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Show NEGRO TROOPS DISBANDED. Whole Battalion Disgraced for Riot at Brownsville. Washington. Unprecedented In tho history of tho nrmy of tho United States Is tho action or tho president, Just announced, In dismissing in Ills-graco Ills-graco from tho nrmy an cntlro battalion bat-talion ot negro troops becauso of their falluro to dlsclo8o tho Identity ot some of tholr numh-r who had been guilty ot vlolenco nnd murder. As nn ovi-denco, ovi-denco, however, of his lntontlon to bo fair to tho colored troops, tho president presi-dent has accompanied this action by an order which may amount to the courtmartlnl of a whlto army offlcoi vt high grndo who was charged with having cast slurs upon tho colored troops. This Is tho outcoma of tho riotous conduct of negro troopers nt Browns vlllo, Texas, In August, which resulted in tho death of ono citizen nnd the wounding of unothor In tho city ol Brownsville membors of tho colored troops being charged with tho crime. |