Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1899 — SETS OUT FOR LUZON. [ARTICLE]

SETS OUT FOR LUZON.

Thirteenth Begiment Start* on Its Lon* Journey to the Philippine*. Col. Cornelius Gardener’s Thirtieth United States volunteer infantry left Fort Sheridan, near Chicago, Wednesday for the long and tedious journey to the Philippines. Thousands cheered the men as they quit the fort, and in Evanston, where the seven sections of the train turned westward for the run to Council Bluffs, thousands more lined up along the tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway to give them a parting salutation. All told, 1,307 men were in the regiment when they were roused before dawn. When the body boarded the train it had its full complement of 1,309. Two recruits who arrived on the first morning train asked leave to join and Col. Gardener had them mustered in at once. Sheridan was left desolate. The tents that had dotted the parade ground were missing and save for the well-trodden grass there was no evidence of the recent occupancy of the parade ground. Tclesvaphic Brevitle*. Henry Binkley, .70, Wooster, Ohio, and his son, David, 50, fought. The son is laid up for repairs. The bishop of Havana, Right Rev. Emanuel Santander y Fretos, has resigned. He is a Spaniard. Dangerous $5 counterfeit is in circulation at New Orleans, more than $6,Q00 worth being passer! in one day. Negro regiment will not be massed at Fort McPherson, Ga. Citizens protested, fearing whites and blacks would clash.