The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-03

Camp Meade, Middletown, Pa. Sept.
2.--Ten typhoid fever patients were re-
moved from the Red Cross Hospital
today to the st. Clair 1nfirmary at
Harrisburg. The Medico- Chirurgical
hospital train reached camp this even
ing from Philadelphia and took away
100 convalescents in the division hos
pital. The train started back to Phila-
delphia at 9 o'clock.
The patients were conveyed from the
hospitals to the cars in ambulances un-
der the personal direction of Colonel
Girard chief surgeon of the Second
corps. There are less than 100 patients
tonight in the division and Red Cross
hospitals at the camp and these will
probably be transferred to the city
hospitals during the next as hours.
In addition to the sick soldiers sent
to the Medico- -Chrurgical hospital the
University of Pennsylvania took to
Philadelphia 100 sick on special train
this evening. Both trains were equip
ped with physicians, nurses and drugs
and the sick were transferred from the
hospital to the cars under the person.
al direction of Chief Surgeon Girard.
Tomorrow a number of typhoid fever
cases will be sent to hospitals at Col
umbia and Lancaster. Surgeon Girard
having accepted the offers of the hos
ptals at these places to care for some
of the sufferers. Private Peck, COM
pany e, Thirty-third Michigan, died
tonight at the Second division hospital
Of typhoid fever.
, PORTO RICO TROOPS.
Governor Hastings expects the Penn
sylvania troops at Porto Rico to ar
rive in this country next Thursday. He
will go with the hospital train from
the University of Pennsylvania, which
will take the sick soldiers back to Phil
adelphia to the hospital.
Sixty men in the Third Missouri were
made sick last night by eating corn
beef from a acan which was opened
several hours and partly used. None
of the cases are serious.
Lieutenant Kerr, of the One Hun
dred and Ffty-ninth Indiana, who is
charged with conduct unbecoming an
officer, will be tried tomorrow by court
martial. Colonel Axeline, Tenth Ohio
is president of the court
General Graham has issued an order
forbiding enlisted men from leaving
signed and approved and from congre-
eating about the commissary and
quartermaster depot and Camp Meade
station.
A detachment of the Third New York
was arrested last night by the provost
guards and the Fourth Missouri came
to their rescue, throwing four guards
into the canal. General Graham has
IN.
Lieutenant Bowers, of the Sixth Penn
sylvania regiment, who was ordered
under arrest yesterday without an as
signment of the charges.
The men of the hospital corps will be
discharged on application when their
regiments are mustered out.
MUsTERING OUT TO BEGIN.
The movement of the troops from
Camp Meade which have been ordered
to their home stations for mastering
out will begin Sunday, the detachment
of the Ninth Massachusetts beins
ready to start. The detachments of tn,
Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Michi
gan will follow Monday and the Third
Missouri and One Hundred and Fifty
ninth Indiana Tuesday.
L ne muster IDlis Oh lne SlNtn rem
sylvania and Twenty-second Kansas
are completed and the regiments ar,
awaiting orders to start for the stat,
camps. The troops will be given
thirty day furlough before they ar
mustered out in order that the Officers
may prepare their accounts and ge
the papers in shape.
Major General Graham was advised
by the war department today that the
Third Connecticut would be sent her,
from Mantle, Conn, Major Wright
commissary of subsistence, has beer
ordered to Camp Alger to relieve Cap
tain Brooks. and to receive the quarter
master and commissary property which
will be turned in by the regiments or
dered to be mustered out.
Rev. S. G.. Reading, of Williamsport
has been appointed chaplain of tn,
Twelfth Pennsylvania regiment to fiji
the vacancy caused by the death o
Chaplain Rick.