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Show A GENERAL COURT MARTIAL To Try Lieutenant Woodbridge Geary of the Nineteenth Infantry. Fort Watxe, Mich., Aug. 31. The court martial summoned by General Miles of the department of the Missouri to try Lieutenant Woodbridge Geary will convene here tomorrow. tomor-row. Lieutenant Geary is an officer of the Nineteenth Infantry, stationed at Mackinaw. What the serious charges are is not exactly known, as beyond the statement that they are grave, those in charge of the case at army headquarters will not talk. Lieutenant Geary is a very prominent man socially aud, it is said, he had a row with a brother officer in which the lie was passed and a fistic cny counter barely averted. The detail of officers offi-cers who will try Geary numbers twelve, and the court will be presided over by Colonel George M. Brayton. e r |