Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1893 — McMAHOM ON PENSIONS. [ARTICLE]

McMAHOM ON PENSIONS.

In an interview in the New York Times, Gen. Martin T. McMahon speaks of the action of Noah L. Farnham Post, G. A. R., of Brooklyn, in regard to pensions. He is a member of George Washington Post, which indorsed the Farnham Post resoluticns. He says: The fight that has been started by Noah L. Farnham Post for the reform of the pension laws is a fight that will be continued within the Grand Army and outside, at national encampments and in Congress until it has won.” “I undertake to say,” General McMahon went on, “that at lease one third of the present p nsion roll is fraudulent. That is a moderate estimate. The claims against which just complaint is made are based on flat perjury. Under the present law, deserters, bountyjumpers and claim agents get money that ought to go to deserving noldit rs, if so much money is to ; e expended, in an event.” From the above it will be 3een that the demand for pension re** vision comes from old soldiers who easily comprehend the fact tha. if the pension roll is to be a roll of honor, only those deserving i ecognition should be placed thereon.

Mark Yeoman is happy- a boy. Frank Iliff now oocnpies his Rensselaer property. A fine boy at the home of W. A. Huff, Thursday morning. Conrad Hildebrand is erecting a residence on Front street. Our new mills are approaching completion and' will soon be in running order. Mr Meloon, of South Dakota, is visiting his aunt, Mrs. M. L. Spijler. ’Squire Moore has moved into his own property; Geo. Burk into the J. F. Irwin property, and Irwin has resumed his former occupation o.u his farm.

In the trial of Mrs. Nellie Payne at Fowler the jury returned a verdict of guilty of attempted murder and fixed her punishment at four years in the women’s reformatory. D. R. Jones, of Carpenter twp, has also been appointed a member of the Advisory Committee of the World’s Congress Auxiliary on Farm Culture and Cereal Industry, and a member of the World's Agricultural Congress of the Columbian Exposition. The files of the first four years of the first paper ever published in Jasper a d Newton county, “The Jasper Banner,” were destroyed in die fire at McCarthy’s at i eaver Citv, Marcu 31st, 1893. It is sudjosed that these were the only colics in existence, the files at Rensselaer having been destroyed some years ago when the court house was burned. The McCarthy family bible 103 years old was also destroyed at the fire in March. — Morocco Cornier.