Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — INCREASE IN PENSION LIST. [ARTICLE]

INCREASE IN PENSION LIST.

Manx Application* on Account of Present War Being Filed. Applications for pensions as a result of the Spanish-Atnerican war are already coming into the office of Commissioner Era us in Washington. Lida M. Hook, widow of William H. Hook, Company F, Second Wisconsin infantry, asks for sl2 per month. She is the first applicant. Seventy-one others have also filed their applications. Mrs. Hook was bereaved early in the conflict. Her husband enlisted May 12, 1898. Two days later he was taken sick, and on May 15 died at the military hospital of Camp Harvey, near Milwaukee. Three days later Mrs. Hook executed her application for a pension. There are probably, already 3,000 cases with such a basis for a pension claim. The second nanife on the list at the pension bureau is that of Eliza J. Tunnell, who executes a claim for pension as the widow of Elijah J. Tunnell, killed on board the Winslow in Cardenas harbor. Chief Clerk Bayley said there were 635,000 applications ahead of those who want pensions on account of service in the Spanish war. If all those were adjudicated iu the order filed, soldiers, widows and dependent relatives of this war would have a long time to wait. That is not probable, as Commissioner Evans will soon create a special division for the consideration of pension claims growing out of this war.