Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-27

The following general orders were
issued from the adjutant generals
office, Monday, though the orders bear
THE date OF July Is, when they were
| formed:
STATE OF MAINE.
Adjutant Generals Office.
Augusta, July Is, 1895
| General Orders, No. o.
I. The conditions rendering II nee
easatt TO husband the ammunition on
| hand having chailGed; paragraph X,
General orders No. 3, c. S., is hefsny
| revoked.
IL. Owing to the heavy drafts upon
| the strength of the National Guard.
| for active service in the United States
Volunteers. II viii be impossible. until
the men return to their statinnsto con-
| anet rifle practice on the system en-
| j5tieu i'll the regulations; practice,
however, should A, once be resumed
and until further orders viii he gov
erned by the rules established in GSn-
eral Orders No. l, series 1896.
Ill In order to enable the men
| composing the three batteries now be.
ing organized. under orders from the
| war department. to become proficient
| as rifle shots, practice will ba per.
mtted on the rifle range connected
| with the State camp grounds in Au-
gusta, under the following rules with
| such notifications as may he found
necessary.
The target practice upon the range
will be a. such distances as the in
| spector general of rifle practice may
determine from day to day.
In all offhand firings the rear sight
Will be used with the leaf turned down
Members of each squad will fire alter
| nately, each shot being counted and
recorded.
Squads WILL SO far as possible, prac-
| tice in their original formation when
ever sent to the range.
Members of a battery will not be al
| lowed to practice in the squads of au-
other battery
y prize Of an army revolver will be
given to the captain of the battery Of
which the aggregate score is greatest,
reckoning an equal number of men and
an equal number of shots
To the enlisted man making the
time of practice, there will be given a
| champion gold medal. presented by
Major General John 7. Richards and
| Colonel +. C. Harrington.
CASUALTIES.
". 2nd Lieut.. viii c. Atkins Co. A.
End Infantry. resigned and discharged
April 20, 1898.
Capt. William T. Pollard, Co f. End
Infantry, resigned and discharged
| April -, 1898.
| LIST Lieut.. Frank $. Wakefield. Co. c.
End Infantry, resigned and discharged
| April 20, 1898.
Capt. Moses =. Stiles, Co. D, 1st In
| fantry. resigned and discharged April
%. 1898.
| LIST Lieut.. John w. Knight. Co NJ, LIST
| Infantry, resigned and discharged
April 30 1895
End Lieut. Leonard 6. Holston, Co.
NJ, 1st Infantry. resigned and dis
charged May f. 1898.
Capt. Herbert G. Starr. Co NJ. Isl
Infantry, resigned and discharged May
| 5, 1898.
Lieutenant Colonel Ernst T. Lee, End
| Infantry. resigned and discharged May
! 6, 1898.
| Capt. Stanley Z. bennett, Co. G; End
Infantry. resigned and discharged May
| Is, 1895, to date May 10. 1898
| Colonel George A. Philbrook, md In
| fantry, resigned and discharged May
&c. 1895
1st Lieut.. Charles o. Wright. quar-
| termaster End Infantry. resigned ana
discharged June IA. 1898.
Brigadier General f. f. Newcomb,
| inspector general, resigned and dis
charged July Is, 1898.
V. The following commissions in the
National Guard have been issued:
Captain George 4. Dow of Portland.
captain Co. y, 1st Infantry. January
II. 1898. with rank from January I, 1892:
vice Dow term expired.
| First Lieutenant Wallace Il. Nc
Pheters of SkoWhegan, captain Co. T.,
2nd Infantry. April G. 1898. with rank
from March q. 1898: vice Withee. re-
signed.
First Sergeant George a. Hubbard Of
Auburn, first lieutenant Co. C, 1st
Infantry, April 6, 1898, with rank from.
March "a, 1925; vice Campbell. re-
signed.
Sergeant Edward Spear of Skowhe-
gan. first lieutenant Co. +, End In
fantry, April 6, 1898. With rank from
March %, 1898: vice McPheters, pro-
NOTED.
Private Calvin w. Brown of Dover.
first lieutenant Co. +. md Infantry,
April 90 1898, with rank from April %,
1855 vice Bradley, commission expired.
First Lieutenant Harold 5. Boardman
of Bangor, captain Co. G, md infantry
June Il, 1898, with rank from June II,
1928; vice bennett, resigned.
First Lieutenant Calvin w. Brown of
Dover. captain Co. +, End Infantry,
June Il, 1898. with rank from June u,
1898 vice Pollard. resigned.
Second Lieutenant George A. Buker
of Bath, first lieutenant Co. c, End In
fantry, June Il. 1898. with rank from
June IL, 1898: vice Wakefield, resigned.
Second Lieutenant Oscar T.. Wasgatt
of Bangor first lieutenant Co. G., 2nd
Infantry, June Il, 1898, with rank from
June i, 1898; vice Boardman, pro-
NOTED.
First Sergeant Fen b. Thompson of
Randolph. second lieutenant Co. A. End