Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1894 — OLD SOLDIERS IN COUNTY ASYLUMS. [ARTICLE]

OLD SOLDIERS IN COUNTY ASYLUMS.

There are about five hundred eld soldiers In the county infirmaries of Indiana. George W. Steele, manager of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, at Marion, has written to Governor Matthews asking him to notify the cousty officials that where there are soldiers in the infirmaries application can be made to the National Home, and if the applicanta are entitled to admission they will be received within a reasonable time. Mr. Steele says there have been more soldiers in the Home recently than tfcere was appropriation to take eare of. An appeal for additional funds has been made to Congress through Senator Voorhecs, add Is thought that the financial akl will soon be extended. The Home at Marten is *M of seven In the United -States.