The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-26
MERRITT MAY NEED $4,000 MEN.

Gen. King Thinks There May BE
Trouble with AguinaldO.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 25.-It is under
stood that Brigadier General Charles King
will be in command of the next Manila ex-
petition. He will go either on the Arizona
or Scandal Brigadier General Miller now
commander of the Preside, probably will
remain for the present, at the expressed
desire of General Merriam. Referring to
the men to go to Manila, General King said:
1T is my personal opinion that every man
of the expeditionary forces will be wanted
in the Philippines and will go there. Even
should Manila be taken from the Spanish
and the war settled in the Orient as far as
Spain is concerned, with the forces now
there or already ordered to depart, yet it
is not to be doubted that General Merritt
will be glad to have $4,000 men before he
is through with Aguinaldo: The men at
Camp Merritt and the Preside may rest
contented that they will see all of the Phil
ippines they DESIRE"
The transport ST. Paul has come off the
dry dock at the Unof Iron Works and is
now being prepared for the reception of
troops. She will probably be ready to sail
by the end of the week. The Arizona and
Scandal will be in condition for the voyage
to Manila about the same time. Extensive
alterations are being made on the steamer
Centennial, and she may yet be accepted
by the government.
William Drum, the crack Splinter of the
University of California, who was to have
been track captain, has enlisted as pri-
vate in Company L, Second United States
engineering corps.
Eleven recruits of the Fourteenth Infan-
try enlisted at Fort Leavenworth, Kas,
been assigned to the Third Battalion of the
Twenty-third Infantry for rations, quar-
tiers and equipment until they can be for
warded to their regiment, now on its way
to the Philippines.
The Chronicle says: Several privates in
the Kansas regiment, acting as correspond
ing complaining letters, and in some cases
severe criticisms of their officers. Colonel
Funston ordered the most Migrant offend
to whom he gave a Scathing rebuke with
the warning that they might expect severe
punishment should they again offend in so
Active preparations for moving the troops
from Camp Merritt to the Preside began to-
day, and in three days the new grounds will
be ready for the reception of at least part
of them. 1t is the intention of Generals Mer-
RAM and Miller to move only those troops
that are not soon to be assigned to trans
ports. Those troops therefore, that re-
ceive orders to change camp may know
that they. are destined to remain here for
Two members of the Seventh California
Regiment, Private Harry Bruce. of Com
pany b, and Private Edward Brown, or
Company F. were reported as suffering
from varioid DR.. Laid. when questioned
about the cases, stated that the men were
merely suffering from vaccini, the after eff
fects of vaccination. 1.-THE men have alb
sorbed the vaccine virus into their SKINS"
he said land it has broken out on them,
not only in the spots where they were vac
cinated, but all over their bodies. They are
not suffering from smallpox"
Sickness among the soldiers here is in
creasing. In the division hospital are 20S
patients and in the Preside Barracks Hos
pital forty-fve, a total of 253 soldiers, not
counting perhaps hundred less severe
cases in regimental hospitals. More SOL
diers are sick now than during the bad
weather, when about 14.OO0 were at Camp
Merritt, where to-day there are only a lit
tie over half that number.
De Witt l.. Tucker, a private in Company
L. Fifty-first Iowa, died Sunday of pneu-
monia. The remains will be taken back to
Council Bluffs for burial. Joseph Baker
private in Company 3, First Tennessee
died at the division hospital of dysentery.
Several men in the hospitals are in crit
ical condition.
The next expedition, consisting of the re-
mainder of the South Dakota troops and re-
cruitS for other regiments already in the
Philippines, is expected to leave next
Thursday or Friday at the latest on the
steamer st. Paul. The Scandal will follow
the st. Paul westward IN about two weeks
by which time, it is figured, the Arizona will
be ready and may possibly accompany the
former to Manila.