence of the order, as it is understood at
the department that there are other points
where it has not been observed. 1t is COM
puted that fund of $1,000 might have been
available, and in fact is now available. for
the soldiers in the hospital at Fort Myer.
and ii is believed the same state of affairs
exists elsewhere. The 60 cents a day under
the order is to be turned into a general
fund. The opinion expressed at the depart
ment to-day was that many surgeons have
been very derelict in their duty.
By the first of October the Seventy-first
New York and the Second Massachusetts,
regiments. now at Montauk Point, N Y,
will have been mustered out of the United
States service. Orders were sent tonight to
General Wheeler, in command of the troops
at Camp Wikoff, to grant to the officers of
the two regiments leaves of absence and
furloughs to the men, each Tor thirty days,
at the end of which time the regiments are
TO report at their state camps to be mus
tered out of the service. Following is a COPY
of the order sent to General Wheeler:
Leave of absence to the officers and fur
ioughs for one month is hereby granted the
Seventy-first New York Volunteer Infantry
and Second Massachusetts Volunteer Infan-
try. You will designate an officer to receive
and receipt for the property of the regi-
mental officers and company officers of
these two regiments. On the expiration of
thirty days the Seventy-first New York will
report to Camp Black, Hempstead.
l. l., and the Second Massachusetts to
South Framington for muster out
Care should be taken to have the regimen
tai and company records carefully boxed
and sent to these stations to await the re-
assembling at expiration of leaves of abb
sence and furloughs"