The Washington Critic

The division rifle contest for the Division of the Missouri will take place this year at Fort Snelling, Minn.

First Lieutenant Stephen Y. Seyburn, Tenth Infantry, was at Fort Leavenworth on Sunday from Fort Union, New Mexico.

Naval Constructor George F. Mallett left the Norfolk Navy-Yard Monday for a visit to the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs.

The army brown canvas fatigue clothing will not (under instructions from Lieutenant-General Sheridan) be issued for stable duty.

Acting Assistant Surgeon William P. Kendall, recently appointed, has been assigned temporarily to duty at the Presidio of San Francisco.

First Lieutenant Henry L. Harris, First Artillery, has been granted one month's leave from July 29 from the Presidio of San Francisco.

Major David Krause, Eleventh Infantry, who has been visiting recently at St. Paul, returned to his station at Fort Sully, Dakota, last week.

Colonel James Forney, major commanding the Marine battalion at the Norfolk Navy-Yard, has been granted one month's leave from August 10.

Lieutenant Robert F. Ames, Eighth Infantry, has been appointed recruiting officer at Benicia Barracks, Cal., in place of Lieutenant John Stafford, Eighth Infantry.

Captain William J. Lyster, Nineteenth Infantry, has been detailed as a member of the court martial sitting at Fort Clark, Texas, in place of Captain Jacob H. Smith of the same regiment.

General Benjamin H. Grierson, colonel Tenth Cavalry, is president, and First Lieutenant Samuel L. Woodward, adjutant Tenth Cavalry, judge-advocate, of a court-martial sitting at Whipple Barracks, Arizona.

Lieutenant Carter P. Johnson, Tenth Cavalry, has been detailed as judge-advocate of the court-martial sitting at Fort Grant, Arizona, relieving Lieutenant Charles H. Grierson, Tenth Cavalry, who is granted leave for a month.

The rifle competition for places on the team of the Department of the Missouri will begin August 5, and will be completed August 15. The men and officers competing are ordered to report at Fort Leavenworth by or before August 3.

Lieutenants William N. Hughes, Thirteenth Infantry, and J. H. Duvall and David C. Shanks, Eighteenth Infantry, have applied for orders to enter the Department rifle contest at Fort Leavenworth. A number who would take part will remain with their commands in the field.

Captain John W. Bubb, Fourth Infantry, First Lieutenant George Palmer, Ninth Infantry, and Lieutenant Charles R. Noyes, Ninth Infantry, and Lieutenant John S. Parke, jr., Twenty-first Infantry, now in the field at Crisfield, Kan., have been ordered to Fort Omaha to take part in the department rifle contest there.

Colonel Llewellyn Baber, formerly additional paymaster, and known to a very large number of officers, died last Saturday morning in the Ohio Insane Asylum at Columbus, where he had been confined for the past three months. He was born in Jefferson County, Va., in August, 1823, but had resided in Ohio since graduating at Princeton in 1843.