Show CASE A AGAINST NAVAL OFFICERS washington june 8 the records of the cases of captain perry garst commanding the battleship rhode island and of commander edward T witherspoon navigating officer of that vessel veisel have been received at the navy department these tn tt officers were tried by a court martial pt of which rear admiral sigsbee was waa president on the general charge of negligence of duty in n connection with the recent grounding of the rhode island near the mouth bouth of the york river it if the usual course Is followed the abo finding and sentence it if any of tile the court in these cases will not bo be om bially announced until after final ac tion has been taken by the navy department part ment f westbrook was nominated for congress today on the ballot bythe by the seventeenth district democrats 3 |