Show NEGRO WILL ILL BE REMOVED War Var Department Yields to Entreaty of Brownsville People REPORT OF MAJOR PENROSE Commandant cs Ills his Men Were CIO eio Guilt Guilty of t 1 lint Bitt lIl Sa Says ThC They Were Pro JIO Washington Aug 20 The 20 The War ar department department de the- has decided to remove the tho negro regiment the ho Twenty fifth In- In now stationed at Brownsville Browns Browns- ville Texas and replace it by while white troops This will wilt remove remo tho ho cause causa of or friction which has been agitating the people of or that city for some days past General AInsworth acting secre secretary ry of oC war today toda received a n report of oC the tho recent disturbance from Crom Major C. C W. W Yo Penrose commanding the regiment and anti at once sent the following dispatch dis ilis- patch T To the Commanding General of oC tho the Department of oC Texas Camp Mabry Austin Texas Send one company compan of or Twenty sixth infantry to Fort Brown Drown Texas immediately immediately im im- im- im mediately and amI by quickest practicable route Assign officers temporarily to command if IC necessary to give ghe It full complement Immediately on arrival of or this company compan at Fort Brown Drown send I all alJ companies of ot Twenty-fifth Twenty infantry tr try from that place to Fort Ringgold Ring lUng gold with supplies for Cor at least one month Quartermaster med medical icah anti and sub subsistence departments eats will furn furnish lab necessary transportation ion attendance an and ind supplies Commandants Commandant's lie The report bf of Major l Penrose received re ro- ro at al the War nr department this tills afternoon is dated Jated August 15 It says that hat at ut 12 1210 lOa a. a in m. the garrison of Fort ort Brown was vas aroused by a furious fusillade of shots apparently fired from flom rom behind a brick wall on the north northside side of uC the post not ilot more than a hundred hun hun- barracks Tho rho dred dreth feet from coin the fusillade lasted eight or ten minutes and nd one hundred or more shots were fired Major Penrose thought the garrison was being attacked and ordered or- or dered dere everybody under arms A roll iohl call all was ordered and nil all the men rc- rc ported except two privates ates of or Compan Com Com- pan any pany C. C After Arter the firing had ceased he ic sent Captain Lyon with Com Company pan D to look 1001 for tor the two 0 missing men but lUt ut he returned In about an hour Without having found oun them theme He was accompanied by 11 Mayor l Combe of 01 Drowns Brownsville who reported that u n civil civil- Jan Ian an had been shot and that the chief chieff ot of f police had been heen badly wounded In Inic Inthe Inthe the ic right arm arm and anti his ills horse hOll killed under him Ho said that the woundIng woundIng wound- wound Ing ng had hall been dono done by hy soldiers Major jenrose Penrose kept the garrison g under arms until a. a m m. m and he lie had all the titles Inspected to see sec whether they had lad been fired but ut found them all allbrIght allright right brIght anti and clean lIe He therefore did dill nol 1101 ol believe that his Is soldiers had done clone the lie u next morning when Mayor Con o e returned and imol reported rc- rc P ported that flint about tl 75 op ot empty empty- cartrIdge e shells and ad clips chips for Cor Springfield Springfield Spring- Spring field rifles had been picket picked up in the |