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Show NATIONAL GUARD IS BEING CALLED Fourteen Regiments of New England State Troops Arc to Guard Property. WASHINGTON. March 25. Calling into the federal service of fourteen regiments of the notional guard for police po-lice protection purposes was an-nouneed an-nouneed today by the war department. TRENTON. N. J , March 25. Preparations Prep-arations for the expected mobilization Orders have been going on in the military mili-tary department the past week and when word was received tonight the orders wore passed on to regimental commanders with unusual dispalrh. The first duty of the guardsmen will be to guard munitions factories. Preparations Prep-arations of the adjutant general's de-i de-i partment have exlended to the point where the remaining five regiments jean be mustered Into service the same day orders are received requesting their services. HARTFORD, Conn . March 25. The First regiment, Connecticut national cuard, railed into the federal service by direction of the president; will mobilize mob-ilize tomorrow. IiARRISBURG. Pa. March 25. Adjutant Ad-jutant General Stewart announced tonight to-night that the First and Third Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania infantry regiments would assemble as-semble at their armories in Philadelphia Philadel-phia at 7 30 a. m. Wednesday for examination ex-amination and muster in. Both regi-ments regi-ments recently returned from the Mexican Mex-ican border. BALTIMORE, Md.. March 25. Adjutant Adju-tant General Warfield of Maryland io-day io-day ordered a third company of the First Maryland regiment to the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania and Baltimore & Ohio bridges at the Susquehanna river. Tho new men will make over 200 i be stationed at the bridges. The Fourth regiment I 800 strong is tinder arms tonight, at its armory in Baltimore Mobilisation Mobilisa-tion is to begin tomorrow morning . HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., March 25. -Shots were exchanged this evening1 at 7 o'clock between a sentry on duty I at tho Pennsylvania lailroad bridge1 over the Susquehanna river and an unknown un-known man in a rowboat who failed1 to move away from the bridge. The! boajtsman disappeared in the dark. It; is not known whether he was struck ALBANY, N. Y., March 25 The war department's request for two regi-ments regi-ments of New ork troops to bo mustered mus-tered into federal service was received by Governor Whitman early tonight. He immediately directed Adjutant Gen-! eral Stotesbury to call out the Seventy-1 rirsl of New York City and the Second.' with companies located in Troy, Co-hoes, Co-hoes, Schnectady, Glovers ville, Amsterdam, Amster-dam, Whitehall, Glens Falls, Saratoga' Springs and Hoosac Tunnel NEW YORK. March 25. The Fifteenth Fif-teenth regiment of infantry. New York national guard, made up of negroes, was given a preliminary inspection today to-day by its officers, headed by Colonel William Haward of the New York City public service commission. The' reciment has been accepted by thel state. BOSTON, March 25. The Second and Ninth infantry regiments of the! Massachusetts national guard were called out late toda for guard duty. Both regiments served several months on I he Mexican border RICHMOND, Ya., March 25 Six eompanies of the Virginia national guard were ordered on duty today by Go ernor Stuart for the purpose of guarding important state and municipal munici-pal utilities and large munitions and shipbuilding plants. Adjutant General Sale issued instructions also for the Second Virginia infantry to prepare to re-enter the federal service on receipt of orders from the war department. WILMINGTON. Del.. March 25 -Officers of the Flrt haltalion ot the Delaware Del-aware national guard called out by ihe president today assembled al their armory ar-mory tonight and (he four hundred men of the battalion will be mobilized tomorrow. The troops arrived home from ihe Mexican bonier on February 2 and their equipmeni is still ini.o i. |