Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1898 — SHORT OF FUNDS. [ARTICLE]

SHORT OF FUNDS.

Lack of Money Causes Embarrassment to National Volunteer Reserve Organisation. New York, July 1. —The.headquarters of the National Volunteer reserves was closed Thursday. William Dell. Washington, the president of the organization, said that the treasury was about depleted and that the organization would have to suspend temporarily. The headquarters of the organization was in the office of Col. Washington, and Gen. A. McD. McCook was the secretary. The object of the National Volunteer reserves was to form an adjunct to the land and sea forces of the United States from which the government could draw it* men when they were needed in war. There tVere enlisted in it from 8,000 to 9,000 men in all parts of the country. Mr. Washington said the organization had furnished a large number of volunteers to the various regiments and in many parts of the west, it had sent out companies and whole regiments.