Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 12, 1893, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, - LIEUT, COORE'S LAST FIGHT ! Ho Teli by Valiant Custer's 8ide in the Famous Battle, MORAL COURAGE THE SOURCE OF HEROISM How a Naval Officer Deficd His Superior— Renator Feye “Fries” Somo Mungry Dudes-Short Storles of the War. Among tho many hearts to whom Memorial day A significance are thoso of Dr, John M. Cooke and family of Chicago. snant W. W. Cooke, son of the jan, was with Custer at his “‘last and fell th him, asdid hun- «ds of other brave fellows. sutonant Cooke's memory, however, 18 still held in reverence, not only here but in Canada. A Grand Army of the Republic post at Hamilton, Cinada, is named after the young man, Hamilton having been Dr, Cooke's former home. Licutenant William Winer Cooke entered tho union army when only 16 ears of age. S “My hn;\’ always had an inclination for & military life.”" said the doctor, ‘‘and when tho war broke out he became reatly enthused. Though we wer iving in Canada at the time he fre- quently took trips to Buffalo, N. Y where he accidentally made the ac- quaintance of an ex-United States senator. The latter conxed my boy to join the army. The young fellow finally did 50, and organizing a company, re- sceived the commission of lieutenant, “The compuny was incorporated in the Twenty-ninth New York and was enrolled in the Ninth corps. The regiment took part in the battle of the wilderness. My son was wounded at the battle of Potersburg and returned home for a short tim “At the close of the war he received the commission of sccond licutenant in the regular army from Secreta Stan- ton and was sent to Fort Riley in the west. He was in the battle with Black Kettle's band in Indian Territory, in which 500 Indians were almost extermi- nated. Buffalo Bill was ascout in this expedition. I remember my son writ- ing moe that the band played an Ivish jig in the morning dawn, just before opening up on the hostilities. The bat- tle lasted for two days. San Tanta, the famous chief, was taken prisoner. “When he started with Caster on the latter's famous raid I do not believe my gon cver expected to come back. He wrote us several letters referring to the disposition of several articles which he prized highly. he fell within a few feet of Custer’s body. The remains were not sent us until nearly two years afte wards. The bodies had been buried hurriedly, but the government finally decided to disinte them, I never looked on the of son in the casket, but I am pr n that his body now i in The com- manding officer at the post sent us one lock of his side whisk The other was gone, probubly taken by the [ndiuns “William left the union army, br vetted as licutenant colonel for credit- able work at the battie of Sailor’s Creck. He was also brevetted as captain for courage shown at the battle of Peters- burg, Va. Of course, wo will ever mourn his loss, but he lived and died a brave man, which h alw been a consolation to us in our sorro Heroes in the The brilliant confederate s eral John B. Gordon, onc two short sentences what appearcd to those who heavd it a capital thesis on martial courage. Commenting on the conduct of a union veteran which struck him as morally sublime, he exclaimed, T would like to know that man's sold record. I wager he was a heroin the field.” The chance remark will bear a strong interpretation and that not be- cause General Gordon held high rank in amodern army, but for the reason that no soldier on either side performed greator deeds of personal daving, or led picked men into the jaws of death with greater frequency or with better results than he. Entering the army a civilian captain in 1861, Gordon came out a licutenant-gen- eral, the successor in Lee’s councils and enterprises of Stonewall Jackson and the marshal of Jackson's famous old battal- 1ons, In his first battle he boldly rode into a “hornet’s nest” where 372 out of 628 who followed him were shot down and thirty-four ofiicers ont of forty-si were killed or wounded. 1lis ho was shot under him and he carvied away nine bullet holes in his uniform, nin and again, in charges that failed only be- cause the impossible had been attempted, the dead of Gordon's band lay nearest the enemy's blazing guns and where his men went he rode at tho head of the column, The hottest corners of the fields of Malvern Hill, Antictam, Chan- cellorsville and Gettysburg, the deadly thicket at the Wilderness, the “‘bloody angle” at Spottsylvania, the rocky barricado at Cedar creck, the treuches at Petersburg, held back no secrets of marvelous vaior from his eye, for he was in them all, sometimes a victim and always the brav- st of the brave. He was carvied from ?hc “bloody lane” at Antictam—by all odds the mest gory bit of American landscapo the sun over shown upon— with a bullet through the right fore- arm, another through the left shoulder, & third through the left cheek bone and two through the leftleg. That he should hope to find battlefield courage under the jacket of a moral hero is significant although, looked at closely, the idea is not surprising. It means that if he wanted to raise an army for desperato work and had choice in the matter, his recruiting ground would be those com- munities that cluster around the school house and the college, the church and the cultivated home, rather than the levees and the wharves of scaport towns and the slumsof cities teeming with vicious idlers. This dvaws a sharp line and muny striking exceptions may be placed on'cither side, A Dramatio Episode. The case of Danforth, the assistant enginecr on board the Philadelphia, tried by court martial for disobedience of orders and condemned to a year's sus- nsion on half pay, recalls to the New ork Evening Post an incident in the navy during the war of 1812-15, Richard Conteo of Maryland, a gentleman of high tone but with a lack of self control that through life marred many estima- ble qualities, was lieutenant of marine under Commodore Bainbridge when the constitution took the Java. During the cruise 'a sailor’'s hammock, one day, was found out of place. To de- tect its owner it was laid within the beat of a sentinel. and, in person, the commodore ordered the marine to see to it that no man touch it. When no one else was by, & sailor approached the sentinel and said: om, you don't want to have a poor fellow flogged, do our” HOf course not.” *“Then let we ave that hammock, will yous I have nothing to do with the hammock,” was the answer. The result was that when the time came—whatever the sea term may be—that was to disclose the delinguent every man had his own, Nat- urally the anger of the balked comwo- dore fell upon the disobedient sentinel; and orders were givon for immediate punishment. In those days officers and crew alike thought that the proper pun- ishment, that on which the discipline and honor of the navy depended, was flogging on the bare back When the marine was about to be stripped, Licutenant Contee stepped fo ward and said: ‘‘Commodore Bain- bridge, that man ecannot be flogged. Every blow laid on him is laid on me. I commanded him to receive no order not given through me. Had he oboyed you, I should have punished him for diso- bedicnce to me.” Whatever followed this outburst, tho preparation for cat was not interrupted. Whereupon, Contee threw his sword on the deck, ex- claimin, ‘T am no longer an officer on this ship.” The next words heard were: “Lieutenant Contee, take up thatsword. Go to your quarters and consider your- self under arrest.” The marine was not flogged. After several hours of solitude, during which sober thought and perhaps fear of consequences had time to subdue rage, the licutenant received a message—an order—'“The commodore wishes to see you in his cabin.” When the door was opened a table was scon on which was a decanter with two glasses, and beside which were two chairs. The commodore said: *Mr, Contee, you have acted very foolishly: but,” stretching out his hand, *“I can find an excuse for you. Let us be better friends, Sit down and take a glass of wine with me.” How the clashing claims of authority were settled is not known, but they were the best of friends ever after. Ronsted OfMice Seeke There is some excuse for cortain peo- ple who have an adopted home in this country to think that veterans receive altogether too much consideration at the hands of the public. It was not these, but altogether another class whom Sen- ator o had in mind when he uttered these impassionad word *But what of us poor devils who were not old enough to -boeinthe army?' question which is uttered 3 Washington by young men seeking offi- cial posiions, They feel that the old soldiers are in their w and ought to get out of the way of the ing gen- eration, and that the law giving the s the preference ought to he re- pealed. Again and again have 1 heard the complaint with sarcastic allusions to ength of life of veterans such as, 1l thoy never die?” Young men, half a million died when you were in your cradle, Ten thousand of them died inside of fifteen minutes on the morning of June 3, 1864, Twelve or 15,000 of them died on June 27, 1864, in the same month of the me year all around the bloody heights of Kenesaw. Many thousands of them died in prison or in rebel hospitals, naked, hungry, suffering, unloved and far from the dear folks at home. Many other thousands of them today hobble on crutehes or flap cmpty sleoves. They are dying fast enough. Less than 500,000 of them still live, but every one of them, barring none, hears 1 his body the mark of bat- tlo or the germs of discaso contracted while campaigning in order that this government might not fade from the cth. But for them there would be no overnment for you to serve nor to pro- teet you, Don't be in a hurry. These old vet- erans ave marvching off the field, brigade by brigade, every y Regimentafter regiment is disappearing over the brow of the hill of tin They are marching away into the river of death, bravely as the Old Guard at Waterloo. Don't be in a hurry, young man. Don’t be in a hurry. hese old soldiers are marching off the field, and they will soon—all too soon for me-—Dbe out of your ungrateful way. God bless them! I wish they could live forever, as their fame will 1 Gone are the serried columns which stood “in the way” at Gettysbur I'redericksburg, Atlanta, Chickamanga, Lookout Mountain, Bentonville and a thousand other overy one of them a heir deeds are blazaned upon the h of more fields than your weak brain can remember. They will soon be out of the way, but while they are here the republic’ will give them the preference. New Warfaro with New Materials, This year the Germans are to hold army mancuvers on a gigantic scale on the French frontier and partly in the provinces conquered from France, The emperor has resolved to surpass all former efforts of martial display and is to have a host of potentates and princes as onlooker Some remarkable results may bo expeeted in the use of smokeless powder, both by the artillery and the infantr The difficulties in the way of introducing this powder have now been overcome very thoroughly, and the strategist has to deal with new condi- tions of warfare in very long range of weapons and invisibility, which were not thought of ten years ago. Tho scientific uspect of war ‘is in the ascendant far more than has formerly been t and, according to the San Francis Call, generals of the Moltke type are more needed than leaders of personal daring and dash, whose impetuosit of little avail in modern tactics, perplexity into which smokeloss powder may throw a commander was illustrated recently during avtillery maneuvers at A\l(lm'-d)\ut in Ingland. Sir Evelyn Wood, who is in command at this military camp, reported that one battery which had been pound- ing away for some minutes at a distance of one mile and a half was so invisible to the force which it was attacking that for the sake of practice orders were sent to fire a fow rounds of ordinary black powder in order that the position might be dis- tinguished and the range found. In ac- tual hostilities there would be no such accommodation, The death-dealing guns would be served with energy as long as the advantage of being unsecen and un- opposed remained. This must be re- garded as a striking proof that the new powder of the British service, cordite, is answering its purpose well. Cordite consists of about 50 ver cent of nitro- glycerine and 50 per cent of nitro-cot- ton, which are combined by a solvent in small proportion, and camphor is added to reduce the sensitiveness to explosive action. The material is a paste rather than a powder, and it is made by special machinery in the form of thin cords or threads, which are afterwards rolled into cartridges of any size and form, Cordite is thus equally suitable for small arms or artillery. ~ An initial ve- locity of 2,000 feet per’second is obtained and the pressure within the gun oham- ber is said to be less than when black powder is usod. The smokeless powder called balistite is somewhat similar in composition and is also prepared in any shape for use by the suLlior or sports- man. One very distinctive advantage this smokeless ammunition of the nitro- glycerine-cotton description has over gunpowder lies in impermeability to water, y is )l‘lm ——— e Thore are three things worth saving— Time, I'rouble sud money—and De Witt's Little Eurly Risers will save them for you, These little pills will save you time, as_they act promptly. They will save you trouble us they cause no pain. They will save you money 4s they economize doctor's bills. e Prof. Arthur C. McGiffert of Lane Theo- logical seminary, Cineinuati, has been called to succeed the distiuguished professor of church history in Union seminary, Dr. Philip Bolal, JUNE 12 1893. the | OLD FOES AT GETTYSBURG Remarkable Gathering of Union and Con- federate Leadera on the Famous Field. GENS., HOWARD, SICKLES AND LONGSTREET Recnlling Historlo Incidents on Ground Whereon the Tide of Rebellion Was Checked and Tarned Back—A Memorable Meetin The Union Leagne of Philadelphia was renowned in the days of the war for its patriotism. It still maintains its heroic characte At the recent cele- bration of Grant's Tlst birthday, under the leadership of the Hon. John Rus- sell Young, its president, a new de- parture was taken in bringing together some of the veteran generals from both sides, writes a correspondent of the Chicago Record. The plan embraced also a trip to the Gettysburg battle- field. The banquet was a great succoss, e pecially in illustrating what time has done to heal the bitterness of war. When General James Longstreet arose slowly, under the burden of his 74 years increased by wounds, to answer the toast, “The Soldiers of the South,” he was greeted with a storm of applause. He had com: all the way from his home i ille, Ga. His chief of artil- General E. Porter Alexander, had joined him in South Carolina. Long- street, owing vo his infim health, had requested General Alexander to read his response to the toast, but the occasion had 8o moved him that he gave the brief address himself, as follows: “The opportunity to witness the interest- ing ceremonies of this occasion will long bo happily remembered—to be called as a south- ernsoldier to your beautiful City of Brotherly Love. It isenough for the southern soldier to suy that he stood through four years of severe war against the brave ranks of the north; that in your broad states you found but one man strong enough to be conqueror, It is enough for the soldiers of the north and for General Grant to say that in their suc- cess they were generous, so that nothing was left but u little time to smooth the way for us to come together and work together in building up the waste places and in ery: izing about the great cause of union and fra- ternity. “I may say further of General Grant that as his campaigns and combinations are studied they will appreciate in the minds of those who are prepared for fair judgment. 1 regret that my strength is not sucn as to meet the merits of the time, which will only enhance with me their valued recollections.’y ~ General 0. O. Howard answered to the toast, **The Army of the United States,” and, responsive to the spirit of the oc sion, gave a number of thrilling. inci- dents illustrating the fact that the op- posing forces were made up of brother Americans still—that there were hu- mane acts even in the midst of war, and, finally turning to Lengstreet, he e tended to him his one remaining hand in such a way as to suggest that he bore no ill will to any brave soldier of the con- federacy. ‘‘Let us have peace,” said he, auoting the words of Grant. -Great ap- plause followed this dramatic scene. General Mahono of Virginia was un- expectedly called upon to take the place of General H. W. Slocum, who was to have responded to the toast, ‘“The North- orn Volunteer,” but was unavoidably ab- sent. The enator responded eclo- quently and ingeniously, saying in effect that the volunteers of the north needed no better praise than that they had met on many a bloody field such soldiers of Virginia and the south as he had com- manded, and finally had overcome them. Ex-Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania, who lost a leg in the war, was greeted with immense applause as he rose to speak, and evidently did not disappolnt his audience. Hon. W. C. P. Breck- inridge of Kentucky, who was a confed- erate general, made the most elaborate oration, pleading carnestly for a broad national policy, recognizing no sectional issues. - Py At Gettysburg - General Daniel E. Sickles,with General Henry E. Tremain, of his old staff, and several newspaper men, including Mr. Horace White of the Evening Post, joined the visiting party, coming directly from New York. Mu{'nl' General Gregg, who had commanded a division of cavalry at Gettysburg, and Governor Pattison came down from Har- risburg. Starting out for the scene of the first day's battle Longstreet and Howard oceupied a carriage together. Longstreet, who scemed to be wond fully familiar with the details of every day’s fight and to know almost as much about the federal as the confederate organizations, pointed out the roads by which the different divisions of Lee's army had approached Gettysburg on that 1st day of July. In person he and his corps came onto the field later and took position farther to the right. The roads which have been constructed by the *‘Gettysburg Battlefield association™ and the numerous monuments that mark the position held and fought over by different regiments and brigades makes it easy to trace the lines of each day's battle. At the famous railroad cut, and sively at other points, a halt was and Captain Long, a professional guide, gave the story of the fight in that vicinity. This was done north of the seminary and on a high hill near where the left of the Eleventh corps connected en echelon with the right of the First corps, The guide in a graphic style and standing close to Longstreet’s best ear described the hotly contested field. The piace where General Barlow, com- manding the first division of the Eleventh corps, had fallen, supposed to be mortally wounded, was pointed out and the incident told of General Gordon —since senator from Georgia—finding him and, seeing that he was a general officer, asking what he could do for him, “I am dying,” replied the wounded ofticer, “‘and the only wish that I may have is that I may see my wife before 1 die. She is in Gettysburg.” Gordon, as he turned away, said he would do what he could to gratify his wish, and gave orders accordingly. That night Muys, Barlow was brought through the lines, and vo doubt it was her careful nuvsing that saved her husband’s life almost as by a miracle. General Alexander men- tioned that the two generals had met years afterwards in Washington and were introduced by nawe only. “Are you any relation to the General Burlow who was killed at Gettysburg?” asked General Gordon, “Lam the General Barlow who was killed at Gettysburg,” was the reply, and he continued: *“‘Are you any rela- tive to the General Gordon who saw me killed at Gettysburg?” To that the Georgian answered: ‘I am the General Gordon who saw you killed at Gettysburg.” Major General Barlow is now a prom- inent lawyer in I\'ov‘l' York. e There was no more thrilling narrative than that of the fighting of the Iron brigade of Wisconsin troops and that of others of the First and Eleventh corps and other batteries on that first day. The Third corps, though sent for before noon, did not arrive until night. The aid who went back to Emmittsburg for it missed his way and Sickles did not re- ceive the word till the middle of the afternoon. His march was then ob- structed by wagoun trains. In like man- 7 TX mer Slocum, aymmanding the Twelfth corps, was urged to come up in person at once and to locate his troops on the ex- treme right, near Rock creek. But, strange to say,/he replied to the aid who went to himd,/‘Yes, my column will continue its mareh and take the position indicated, but T'l be d=— it 1 will go forward and take the responsibility of the battle.” And, as a matter of fact, it was after dark before the Twelfth corps was in position ahd General Slocum ap- peared on Cemetery hill. neral Howard said to Longstreet: “I have been criticised by Comte de Paris and other historians for maintain- ing so long a line that first day. It is true I directed the cavalry to extend my line, and I kept it out beyond the town, reinforeing as long as 1 had any troops in reserve to send forward. My Jurpose was to make as much show of force as possible and to hold on until the Third and Twelfth corps should arrive. When word came back from the First and Eleventh corps that they could not hold out longer without reinforcements, my orders were to fall back fighting. Now tell me, General Longstreet. could 1 have done anything different? Would you not have outflanked and overrun me if I nad massed my forces?” Longstreet did not reply for an in- stant, but secmed to be considering how much his answer might mean. hen he said in his simple wa, “We would have got avound you if you had done otherwise,” “Exactly,” said Howard. That was what I wanted to prevent. 'he result was that we kept the strong position on Cemetery ridge, where the battles of the second and third days were fought.” ' Longstreet and his staff also contrib- uted much to the right understanding of the Peach Orchard fight, where Sickles advanced, as it has often been alleged, contrary to orders, and was driven back with great los: Pirst, Sickles declares that he was told by Meade to use his own judgment as to the exact location of his corps, that ho begged Meade to accompany him, but that the commander of the army re- fused to do so, and did not visit his corps until the second day, after he had made his advance movement and the battle had opened. In the sccond place, Sick- les says—and the visiting vetcrans scemed to agree with him—that the place from which he moved forward was a bad military position; that he found out he was about to be attacked by Longstreet, and that he was forced to take up his position on the hill, from which he would have some sweep for his artillery. Longstreet stated that he was making preparations for the attack when Sickles took possession of the peach orchard. He did not say distinctly that he thought Sickles made a wise movement in ad- vancing out of the general line as he did; but Longstreet did say, without hesita- tion, that he had his eye upon Little Round Top, and if Sickles had not ad- vanced so boldly with the Third corps, and been supported, as he was, with the Fifth and Sccond corps and by other troops, the confederates would have ained Little Round Top. **Yes,” said General Sickles, “and that was the key to the position. You could have en- filaded our line all the way to Cemetery hill.” Longstreet replied that Sickles had hindered him long enough for him to lose his chanee *T'wo guns and u de- tachment of the Fifth corps were on Little Round Top when we reached its base.” At another time Longstreet said, plainly: “Sickles was accountable for the delay which prevented my reaching Little Round Top in time to seize and hold it.” * *"x So one after another of the disputed points were brought up and much light was cast upon them by the testimony from the confederate officers—light from the other side. Afterwards the de: assault of Pickett's di day was given, “Whatis the distance from here to where they emorged from the woods? asked Longstreet, abruptly. “Exactly one mile and a quarter,” was the response. “Ah!” exclaimed the veteran; ‘‘Lee said before the charge that the distance was 1,440 yards. I said it was a mile. 1 was nearer right than he. Inall history prior to that there were never charges of greater distance than 600 to 700 yard, Then there was never before a charge of such length.” iption of the fatal sion on the third * *% Some one asked General O. O. Howard whether Meade ought not to have fol- lowed up the repulse. Howard replied by saying Meade did not know whether the enemy had fresh troops, and then turned the question upon General Ale. andereas to how much ammunition he had left. Alexander said: “I ordered every gun having twenty rounds left to pull'out and advance to the summit of the ridge. The number was small. There was an average of only fifteen rounds to a gun remaining. We e pected Meade would follow. Leo gave orders to prepare for it.” “Yes,” said Colonel Latrobe, Longstreet’s chief-of- staff, “woexpected him to follow imme- diately.” Then, in answer to anothe question, General Howard said: irant would have followed, 80 would Sheridan, and even Thomas, who was reputed slow,” John Russell Young then spoke in Longstreet's ear, who probably had not heard what had been said by the rest on this point, saying: ‘‘General Longstreet, what would Grant have done?” ‘“He could have wiped us out,” was the reply, “We had no infantry for a half mile, and only that fringe of guns, with am- munition nearly gone.” e BTARVE HOUSE FLIES. This Mothod ‘Héats Every Varloty of Fiy Trap Yot Invented. ‘No, thank you, my dear. Ido not want any fly paper or fly traps about my house. learned a great many years ago that the more things we have to call flies the more will come. In a neighborhood where flies were simply a nuisance 1 lved almost unmolested by them because I never permitted a parti- clo of stalo food to accumulate about the premises,” saysm writer in the Ledger, “Flies, like o good many other things, will never stay where they are in danger of starvation, and I never kept anything about the plaee to feed them with, not even fly paper;’ Everything that could not be burned' was carried as far from the house as possible and buried. All garbage is valuable as a fertilizer, and 1 utilize it as such. *It is my opinion that every form of fly paper, fly poison and fly trap, which is baited with any substance, is just so much inducement for them to stay around the house. They think—if flies think at all —that they are going to get something to eat, and, therefore, hang around, The best fly preveutive is starvation.” —_— The professors of the University of Michi- gan are MakKing exteusive experuments in hypuotism. f they are thoroughly success- ful'in the science of induced impression, as some experiments indicate that they way be, it will soon be among the possibiliies to get an education while you wait for a train st Anu Arbor, Hood's Sarsaparilla fmmvmy cures even when all others fail. It has a record of suc cesses unequalled by any other medicine, COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL Reaction in the Grain Pit from the Recent | Big Advance. CORN WAS DJLL, CLOSING AT A DECLINE Bradstreet’'s Figares Nelped to Drag Whent Market Down at the Start— Several Other Dopressing tors—Stocks and Bonis. ORICAGO, June 10.—~Fear of the govorn- ment crop report was the main cause of a re- action In the grain pit today from the recont Business in wheat was brisk. was e lower than yesterday. Corn was dull, closing at a decline of ¢ for tho day. Provisions were never before speculated in on so small a seale. The nominal closing prices are a trifie lower than yesterd Bradstreet's figures holped drag t market down at the start. The ¢ made that 90,000,000 bu. of wheat would bo on hand July 1, which would more than gcod deficlencies in the crop, as damago ha been grently overestimated. It was sald stocks in America and Europo and afloat for Europe were 167,000,000 bu., or 70 per cent more than last year, while the available sup- ply in this country was now 89,000,000 against 41,000,000 bu. a year ago. The bank statement was also a dopressing influence, An error in transmitting a quota- tion trom Duluth proved quite a tactor. From 624¢ for July the next auotation was and the trade had gotten very un- The quotation was challenged und o correction was made to 63c. This gave the market considerable recovery and at the same time strong and higher cables were re- ceived. The feeling soon got quito enthusiastic and prices went up 1 verv quickly, but the ad- vance did not hold, the close being ensy reaction from ton figures, It is difficult to make much of aguess on the visiblo supply, but it thought there will not be much, it any, change from lust . though 1,y possibly” shiow . moderato The opening was eusier and . price e lower than yoste sing, ruled wi and further déclined s to %e, then enme stronge: rom 3 to 1¢, the July future b 1 eased off, ruled steady and the closing was e lower for July and fye lower for September than yeste day. me disposition was manifested on tho part of many operators in corn to take in their July und put out, September, the differ- ence being from 1%e to 1%¢ 'ho marke pened quict, sugged off e, ruled easier, and the close showe trifle loss, ho out i spection licro ry liberal, There was a fair trado in oatsand an ecasier tocling, price raging lower, and after a 1¢ rangze on the near option, to steady on Junc and te lower for July, September held within a small range and closed with a net loss of ie. There was only one trado in pork at §20.25 for July_and rot a transaction in any other future. " There was also a noticeable stareity of opcrators fn lard and ribs. What mighi have heen tho result of some more busine is hpossiblo to guess. Compared with day the nominal declines are from 106 to 20c i pork, from 2bse to 0 in lard and 2isc in Tuly ribs. Estimated recoipts for Mond Whe 85 cars; corn, 470 cars; oats, 300 ¢ars; hogs, 23,000 head. o ‘Phe leading futures ranged as follows: LOW. [CLOSE. ¥ 1D June.. July . ept .. Mess Pork July | Sapt | Lard— 7| | July 11020 |10 20 Sept WUg! 10 70| 10 65 Short | | 2100 10 20 10 70 94734 975 Cash quotations were as follow: Frovir—Quiet, unchange Wiear—No. soring, soring, f. 0. ., 507 Corn—No. No. 3, | @6he, 2, nomin. , $1.0 b—Prime, per LDl £0.90; 50 No. 4, 1. AX SEED-No. 1 TIMOTHY PoRK-—Mess, per 100 (loosc), 0471 (boxed), & (boxed), #10.37150310.6215, sk —Distiliens linished goods, per gul., short dry sultoa % short ribs, sidos shoulde: cloar sides, Suaans nt lated, 5.70; r " 5,57, The following were the reccipts and ship- ments for today: Articios. loat, 6¢; granu- 57 & Flour, bbl v by bu Oats, bu Barley, bu On the Produce v mnrket was steady; creamery, 1714@19 dairy, 1613@1615c. Eggs, weaker; strictly frosh, 185w14e, Points on the Prospects, Clapp & Co.'s weekly letter says: tlon cunnot stay a and loss stares ~pr “Logls] progressive liquidation, in the fuce with jm- prudent assurance, il ympetitive hope- ulness app 5 survivil of the fittest d. Twent four active and popular stocks show oy 173,000,000 loss_{n the sIx months between {Juno 7, while the government ek of silver b on purchased has not lost acent in value. wiors nnd lea ing government oflicials appear now ready and willing to stem the tide of Hguidation, aid uid in making botter prices and in protecting reputable credit and tho nation's honor. Gottan erop dqmago improyed financiai donditios, ~ and a better dem from Manchester spinners and. speculitor are all possible contingencics in the mark that may asdvance prices, Since January overy bushel of wheat exported has beeh o companied by a gold dollar and a little silver. Forced liquidation, supplies in the wrong pluce, beirs plenty, bulls tame and a tight money market have reduced prices of wheat below the cost of production. Ships will be tuxed to their utmost capacity to move our fmmense visible. The prico is near the bot- tom and supplics at the aximum and an ad- vunce probable. The Unitod Kingdom has the poorest prospect for a wheat crop in fifty cars, Europe will likely grow 260,000,000 hushels less wheat and ryo thun last year. 1t's a cowsrd who will not buy whoeaf at those prices.” New York Markets. New Youk, June 10.—Froun—Recelpts, 41,- 000 pkgs.: exports, 5,046 bbls., 700 sucks; les, 21,000 pkgs.; murket moré active and ady: winter whoat, low gradoes, $2.05@2.45; winter wheat, falr to funcy, 82.85@8.00; winter wheat, patents, $3.5023.75; Minnesota clear, 82.50€5.10; Minnesoti stralghts, $8.60%4.10] Minncsotn patents, #4.1084.60. MeaL—Quiet, stoudy; yellow western, ) YE—Dull but steady; western, H6@60c, BARLEY MALT-QuiCt but steady; western, Receipts, 274,200 bu.; exports, 207,- 3 sales, 1,645,000 bu. of futures, 56,000 Of 5pot. ' Spot market dull, lower with optfons, closing steady; No. 2 red, in storo and olevator, 774c; ufloat, 78¢: f. 0. b, T23@78'4¢; 1 northern, 723G No. hard, 79%¢c; No. 2 northern, T0'3@70%c, Qptidns wore dull'and @4 lowor, but stend: The opening was wealo, and prices fell 146 with the west on realicing, sdvanced s ring and foreig i No. 2 red 78 5-16@78 11- 4 ber, 7714 B2h,@n2 A ipts, 78,700 bu.; exports, 80,042 salos, 120,000 bu, of futures, 17,000 bu, of ‘spot. Bpots dull, firmer; No. 2, 4714¢ 1 elevator, 45@4he afloat. Options dull and @i lower with “wheat, closing steady; Attt 48646 0, closing at 481ic; Soptember, 4B1@dbie, closing at 4R%e. OATs—Kecolpte, 150,060' bu.: cxports, 86,662 bui sales, 75,000 bu. futares, 41,000 bu firm, quiet 3 i June, B85@86e, closing 30% 85%@8b7c, closing 864 ¢; August, 833 8370, closivg 88%c; No. 2 white, 894c; No. 2 Chileago, 85'3¢; No. 8, 34 i mized westora, 8780c; HAy-Light receipts, steady; shipping, 70% 80¢; good to chiolee, B5e@81L i ~Quiet, fir to choice, 18%22¢; Pac HinEs—Dull, nominal; we Niw or. selected, 45 10 6 ; Texal 50 10 60 1bs., b@7c; Buenos Ayres 21 12:4¢; Texas dry, 21 to 27 [bs, @ bu. meats, qulet, 2 Ibs. At 113c; picklod hawis, firm;: short ¢ ; western steam closed at 100 tierces ot 810 05, Options, une closed at 810.20, nomlinal; pickled bellles, shoulders, 84@oc; middles, inuctive, Lard, firmer, qul $10.15; sales, sales, nous; July closed at $10.40, nominal; cloged at #1090, nominal. Pork. , 150 bbls; old mess, $2 Saptembe Inll, stead now mess BUTTER-Qulot, nnchangad 14@16¢; weostern creameory, | factory 182 160: Blgine, 200 20 CEESR -Quiet, fancy firm; 160 ) wos n dairy, wostorn part skims rocolpts, 0,9 por pkg.) be, firm: othors woiks: yollow, vrime, 44@4bc; yellow, PETROLECM - Quiet; 1 in bbls., Washington, &5 ington, $2.50; refined, N delphia and Balt £2.7022.75 RosIN-Qulet, stondy; stratned, 0BT AT, ) RPESTINE DU, st tendy, dull} do t07 Japin, 45241 SUGAR-Raw, fir trifugnls 96 tost Refined in mand, firm, O A, monld A, 5y 5 11-16c; standar b 5:16@51c: cont ne 1,755 15 powdered, 6-1610 ited, no salos; erude, crude, in bulk, Wa w York, #5.25:" Phi more, $6.20; rofined, in bulk, ymmon to 10 extra, b GIA granuluted Dull, steady; American, $12.75@ c; cubes, COPPER—Quict, st D Easy; don Firm; Straits, § ot, stoady. , casy; domestic ESNew Ol \ to choice, steady at 25@30c 05 bid, #1065 asked; 4,20, ottle, good oMAnA TOCK MARKETS, Conditions Governing Trade Still Very Un- certain and Unsatisfactory. SATURDAY, June 10, For the most part the markets have been badly damaged the past week and this has had atendency to shut off sunplics. The result fs the week's receipts show a bz decrense as pared with last week and one year ago. The official fizures are as follows Cattl 1 Sheep. 8,0 1,180 14, < 41 8,175 Same week lastyear, 10,702 § 7 706 The cattle market on Monday and Tuesdav was simply paralyzed. On account of the finaneial pame at Chicago and the stringoncy i the money market everywhere clse, dealers hardly knew what to ask or bid for cattlo. Prices were anvwhere from 10¢ to 25¢ lower than the very bad close of tho week pre- vious and the trado was badly demoralized. A shurp falling off in supplivs followed this break and as money matters were beginning to adjust themselves a reaction followed and 10cto 16c of the deeline was re- d during tho latter part of tle This demund, however, has becen very lght from all sources. Speculative and export shipper 0 dof almost nothing while t dressed beef hou are confining theiroperations to the smaldiest possible Timits. Light reccipts may help matters for o while but 1t is appu it to all that there will b no perminent revival in the trado until no wal conditions prevail in the The weok closes with & cor run and a moderatoly active market. Nuturaily with many cattle as were hero the wweek's supply showing pared with ISt week of some ind compared with o yea 000 head, the feoling wis bet and bu looked up of eastern muarkets w proved, was hardly su tive it il while shipy business the dressed beof i 1 nt of the business, Competit them was fair, and desirable | wedinm . welght steers sold freely steady toa shade stronger than Fri 1,000 to 1,156 Recelpts this week Recelipts Iast week hor bout half as 000 head of nearly did somo ly slow sale, not fat und somo and rou fashionod 1 40 and £4,60. r sattlo w <0 more or | Ly buyers but w with $ales at from whole 1t w cattie and a ver Offerings of cows rather | tle 5 1o #4.25. On the d market for was_effc ixed stock we #ood and _the market around. Good to ady at fre dar from §2 alr o good sto 1s 1ittlo going on In the feeder trade, al is good fc b, well bred and but comm cattle are in and e hly the mos went fleshy st poor” re Hoas | the h supplies us con the fiest ten d rked feature of croase Dur- Wero ten s of June, 2 while for th the supply thin f ary nces this would sharp advance in values, espeeiall wne conditions prevail at’ all U present its effect S money uat that ail buyers an nelied to run thei s possible. The Operators are coni- business as close to shore Hzht supplies simply TW‘ENTY YEAR® THE LEADERII! Corehs, Pleurisy, Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lumbngo Back-Ache, and all External Aflments removed quickly by BENSORN’S Whichistheonly POROUS PLASTER that contains powerlul and corative modern ingredients VET ABSOLUTELY SAFE aud POSITIVE in its action. Benson’s Plasters Prevent Pneumonta. It docs ot cure chronic ai ute, nor does it create an electr current in the system,nor will it cure b reading the I y5,000 Plysic CAUTION-] guta i e v s i just as goof e Kacp thom at Lome for emergencica, LI 4 or y merely are made by BENSON'S is endorsed ns and Druggists, s Drage |lm-um the matket from going to smash. OA osday prices took the Hizgest drop 1o the history ot the trado At this point. Prices won ofta flat 80c on all grades, which men ol In the business an worst break the market aver o n Any one day for over & qUATter of & century oFsinco” war i With lighter supplios durlng the ros mainder of the wook fully 26¢ or about half this regalned but the market Kk closes on an avorage 35¢ lower n Wook g se1pts today woro vory falr, but lightor than on last Saturday whon hewd wero received. The quality ns a ralo good and the market opened ot active and steady to strong with shippers and packers buylrig feoel frosh mo: 1 moderately. 1 light and butcher s wore in the demand and with _ the Dot heavy grades s 10 and_ #6.48, while tho poor to falr rough and mixed packs ine grades € it $6.25 and Under the | ttor castorn advices and a strong provision kot the trado fm proved as the morning ad A and tho lasy o largely at §6.40 and $6.45 bouy + tan Frid Tho pens were cloared tho ot closing strong with bulk of the slos at #6.40 and $6.43 a8 £6.80 and $0.40 Priday and $6.70 ta 75 on last Satarday SHEEP--Thoro were no frosh rec lond billed direet toSwift and nothin o i market. The denand 1s goo al houses and prices are quotably Sastorn markets 1avo beon overs and the fooling thero is rather cood nitives, $4.60005.60; falr to good ns, $4.00@5.50; common and sk sheep, $2.50004.00; good to cholce 40 8. 10010 Tambs, $5.0066.50, f shoop Rocelpts and Disposition of Stock. roceipts and disposition of stock as 5 shown 1 . of tha Unlon Stock ¥ ardy con twenty-four hours onding ab O o'clock pom June 10, 1803 NECRIPTS ‘ siEen, TCATTLE. | noRSES Cars. [1lend | Cars. | Ttoma Moad | Cars. | liond Cars. | 5| 1,088 Losal 1 DISPOSITION, THUVERS |CATTLE, | OGN, [NHERP, ha Packing Co ... Tho G. 1, Hanimon § (o Swift & Co The Cudahy Packiig Co Hammond & Dowa I ¢ Sinclalr. .. Flawo 8, Co Parker W, (o A Tlans Sperry & 1 Shippers und foedors Leftovor 3 Kansas Cliy Live Stock Markot. f KANSAS Crny, Juno 10, ~CATTLE ~Res 0 hend; Shipments, 1,777 hoad steady fo strong; Texas stoors, & <hipping stecrs, $4.4005.00; native 5, buteher ‘stock, $2.90034,805 focders, $2.0004 bulls and ! 23,90, p oas- Recolpts, 500 fLend; for lights 4,400 head arket strong and 106 and nlhe heavies: bulk ot 00; heavie: 3.4 5D packers, 4006.60; 1ght, $6.26Q 4750, shipment shipments, ) 15¢ hig! 700 market' stron Suker headt; 0 head St. Louls Live Stock Sr.Louis, Mo, June 10. 800 head; shipments, rket. Carrie—Rocolpts, t W0 hend; marked: ammon to good hatives, 24.00;. far o ordinary Texun stecrs, §.00¢3.00. ' HoGs— R shipnient 1,400 ho it a shad h 3.8 3 (4 shipments, ! ichanged, 1 Receipts, ) Peorin Grain, § wiA, June 10.—Corn, market firmerys 3603 N i Oats, market irregus, p No. 8 white, 80@¢ NEW AND MY COMPLEXION IS BETTER, My dortor says it acts gently on the stomach, Uver and kidneys, and is & pl id drink is made from herbs. 'n B easily ns ten. 1t 18 called LARE'S MEDIGIN A1 drueists sell 1t at S0c, and 41 n puckago. 1f you eannot get it, ond vour address for fre sample, Luane's Family Medicine moves the bowels gy Toorderiabe healihy chisls ecosgagg: Addres ORATOR F. WOODWARD. Li: Rov, N, e SOUTIH OMAHA, Union Stock Yards Company, South Gmaha. Best Cattlo Ho and Sheop market 1 the wosy COMMISSI0Y HOUSE3. Wood Brothers, Live Stock Commi £01th Umaha lon Morchunts. [ lophone 1151, - Chiloag)'t JOMAN D, DADISMAN, i WALTER 12 WO0D, t roports by matl and wire cheertually] d upon sppliostion. | Managors M ri rolsh [ o Manufacturers Jobbers Directorg (Omaba Tent-Awning | Wolf Bros & Co., COMPANY. HORSE COVERS, 1115 Farnam Street. BAGS & TWINES | _ Bemis Omaha Bag COMPANY. And 0 of flour burlap, 8 twino. BOOTS AND SHOES. Morse-Coe Shoe Company. We are tho LY Manufacturers of Boots and 01 tate Of Nobrasks. B aral, Tyviyation 1s xtaaded to all 4o 1nspoct Kirkendall, Jones & |Amer, Hand-Sewed COMPANY. Wholesale SHOB 00.. b0 nta, Hoston 0ee cor L | ‘and rubbir goods, 10 1810 Harney Btreot Manufacturers of Tents. Awnings, etc, 703 and 705 %, 16th Strect, 11041106 Harncy Etroet __COAL, COKE. _ (Ginana Coal, Coke & LIME CO. b yilghts, etc’, 1903 . cog. 161h and [t % and 1510 Do FLroet Doulas Streot. M. E Smitbg Co. Dry goods, notlons, fur- rlaling good roer 1ith and Lo Kilpatrick-Koch Dry inrney Blreots I Carpnnle} Papé-r Co HARDWARE, Rector & Wilhelmy COMPANY, Corner 10th and Jackson Btroots, Lobeck & Linn, Dealors 1o hardw IRON WORKS, {} W. A L. Gibbon & Co (Omaha Safe and Irog { Wholesale 5, ALraw goods lih HATS, ETOC, it Kl00Y on Ahtters and ore Andreon, John A Wakelield, Lmportad, Arverican Port. Iand Milwau- MILLINERY, e, 1. Oberfelder & Co. lwporters und jobbers of milllnery, nolo; Mail arders’ prompti Hilod. 2)-212 8. ddth, LIQVORSL Frick & Herbert, Wholesale liquor dealers 101 Farnam PAPER. oL, o — Standard 0il Co. Kefiued and lubricatiog Carry o full atock of printing) weapplog snd writiog_paj card | pupers, ol | PRODUCE COMMISSION. Omaba Upholstering COMPANY. Uphiolatered furalture, 1iuz-110s Nicholas ob Wholesale oniy. FURNITURE COMPANY aud 19tk Stree Branch & Co. |Jas. A. Clark & Coy Produce, | Butter. cheese, 0N Poullry sud gwine Kinds, oy §17 P, 1sih Blrest. frults of all BTOVE REPAIRS | BASH, DOORS Omaba Stove Repair | o, A. Disbrow &Co VOKKS. Stove repajrs Mauufacturers of aud water atiachuwodts doore, blinds | uy kind of stove | mouldiugs. K Wi Dougias st | S 0 maa Tisr