Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-25
REMAREABLE PENSION CASES.
A Deserted wife Receivers Pension aud Arres
Once PAID to q Hogns Miie.


REMARkABLE PENSION CASES
A Deserted wife Recover. Pension and Arrears
once paid to q Bogus Wue.
Mrs Maria Kirk is an elderly lady who
lives with her grand near Hartford
CITY, Indiana She was very poor and Is as
deaf as a stone. Her only son is nearly As
deaf She was born in England aud soon
after her arrival in this country married John
Kirk, at Highspire, Penn'a John Kirk was
a collier and lived with his wife near Ship
pensburg aud after at Mont Alto furnace.
He worked, according to his widows state
ment, for a time at Southampton furnace.
After some time spent In this county they
moved to Ohio and lived there for number
of years, when Kirk, for some unknown
reason left his wife, who lost all trace of him
until within the last few years. Mrs Kirk
moved to Indiana after being forsaken by
her husband, and has lived in this state ever
since. Later developments show that Kirk
went to Illinois, where, alter lapse OF time,
he married another woman without having
secured divorce from Maria, his legal wife.
BY the Illinois wife he had a family. When
the war began Kirk enlisted in Company ID.
Seventy ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers,
and on Nov. so 1852, died at Nashville, Tenn,
OF the measles The Illinois wife drew all
the bountes, back pay and pensions as the
widow of John Kirk, deceased, for period
of nearly twenty-five years
some of The friends of Maria Kirk that her
husband had died during the war, and had
another wife, as above stated. They put the
case in the hands of an attorney who has
clung to it. until Eow ii is entirely cleared
up, the pension department having recently
informed the old lady that her claim had
been allowed, and she was entitled to draw
a pension of IS month from November so
ls62, up to March 10, lS>6, and Sl2 month
thereafter as long as she Will remain wldow
M
six years delay in bringing this case to a
successful end was occasioned by the diff.
culties met with in procuring testimony. A
justice of the peace married klrk and his
first wife but no record was kept OF the
transaction. The story of the woman was
such as To inspire sympathy for her. Ihe
love OF her youth she told in her own simple
unadorned way. Every little memento OF
her husband and all his letters she had pre-
served and as she showed them during the
examination the tears flowed from her eyes
and coursing down her cheeks told that her
love for the wayward husband had not yet
all died.
some Bogus Cases Exposed.
In his hatch os sevsp vstoes of nan sion hill =
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oh "uunesuay, ne'iueu' ,io ei"lu sno ou
that "lll'an' H. DECK claiuheu Pension oy
reason OF chronic epilepsy caused by "Jar
to the head from heavy firing" Six months
after this alleged "jar" and his consequent
Iicate OF perfect souudness and served more
than two years thereafter. The president
thinks this fact negatives the claimant 5
declaration.
james Butler while absent from his regi
mental rendezvous before his COMPANY had
completed its organization or had been must
cred into the service of the government, fel
into a cellar aud broke his leg. The presi
dent can see no pretext for allowing pension
in this casen
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| the ground that her husbands "death wa,
| not the result of his service
Robert Holsey's bill is vetoed, the presi
| dent being " OF the opinion that a acorrect con
| cluson was reached when the application fO
pension in this case was denied by the pen
sion bureau"
Alfred Denny's bill is vetoed because tn,
| Presldent Is satisueu theLe Is hot Parucl'
santai 20 " NC wh'nh' antitla IL tn cbaritatI
| reconsideration. Depny's record showed nc
disability, but twenty years after he was dis
| charged he filed claim alleging that he wa,
| injured by pelng thrown forward upon tht
| r horn Vi ms sauuIe. lne PIesiIen. Pti lisa say
| onr soId;ars wbn roI,s horses dnrins, the wa,
| we're Injured bv being thrown forward upon
| thar saddIes indicate that thosa saddles Kere
vsrv dangerons contrivanc y
TIe hif1 grantIng a nansion IN MariIIa Par.
sons ia disannrove5 because 81 there are no
sneciai cirr,,mstarces To distipyuisb his case
rom many nthers wnosa claims might be
male hv en.parents ana tbsre are no TACT
stated in supnprt of ,be concInsion emhodiad
in the coninittee,s renort, ,tbat tho soIdia,
was taL on sinI from, a,nnsnre incidnnt tn ~
service To dsnart from ali rnIes reanistino
| the granting of nsnsons by sncb an anant
ment as ia Sronosed would sstabIisb a nrece
| dent which could not fail IN c,mse am harrass
| ment and nernIexitv
| With raaard 70 lie caxs os u.rriot ws,cb
| the nresident saws. sThouob this widow
| dir;,s H., - -, - sia .'s - ny ~ " :
| deceased soldier she had marrssd p snn,he, ba,
| man whom she conId only sav she bsIievsd
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Twenty Nine More Veto Messages.
The president bas sent twenty-nine mes
| sages to the House, yetoIng that number O,