The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-15
BY Associated Press.

BN Associated Press.
Camp Meade, Middletown, Pa, Oct
14.-The men in the Two Hundred and
First New York regiment are in a state
of semi-mutny and threaten trouble If
they are not given better treatment.
They complain that they are not prop
erly fed and that they were given moth
ing for dinner yesterday but meat and
coffee. The men have had no bread
for twenty-four hours, because there is
nobody in the regiment who knows how
to use the field ovens, and the chief
commissary officers insist that each
regiment must bake the bread for it's
own men. The New Workers have not
been paid since they reached here, the
officers being afraid they will take
French leave" and go home to visit
their friends.
A battalion from every regiment in
the Second corps will be sent to Phila-
delphia to take part in the peace jubi-
lee parade. General Graham has Sc
ured permission from the war depart
ment to move his command south at
his pleasure. He is afraid of yellow
fever, and will keep his troops In the
north until he is driven out by the cold
weather
The engineer and signal corps and
the Ninth Ohio colored battalion will
also take part in the jubilee. General
Graham will also attend with his staff
and expects to have every division, bri-
gade and regimental commander with
their staffs in line. The corps will be
represented by twenty-one battalions
and every band of music and drum
corps in camp. The troops will start
on the evening of Oct. 25 and return to
camp two days later, after which the
movement south will begin. Twenty
four sick were shipped today from the
division hospital to Philadelphia.
APPLICATIONS REFUSED.
There was great disappointment to-
day when a big batch of applications
for honorable discharges from the SER
vice came back from the war depart
ment marked: Rejected by order of
secretary of war" All these applica-
tions We're endorsed by regimental
commanders and a majority of the ap-
pliCants were either college students
desiring to return to their studies or
men of family. No further reason for
the refusal of these applications were
vouchsafed, and il looks as though the
government intended shutting off dis
charges except for the best of reasons.
When Colonel Kreps, of the Fifteenth
Pennsylvania, returns from a leave Of
absence he will relieve Colonel Schuy-
Ter, of the Two Hundred and Third
New York, as temporary brigade COM
mander.
Several Harrisburg liquor dealers
have been doing a good business send
ing TASKS of whiskey, etc, into the
regimental camps, consigning them to
trusted agents, to whom they allow a
liberal commission on all sales 1t is
thought that the Second Tennessee
men arrested last night obtained their
" Whskey in this manner and an inves-
tigation of this illegal practice is be-
ing made. Men have been seen going
into the camps with suspicious looking
packages under their arm, and the ma
jority of these are thought to come
from Harrisburg.
STRUCK THE GUARD.
Much excitement was created in
Harrisburg today between a provost
guard of the Two Hundred and Second
New York regiment and a soldier who
was asked to show his pass. The SOL
dier who was accompanied by a civ
ilian, when asked for his pass, struck
the provost. The men moved on. but
were soon halted again by the guard,
who demanded the soldier to accom-
Iany him to the guard house. The SOL
der refused and there was a lively
time. A large crowd soon gathLred
and the trouble was quelled by two
policemen ard several provost guard
coming on the scene. The men We're
sent to jail.
Bates q Vance, of Harrisburg. were
today awarded the contract to furnish
potatoes, onions and provisions for the
next thirty days for the soldiers in
camp. There We're sixteen bidders.
Armour & Co. will furnish the meat,
and the Bucher Baking company, OF
Columbia, the bread.
Private Wise, Twenty-second Kan
sas has made a statement to Assistant
Adiutant General Reichmann. He ia
under guard at the Fifth Massachu-
setts camp awaiting the finding of the
court martial which tried him for par
tcipation in the desecraton Of Confed-
crate graves at Manassas Va