Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1903 — MILES’ CAREER AT END. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MILES’ CAREER AT END.

Commanding General of the Army Reaches the Age of Retirement. Secretary Root has announced the retirement of Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Mile* as head of the United States army. Gen. S. B. M. Young succeeds him as commanding general for the space of six days, after which time he will take np his permanent position as chief of the general army staff. Practically the office of commanding general ceases with the retirement of Gen. Miles, though Gten. Young will be tbe last to bear that title and will be the first to wear the dignity of chief of staff. The new regime will

be in accordance with the new army bill, which was so strenuously opposed by the retiring general. Gen. Miles entered the army as a volunteer officer of the Twenty-second Massachusetts infantry when only 22 yeans old. He served with distinction during the Civil War and at the age of 25 was in command of a brigade. He alro won fame as an Indian fighter on the plains after the close of the war. He was placed in charge of Jefferson Davis when the latter was a prisoner of war. With his comm ami lie forced the surrender of Geronimo and of many other noted Indian chief)}.