Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1899 — TROOPS HOME FROM MANILA. [ARTICLE]

TROOPS HOME FROM MANILA.

Idaho, North Dakota and Wyoming Volunteers Arrive. The United States transport Grant, bearing the Idaho, North Dakota and Wyoming volunteers, arrived at San Francisco Tuesday night. The Grant left Manila Aug. 1, touched at Nagasaki and Yokohama and left the latter port for San Francisco Aug. 13. The transport brings thirty officers and 516 enlisted men of the First North Dakota. twenty-eight officers and 445 enlisted men of the First Idaho, twelve officers and 2-13 enlieted men of the First Wyoming, two officers and fifty-seven enlisted men of Battery A. Wyoming light artillery: eight officers and eighty-four discharged soldiers, twenty-five convalescent patients, seven naval prisoners, two naval hospital patients and four civilian passengers. The transport carried in adlitioii a crew of 156 men, making a total on board of 1,619 persons. During the voyage there were five deaths.