Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-02
THE ARMY AND NAVY.

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Twenty-four fever-stric!Sen soldiers ar
rived all Baltimore from Camp Meade,
Tuesday, and were transferred to St. Jo-s
seph's hospital
Commander Snow, who is TO relieve Adj
nfiral Schley as commandment of the San
Juan naval station. sailed, Tuesday, from
Norfolk on the Solaee for San Juan.
At the military division hospital at
San Francisco, there are now 300 pa
tients, including the sick who came
from Manila on the Rio de Janeiro.
The hospital contains SO and the con-
valescent hospital 90 patients, making
1856 in all. Only a few of the cases are
regarded as serious.
Preparation is being made for the
troops to spend the winter at Hunts
Vile. A contract involving the expen-
diture of $4,000 has been let for the
erection of mess halls and sheds. Brig.
Gen. Richard Combs has assumed COM
mand Of the I'd Brigade, 1st Division.
and Brog. Gen. A. K. Arnold of the LIST
Cavalry Brigade.
Joshua X. Brown. who was to have
been sent from Detroit to San Fran
cisco. as Chinese inspector, has been
ordered to Honolulu to carry out Chi
nese restriction laws. These laws, as
we'll as the Treaty now in force between
this country and China, will apply to
Hawaii and the Chinese residents OF
the islands, who are not entitled to
Americanship by reason of Hawaiian
Eannexation.
IS, Chief Quartermaster Howard has rec
1S1aaafn anded to the war department that
~ - Warehouse and water system at Camp
esde Middletown, Pa, be not discon-
1aped before next spring. He is afraid
M Southern camps will not be success
and that in that event the corps may re-
turn North, if it is not sent to Cuba. He
also recommends the camp as one for IN
struction, which, if received favorabiy,
, will bring large number of regulars
there, next year Pennsylvania and New
Jersey politicians are conspicuous
throughout their state regiments and are
making an enthusiastic canvass.
Portland Press: r. F. Butler and w. E.
Wade recently discharged from the LIST
Regiment of United States Volunteers
went to the Portland Tavern, on Friday
night and took Il room, leaving the hotel
Immediately. At about $50 they came back
to the hotel and retired: They wers sober
and in every way in good condition
Later, Manager Webb smelt gas, and on
examination found that the man who oc-
cupied the room next TO theirs had gone
out and left the gas turned on. The gas
was turned off but the odor did not pass
away. Again an examination was made
and gas was discovered escaping in the
room of Messrs. Butler and Wade. DR..
Way was summoned and succeeded in re-
storing the men after great EFFORT
A memorial service for the late Cadet
VIM II. Boardman Of the U. S. S. Am
phitrite, who was killed at San Juan,
Porto Rico after an engagement with
the Spaniards, was held at Trinity
church, Lawrence, Mass, Tuesday at
ternoon. There was a large attendance
of relatives and friends of the young
cadet and the members of the city gov
eminent Battery c and Co. F were
present. Captain Barclay of the Am
phitrite, and several officers from the
monitor attended, also several Dart
mouth students, members of the fra
ternity to which Boardman belonged,
while at college. The pulpit was drap
ed with the Stars and Stripes, with the
Union Jack in the center. On the
communion table lay the hat, cap and
sword of the departed hero. The me-
mortal address was delivered by Pres
ident Tucker of Dartmouth college,
who knew the cadet when he was q
student Addresses were also made by
Rev. w. f. Wocott and Rev. f. II
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