Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1903 — Forty Thousand Pensioners Die In a Year. [ARTICLE]

Forty Thousand Pensioners Die In a Year.

Sept. B.—Pensions to the amount of SIO,IOI,DOG were di* burned in tbeStatO of Indiana dueing the fisoal Team ended dune 30 last. This money wss paid to 64,164 soldiers, widow and orphans. Indiana stands fourth in the list of States In the amount of pen sion money disbursed. Ohio is first, Pennsylvania second, New York third and Indiana, as stated, stands fourth. One hundred and two thousands pensioners in {Ohio draw $15.-026,000. In Penney* Iranis 101,164 are paid $13,830,000 and in New York 89,921 pension* ers receive $11,756000. The tote! for the year is about $133,330,000 there being very little ohange in the appropriations on aooonnt of pensions during the past five years. On June 3, 1902. there were 1,001,494 pensioners On the rolls of the United States. On the corresponding date this year the number bad declined to 996,* 645. Nearly 41,000 names have been dropped from the rolls in the past year by reason of death, the numberrnnning from 2,000 to 5,000 a month.