Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1893 — REYISING THE PENSION LIST. [ARTICLE]

REYISING THE PENSION LIST.

The work of cutting off what the administration is pleased to call “pension frauds” has begun. Fifty names have been ordered dropped from the Pittsburg, Pa., list One of these “frauds” dropped from the Indiana list, is Andrew J. Huffman of Hamilton county. Mr. IHiffman has made an affidavit of the facts in his case and his neighbors without regard to politics testify to the accuracy of his affidavit The undisputed testimony shows that he served from the breaking out of the war until July, 1865, and while in the Eighth Indiana Cavalry, under Gen Stoneman, he had four horses shot under him. Near Colombia, Tenn., one horse was shot from under him, and in the fall Huffman was pinned to the ground and was stepped on by a horse in the rear, one hoof striking him on the left groin and the other in the center

of his abdomen. The injuries resulted in double hernia, one complete. He now wears a supporter at all timeß for the complete hernia and a truss for the incomplete when he has any lifting to do. On the 15, inst., he was notified that his pension had been cut off, and on the 19th ipst at Noblesville, he was again examined, the examining board telling him that the marks left by the corks of the horse’s shoes were plainly visible. The board made a report that the injury still existed. Mr. Huffman made no application for pension Until 1874, when he was rated at $4 per month dating back to 1865.