The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-07-05

Climax, Mich, 5000 back pension, and
monthly allowance of s45 per month, IL
1854, Comrade Shook received fall while
marching on q railroad, which severely In.
jured his arm. On his return home bis arm
was amputated at the shoulder by DR.. H. o.
Hitchcock. OF Kalamazoo. As this inespaci.
tated him from such labor az would afford him
living. he applied for pension. His claim was
! not allowed by Commissioner Lochren. on the
ground of no pensionsble disability. The Com
missioner claimed that tho amputatiOn was not
the result Of his fall received in 1854. per-
sonal appeal was made to the Assistant Secre-
tary of the Interior, and on the 18th of May
last the decision of the Pension Commissioner
was overruled. and Comrade Shocks name
added to the roll, with full back pension.
Comrade Norman Pomroy, Lock port, n Y,
has been endeavoring to unite family who
were separated by the war. Mary Jane Hand,
lon sent for him last Winter to consult with
him regarding Q pension, and the following
facts came to light. Her father. Waiter Hand
Ion. enlisted in the 10th n. Y. Cav, 1854 at
Sullivan, N. Y. After serving nine months he
died in Willet's Point Hospital, leaving seven
children, the Oldest only IL years old he being
y
These children. all but two. were scattered the
two, Rosannah and Julia, were placed in st.
Johns Orphan Asylum at Utica. Julia got out
Of the asylum, married, and died a year ago.
Rosannah was adopted by family in 1869. aud
her name changed to their name. They have
failed to trace her, so far, and anyone who can
furnish information about her will kindly re-
port to her Lockport friends as there is pen
sion awaiting her claim. Three years ago,
when the Y. 81. c. A. State Convention was
held in that city. brother Of Mary J. Hand
ion came as a delegate from Syracuse and
boarded but few doors away from his sister,
but they were strangers until Mr. POmroy
traced him. All the children are living but
two, unless Rosannah be dead Joseph T. and
Charles Handlon are stone mason contractors
in East Syracuse. Mary J. HandIon married
J. Callahan in 1870, and now lives at No. POS
Union street, Lockport, N. Y.
The recent death of sx-Gov. Rodman n.
Price. at his home, in Oakland, n. J., recalls a
remarkable career. He served 10 years in the
Navy, and was with Commodore Sloat when
the American flag was raised at Monterey, Cal,
on July z. 1916. and that country was taken
possession of in the name Of the United States.
He took part in the convention which formed
the Constitution of California. and later moved
to San Francisco. Returning to New Jersey in
1850, he was elected to Congress in 1851. aud in
1853 was elected Governor of the State He
was delegate to the celebrated Peace Congress
in Philadelphia, 1861. While in California
Mr.. Price had a business dispute which resulted
in q judgment against him, and he was ordered
by the Court of Chsncery of New Jersey to
satisfy this Judgment out of an appropriation
of $4,000 granted him by Congress for money
advanced to the Government in 1876. This he
did not do, and last Summer he was declared
to be in contempt and was locked up in the
County Jail at Hackensack for some weeks
until be obtained bail. On appeal the case was
recently decided against him at Trenton, bat
his health has been 80 delicate that be was not
rearrested.