Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — NEWS OF THE TROOPS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE TROOPS.

'flic Second Kentucky and the Secant, Arkansas left Camp Thomas. The transport Vigilaneia carried the last of Shaffer’s army from Cuba. The Twentieth regiment of regulars has gone to, port Leavenworth,. Kan. The-Third regiment of regulars passed through New York City Tuesday night, bound for Port Shelling, Minn, All the troops except u lew regulars have left Chiekamuuga, but quite a large number remain in the hospitals. Chicago’s adopt'd regiment of regulars, the gallant Fourth, lias returned to the snug barracks of Fort Sheridan. The Fourth Wisconsin volunteer infantry. which lias been at Camp Douglas all siiiUmor, is to lie moved to Anniston, Ala. The Government transports Roumania, Chester, Berlin, Mohawk and Mississippi, at Montank, can move 5,000 troops in one day. The general movement of regulars from Camp Wikoff began Tuesday, under direction of Co!. Kimball, deputy quartermaster general. The army hospital boat Relief left Montauk Point Monday with 250 sick soldiers for Boston, and they will lie placed in hospitals in that city. The first barge load of Spanish prisoners left the Groely cottage landing on Seavey’s Island, Monday, to embark on the steamship City of Rome. The Minnesota hospital train bearing the sick soldiers home from the South arrived iu Chicago over the Big Four, and left immediately for the North. It is the policy of the President to remove the troops from Montauk Point as rapidly ns possible. A large number of sick men are in the hospital there. Company I of the Fifth Illinois volunteers returned home at Jacksonville and they were accorded a greeting which vied with that given their fathers in ’OS. 'between three and four hundred sick were sent to New York and Brooklyn hospitals from Camp Wikoff on Sunday on the steamer Shinnecoek and by rail. Illinois’ Sixth regiment is home from Porto Rico, having arrived at Weehawken, N. J., on the transport Manitoba Tuesday afternoon, after a five days’ voyage from Ponce.

Tho third battalion of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania regiment sailed from New York Wednesday afternoon on the transport Berlin for Porto Kieo to join the regiment for garrison duty. Three regiments of regulars left New York Wednesday. The Thirteenth goes to Fort Porter and Fort. Columbus; the Seventeenth to Columbus. Ohio; the Twenty-first to Plattsburg, Vt. Crack eavalry organizations from New York and Philadelphia comprised the great majority of those who reached New York on board the United States transport Mississippi, from Ponce, Porto Rico. The transport Saratoga arrived Tuesday from Santiago. Two hundred and fifty colored laborers and sixty signal corps men were landed at Camp WikofF. The transports brought about 9,000 Spanish rifles. The transport Vigilaneia. arrived Monday morning from Santiago with 320 passengers, of whom 22 were nurses, the rest being officers nnd soldiers of various regiments. The Vigilaneia bad seventyeight ill on board. , The mustering but of the rough rider* at Camp Wikoff Tuesday gave an opportunity to-Col. “Teddy” Roosevelt and .His boy* to exchange compliments. The men presented, tbtt colonel with a bronze, replica, “The Burking Broncho,” purchased am)Scnptlon.' ", f ’ ' " ;T The 158th ■ Indiana in/antr# arrived home at Indianapolis Tuesdays and Mi* t*<*»*»*4* thy stessls were turned loose, and the din Was earsplitting.