Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1906 — Back Pension of $5,000. [ARTICLE]

Back Pension of $5,000.

Twenty-six years after their father's death, the sou of Robert C McConnell at Knightetown have been notified by the pension de partment that he has been granted a bach pension of $5,000. Lientenant McConnell died in 1886, at Cadiz and shortly before his death he had made an application 'for an increase of pension. Nothing was heard from the application, and the matter had been forgotten when the word was received.