Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 29, 1893, Page 6

3 e e i |t BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE Comproliensive Review of the Oost of the War for the Union. EIGHT AND A HALF BILLIONS TO DATEE The Amount of Treasare Etpended Fur lo Excess of the Entire Valaation of All Property in the Eleven Rebelllous States—lustructive Comparisons, “What did the civil war cost in | moncy " | The New York Sun rases the ques- : tion and answers it with an instruct | array of figures and draws interesting | eonclusions therefrom. | This interesting question, says the | Sun, often asked and never eat- | | \ | | | | | i | | isfactorily answered, comes before | us once more. A conventional formula frequently employed by loose speakers and writers, is that the war of | the rebellion cost the north a million | lives and a billion of treasure. The statement is grossly inaccurate at both ends. The estimate of mortality is ex- cessive, while the estimate of money ex- penditure is ridiculously inadequate. The popular idea that 1,000,000 sol- diers of the union lost their lives during | the war, or directly in consequence of | the war, is encouraged by many persons who know better, because it suggests such exaggerated notions of the magni- tude of the struggle and of the number of men actually engaged in military op- erations in the northern armies, as to afford an argument or excuse for a pen- sion system in which extravagance and dishonesty find plenty of room. The number of officers and men actually killed in battle in all of the union armies during the four years of war barely ex- The number of those who died of wonnds during the war is less than 35,000. The number that died of | diseases, either resulting from tne hard- ships and exposure of warfare or the in- | cident of natural mortality in a great body of men is about 185.000" for the four | years. Adding even the 24,000 cases of disappearance, conveniently charged in the records to death *‘from unknown causes,” the total of mortality among the union troops during the war is 304,- 000, or less than a thivd of the 1,000,000 | supposed by many people to have per- | ished on the battiefield. | The purpose of the present article is to put together some of the items of ex- penditure and loss clearly and directly chargeable to the war account: in other words, to establish a minimum estimate of the money cost of preserving the union. If we were to go into the matter | of consequential damages, such as the paralysis of certain branches of business the suspension of trade with the south- ern states, the extinction of a great part of our maritime commerce, the enormous loss rvesulting from the arrest of the normal increase of population and the peaceful development of the nation's re- sources, wo should pass at once from the domain of precise arithmetic to that of vague conjecture and un- verified speculation. Th not our intention. The figures presented below are only such as are afforded by the ofli- cial records; or, where in the nature of this the amounts set down are mere estimates, the fact is stated, and carve is | taken that the estimates shall be mani- festly well within the bounds. The sev- | aral classes of expenditure or direct loss to be considered are 1. The current war expenses paid dur- ing the four years by the United States ‘government witlt money raised by taxa- | tion or borrowed upon the nation's'¢redi 2. The bounties paid to the volunteers during the war by the states, or from other sources than the federal govern- ment Qe 3. The money raised and cxpended by organizations of ¢ ns for the allevia- tion of the soldiers’ condition. 4. The direct loss to the nation's wealth resulting from the employment in military service of citizens who other- wise would have been produc b. The war claims paid by act of con- Fress since the war for the destruction . of property or for other reasons. 6. The interest on the war debt since 18065 up to the present time. 7. The expenditure for pensions to date. The actual current war expenditure during the four fiscal yoars from June 30, 1861, to June 30, 1865, is easily tained. The nev ordinary expenditure of the government during that period was as follows: Fiscal year 156 Fiscal year 18 Fiscal yenr 186 Fisenl year 18 Total. But this includes what the govern- ment would have spent if there had been no war. To separate the two items we have only to deduct as much as was actually spent for all purposes of the government during the period of four ears immediately preceding the war, i’l it is said that under normal circum- stances the country’s growth would have increased the ordinary expenditure for 1862-1865 over that for the 1858-1862 p iod, it must be remembered that th possible increase was more than bal- anced by the restriction of the field of administration during the second period to the northern and border states: Fiscal yenr 1858 , SR ey Pscal year 1859 . i el yoar 1860, 2 200,875 scal yoar 1861, 0, ‘18 Deduct this from the total for the war period as above and add the total paid by the government in vremiums for | the cost of the war | a large and exacting part of the labors loans, an item not included in the state- ment of annual expeuditure: Expenditure for war perioa 1862-65 .. v i Less allowance for peace expen- U A T s 848,872,004 272,827,151 #3,076,045,723 Premiums o loans ... government war Bt s ot o 144,975,087 The totals of local bounties paid to the soveral states to fill their quotas under the calls of 1863, 1864 and 1865 are obtained from the report for 1566 of Provost Marshal General James B, whose officiul contributions to the st tistical history of the war of the rebel- lion are of inestimable value. We omit from consideration any account of the money paid by states or towns or indi- viduals over and above the amount re- funded from the United States treasury for the creditable equipment of the troops sent to the front. Lo total would be very large, but it is {rwcllcnll,v h\delurmiuubh. Much of he local bounty money was wasted on seoundrels, but iv was expended, never- theless, and it belongs in this account. One desperate character who was con- victed and sentenced to the Albany pen- itentiary confessed that ne had drawn and jumped the bounty not less than thirty-two times. The amount thus !uld from the beginning to the end of he war in the loyal states or groups of states is shown in the following table: Toe Now Englund States. low York. ew Jersey . o Ponnsyivania Delwars, Mar iand wnd 7,542,601 1,667,814 . . 28,667,978 dinnn . flindts e 17,2961806 Michigan 0,664,865 Wi nstn, Towa, Minnesota, Mi sour! and Kansas Totui . viee ... #285,041,128 Throughout the north during the war there were not less than 7,000 local asso- ciations of patriotic men and women contributing money, time, and articles of every description to promote the well- being of the soldiers fighting at the front or to add to their comfort. Be- sides these local societies, there were such organizations as the sanitary com- | mission and theC hristian commission, | opera ing on a large scale and in the genererl field, The sanitary commiusion alone raised and expended more tlmn‘ $20000,000, I'he aggregate of these | contributions of associated or individual | patriotism, from the society of little girls who sold their gold “rings and lockets for the banefit of the wounded | soldier, to the capitalist who equipped a | regiment at his own expense or gave a | steamship to Lincoln's government, can | never be computed. When we set iv | down at $50,000,000 for the purposes of this inquiry, we are making a very low estimate, A lar 10,810,640 item properly belonging to | the loss to produc- tive industry of the uime and labor of the citizens” who enlisted in the army. This item is approximately ascertaina- ble. The numberof volunteers in ser ice at the various times designated is shown by this table: January 1, 18¢ January 1) 18630100 January 1) 1864, January 1, 1865 May 1, 1865 618,818 AVOPBEI Ve 51 ey smvuns 847,701 If we take 847,701 as the average num- ber of men in the union armies during the war, and estimate the earning ca- pacity of the average soldier at $300 a year above the cost of his own subsist- ence, the dircet loss oceasioned by the | diversion from productive to unproduc- tive labor would amount to $234,310,300 a year, or, for the four years of the war period, o 81,017,241 ). | It would be the werk of a lifetime to cipher out the whole amount paid since the war, under general or special acts of congress, in compensation for the real or al sstruction of property, or for war supplies seized or furnished, or for indemnity for loss of personal effeets, or for back pay or hounty of volunteers, or for horses or mules lost, or for the re- imbursement of states or minor civil | divisions for expenditures necessitated | by the war, or in any other of the ¢ount- less ways in which™ the war still draws upon the treasur, For thir cars the investigation of “these war claims pre- liminary to the appropriation of money for their payment has constituted of congress: and, in the later ye of the court of claims. The items, great and small, which would have to be con- sidered one by onc in any attempt at exuct ascertainment of the total, are al- most infinite in number. They are scat- tered through the treasury’ books in muititudinous shapes. They are con- tained in the army and navy appropri- ation bills, in the sundry civil, in the miscellancous, in the deficiency and elsewhere. Our estimate of the grand aggregate of these apprapriations is en- tirely arbitrary. Supposing that the war claims allowed and paid by the govern- | ment since 1865 have averaged only | $5,000,000 a year, the total would be $140,000,000. “This is the sum which w charge to this item: if it were doubled, we should consider that we were still well within the bounds of probability. The interest paid on the war debt can be stated accurately. The gradually decreasing annual payments on this ac- count before the fiscal year 1866, are in- cluded in thé net ordinary cxpenses | as shown above. Since 1865 they have been as follows: 59,160,131 4.07RIBT8 1,356,206 50,580,146 | 4417151007 41,001,454 3 )6, 254 7135 | 1 20,000,000 Total sin 1 T'he pension expenditure on aecount of of the war of the rebellion has been in- creasing as stegdily as the interest churge has diminished. The annual totals, as stated below, include pensions paid on account of the Mexican war and the earlier wars, and we have therefo made a deduction for th me. As Mex- ican war veterans and veterans of the civil war were for years envolled on the lists under the common head of army in- valids, the allowance to be made for pensions paid on account of other wars than the rebellion must be a matter of estimate. We have assumed an aver- age of 84,000,000 annually, and have deducted from the grand total $112,000,000 on this account: Fiscal year. \ 52 1850, the war.. 1552 1851 50,059,280 B87(1882. 61,345104 706,622/ 1883 66,012,674 340,202 15K 00,420,228 443,805 18K! 56,102,267 533,408/ 1880 8,404 K64 0,850,427 1857, 75,029,102 8,410 1888 HOL2H8.500 ,216' 1889 K7,624,770 3 106/936,855 124,415,951 134,5581053 146,787 Total since the war....... Less allowance for other pensions ... ; #1,481,198, Recapitulating these several items of expenditure, and omitting from consider; ation any of the other myriad sourc of expense or loss properly but less di- vectly chargeable to the civil war, we obtain a fair minimum estimate of what it cost the north to preserve the union: Current war expenses. . cooe 83,144,975,087 Bounties, other than federal .1 255,041,125 Estimated private contribis y 60,000,000 1,017,241,2 o '140,000/000 srest on the 2,855,620,102 Slons on we war.. 1,481,108,600 atalssiisin 186,017 These figures stagger the imagination. Like all symbols for quantities so stupen- dous as 10 be far beyond the accustomed range of thought, they go from the eye to the brain without producing immedi- ately an effect adequate to their mathe- A importance. One million con- veys the idea of vastness, 1,000,000,000 ora thousand millions conveys the idea of something vastly vaster: but the dif- ference between 1,000,000,000 -and 8,000,- 000,000 is appreciated slowly, and only by an indirect process. What does it really mean, then, when we say that the money cost of the war to the north alone was nearly $8,500,000,0007 To raise money enough to pay the bill in one lump sum, every voter in the United States would have to contribute more than $600. 1If the burden were dis- tributed among the whole earth popula- tion, every human being, man, woman or child, ecivilized or savage, liv- ing anywhere today on the face of the globe, would be taxed about $6. 1f every gold or silver coin or piece of | and of Enfilnm and personal, in thes: as follow: | South Carolina | Mississippi. 47,741,677 | | Ppaper wouney uow in elreulation wmong the 400,000,000 rnnplo of this country France, Germamy. Austria, olland, Italy, Spain and Russia _shonld be gathered in and | counted, the total value reduced to United States money would cover only three<quarters of our war cost. The amount of money indicated by the figures, #8 425,185,017, is more than five times the aggrogateof the deposits in the 3.677 national banks of the United more than five times the aggre- f deposits in all of the savings gate | banks of the United States; more than eight times the aggregate of deposits in all of the state banks, trust companies, and private banking concerns in the United States; almost double the aggre- gate of deposits in all of these institu- tions combined. But there is a simpler and still more striking method of arriving at the significance of these figures, It cost the north $8,425,185,017 to keep the southern states in the union. By the census of 1860 the estimated valuation—true valua- tion, not assessed—of all property, real s eleven states was Virginia North Car gln lorida Alabama 495,287,078 tie 607,824,011 S 802,118,668 Louisiana Texus 865,200,614 Arkansas L 210,256,478 Tennessee. . ... 493,008,802 Tot1l wealth of the eleven SUATOS...0ues vuusieiiese.0085,202,166,207 Thus it appears that, in order to keep these eleven states under the flag, the nation has paid at least $3,223,018810 more than the entire valuation of all property in those eleven states at the time wf)en the war was fought. But the war for the union was fought for an idea, and the idea was worth all it* has cost. —_——— CRACKSMAN CONNELLY DEAD. Notorlous Criminal Dies in an Indlana Poor House, INDIANAPOLIS Ind ., May 28, —Several months ago a man giving his name as Henry Kertey- man,was admitted to the poor asylum of this county, but from many eircumstances Super- intendent Geager was led to believe that he haa given a fictitious name. Some days ago he was taken violently il with typhoid fever and died last night. * Just before death the superimtendent told him that he had better make his identity known and if he had any- thing to say to speak quickly. The dyiug mun sad_that his real name was Michael Connelly, and that be had led te life. He suid that he served fif- rs in the Tllinois penitentiary for a afe robbery committed at East St. Louis, in which he and three othiers participated, and by which they got £.,500. “We thought,” 1id he, “that we had the best way for i afe that was ever known, but ness doesn’t pay. He then said that he had been in the pe tentiar, since, but added that he h never killed anybody. An hourlater he was dead. Connelly’s ‘home in_Chicago, where he was known as Charles Cartigan, but he had spent several years in Idaho try- ing to keep out of the way of the officers of the law. —————— KILLED HER TRADUCER. How a Dallas, Tex., Woman Resented the Insults of a Slanderer. Darras, Tex., May 28.—Just before 7 o'clock Saturday morning Mrs. Lillian Reeves, a handsome widow of 20, shot Louis Longenetti six times. Five of the bullets struck Longenetti in the breast and stomacn and the sixth entered his throat. He was almost shot to pieces. The woman was arrested and was arraigned for a prelimi- ary trial 1n the afternoon. The testimony showed that Longenetti had defamed her character and insulted her. Justice Skelton held the ‘prisoner for the grand jury, placing her bail at $1,000. This she gave and was released from custody. Mrs. Reeve's husband was a conductor and lost his life in an accident on the Texas & Pacific o year ago. TLongenefti was 80 years old, u bartender, and came from Memphis. | Tt is not believed that Mrs. Reeves will be prosecuted. Christlan Endesvor Society Convention In Kansas a Success, Hurenis: tian Endeavor so- cties brought more visitors to the city. It ated thut ov 2000 are now here. Stebbins of Chicago has charge of the cal part of the convention, instead of The convention is a success, both in work and instruction. Bach person attending the convention is presented with a souvenir by a salt company in the shape of a small bag of salt, on which is printed: *'Ye are the salt of the world.” . Artiticinl Strawborries, “In a certain New York town,” says a commercial traveler, “'1 once ran across some artificial strawber which were sold by a local grocer. After he had been selling them for a week a rival grocer discovered that they were all of the same s A whole quart might be searched and there would be no one berry larger or smaller than any other. 'his excited suspicion, and close exam- i n showed that the alleged straw- ies were a mixture of apple jelly colored with aniline dyes and flavored with strawberry essence. The molds ect, and in each one of the ir- regularities timothy seed weve dropped, s0 that when the mess was poured inand molded the seed stood out on the out- side, just as those in a real berry stood. This looked so natural that the genuine- ness of the berries had not been ques- tioned. If the fellow had not made them so large and perfect he might have gone on fora long time without de- tection,” —— Afairs of tho Reading. PmrapeLruia, Pa., May 28.—The board of managers of the Philadelphia & Reading company has presented under dute of May 27, to the stockholders and creditors of the company a plan for the adjustment of the affairs of the Philadelphia & Reading com- pany, and the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and’ Iron company for funding the flonting and other indebtedness now in default, The general plan has been changed only in smail details as affecting slight objections that might have been raised. According to the plen the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad company will ereate an issue of thirty-year colluteral trust bonds, bearing 6 per cent injerest, froe of taxes, for the par value of §30,000,000, to be secured by mortgage or pledge 1o the Provident Life and Trust company of Philadelphia, —_— Western ions Granted. The following names are given out from the pension burea Nebraslka Original—Levi Edd, Tu crease—Avery lIves. Original widow— Bridget Conely. 4: Original —Porter M. Phillips, In- —dJohn Striker, Parley West, Hugh A, Pease, James R. Cook, Benjamin Elbe A, Simons, William A, Mallonee, Joseph ( iffin, L. James Cameron. Reissue—Gideon Nich! ols, William D. Ady, Wil rk. rence Webb. Original widows, ete, J. Nation. Sarah L. Turner, Henrietta Rees, Colorado: Restoration—Chomas Mooney. Reissue—Josiah J. Morefield. L I Homeopiths Assembling, CHicago, 111, May 28, —Doctors from the four coruers of the earth began to arrive at the hotels today in anticipation of the con- gress of homeopathic physicians and sur. geons which begins tomorrow. Physiclans arrived today from India, England, Russia and Australi; ancy —_—— Fire Record. PuiLavevrnia, Pa., May 28 —Horticultural hall, & two-story building 75x200 feet, with a stone front, on Broad between Locust and h‘rruce streets and adjoining the Academy of Music, was gutted by fire yosterday. The loss is about $113,000; 1nsurauce, $,000, Situation in Money Markets Shows Much EFFECTS OF THE SCARE WEARING OFF Flurries Caused, by Forelgn Fallures and etary situation,”'Henry Clews, the wall street banker, sa finance, there has been some improve- ment of conditions during the past week. The further large recovery of the surplus reserves shown in the bank statement of the 20th inst. has had a decidedly assur ing effect. It meant that, from the usual fall demand for currency for mov- ing the crops, the reserves are likely to stand in an unusually strong position and that, when that demand comes, the banks are likely to bo well situated for meecting it. The general inference from this is that a reasonable probability is established for the money market maintaining a fairly easy condition henceforth and for the remainder -1 of values, It and are likely of mew investments coming upon the other investments for railroad stocks coustitute an element of resiliency which crop; but that i solvenc; and the universalit credit, the wond numerous. eral commercial situation should pass for something with those whose incontinent timidity in lending has done so much toward wroducing this condition of things. There is evider true course, at the present sible result of a different policy must be to our largge centers may, unless speedily mod- over 500,000 bu. 15 expected Mondiy in the vis- gave a bearlsh cast 1o the grain market today. Compared with last night, wheat is i4c o cora from ¥c to %c and oats j4c. The clique permitted pork to deop back 5| products are sbout unchanged, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, MA¥ 29, 1803, CONDITIONSOWRE INPROVED WA Better Fealing Generally, b e [T S Paralyzed Creéditat Home Are Pass- Ing And Trade Is Becoming Mdtd Contident. In his weekly lettor concerning the mon- “So far as respects the local machinery of ow until of the year, Chis naturally has an assuring effect, for it favors the probability of holders of souna securities being able to satisfy all their bor- rowing wants on good terms for several months to come. The removal of doubt upon this point is an important gain, but it 1s not a cure all. There are certain doubtful factors Affecting the marlket, such as the caution and disability of operators after the late severe shock, the tactics of the pessimist traders, the outcome in London of the great Australian failures, the partial depression of business at home, and the weak spots among a class of interior concerns. Hard on the Stock Market. “Factors like these must have their influ- ence upon the stock market, and may be ex- pected to check a speedy recovery of prices, But it would be an exaggeration of theiw im portance to conclude that they legitimately forbid any advance beyond the present level to be considered that prices now range but little above the panic level that the railronds are making good carnings o continue to do so for some months ahead; that the competing supply market is far below the average and is likely to remain so for some time; that, in periods of low quotations like the present, inyestors are apt to exchange bonds and which are relatively cheaper; and that when the London market has recovered from its Australian siock, the demand_there for Americans is likely to revive. These facts likely not only to hold teansient ~downward reactions m check, but also to exert a steady lifting force upon prices; and that tendency has been manifest in the improved tone of the market during the last half of this week, both ubroad and at home. Crop Prospects Better. “The world's crop prospects have lately shown an improvement highly encouraging, In April a general failure of winter wheat secmed almost inevitable, with the result of a serious deficiency in the supply of that sta- ple. Now, in England and most of the conti- nental countries, the vrobabilities favor about an average crop and even Russia af- fords promise of a.leap from o famine yield toa gooa average output. In this country wheat shows a recovery from the conditions uvon which a crop of 440,000,000 bushels has been predicted, while spring wheat and corn planting ave promising favorably. This change may not favor the interests of the speculative holders who are now carrying a large surplus from our last year's whoat small-offset against the universal benefits arising, from cheap food the world over. Credit is Paralyzed. ‘“The most depressing circumstance with which this center has at present to contend is found in the state of trade in the interior, This condition seems to have originated almost entirely in the late monetary scare and the attendant collapse of the ‘indus- trials.” Ithad been precedea by a sound, conservative and falrly active and profitable condition of trade. The scare suggested by the large gold exports, the drain upon the treas- ury gold reserve und the sharp precautions ofour local banks, together caused the east- ernand interior banks to contract their accommodation to customers, and suddenly the financial sky became lowering and black from Maine to Califors In this v has become suddenl, zed in every sec- tion; the weak spots in trade, in financing and banking have been roughly probed, and a large amount of failures have been precip- itated. 1t is safe to say, however, of these suspensions that, in a large majority of the cases, they have not arisen from real in- . but from a suddenand more or less ind iminate withdrawal of the usual credit facilities. Considering the severity ity of this contraction of is that its effects in the y of suspensions have not been much more W There's Better Feeling. ‘“I'his evidence of the soundness of the gen- cnough to show that those fears have exceeded any real occasion;and the age, for the New York banks to their solvent merchant customers, is to make thew present large urplus more freely available. The only pos- further aggravate a situation already made needlessly severe. The present discrimina- tion against the mercantile community at erated, neodlessiy bridg many moro to- the verge of suspension. The situation is one that calls for a broad and intelligent compro. hension of the real condition of busincss and for a judgment that understands how to pro- tect the lender by protecting the borrower, A littie more of that policy would soon pro- duce i ereat change in the condition of bug:. ness throughout the country at larg FOREIGN FINANCIAL REVIEW, Little Dolng on the London Stock Ex- change—Features ot the Week, Loxvoy, May 28 —Discount was easier and in fair demand during the week past, the quotations being 33 for three months and 81§ for short. ‘Gol flows in freely, more than £1,000,000 having arrived during the week, chiefly frgiit Anerica; the inflow com- pensating to a great extent for the drawing of balance by bayiks throughout the country. Silver was steadéerduring the week, thourh iet aud Without feature, stock exchange was inanimate in view of the coming settlement, and prices were almost uhivérsally lower. Consols closed unchanged, * Greek securities fell 7, points on the \\'wS(:ArKA‘uthu loan of 1586, 1ig; Argentine funding loan, 21, ; Mexican securities, 2. 0 ¢ American railway securities were de- pressed and ull felly' the decline including the following: 1llinois Central, 41 points; Loufs- ville & Nashvillg, 2155 Umon Pacific and Wabash debentuze, 21 each ; Atchison, 21, ; Denver preferred, 95 Norfolk & Western and Northern Pacifie 43¢ each; Denyer common Erie and Lake Shore, 117 éach; Central Pu- cific and Ohlo & Mississippi, each ; Wabash preferred, 1; Missouri, Kansas & Texas, three-fourths. GRALN, How Commodities Were Dealt ln on the Bowrd Yesterday, CH10AGO, 111, May 27.—A deirease of not ible supply of wheat. This fact the incre pled with ing receipts aud the better weather Other hog with from ¢ to e advance, again became s declined e and the closing he wenk and Tow opening was somewhnt due to the break in railroad stocks, together with dull was good buying At the decline, Duluth send- Ing in sorge b bought falrly, of export deniand for winte middiing, 6 16-16¢; good ordinar to Gront Britaln 6,064 Hiles; co and ensief cables. more Grain Market. BaLTivORE, Md., May 27 spot and May, 7 asy ; myived spot OATS - firmer; N orders and St buying ceased the aln eased off under free jore favorable through through others was weaker and Then a steadior Indelphin Geain Market. Wiear- Dali some sourees and bad Th AL the start trades woere at manifested, but the ker and at the close had The receipts today were_considera- and lower; No. UL AR d, Mny, 43K@40 e , white, May, 41%¢ Oars--Steady; No. OMANA LIVE STOCK MARKETS, Ars are estimated, ture of the oats market.was selling of May and June by shippers wio had some Cattle Trade Shows Great for the Week Improvement Hogs Close Weak, Satunrbay, May ¢ Receipts of all kinds show u subs sc over last woek, but do not favorably with supplics for the same week o © figures are as follows: were short at little bulge ut this bulge Wright begun selling pork and kept, demand, disposing of ribs wero stug- s at about fnside prices. 4,500 and gave tho opeaing on while ther about 3,000 bbls, b CATS; corn, 770 cars; oats, 445 cars; hogs, 1pts this woek cipts last woek lastyear. 18,482 cattle murket has shape all week and very fow traces of 1l moralization exlsting two weeks ago remuin Cool westher has fmprov dressed beef, supplies | the leading centors, Europ tmproved conslderably and tho bett The leading futures r TARTICLES. | ¢ g @ty | ARG | vo been lght at all markets have ko business lively Tn gencral on beef nas been from 25¢ to showing rather ‘n light and medium grad better export demand. been coming forward quite week closes with the situation decld abloto the cattle owners. Receipts today were unusually 1heral for o L and the offerings included w larger proportion of good s nogood active de from all sources, and the m \ as any one and advance L the good heayy ro improvement than he good cattle have cattle of all atlons wero as follows: ulet, steady. 3¢; No. 8 spriog, torealizo good, st thing at il usefal in'the beet stecr line, 1,476-10. steors topped the ¢ Wore over fOr most any- ; No. 2 white, twenty loads that weighed over 1 sold at from £ to & steers sold at With 1,000 to 1,150-1h. steers Tair to ‘poor onds sold at from &4, in good season, the There was littloe ¢ CIpLs Wore, ns o loads, and th C| hort ribs, sid Ited shouldors hort clear sides (hoxed), nmx«d.aul.l‘:m;m- L notover fifteen istillers' finished goods, por gal., 1 2 to #4040, with t big bulk of th S0k was i f: wlves were on s 1y at good, steady for fiiir to ehol ments for toda, arily hoth” fresh and. st 1d hotli from regul 1 prices are gu strong on «11 suttable | Proluce excl market was cusjer 15@lse. Eggs, listory of the 500 1o 60 drop Heht supplios, y 27. : exports, 8,000 bbls., sales, 5.000 winter wheat, low ' grades, no Indication o hogs, altl o1 . straights, $3.50 yellow” westeru, hing points to Tight, supplies for some dull: western, 64@65e, ad market need not he 1 this subject the It is quite il Marr—Quict, steady; western, 60@ AT Receipts, 104,000 bu.; sales, 650,000 bu. of futy Spot market dul eXPOTts, 96, - wrmers hiye by weather gen dence of positiveshort country s too plain to admit of the view that the current small movement is to be Dby an especially liberal suppi nonths to come. confidence in hogs, which will tend to ing of stock Into market.” Phe market tod all of a dime higher t Supplies were conside I o in tho supply in the aud local realizing, at e undor yesterday: No. 2 T closed stend tany time for maintenace of pric tundue hurry- we,elosing ut 8155 December, B5@H5c. closing at 851,c. tecolpts, 104,000 bu.; export 230,000 bu. of fu ¢ 1 elevator, 481,@49 % lined under free offerings bly lighter th fully 2,000 lightor than a week « uding over 1,000 cuttle held ov day, there were Close onto 4,000 1 the quality ubout wis n good <hippin ok one-hulf of the fresh offerings, ufloat; optlons and full’ recelpts and closed weuk. with Miy Ide down and Muy, 484 @A8%e, closing at 481 SR g L closing at 481¢c; July, 48 August 48%¢, closlng at 485, 8%@49¢, closing at 48 o 6,000 bu.; e welzhing all the w I with the ordi ud common rou rly trading was brisk, but, us usual, as soon as shippers and fresh having filled their orders, market closed w Spots, dull, steud, 3 Stufl it §6.85. white westorn 7 Fivu;'shipping, 75@280c idiy, and from ¥ None were re Bt W e | e WENTY YEAR® THE LEARER!!! Lumbngo Back-Ache, and n Allments removed quickly by BENSON’S whichisthe only PORO! that contains powerful an ingrodients VET AL POSITIVE in its ac 11 nskid: sales, nond options, “sules, edat”#11 uske ber closed ai old mess, #21.50: new S PLASTER 17@21c; western fac- part skims, event Pnenmonia. western fresh, It does uot cure chronic ailments in & min- ute, nor does it create an electri current in the system nor will it.cure by me OW—Quiet, nominal ty (2 for pkys.), ED O1L—Dull, weak crude, 40c; ushed erude in tod New Vork, #5.15, € better than BENSON s, good, $1.25101.2714. domestie, fair to extra, ns, open kettle, good to choice, dull, steady, quiet nt 30@38e . Raw, firn tair rofinin refined, firm 3c: centri- fugals, 96 test, 414c falr demand; A, 5 3-16@57 ectioners' A, i granuluted, 53-160 5 cubes, b 9-16w5 4, 16 IRON-Quiet, steady; American, $12.75@ 50. R—Quict; lake, $10.75, food, tor both m stondy prices. N and ofss natives, 845038 5 £5.0086.2: bo'e TCATTLE | mooR. Cars. |1Head Cars. Hoad|Cars. [1Tond Cars, i acking Co The G. 11 Hammond Co SWINLA COncsivervive sgess The Cudahy Packlng (0 Hammond & 8 ‘ (hioago 1% & 1. (o Sinclair A Mans . H. Becker & Dogon .. Van Sant & Carey Shippers and foeders Left over 3 Total.o.. ... Chicago Live Stock Market. Onteaao, 1L, May 27 THE BEE]=Tho cattle market was quie small supply restricting trading, b WA engngh inquiry Salesof nativh eati 82 1o 84,40 for poor to helfers, fr 3 5 « from #4.3¢ 5 for ship tle were quoted at from ¥ ows, and st from one s are looking for 1 Monday and a softening of pricos, wuch highor than fol yosterday, holders insisting upon o Prices for hogs wero of from’ 16¢ to were willing — te at 15¢ advanco fognd \ fagind for the swme, pers nor packors were Inclined to ha Willing to trade on th ymmisssion firms refused those who were not busls, A number of to sell, preferring te day, when they bo fmother bulge sold ket was quiet jority bl setlors’ hanas. Quo T from ¥3.00 to from $4.75' 10 $6.40 1, Receipts: Cattle, 1800 he A hogs, 4,000 1 KA « Mo, Pipts, market stro i@ sto Kers miixed, $2.50064.00, 1oc ceipts, 8,200 he market Strong and 102150 highe Dulk of siules 46,850 ackers, $6.00167,10; 75@6.80; porkers, 8 v Reccipts, none rlcet nominally steady. ST Louts, {00_head; shi natives, $4 > cure But delay is dangerous, with Con- the *conditions the * Discovery " is ith severe, lingering g8, nothing Every discase sumption. that lead to it the remedy, Coughs or Weak L acts so promptly. that can bo reached through the blood yields to this medi Serofulous _affection of the lungs nsumption is one of 5, und for every oth form of Scrofula, for all blo and disorders, and all chronic Bron- and Lung affections, the ' Discovery " is the only remed 80 certain that' it can be guaranteed, If it over fails to benefit or cure, you have your money back, ing clio be “just as Bood " for you to buy 1 iove it. Dr. Sage's Remody positively cures Catarrh, o T e S SOUTII OMAIIA. Union Stock Yaras“CompauI South Omaha. Pest Cattle Ho and Shoop markot 13 that's called Cq chial, Phron Can_ anyt] Don't bel tons And lambs at fall supplies both Whors LAYe mprovea the denand Killers, but there fs 11ttle i an, provement ju prices. falr 10 good wel $4.00@5.50; common wnd stock sheep 4.00; d to ¢hoice 40 to t derat Roceipts and Dispo OMcial roceipts and disposition of stack Al shown by the books of the Unfon St gompany for the twonty-four hours endiug ock p. ;. May 27, 1 necRipTs sitton of Stock. TIMORSES & M and nominall require this we nt. Some woro from 83 for natives and Kansas Cliy Live Stock Market. Shipments, higher: riinge steors, H0 (04 shipping steers, $4.6065.7 cows, $1. butehers' stock, $3.500 4. { prices runged <, none; shipments, 800 Lead, UP TO A CERTAIN POINTS in the progress of Consumption, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical is a positive remedy. most advanced cases, it fort and relief; and where other medicines only’ relieve, this will Even in the Wood Brothers, Jommission Mere clephona 1151, JOUN D DADISMAN, | WALTER I il and wire cheerfull furnished upon spplication. - Manufacturers & Jobbers Director Live Sto. £011th Umaha. Market reports by u steady; domestie, $3.90., 19.05 bid, £19.10 usked; pelter, quiet. 3 AWNI‘NGBVAND TEI_WTB. )maha Tent-Awning | Wolf Bros & Co. urers of Tents. dull, steady. domestic, #4.15 Louls Markets, prices unchian WHEAT—Opon and closed }ye down May 67¢; July, ¢ COnN—Weak HORSE COVERS, 1118 Farnam Streot. BAGS & TWINES | Bemis Omaha Bag importers nnd manufae: ‘rallied, settled back Quiet, steady; B Tard, $10.1215; dry” salt. meats, loose shoulders, $1¢ #1 standard m 00TS AND SHOES. Morse-Coe Shoe Company. 8 alesroom and Office 0, SURAT Cures cholce dairy, 17¢. D 1111 ta sy s 1119+ 11211123 Howard St. asturers of Boots otton Markot, Futures, qul L $T.01@7.11; August September, $7,21@7 3 We are the ONLY Manuf: el fyiation 1s 0x1604sd to all Lo inspact [Amer, Hand-Sewed ober, #7.277.2 our now faotory. Kirkendall, Jones & January, §7.82 hid; Good “middling, and rubber koodn, 1508 1510 Haruey Btret Rubber 8hoo Co, CORNICE, Eagle Corniee Works Mfra.gslranized iron cor- window caps. me Ky lights, ete 1308 and 1310 Dodgo Ktroet ;coArl;, COKE, Omana Coal, Coke & LIME CO., bard and soft ~ DRY GO0, M. E. Smith& Co. Dry goods, notions, fur- Kilpatrick-Koch Dry Notlons, gent " Bebee & Runyan FURNITURE COMPANY | Omaha Upholstering 04 Nicholas Bt Wholesale only. XT MORNING | FEEL BRIGHT AND ND MY COMPLEXION octor says it-acta gently on nd 1a & pleasant la; ym lierbs. a0d s propar S MEDIGINE sud 161 BLree Wheat opened about ¢ lower, then followed l HARDWARE, COMMISSION HOUSES. Rector & Wilhelmy | COMPANY. Corner 10th and Jackson Streots, HATS, ETC. Lobeck & Linn, Denlorn tn hardwaro an 1404 Douglas Streat. IRON WORKS, W. A L. Gibbon & Co Wholo Tints. cups, Alruw goods, klooves, ‘mittens. lith und Lurney & John A, Wakefield, Importad, Apvirican Port ont, Milwan- tund Quincy LIQUOI;B. Frick & Herbert, Whole: 1001 Farnam St le llquor denlers PAPER. Omaha Safe and Iro utters aad re L;JMBER: Charles R. Lee, Hardwood lumber, woo Uth and Douglas tis. MILLINERY, 1. Oberelder & Carpenter Paper Co Carry o full stoek of Branch & Co. | Produce, frutte of all Xluds, oysters. Standard 01l Co. Hellned und lubricating axle greuse, vio. . m.;oniwfi : 6gium.ssxo§.7__ Jas. A. Clark & Co, poultey and game. 917 5. 1ith street. gy BTOVE_REPA;EB Omaha Stove Repair WORKS. & irs a0d water aitachuents for any kind of slove made. 147 Dougias sk BASH, DOORS M. A Disbrow & Co