The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-15
NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED.
Army Appointments and Promotions
Approved by the Senate.


Approved by the Senate.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE Senate in
executive session to-day confirmed the fol-
lowing nominations:
To be major general-J. Warren Keifer, of
Ohio.
To be brigadier generals-Charles F. Roe,
of New York; THOMAS L. Rosser, of Vir
g1n1a; John p 5. Goblin, of Pennsylvania.
First Regiment United States Volunteer
Engineers-To be lieutenant colonel: Captain
Harry F. Hodges.
Fourth Regiment United States Volunteer
Infantry-To be captains: Charles P. New
berry, of Maryland John d, Treadwell, of
Virginia. George G. Broome, of the District
of Columbia. To be first lieutenant George
D. Barbour, of the District of Columbia
Sixth Regiment United States Volunteer
the rank of first lieutenant: John W. Cox,
of Tennessee; Zachary D. Massey, of Ten
nessee.
Infantry-To be- lieutenant colonel:
Archelaus NJ. Hughes, of Tennessee. To be
captain: Henry l. Jenkinson, of New Jer-
sey. To be first lieutenant: James r. Gill
lespe, post quartermaster sergeant, U. S. A.
Seventh Regiment United States. volun-
teer Infantry-TO be major: David Frank
Powell, Of Wisconsin. To be second lieu
tenant Leon Barns. jr., of New York
Fifth Regiment United States Volunteer
Infantry-To be lieutenant colonel Ariosto
A. Wiley. of Alabama. To be first lieuten-
ant: James c. Hixson. of Alabama.
Fourth Regiment of Volunteer Infantry
L.
OF Ohio Kent Browning, of Ohio.
Second Regiment United States Volunteer
Infantry-To be assistant quartermaster,
with the rank of captain: Second Lieutenant
Jacques Del LATTE
Second Regiment United States Volunteer
Engineers-To be captain: Fred j. H. Rick
on, of California.
Third Regiment United States Volunteer
Engineers-To be second lieutenants: Will
liam S. Whitehead, jr., of New Jersey; AL
fred Hampton, of Texas.
To be commissaries of subsistence, with
rank of captain-ThomaS H. Simms of Ar
kansas; James E. B. Stuart of Virginia;
Carroll Mercer. of Maryland
To be chief commissary of subsistence
with rank of major-Captain George w. H.
Stouch.
To be assistant quartermasters with rank
of captain-A1bert Gilbert of New York:
Laurance c. Baker, of New York; Jonathan
N. Fatten. of Iowa.
To be chief quartermaster. with rank of
major-David Hemphill of South Carolina.
Promotions
Cavalry Arm-Lieut Col Henry Erastus
Moves, Second Cavalry, to be COLONEL Maj.
William Augustus Rafferty,, Second Cavalry,
to be lieutenant colonel; Captain Argalus
Carey Hennsee, Eighth Cavalry, to be
major: First Lieut. Joseph Theodore Dick
man, Third Cavalry. to be captain; First
Lieut.. John Fulton Reynolds Lands, First
Cavalry. to be captain; Second Lieut.. Will
liam Thomas Johnston. Tenth Cavalry. to
be first lieutenant: Second Lieut.. William
Headley Osborne. First Cavalry, to be first
lieutenant.
ARTILLERY Arm-First Lieut. John r. Will
lians Third Artillery. to be captain; First
Lieut.. George Lucius Anderson, Fourth Ar
tillery, to be captain.
officers Transferred-Second Lieut.. Robert
McCleave. from the artillery arm to the in
fantry arm: Second Lieut. Conrad Stanton
Babcock. from the infantry arm to the artil-
lery arm.