Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1899 — TROOPS HOME FROM MANILA. [ARTICLE]

TROOPS HOME FROM MANILA.

Idaho, North Dakota and Wyoming Volnnteers Arrive. The United States transport Grant, hearing the Idaho, North Dakota and Wyoming volunteers, arrived at San Francisco Tuesdny night. The Grant left Manila Aug. 1, touched at Nagasaki aud 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 243 enlisted 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 addition a crew of 156 men, making a total on board of 1,619 persons. During the voyage there were five deaths.