Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-09-15
VETERANS GO HOME
G. A. r. ENCAMPMENT COMES
TO A CLOSE.
RACINE MAN is HONORED
Resolutions Endorsing Alger Adopted
Proposition to Admit TO Mem
bership Soldiers Who Have Served
ia Spanish War Laid on Table
Auxiliary Orders Eject Officers.

Cincinnati, o., Sc. t. 1Q.-The G. A.
K. national encampm ent finished the
election of officers Friday and ad-
journed. The following were ected
by reclamation: Senior vice COM
mandt r-in-chief, w. c.. Johns one,
Cincinnati; junior vice cJmmander-in-
chief, David Ross, Delaware; surgeon
General, Or. Pierce, Nebraska chap
lain-in-chief, Col. Lucius, Indianapo-
lis.
The national council of administra-
ton was appointed in part as follows:
Iowa. Thomas Bell, Fairfield; Mich
igan, Samuel J. Lawrence, Wyan-
cote; Minnesota, j. NJ ID. Craft,
Pennington; Missouri. f. NJ. Sterrltt,
st. Louis; North Dakota, Harrison
Allen, Fargo; South Dakota, A. r.
Anderson, Hot Springs; Wisconsin,
II. j. Smith, Racine.
The ceremony of installing the new
y elected officers was performed by
Ccmrade Wagner of Pennsylvania. A
felicitous speech by Commander-il-
Chief Sexton was followed by a vote
Of thanks to retiring Comm nder-in-
Chief Gen Goblin and others.
Reso utions endorsing Secretary
Alger were aiop,el. The report of
the committee on pensions demanded
that the national pension department
treat the claims OF old soldiers with
more consideration and liberality.
A proposition from Tennessee to
amend the rules so as to make sol
diers who had been con cIipt d In the
rebel army, afterwards served il the
union army and honorably DISCHARGED
tligible to membership in the Grand
Army, was referred to a special com
mi tee Of five with instructions to re-
port to the next encampment. A prop
osi,ion 10 make eligible to member
ship soldiers who had served in the
war with Spain was laid on the table.
After the installation OF officers the
cncampmant adjourned sine die.
The Woman's Relief Corps selected
the following officers: President, Mrs.
FLO. Jameson Miller, Monticello,
H.; secretary, Miss Matte Jansen,
Illinois; counselor, Mrs. Emma p.
Wallace, Illinois. Among the reso-
lutions adopted was one thanking
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
Red Cross society, for her official
work in relieving the destitution in
Cuba and anking the president Of
the Woms - Relief Corps for estab-
fishing emergency funds for nursing
the soldiers during the Spanish war.
AS the treasury Of the G.. A. Il. was
found to be about empty the ladies
Of the Woman's Relief Corps made
an appropriation of $4,000 for the
benefit of their brothers.
The Ladies of the G. A. R. elected
the following officers: President,
Mrs. Agnes Winslow, Chicago; vice
president, Mrs. Capoon, Elyria,
Ohio; junior vice president,
Mrs. willis, San Francisco
traa surer. Mrs Tobey, Logarspcr,
Ind. chaplain. Mrs Steveos, Newark,
n. j.; counsellor, Mrs. Davey, Du-
luth: council of administration, Mrs
Lynn Dewars, Lincoln, Duluth; Mrs,
Wall. Lawrence, Kan; Mrs sherman,
Keokuk, la. The presid nj will APP
point a secretary and other officers.
The Daughters Of Veterans &C. A.
r } cleo ed and installed the follow
ing officers: President, Miss Anna
Clark, New York; senior vice pr l.
dent, Miss NJ. Lizzie Kimball, Massa-
chusetts junior vice president, Miss
Lillian Phillips, Illinois; chaplain
Miss Bertha Discus. o.; treasurer lila
J. Allen. Ma sachusetts.