Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1898 — Page 4

ANOTHER CHAPTER OF HORRORS

THIS ONE RELATES TO THE WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. s' ' * • History Records a Startling Array of Proved Charges Against Democratic Incompetency and Mismanagement

We condemn in unstinted measure' the war department for the blunders and crimes committed against the brave boys in blue in camp and on foreign batltefields by selfish contractors, incompetent surgeons and vain, heartless army officers appointed for potitical purposes. IVe hereby pledge to our brave sailors and soldiers who survive this war our earnest and loyal support to secure the punishment of the guilty parties. Wisconsin Democratic Platform.

Thu war with Mexico was conducted by a Democratic administration to extend slavery; the war with Spain was , conducted by a Republican administration to free millions from the tyrrany, inhumanity and barbarity of a power that holds fast to the tortures of the middle ages; the great war against secession was conducted by a Republicad administration to make the union of the United States perpetual and to give freedom to millions of slaves. The latter cost • hundreds of thousands of lives, about { 13 per cent of the total enlistment for \ the northern armies. While the nation | sincerely mourns Buch a vast expendi- J tare, it rejoices in the benefits it brought and the mighty progress the Country has made through them. It is too early to figure the percentage •f loss in life of the second great and wonderfully successful effort to strike the shackels from the oppressed, but it is safe to say that it will not be 3 per atmt. The civil war called for in all *,778,304 men Of these 300,222 died of or wounds, or were killed in bat- «, tie. In the recent Spanish war there -were between 275,0U0 and 280,000 American volunteers, and so far the best estimates of deaths from all causes do not reach 8,000. That is what to secure freedom has cost Ae United States during the last 53 yt^s. In the Mexican war, from May, 1846, j to April, 1848, the whole number of vol- ( anteers mustered into the United States j service was 71,309, of whom only 68,926 were accepted. Altogether, including noncombatants, there were not more than 100,000 Americans engaged in active service against Mexico. The loss at life through battle and disease reached the enormous number, for so small an army, of 25,000, or 35 per cent. That is what the country had to sacrifice so that negro slavery in the laud of boastful freedom might have more territory to blight wi& its horrors. That frightful sacrifice was made by a Democratic administration solely for Democratic purposes and Democratic slavedrivers. "James K. Polk was president and William L. Marcy, secretary of war. Thus we have a mathematical setting forth like this: Cost of fistdom, civil war... 13 per eeut Cost of freedom, Spanish war 3 per cent Cost' of slavery, Mexican war S 3 per cent Kxcess of cost of slavery over civil war 13 per cent Excess of cost of slavery over Spanish war 33 per cent Excess of cost of slavery over both wars II per cent The causes of this tremendous sacrifice to further enslave the negro began through the mismanagement and cruelty of the Democratic administration before the volunteers got south of the Ohio river. As an example, the flowing from a Pennsylvania regiment, will serve: “About noon we arrived in Pittsburg. We formed in line aud marched to the wharf, where we were quartered In one of the large warehouses. It was the 15th of December and the weather was very cold, but we had no stoves or any place to make a fire. In a day or two we wero marched to the Amerioau hotel to be paid off. Each soldier received 921, less $5.50 for expenses incurred on our way to Pittsburg. Teu cents would have paid for all we got, for everything was given to the soldiers by citizens along the way. This caused considerable fuss, os there seemed to be no account given of the appropriation made for this express purpose.” Who was to blame for these soldiers’ sufferings in the d«ad of winter without fires? Who was responsible for not aoeountiug for the subsistance appropriation, but instead robbed each ooldier of 96.60 of his hard earned pay? The Democratic heart was fired by placing one of the oauA of rendezvous on the battlefield of Mew Orleans, a locality still extolled in song and speech on every recurring Bth of January. But the exalted spirit of St. Jackson hovering over the place 31 years to a aay after he had won his victory there, oould not restrain the soldiers called out by his party’s administration from complaining of hanger. It was on the great anniversary appropriated by Democracy that a soldier, fighting for more slave territory, wrote in his diary the following: “This morning, as usual, the soldiers are cursing tbe officers and quartermasters for not furnishing us with enough to eat. It ia, in fact, a perfect shame how the soldiers are treated in regard to provisions. If it was not for the little money the soldiers have, God knows how we would stand it. Nearly all our officers go to sew Orleans, stop at the

St. Charles, and there eat, drink and make merry, thus neglecting to do their duty to the soldiers, who are lying here without half enough to eat." One more quotation from this interesting diary of a private in the Second Pennsylvania volunteers. The date is only two days later than the anniversary on which the national Democracy, in remembrance of St. Jackson, always takes a double hitch in its trousers and exploits everythirfg Democratic, while crying out calamity and death as the sequence of trust in every other political party. But here is the quotation: '.‘This morning, instead of the scorching sun, it began to snow and rain, forming a pond of ice and water around our encampment. Ice and water ran into our tents, and, as the ground was low, all our quarters were overflowed. Tonight many soldiers hunted up slave huts aud are sleeping with slaves, cursing the day they went soldiering. Our blankets aud clothing are' frozen stiff aud bard. Every soldier is talking about bad treatment and hardships of 6oldier life.” We pass over this soldier’s trials and those of his comrades on board transports to Vera Cruz, except to state that added to their suffering from packed quarters, bad air, insufficient food and clothing, with no medical supplies, was the daily allowance of only a quart of water to each man for cooking, drinking and washing purposes. The condition of the army a few mouths later can be inferred from the mild depiction of its sufferings by Secretary of War Marcy, who said in his annual report: “The surgeons and assistant surgeons constituting the medical staff of the army are all required for the troops in the field, and it is ascertained by exthat they are scarcely sufficient for the exigencies of the service. The wants of the service have rendered it necessary to employ physicians in civil life to assist in the duties of the medical staff. This deficiency of medical assistance has been owing in part to the number of surgeons and assistants detached from troops in the field to take charge of the several hospitals which proper care of the sick and wounded have rendered indispensable.” This meant a demand for more surgeons. While the secretary of war was oalling for them, Acting Surgeon General Heiskell in his report made the startling admission that he did not know how many soldiers had been killed in battle, how many were in hospitals, how many were dying of wounds or disease. He said: “Owing to the almost total interruption of communication between the main army In Mexico and the coast since early in June, the reports of the sick and wounded have not been received from the medioal officers with that army for the last two quarters. It is quite probable also that their laborious duties in relieving the wounded and administering to their oomfort, left them but little time to make out in due season their quarterly reports. For these and other causes, I regret it is impossible to present with this report the usual consolidated report of the sick and wounded of the army for the year ending Sept. 30 last.” That statement was made to the secretary of war in November, 1847, but withal there was not a line or figure to show that he knew anything about even the siok and wounded who had been brought to hospitals iu this country, or the siok soldiers in them who, at any time, had been unable to go to the froi}t. The secretary of war had no data either. If he had he suppressed them, for not an intimation of them appeared in his report. He was content to let the people know that more surgeons were wanted aud to let them infer that the necessity for additional medical assistance arose from no extraordinary condition of suffering in the army. But while he was thus misleading the public, the American ranks in Mexico and the southern part of this country were being decimated more, by disease than by battle. A writer of that time, A. A. Divermore, wrote in his “Consequences of the Mexican War," the following description of conditions which the secretary of war and surgeob general refused to muke known to the public: "Fever, vomlto, dysentery, erysipelas and other diseases rage among the troops with terrible virulence. Far more perish iu the hospitals thau iu the field. The deaths at the City of Mexico among the American soldiery averaged' 1,000 u month for a considerable time after they occupied the ‘nails of the Monteziuuus’ aud 800 or 400 a month afterward. The wounded very generally died of the effect of the climate aud the uccess of Sickness. The fact, too, that so large a portion <1 the troops were ruw volunteers, wholly * uuused to a soldier’s life and often unwilling to sabmit to the necessary sanitary regulations of the army, accounts iu part for almost incredible expenditures of life.” As early iu the war as September, 1846, Geueral Taylor bogan to oall the attention of the war department to the frightful loss his troops were having by disease. On the 8d of the montii aud year named he wrote from Oamargo: "There has been great sioknees and mortality in the volunteer regiments.” He repeated the warning at Saltillo and from both Mier and Bueua Vista,

Aug. 4, 1847, sent the appalling information to Washington that: “Twenty-five per cent of my troops are disabled by disease at this moment.”

The next year General Taylor was at Port Hndson, La., where he made a speech, in which he said: “Of those who have died in active service in Mexico, the proportion of those cut down by disease to those who fell on the battlefield was five to one.” While-disease ran riot in the army of Taylor as he marched and fought his way down from the Rio Grande, the route of General Scott from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico was a pathway of death. When he reached Puebla June 4, 1847, he sent to Washington the astounding statement that: “The effective strength of my army has been suprisingly reduced. We left in hospital at Vera Cruz 1,000, as many sick and wounded at Jalapa, 200 at Pesoti and at Puebla we have 1,017 in the hospital. This general sickness may be attributed to several causes, contrasts in climate, insufficiency of clothing and want of salt meats. The prevailing diseases are chills, fevers and diarrhoea.” Scott’s loss by sickness and death up to the writing of this dispatch had been £5 per cent or more. He had left out of the armv he started with from Vera Cruz only a few hundred more than 10,000 men. This was in June, and in the month following at Puebla alone 2,302 of his, 10.000 were sick. Even in December, 1847, he had 2.041 sick in various hospitals, exclusive of those in the City of Mexico. And yet this fearful history of a Demcratic war to extend slavery is not at an end. Detail, a mere glimpse of it. makes the relation of this sacrifice more frightful. Out of 80 sappers aud miuers from West Point, who went with Scott, only 24 returned. The rest were left in graves in Mexico. In one year the Ninth infantry lost 625 out of 730. At the end of nine months the First South Carolina had only 90 men to go with Scott into the City of Mexico out of 1,100. The First Tennessee had 1,000 to begin with, but it lost at the rate of 50 a month. In August, 1847, when the First North Carolina came to be paid off, it was found that every fifth man had died since the muster rolls had been made up, two months before. The Mississippi regiment began with 80 or 90 in a company. The rate was soon cat down to 30. Out of 400 Georgians 40 were left fit for duty in the City of Mexico. General Pierce’s New Hampshire regiment wben it reached the Mexican capital had only 120 out of 848 that could be of any service. Colonel Baker had in his Illinois regiment 820 men to begin with. He lost 100 in six months in the Rio Grande valley. In addition 200 were dismissed to die by the way or find their way home with constitutions broken down. This was the Colonel Baker who was afterward in oongres&und was killed at Ball’s Blnff in the civn war. While in congress he said on the floor of the house, when the Mexican war was under debate, that “Two thousand young men, in whose veins flowed some of the best blood of the country, who had never seen the face of the enemy, were resting in the mould on the banks of the Rio Grande.” That is. Taylor lost 2,000 men by disease before he reached the enemy’s country. Again Colonel Baker said in congress when arraigning the inefficiency, incompetency and neglect of the medical staff: “Out of 18,000 volunteers of June and July, 1846. 7,000 or 30 per cent, are already dead aud gone. Iu a single hospital at New Orleans there were 650 sick soldiers at one time.” The January preceding the request of the secretary of war for more surgeons, and the surgeon general’s admission that he could give no statement as to the sick and wounded in hospitals, or of those killed in battle or who had died from disease, congress demanded a report from the adjutant general of the army. Feb. 4, 1847, he reported that within 60 days up to that date out of the volunteers there had been Ufinrtloiii 3XI Killed Iu battia 71 Died of disease <137 UltcliurgMl on aoconnt of disease. . 3,000 So great was the bitterness against the administration that a writer of the time, the same Mr. Livermore from whom quotation was made above, in estimating tne loss of life on both sides at the lowest figured 40,000, said: “This, immense loss of human life, with all its attendant evils aud woes aud pains, is chargeable upon the authors aud abettors of this tremendous system of legalized murder.” The transporting of the uiok and wounded home was most horrifying. It was a time of terrible mistreatment of ineu, who innooently enlisted to serve their country, but were called upon to fight that slavery might live uuder the perpetual rule of the Democratic party. Cue voyage home of the transport Virginia was a type of that service. This voyage was made in 1846, nnd a writer described it as follows: “Half of the men on the Virginia were wounded or sick, some having lost their legs, others their arms, others being wouuded iu arms aud legs. With all those wouuded, siok aud dying men not a surgoou or a nurse was sent along to atteud to not a particle of medioine, not a Pitch of a liuon for dreaaing a wound. This ia the usual manner of seudiug home the wouuded aud sick, seudlug them like old horses tired out to die." Here is a glance at oue of the hospitals of that droadful war. It is given by an officer, who, writing home from Matatuoias. said: “A mau gets siok and is carried to the hospital with his blauket nnd knapsack. Beil and beddiug there are none, and bedsteads or oots are not to be had. A blanket and the ground are therefore the couch upou which the volunteer lies sick aud

dies, if he does not recover. If he dies, he is buried with only his blanket aronnd him.” « Another wrtcer, a visiting editor, described the hospitals as follows: “They are places of overwhelming squalor, want and misery. They have no parallel except in Canadian emigrant sheds. Their conditions are outrageously offensive to every human sense, physical and moral.” , Still another wrote: “The sick receive no attention. All are broken, maiiy are destitute and individual charity ami help from triends constitute their only succor.” To crown this infamy of neglect and cruelty, when these poor wrecks were discharged . from the hospitals they were allowed only 20 cents a day for transportation aud subsistence in reaching home. All this is what the volunteers of the country got for serving in a Democratic war.

THE STATE DEBT REDUCED

Republican Administration Shows Decrease of Nearly Two Million Dollars. Figures on the state debt taken from the auditor of state’s report for 1893 and 1894 present the accompanying problem in arithmetic. In those years the Democrats had charge of the money vaults and the auditing of accounts: State’s foreign debt, 1890 S 8,056,615.12 State’s foreign debt, 1894 7,436,615.12 Reduction $ 620,000.00 This is applicable and necessary in any effort to understand what the Democratic auditor of state meant when ho reported in 1894 as follows: “Since the meeting of the last general assembly $910,000 of the public debt has been extinguished.” The general assembly referred to was that of 1893. It adjourned in March of that year and the last of the October following the same auditor of state reported that the state’s foreign debt was $8,006,615.12. That was only $50,000 less than the debt in 1890. Yet the auditor says in the text matter of his report of 1893 that “on April 1, that year, $340,000 in bonds were taken up.” He wanted the people to understand they were paid in cash. If they were, the payment should have been included in his 1893 debt statement. That wonld have made the foreign debt $390,000 less than that of 1890, instead of $50,000 as shown by his own figures. In the same connection in the text matter of his report of 1894 the Democratic auditor of state says: “April 1, 1894, $370,000 were retired and Nov. 1, 1894 $200,000 more were paid, making a total reduction of $910,000.” It has been shown by a little subtraction of figures taken from the same report that the actual redaction of the foreign debt from what it was in 1890 was only $620,000 or $290,000 short of what the auditor claimed in his text. Of this $200,000 can be explained away by its having no business in the public debt statement of that time. That $200,000 was paid Nov. 1, the day after the close of the fiscal year, when the foreign debt was given at $7,436,615.12. That leaves $90,000 to be accounted for, along with the $340,000 reported as taken up. The truth of the matter is the Democrats did more refunding of the state debt than paying it off in cash. At the close of the last fiscal year 1897 the Republican auditor of state in his public debt statement showed that it was sl,720,000 less than when the Democrats turned over the state to the Republicans. A BRAVE BOY’S WORDS. A special from Madison, lud., to the Indianapolis Journal, says: “Michael E. Garber, private in ComEny F, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth diana infantry, writes to his mother in this city as follows: “ ‘Don’t believe for a minute the newspaper accounts of Camp Meade and of our condition, for they are utterly unfounded. Ido not see how any person with any humane feeling or principle could write snch editorials as the New York Journal contains and cause so mnch suffering and worry by the soldiers’ friends aud families. Camp Meade is as pleasant a place as one wonld wish for a camp, and although the number in the division hospital increases a great deal daily it is because every person who has the slightest symptoms of fever is sent there immediately, and they generally return after a day or two.’ ” Young Garber comes of good American stock, and it is apparent from the way he writes that he has the proper conception of what constitutes true patriotism and of what is expected to constitute a true soldier. What connection there is between the conduct of the war and principles of free trade aud its variations one can hardly understand, bat it is a fact that all newspapers committed to everything bat protection of home industries are violently opposed to aud hysterically critical of General Alger’s management of the war department. Harper’s Weekly, for instance, is furiously wrought up over the sufferings of soldiers. In a recent issue it had, in pictures and comment, a very pronounced yellow streak. But it permitted a regular contributor to say: “The mind of man is too prone anyway to take kindly to oomplaints about food. With real hardships enough to stimulate their natnral tendencies toward faultfinding, otr heroes are now ogged on to extra strennons efforts in that direction by the hourly assurances of all the sensational papers in the country that they are starved, neglected and miscellaneously mismanaged. It must appear in the oamps just uow as if a soldier’s whole duty was to distrust authority, reject his food, bewail his fate and demand to be sent home.”

Real Estate Transfers.

Explanatory Aote: All are warranty deeds when not otheiwUe specified. The date, given in the different Items, are the dates of the deeds tnemselves, showing when execut’ ed. The ‘mw”“ne” “ae” “aw,” mean Northwest quarter, Northeast quarter, etc., and denote a quarter section, or 160 acres; “njtf nw” wonld mean half of a quarter section, or 86 acres, “ne sw” means the northeast- quarter of the southwest quarter, or 40 acres The figures as 30-29-7, mean section 80. township 29. range?. John M. Gwin to Calvin F. Faris, Aug, 20, sw sw nw 25-29-6, Marion, $2,000. Mary E. Harmon et al to Isaac J. Porter, Aug. 28, pt se 34-29,6, 40 acres, Marion, $1,066. John Wolf to Charles Schwass, Aug. 8, .wi| nw 8-31-6, 80 acres* Walker, $3,000 Malinda J. Cherry to Geo. W. Elliott, Aug. 21, pt ne 19-29-6, 1 acre, Marion, $125. Elswortli Iliff to Win Collins, Apr. 9, Its 23, 24, 25 bl 1, SunnySide Add. Rens., $l5O. Clara May Huggins to Richard Pittman, Sept., 3, It 15 bl 6 S. S. Add. Rens., SSO. Peter W. Nelson to Isaac Kight, Aug. 29, Its 8,9, 10, bl 8 Fair Oaks, $350. Emil Wolter to Edward M. Deweese, Dec 18, ’97, It 5, bl 10, S. S. Add. Rens., $1,500. Flora V. Bailey to Edward M. Deweese, Sept. 5, Its 17, 18, bl 12, S. S. Add. Rens., S2OO. Elias Paulson toWm.H. Ramey, June 28, ne, nw se, n£ sw 2-30-5, 185 acres, Gillam, $9,250. Chas. A. Gundy to Reason M. Dunn, Sept. 6, outlot 20 DeMotte, SSOO. W. C. Martinie to Edward E. Faris, June 20, Its 7,8, 9, 10 bl 12 Sunny-Side Add. Rens., S2OO. Samuel M. Laßue et al to John Flinn, Aug. 9, sw, 26-29-6, 80 acres, nw, pt w£ sw 35-29-6, 163 acres, Marion, $12,000. James Lane to Joseph E. Thoflias, Aug. 29, w£ se nw, w£ ne sw, se, sw, sw sw 31-30-7, 98 acres, Newton, $2,500. Joseph E. Thomas to James Lane, Aug. 29, se 6-29-7, 80 acres, Newton, $2,500. Sanford Peck to Hiram A. Draper, June 28, sw, se 1-31-7, Keener, $4,000. James McCord to Isaac J. Porter, Sept. 1, pt se 34-29-6, 20 acres, Marion, $533. Sidney G. Henderson to Johanna Koezema, Sept. 1, It 12 bl 2, A. & P. Add Rens. S4OO. Mary A. Spaoy to Max Weller, Mar. 1, und § nw nw 10-27-7, Carpenter SI2OO. Samuel S. Spacy to Max Weller, Mar. 1, ne 9-27-7, 160 acres, Carpenter $7200. John W. Spacy et al to Max Weller, Mar. 1, und £ se 4-27-7, 120 acres, Carpenter $5400. Jamds Houghton to Robert Cox, Aug. 2, se, s| sw, 33-28-7, Jordan $12,000. Robert Cox to Nettie C. Kinner, Aug. 30, s| sw 33-28-7, Jordan sl. James W. Cowdeu to Delos Thompson, et al Sep. 10, pt 2, side w 4 nw 28-29-6, Marion $l5O. Isaac Sell to Fred Meiser, Sept. 10, sw se 8-31-6, ne ne 17-31-6, Walker, quitclaim SIOO. Sarah A. Ritchey to Robert Michael, 9, und § sw ne 27 T2B- - Jordan Mathias Schillo to Michael Obermoyer, Aug. 20, w £ nw 8-31-5, 80 acres, Walker S2OOO. Michael Obermoyer to Frederick Smith, Sep. 12. n£ w nw 8-31-5, 60 acres, Walker $487.

Short Locals.

South Bend wagons and buggies of all styles at L. S. Renicker’s. 86. I have private funds to loan on real estate at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on 1 lands and there is-no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east —absolutely no red tape Why do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates. Funds always on hand. W. B. Austin. The Lafayette wagon, best, cheapest and lightest running. L. S. Renicker.

Coirnnlssloiifi-s' AJJowanp* *. SPECIAL ACOCBT SESSIONS. S M McG'nnts, on Keener gravel rds f.oo oo Thomrs™. Sigler A Style* on ct hs yd 2500 W 8 M McGinnis, on Keener gravel riw ISBB SI do otls gravel road*. . " 593 <i do DeMotte gravel road 3)« «g A Halleck, com’r 8 days. Aug 1, 2,3 10 SO do *• 1 day Aug 13 " B so do *• 1 day Aug 23 «50 do •• 2 days Aug 29,30 . 700 F W aymlre corn’s 3 days 10 no do ;• l day 350 do “ 1 day 3no do - 2 days 700 SEPTEMBER SESSION. I D Luckey, taking to Jail.. ... 900 JOB McDangal relief poor Carpenter., n 25 Thos Muller relief poor Carpenter 27 25 Win Shepherd rel es poor Carpenter 46 35 Wilson, Humphreys & Co hooks, stat’erv 891 00 . " ,_ fl le cases clerk’solil 65 00 A L Berkley m D med aid, Insane person 425 I Tutour mdse cths.... 40 R White & Son team for comr’s 6 75 N Warner & Sons, mdse ct hs 7 B 5 shields & Dilley. public printing I 79 Leslie Clark, public printing ..’ ' 1175 John Eger mdse ct hs 7 90 T J Joyner, salary as janitor 49 47 do laundry and labor 4 85 John w Burgett. taxes refunded 59 25 S O Johnson mi> med aid. per contract. 12 73 Elizabeth Walton, care for insane person 525 W F Burk, for 2 street bridges 1217 25 Thompson. S A S bal <n ct hs yard 1700 to W o. Schweir med aid per contract 26 56 La Fay Bridge Co. Pinkamink bridge.. 820 2 5 Wm Paris, relief poor GlUam 26 25 A B Cowgill, relief poor Marion 12 76 J Thrawls, work on ditches 15 45 'J re,iftt P°° r Hang. Grove 'lo 25 W J Wright, reties poor farm 16 25 M lram Day, work at poor farm 11 60 M L Spltler trustee lot rent storinggravel 25 26 J® C English, relief poor, per contract.. 5 26 L S Alter, work on ditches 127 76 Frank Bostwtck, office wk on dtiches. 1 no Wash Scott, house rent, pr, Marlon. .. 686 W H Coover. making reports 3 75 John Kger, mdse poor farm 136 83 F B Meyer, mdse poor farm 65 13 onnelly Bros work on poor farm 42 48 Ellis & Murray, mdse poor farm 27 64 A G Hsrdy. labor on poor farm . 32 25 N Warner A Sons, mdse poor farm .. 25 60 W H Eger, mdse on po >r farm 42 64 Johnson Temp Com Co bal on c10ck.... 1600 25 G E Marshall, publishing for assessor... 5 28 do publish notice tax paying time • 9 43 GE Marshall publishing for Co. Supt.... 825 K B Porter, expense recorder’s office .. 6 60 John Renlcker, work on ditches I 00 Jas McOlanahau 12 25 John O’Conner “ “ “ 725 Cecil Alttj. work on ditches :... 2t 25 J o Gwln. po-tage aec’c 5 85 Com. State Bank. Interest on Co. debt... 46 25 Wm V Brown, prisoner to jail 5 25 Porter A Yeoman nul-e C H 1 51 N J Reed, serving precepts & notices... 22 40 E C Powell med aid per contract 13 25 L Clark .mdse Co Supt 28 25 Ellis & Mun ay, mdse Co Supt 2 62 Hugh L Gamble, engineer Keener G R 24 00 John Healy. work for prisoners 4 00 C E Mills, attorney fses 18 25 W N Jones, work on poor farm 5 05 Leslie Alter •* “ ditches 475 J R Phillips, services on board of review 54 25 W 8 Parks, hauling for Co 2 60 J O Gwin, IntonC H bonds . 3431 25 “ " ” *• Co debt 322 25 A G Hardy, salary, poor tarm Sudt.... 150 25 “ “ labor on “ *• 78 58 ” “ painting at poor farm 70 89 labor at. poor farm 97 65 G E Marshall, pub’g Corn’s allowances 24 65 “ “ •’ for Co Supt 2d 00 A F Long, mdse C H 19 90 W H Eger, JL *•. ... ...41 85. W H Coover, office expense .. e 4 75 > J. Reed, •• •• 2 25 *• “ quarterly salary • 350 25 A L Berkley, med aid per contract .... 5 25 Slmsson E Low, relief poor. Gillam 15 00 John Pinter, •• *• WlieatOeld. 49 95 Gwln A McCov, *• “ H Grove 325 Porter A Wisliard, •• “ *• 300 W J Wright, relilf poor Muion ' 15 25 H Grove 9 75 \ Union 12 25 W J Wright, relief poor Marion 16 25 H J Dexter, relief poor Marion S 20 J C Carmichael, reltef poor Marlon 15 25 Ralph Fendig, relief poor Marion 5 25 John Eger, relief poor Marlon 73 25 City of Rensselaer water for Co 146 75 L H Hamilton, office expense 4 25 do service acc’t 812 25 N J Reed, serving precepts.... 5 75 John Q Alter, work on flitches 37 75 Manda Hoyes, work on ditches 27 25 do 27 25 do •• *< *’ 22 25 John E Alter. ” ” “ 81 25 - do •• “ 66 25 do « “ “ 67 25 do office expense 4 45 L Wiidberg, relief poor Marlon 4 60 N J Reed, boarding prisoners 50 65 do ” •< ...... 83 00 Porter & Wlshard. relief poor, Marlon .. 85 25 .1 Tuteur, relief ooor Jordan 3 25 G E Marshall, public priming 86 13 Laßue Bros, relief poor, Marlon 18 05 W H Eger, mdse jail 8 13 A Woodworth, giavel road Supt 55 50 John Moosmiller. work on gravel rds... 9 75 Wm Castor, work on gravel rds 7 50 Abel Grant, work on gravel rds 3 75 J D Babcock relief poor Marion 24 75 John Eger, relief poor Union 7 45 Ellis & Murray, mdse Co jail 6 flo J C Gwin, quarterly salary 800 25 w h Coover. quarterly salary 375 25 W H Eger, rndsect h* IS 20 R B Porter, quarterly salary 275 25 Donelley Bros, work on jail 2 70 L H Hamilton, office expense is 10 John C Kaupke, relief poor Kankakee.. 37 85 H B Murray, postage aud exoense 9 72 do quarterly salary 425 00 A Leopold. md>e Co jail .... 18 08 N Warner A Sous, mdse Co jail 3 70 A Woiodworth, gravel rdSupt 67 50 A Grant, work on gravel rds 9 00 True Woodworth, work ou gravel rds.. 550 N Warner A Sons, mdse .... 96 Wm I’enwright,services, kruvelrdSupt 30 75 Chas Little work gravel loads 1 50 John Harris, 21 25 Chas Elmore. •• . 63 James Johnson, work on giavel toads. . 63 Dell Gray, gravel for road 2 60 Elmer Brjwn,gravei rds... 60 11 K. MURRAY. Auditor.

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