Show FINALLY GETS HIS REWARD w Bubb Twelfth I Selected to Be Brigadier General Washington March SOne ot of the most spirited for place II In the history of the army was settled to today ay when Secretary Taft announced that Colonel John W Bubb of f the Twelfth Infantry had been selected to be brig brigadier adler adier general in the United States army to fill a vacancy created by the retire retirement retirement ment of General Carr It has been ru rumored rumored mored for s some me time past that a junior officer was to be promoted to this post position tion and army circles were greatly disturbed Colonel Bubb Is from Pennsylvania He entered the service as a private Rt at atthe the outbreak of the civil war He must retire on account of age in 1907 But Colonel Bubbs promotion will be pre preceded preceded ceded by the promotion of four lieu lieutenant lieutenant tenant colonels to the rank of brigadier general conditioned upon their imme immediate Immediate diate retirement They are L W Cook infantry Joseph M 11 Califf artillery corps H R Turrill medical department and CrosbY P Miller quartermasters department III |