The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07
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Camp Meade, Middletown, Pa, Sept.
6.-Governor Hastings has detailed
Colonel Ripple, of Scranton, to look
after the sick Pennsylvania soldiers
at Camp Thomas, Colonel Miner, Of
Wilkes-B Barre, will perform the same
duty at Camp Hamilton and other
camps in the vicinity of Knoxville,
Ky, and Colonel Sweeney, of Ches-
ter. will go to Camp Alger and Dunn
Loring. AS soon as invalid soldiers
III these hospitals are able to travel
alone they will be sent home on fur
loughs.
hospital train this afternoon took
away twenty-nine patients from the
TWO division hospitals to st. Josephs
home, Lancaster.
Secretary Alger has authorized Major
General Graham to erect a building
l5OX5O in which to store clothing. quar-
termaster supplies and forage. The
water mains in camp are being ex-
tended to the general hospitals and
the camps of the signal corps. Major
Charles c. Wiley, Eighteenth Pennsyl-
Vania, has been detailed for duty at the
First division hospital as chief medical
officer.
Major r. A. Brown, of Media, in
spector general of the United States
army, has been appointed acting ad-
jutant general of the Second division
of General Graham's corps.
DISTRIBUTING ICE.
Major William F. Richardson, keeper
OF the state arsenal, today commenced
the daily distribution of ice, oatmeal
and disinfectants to the Pennsylvania
troops.
The body of Private Fred. Murray,
Third Missouri, was sent to Gettys-
burg this afternoon, accompanied by
firing squad of the Fourth Missouri,
for burial in the national cemetery.
The body of Private John Schroff, OF
the Fourth Missouri, whose death oc-
Cured last night at the Red Cross hos
pital, will be shipped to his home at
Bethany, Mo.
There is no telling when the Sixth
Pennsylvania will get away from here.
The regiment has been ready to leave
for three days but it's movement has
been delayed in the absence of pay
rolls of certain companies. They were
sent to Washington last Saturday by
mistake and have not been returned.
Colonel Ellicott said tonight that he
expected to be in shape to start at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning.
The Third Missouri started this af-
ternoon for Fort Leavenworth. If
there is no change in Chief Quarter
master Howard's plans the Twenty
second Kansas. the Nineteenth Indiana
and Third New York will get away
within the next forty-eight hours.
COURT MARTIALS.
Privates King and Boyle and Ser
geant Graham, company II, Sixth
Pennsylvania were arranged this af-
ternoon before a general court martial
for disobedience of orders and a series
OF other offences. Boyle pleaded gull
ty and the other two We're tried. Cap
tain McDevitt, company b, Sixth
Pennsylvania was tried by another
court for conduct unbecoming an Off
Ger and Privates Charles Wuest, COM
pany G.. and W. p. G. Mccarthy, COM
pany Fl, of the engineer corps for
conduct unbecoming a soldier. The
findings of the court will not be dis
closed until they have been approved
by the war department.
The First Maryland will arrive
Thursday morning from Fort Monroe
and the Fifteenth Pennsylvania the
same afternoon from Sheridan Point,
Va.
Major Little, U. S. A.. has been
placed in the commissary department
on the outskirts of the camp. He takes
the place of Captain Hyde, Of James,
town, y. y, who will assist the ma
Jor until he gets his affairs in shape.