Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 23, 1893, Page 6

VOIGE OF THE GRAND ARMY ! Its Oommittas on Pensions Against the Un- friendly Hand of th: Government. MUST RESTORE SUSPENDED PENSIONERS A Volunteer Reunlon—Side-Tracked Pen- ston Clalms-Something About Big Battle Ships the Fature, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. T.—Your committee on pensions beg to submit the following report and resolutions on the subject of pensions: “To bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and orphan.” Thus spoke Lin- coln the great, Lincoln the just, stand- ing reverently, with uncovered head, in the immediate presence of a cruel and devastating war, that had already lasted four years, the end of which, although 80 nour, his prophetic vision was not ablo to see; speaking to, for and by the authority of the American people, con- cerning one of the human duties of the hour and the future, when entering for the second time upon the discharge of a trust committed to him by that people. Within a few short wecks that end so long hoped for had come: but his dying eyes were not privileged to see the full fruition of his labors, and the work so well begun and carried on by him fell into other hands: and those who had “‘horne the tle” after so many days “turned their happy feet toward their long-deserted homos.” A grateful nation met and received them, and gladly showered upon them the plaudits and the honors they had so well and hardly earned. These ‘“bearers of the battle” were then, in the main, in the prime and vigor of young manhood, with all the honors and possibilities of life before them, with all the hopes born of lofty cournge and patriotic and successful achicvement beating high in their bosoms: and they little needed, and still less cared for material aid from the country they ‘had preserved and made free, save where loss of life or limb, or impaired health and broken constitu- tions were presently visible; and for such, in the main, ample and prompt provision was made by that country. But as the years passed by middle life too frequently developed 1nto premature old age, and youth passed into riper years with galloping feet; and alas! too soon the exultant and hearty soldier found that in the race of life there were weights upon his feat and burdens upon his shoulders, as the result of prema- ture and over-heavy draughts upoo-his vitality, that sadly interfered with suc- cessful competition in the crowd and jostle of the fierce struggle for advance- ment. Andstill the nation sought to keep abreast of the necessities of her heroes, and by additional enactments to measurably make provision for the ne- cessities of those who “had borne the battle.” A quarter of a century haa elapsed. the young had become old, the middle- n;:eri had become feeble, and the old had crossed the river. Time, with its ruth- less fingers, had joined hands with the ravages of war, and the two combined had proved a burden upon the aging soldier greater than he could bear; and the cry went abroad that too many in- stances for the credit, honor or good name of the nation, many who had fol- 1owed the flag and faced the fiery fur- nace of battle, iad in want fallen by the wayside, and in the poor houses were looking longingly for the rolief and ocomfort of the grave. Their sympathizing comrades and a patriotic people, with one accord, voiced the sentiment that such was not a human administering of the sac-ed trust recog- nized and announced by Lincoln, As to what the remedy should be, men’s minds differed. Many, possibly a majority of the survivors of the war, believed that the time bhad fully come when the name of every honorably dis- charged survivor should be placed upon the pension roll. Others, denying the right that they should receive aught from their country through the pension roll, stoutly resisted the de- wand. It was under such circumstances ana dealing with these conflicting opinions that congress enacted the disabilit; pension law of June, 1890. This act was accepted by the surviving soldiers and b?' the people in general as a settlemeént of the question, Under the administra- tion of that law the poor house gave up its veteran—he who had borne the battle was cared for: and thus the sacred trust accepted and leftas a legacy to the nation was faithfully administered. Withina few months we hear with profound sorrow and regret that all this must be changed; that the construction of the law has leen changed, and the regulations and rules in regard to proof and ratings, under which more than” 300,000 claims have been allowed and paid, have been revoked and another construction of the law has been estab- lished, and now regulations for proof and ratings, less favorable to claimants, have been adopted; that a board of re- vision has been organized in the pension office, charged with the duty of revising ull these adjudicated claims in accord- ance with this new construction, and such changed regulations as to proof and ratings; that under these changes thousands of pensions have been sus- pended without notice and thousands of pensioners have been dropped fromthe rolls. It1s claimed that an adjudication of a pension settles nothing; that the secrutary of the interior and commis- sioner of pensious are invested by law with ahsolute power over the pension roll, and that it is within their legal authority to reopen and revise pensions allowed “by their predecessors under regulations adopted by them, whene they seo fit to chunge the rules of e dence and the scalo of ratings under which the allowance was made, and this in a country of law, where from the very infancy of the government of the United Statee, by its organic law, is in terms denied the right to deprive any person of property without due process of law, notice and an opportunity to be heard, and where in every other relation and condition in life fraud is never pre- sumed, but must be clearly proved, and .every person shall have the right to face his accuser. To emphazie the viciousness of the situation und accusa- tion, we learn that it is said, as though by authority, that “it is expected that muny of the pensioners so summarily suspended or dropped will be able to rove that they are still en- titled to the pension of which they have beeu deprived,” thus saying in no uncertain voice that the burden is not upon the party alleging the fraud, but that the government which lh?' had reserved shall first brand with infamy E the charge, then sentence, and after tge stigma has been effective, then con- cede to them, whose barriers and sup- t of character have been thus under- mined, the pitiful privilege of moving for & new trial uj the ground of newly-discoyered evidence; this not upon strangers, aliens or foes, out upcn our own flesh and blood, our comvades, tho saviours of the ustioa—those Who, ~ in the language of Linesln, the immor- tal, have “‘borne the battle.” We deny that the secretary of the in- terior and commissioner of nsions have any such power. We insist that the adjudicating divisions of the pension office, acting under the direction and supervision of the commissioner of pen- eions and secretary of the interior, are tribunals established by authority of law for the settiement of pension claims, and that their decisions are entitled to full faith and credit, and cannot be logally impeached when & change of ad- ministration occurs, except for fraud, upon charges preferred and evidence adduced in support thereof. o insist that where changes are made in the con- struction of the law, rules of evidence and schedule of ratings, unfavor- abls to claimants, they must and should be limited in their operation to the future work of the office, and not the past. An ex post facto regulation is as repugnant to our sense of justice as an ex post facto law, and we protest against the adoption and enforcement of any such regulations in the matter of pension cluims. Therefore, The Grand Army public, in national encampme speaking for that great army of beloved comrades, mauy of them too poor, too bruised, too broken, to withstand the strong arm of the government when sdministered with an unfriendly hand, proud of the good name ana faie fame of the American volun- teer soldicr, interested far beyond any other person or organization that the pension roll shall in truth and in fact be—what it is theory—a *‘roll of honor,” and ever mindful of 1ts cardinal principle, “T'o preserve honor and purity in pubhe affa scouts and de- nies these indiscriminate charges of univer- sal fraud and resents thoimputation thav be- cause some unworthy survivors may be found, that discredit shall be cast upon the entire roll, and tnis great body of brave and patriotic citizens shall stand disgraced be- fore the country. We demand that there shall be no backward step in pension legisla- tion_or administration; that no pensioner shall be deprived of his property without due process of law; that the presumption shall be in favor of honosty und fair dealing; that the poor and lowly shall not be put to UNLECESSATY, GXPENSIVe OF OPPressive process to preserve their meager pittance; that the sacred trust in favorof those who “have borne the battle” shall be sacredly observed and sacredly administered, and we do now solemnly and deliberately Resolve, That the Grand Army of the Republic looks with solicitude, not to say alarn, upon the proposition, that after suf- ficient tribunals have been’ established by law before wnich questions have been pre- sented and adjudicated, upon evidence sub- mitted and examined,and upon which & grateful nation has accorded pensions 1n this, their hour of need, to those who in its hour of need stood between it and death, the officers of that nation, administering a pub- lic trust, have arbitrarily deprived. without notice or an_opportunity to be heard, our neeay and aistressed comrades of the rights thus” solemnly adjudged and confined to them. We Declare, That every presumption should be made in favor of such records so made; that no presumption of fraud shall be indulged in against them, and that no change be made in the pensions so accoraed until after charges have been made and evidence in support thereof has been produced, of which charge each pensioner has had full notice and & full and complete opportunity to be heard in support of the pension so ac- corded to him: and it is further Resolved, That as the commissioner of pensions, by his recent withdrawals of the obnoxious rulings which had been so gener- ally condemned, has virtually acknowledged the mcorrectuess of such rulings, we deem it his further duty to at once restore to the rolls the thousands of pensioners now stand- ing illegally suspendea. L N. WALKER, A, M. WansER, J. W. Bunsr. A. R. GREENE, H. E. TAINTOR, Committes on Pensions, Twenty-seventh Annual Encampment Grand Army of the Republic. Pension Office Bungling. It is stated at the pension office that since the {)BHEHKB of the act of March 27, 1890, claims for pensions under that act have been given an unfair preference in the matter of adjudicationover claims under prior .acts where disabilities of service ovigin are alleged. Thus, it is said, about 200,000 claims have remained sidetracked under the Raum regime. Last month a block of 2,000 of these old cases was tuken from the files and an examination disclosed the fact that about 70 per cent of them were com- glum. and yet in consequence of the ureau being engaged in the adjudica- tion of June 27, 1890 cases, no action had been taken. With a view to correcting this injustice Commissioner Lochren has directed the chiefs of the several divisions to make a thorough search of the files of the old cases, and when they are found complete to promptly forward them for allowance, and if found incom- plete to made the necessary calls for ad- ditional proof. The Inttle Ship of the Future. Admiral Colomb of the English navy may be said to have led the critics of the modern war ship in the attack upon mere bulk and expensiveness, says the Phila- delphia Inquirer, but in his article in the current number of the North Ameri- can Review he goes further than any one has yet gone in criticism upon the pres- ent type. Most suggestive is his paper. Asked, in all probability—for the mod- ern editor scatters his topics as the sower does his seed—to tell what he thinks will be the battle ship of the fu- ture, he begins by considaring the battleship of the past, and announces his opinion that the coming battle ship will revert to the very broadside typs wh our ancestors fought. 1t is not oniy his conviction that monster guns are a ‘mi take that leads him to this conclusio nor the fact that the Harvey proces permits of the wider distribution of armor, but he has a theory of his own to account for the present condition of things in their relation to both the past and the future. Briefly, Admiral Colomb asserts that the present turret and barbette systems are the result of a failure to perceive that the introduction of steam, by in- creasing the maneuvering power of the vessel, did away with the necessity for jncreasing the arcs which the guns should cover. On the other hand, it was the paddle wheel which first led to the mounting of guns fore and aft. So that steam worked the wrong way about and led to the invention of monster Krupps and Armstrong when they were really not needed for either offense or defense. But now that the 110 guns are found unserviceable, now that nickel steel armor may be spread over a ship's sido and give no greater displacement, icularly now that the building like the Blake and the New York has started the fashion of broadsides on what are practically bat- tle ships, the accident which gave tu rets 1o the modern man-of-war is likely to have spent its force, and we shall see & reversion to the older type—we shall have the old line of battle ship, with heavy guns and stout sides, but without nasts or suils. It may be noted that even the sixty-seven-tou gun is far too big for Admiral Colomb's acquiescence, All this is, as has been already said, most suggestive. There is much to be said on the other side. IFor one thin, the invention of turrets by Coles snfi Ericeson had much more to do with the destruction of the broadside system than had the paddle-wheel. And even at thut the very first effort was to ar- range the turrets so as to secure a broad- side fire—and the old Royal Sowereign has successors in our own Muine and Texas. of the Re- t assembled, ——— ul:‘lllzsht‘.h:‘l'vure sick headacne: UeWitt's THE BURGLAR UP T0 DATE Safe Orackers Keep Well Abreast of the Safe Makers, MODERN ~ TOOLS 'OF THE TRADE Implements of Those Who Wofk In the Dark, and Some of the Men Whose In- gonuity Has Been Used to the Detriment of Their Fellows. The aristocratic cracksmen of the east are just now engaged in laughing at the clumsy but well meant efforts of their less skillful brethren in the wild and woolly west, who have been distin- guishing themselves by spending much time and large quantities of dynamite in endeavors to get at the contents of safes aboard Adamsexpress cars, to the rifling of which the cream of the profession would have devoted about ten noiseless minutes. Burglary is a delicate art and to do a job in an tic manner is not the privilege of every gang of novices in crooked deeds, Many qualifications are necessary, butabove all proper tools, convenient und powerful, must be at hand, for few men can open a locked steel fireproof safe with nothing but their fingers, although this has been accom- plished. To the eye of an honest man no tool i a burglar’s tool, says the Philadelphi Times. Were heto find a most ap- proved kit he would merely think that a mechanic had lost his stock in trade. Drills, punches, bits and ordinary jim- mies have each almost a counterpart in open daylight work, and only to the sophisticated would it appear that the bits of steel were implements of erime. To those who know, the two distinctive burglars’ tools ave the sc mmy and nippers, the first being a steel bar 80 arranged that it can be unscrewed into several pieces for convenience in carrying. The other is like a pair of curling tongs, the clutching end being armed with little teeth, and is used in turning keys in doors from the outside. The manufacture of these tools is not, as has been supposed, confined exclu- sively to any set of men. A burglar, de- sirous of obtaining a kit, will go to a hardware store and purchase drills, brace and bits, punches and wedges, these latter being in a series, from those the thinness of a knife blade to others the thickness of one's hand. This as- sortment of seemingly innocent tools he takes to a mechanic with instructions to temper them to a certain hardness. To another blacksmith he goes, and draw- ing a diagram has a piece of iron made in accordance. Still another makes him a second part, and _finally the thief has a ‘‘drag,” the most powerful and perhaps the most useful tool, from his standpoint, that can be used in opening a safe, It consists of a long screw, with simple iron braces to be attached by a link to the knob of the door. A hole is bored through the front of the safe by means of a bit, a block is adjusted on the in- side, and on this is placed the point of the screw, which is turned by a crank. As the screw revolves it penetrates further and further until the back is reached. Then, as the tremendous pressure continues, something has to give, the front generally being ripped out. This apparatus, in addition to its simplicity and quick work, has the ad- vantage of being noiseless. A new and efficient safe-drilling appliance is one which takes its name from the inventor, ‘‘Little Dave” Cummings, a western crook, in whose possession it was captured in New York abouta year ago. The middle drill is sunk into the front of the safe and by means of a ratchst the diamond- pointed smaller ones cut a hole through the door, sufticiently large to permit of the burglar throwing back the bolts. Cummings, in company with ‘Dago Frank” and Mose Nogel, has committed numerous big robberies, chief among which is & $400,000 one at Quincy, 111., and a still larger one at Louisville. He is now serving five yearsat Sing Sing. Probably the most skillful of crooked toolmakers in this country is “French Gus” Le Roy, alias Kindt, now serving a five-year sentence in the Eastern peni- tent'ary for forgery. Le Roy has long been regarded as one of the foremost burglars and toolmakers in the country, His.talents, had they been directed in another path, would have made him in- dependent. He isthe man who invented the lever system of locking cells, by which one man, throwing back a bar, locks every cell in a prison, In 1869 Le Roy was arrested for a robbery com- mitted near Sing Sing. He was sen- tenced to ten years' imprisonment, but two years later effected his escape. In'1872 he was again arrested for a serios of remarkable robberies. A big jewelry manufactory was being regularly Pplundered in a most mysterious fashion, The safe had been unlocked and gold taken out. There were no marks of vio- lence, and the detectives were in a i\mndur v, It happened, however, that © Roy was seen near the plade and ar- rested as a fugitive, When his room was searched the stolen gold was found there. He finally told how he effected the robbery. By boring a hole through a partition in an out of the way place he had been able to see the safe. He se- creted himself, and when in the morn- ing the custodian of the gold went to the safe to take it out he watched him through a paiv of field glasses and in that way got the combination. The rest Was easy For this job Le Roy was sent to prison and while there invented the lever lock system, now _in almost universal use. He communicated with the governor and offered to turn over his invention if he should be pardoned. This was re- fused and so Le Roy set himself at work to escape, which he did not long after- wards. On one occasion, to demon- trate his mechanical ability, he hol- lowed out a ncedle, put ascrew thread in the two parts and vplaced a smaller needle in the inside. He was arrested in this city in 1892 for forgery, and is now serving out s sentence. Some years ago the police all over the country were startled by numerous burglaries. That they were the work of professionals there was no doubt, But how they did it was a mystery, for 80 expeditious and neat were the criminals thav it seemed us though they had only to look at the safe for it to fall apart. Finally a col- lection of strange tools, totally unlike anything the police had handled before, fell into their hands. The kit was the property of John Walsh, alias Warren, alias Whitney: James Dollard, alius Murray, and Milky McDonald, all of them notorious thieves. They were nearly captured in Denver and left their tools behind. Then the police un- derstood. There had been a complete change in burglars’ tools, and the mod- ern methods were immeasurably su- perior. Neither of these three men was the in- ventor of the new way to force a safe, the doubtful honor lying between a Ger- wan burglar who “was located near Buffalo, and ‘“‘French Gus” Le Roy. Whoever he was he made a few sets and parted with the surplus ones to his trusty crouies. One of these was cap tured from Walsh's “mob.” This man and Dollard rr to England in 1883 and “fell,” that' a? were caught at work. They were sentenced to five years each and on being_relpased returned to this country, wheft tHey committed a §30,000 robbery at Notfolk. For tnis they were sont to prison:: Since their release they have commitled peveral big robberies, The evolutiom of burglars’ tools was talked of by Détective William Hen- derson. ‘‘The modesn hurglar is like love one particular,” s he, ‘‘inasmuch as he langhs at niths, Hisseemingly simple tools indicate that the attempts made to bar his progress are not difficult to overcome, and yet not many years ago they were possessed of a very different {dek, snd In (o man Hope's prim brute force was ina measure the leading idea in forcing a safe. In those days one crook was solected to go with the gang, not because of his brains, but on account of his muscle, and his duty was to ca the heavy tools. Big crowbars, huge logs, and strong men were then the or- der of things. Safes were literally dragged avart. “In a few years things went to the other extreme. Men intending to rob a eafe would take hardly any tools, but would break into a convenient black- smith’s shop, get acrowbar and a sledge, and then go to the place to be robbed. As safes were then constructed & fow blows with the sledge would knock off the hinges of one door, and then a pry with the bar would wrench the door away. But safe manufacturers soon caught on, and when the handie of the safe was turned by the owner bolts shot buth ways, removing the responsibility from the hinges. “Then came the era of powder. safe would have the crack around the doors plugged with oakum, but two little spaces being left. From one all the air would be drawn by a pump, and through the other powder would be allowed to sift in. When they touched it off the safe would be ripped apart. But this means, despite all pre- cautions, was noisy, and then came the modern tools. in the case of an ordi- nary safe, the knob 1s knocked off, a punch removes the combination and a piece of wire throws back the tumblers. n better safes the drag is used. If I had a safe, no matter how good, with many valuables in it, I would not trust a burglar alone with it over ten minutes at the outside. So far the burglars are abreast of the makers of safes, and no improvement is made by the latter sthat the former in a short time do not learn to circumvent.” Mot ot o sy HURLED LIKE CANNON BALLS. in A running Houses Bombarded by Fiying Fragments of a Twenty-Ton Fly Wheol. People were grouped by hundreds in the vicinity of Third avenue and Second streot, Brooklyn, says the Eagle, gazing upon the destruction wrought by the explosion of one of the big fly wheels in the Atlantic avenue raiiroad power house. The sight was one not soon to be forgotten. That not even one, but scores of ' people were not killed is little. short of miracu- lous. A wali of: the brick building in which the wheel was located is cut completely in two! All over the neigh- borhood the dwelling houses, mostly of the poorer class, are riddled with holes made by the iron missiles. A hole the size of & door was bored through a one story and a half frame structure on Car: roll strect, wrecking the place, but by the greatest of good luck injuring not one of :he many inmates. The power house, which has a seventy-five foot frontage on Third avenue and extends back 200 feet to Gowanus canal, is a two- story building erected a year ago. There are hete eight dynamos driven by the same number of fly wheels. These wheels ave twenty feet in diameter, and weigh each one of them not less than twenty tons. They carry each a fourteen-inch belt. The wheel which burst was known as No. 2, and was in the rear section of the building. The wheels are supposed to make about 500 revolutions per minute. How fast the one which exploded was revolving no one seems able to tell. The cen- trifugal force of such a wheel is im- mense, and renders it peculiarly liable to accident. Whether it was running at a speed too great for resistance, or whether a flaw in the iron hitherto unsuspected was the cause of the explosion, are points upon which no opinion is advanced by the railroad people. The accident occurred about 7:20 o'clock, just as the night men were preparing to relieve those who had been on duty there during the day. Most of the firemen and oilers were at the Third avenue end of the house. John Capolis, 50 vears old, of No. 379 Soventh street, thé night engineer, was the nearest to the wheel. He was the only person in the building who was wounded. He was not ten feet away, when with a report like that of half a dozen cannon, the wheel burst into a thousand pieces. Tho mass of iron went upward and out through the roof as though that part of the structure was made of cardboard in- stead of iron. Part of the wheel, com- {;rlsing one of the mighty spokes and a ig section of the rim, knocked out the wall toward Second street, and, falling on the vacant lot be- tween Second and Third streets, buried itself in the ground. This piece woighed at least two tons. Another fragment, which weighed half s much, fell 200 feet away. Through the side of the building toward First street several im- mense fragments were hurled, one striking and twisting out of shape the cables which conveyed the electric_cur- rent to the Atlantic avenue railroad system. A piece of the wheel, which weighed at least a ton and a half, went over a three-story building on Carroll street and sunk almost out of sight in the yard of 461. In the rear of 472, the three one-story buildings were more or less shattered, Mrs. Keegan, who was struck by falling plaster, received cuts about the head and a possible fracture of the skull, *Joseph D'anose, aged 33, of 458 Carroll street, was looking out of the window of his house. A fragment struck and broke his right arm. Engineer Capolis, who was hit by falling bricks, 'received severe scalp wounds, The damage to the building is estimated at $2,500, as about thirty feet of the roof and'sides of the building are knocked out. - Bchroeder & Horstman's coal office at Third avenuo and Third street was struck land damaged to the amount of 850, John Henry, the watch- man, was in the ‘building, but escaped injury, the imndru\)ping upon the floor at his side. Several boards were torn from the side of the building at Third avenue and Président street, occupied as a saloon by Dennis McNamara, but no one was hurt. e — Makes & Miziity Mach ne. The coal breager which the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. has erected at Ruby is the largest in the United States and is larger than the Equitable building of Denver. It is built on aslope of a moun- tain at the entrance to the mine and stands 105 feet high at the highest point. It is 850 feet in length and 72 feet in width, It is asolid mass of sawed tim- bers and filled with machivery for screening coal. The cost of the struc- ture was $5,000. The company sawed all of the lumber at its own mill and the bolts and nails were made at the works at Bessemer, .went on to Chicago. COMMERCIAL AND FISANCIAL Nothing Helped the Wheat Market Yester- day and Last Prices Were Down. SOME OF THE WEAKENING FEATURES Cables Were So Indifferent as to Be Posi- tively Bearish—New York Messages Were Discouraging Aboat Fresh Reports. Ciioaco, Oct. 21.—Nothing helped the wheat market today and Inst prices were 1igo lower than last night's figures. Corn is ge and oats cto ije offt. Provisions are about unchanged Everything was at hand to make & weak market in whoat. Cables were 8o indiffer: ent as to bo positively bearish. New York messages were discouraging about fresh ex- port sales. Washington news was no bet- ter and reports as to the movement of wheat were the most bearish of the scason. There was nothing in sight except a prospect of au enormous inereaso in the visi- ble supply for Monday. ‘Thelocal receipts of cars word up from 42 Friday to 150, Minne: apolis sold a flood of wheat and reported over 1,300 cars at the two points for the day. Dispatehes also said the demand cars was more than_doubled. The opening was about de lower than yesterday's closing and with somo slight “Auctuations prices further fell off from e to J;¢, closing com- paratively steady. In corn the fine weather for drying the new crop, the quite good receipis and the easiness in othor grain markets were the main features governing the trade, Local speculators as a rule sold freely, whila the outsiders were chicfly on the long side. The market opened rather easy at from e to lne ana gradually receded from igo Toward the clos more steadi- ness prevailed and prices raltied from lje to_ifc. “There was a moderate trade in_oats, with prices receding ijc to ige, and closing with abaut the totzom. The depression in wh and the light cash demand. caused the cline. The business in provisions was scarcely worth reporting. There was a change of but 2ige in any product for Janudry. The October price was marked up inall products, but this was to represent the cash business At the close October pork was quoted up, 1ard 7 and ribs 10c up. s for Monday: Wheat, 200 cars; hogs, anged as follows: . ) Olose SHORT RiBs- Oct Cattle Coming to the Yards in Numbers Record Breaking SATURDAY, Oct. 21. Receipts of all kinds of stock have been fairly liberal the post weck, and the pros- pects are that October cattie veceipts will be the heaviest on record, while all kinds of supplies will show an increase over October, last year. The week's receipts, with com- parisons, are given below: Cattle. Togs. Sheep. 28,021 25,068 5,410 Recelpts last week. 23,371 21,348 7,251 Same week last vear.... 16,610 28,855 1,372 Onaccount of the excessive supples of cattle both here and at other markets, prices have ruled weak and lower on most all grades of beef cattle. The really desir- abla beef grades have not suffered so much, as the proportion of such has been compara- tively small; in fact the number of strictly beef cattle has never been smallerat this sea- son of the year. Buyers simply had’so many cattle to make thewr selections from that they were enabled to pound out a 10c and 15¢ decline on the less desirable grades. The slump here, however, was comparatively in- significant and shippers who thought to better their condition by eoing to Chicago found this out to their c Tt is a fact worthy of note that less than 2 per cent of the big cattle receipts of the past two wecks have been sent through to Chicago, either in first hanas or by speculators, The 2 per cent that went to Chicago lost big money. On last Tuesday there were some choice western cattle here from Sheridan, Wyo. TLocal buyers bid $4.25 for the entire seven loads and the commission man wanted to sell, but the owner thought it was not enough and They sold there Thurs- day for 4, a loss to the owner of over Hc per cwt. On the same day there was another bunch of Wyoming cattle here on which buyers bid $3.85 for the steers and $2.50 for the cows. The commission man begged the owner to sell, but he, too, tried Chicago with the result that the stesrs sold there Thurs- day for $3.65 and the cows for §2.60, Trading Steady to Strong, There were, perhavs, 1,000 more cattle here today than were here on last Saturday. So far this month about 74,000 cattle have been received. With average supplies for the next 10 days, the month's receipts will run up consideérably over 100,000 head, which will make this the banner month for cattle receipts in the yara’s history, Last October $0,037 head were received, which was the heaviest on record. The market today wa slow, but compared with Friday's t there was no material change. Offe; were liberal and very common as a rule and this added to the gene dullness, Somo heavy natives, not extra good, brought $4.65 and there were no western cattle here that would grade better than f: stuff, especially, was slowesale and «in many cascs easier, and the general run of range cattle changed hands at from & to While the movement was slow it was cu tinuous and the close found little of any con- sequence in fivst hands, The cow market was steady. Some called it strong. At any rate the liberal offerings changed hands freely at full Friday’s figures. Common to very good cows and heifers sold at from $1.50 to #2.45, butchers’ stock lavgely at from $1.85 to $210. Common L choice veal calves sold at fully steady prices from §1 to &4, and rough stock at from $1.50 to §2.50 showed no particular change. During the early and midale part of the weck the excessive offerings caused & drop in values, but this has been very nearly regained and the feeling at the close of the week whs firm. Probably the heaviest weelk for feeders in the history of the yards closed today, Ship- ments averaged over 1,500 a day, and on one or two days over 2,000 cattle were shipped out to be fed. The demand has kept up well from all sources, but as the bulk of the off ings from day to day have been feeders, prices have very naturally weakened a little, but this has been largely, if not entirely, o the common grades. Really toppy feeders have been scarce, and there has always a demand for them at good suff figures. Trade today was quiet, but a good business was done and prices were not far from steady. Good to choice feeders are quoted at £3 Lo $3.50; faiv to good at #2.60 to §3. with common and inferior stuff at around & to $2.50. Receipts this weel Hogs Are Still Scarce. 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Importers and manufac: HORSE COVERS, turers of flour sacks, burlaps, twine. 1115 Farnam Streot. _BOOTS AND SHOES, Morse-Coe Shoe Company. Salesroom and Oftice—1107-1103- 1111 Howar1 3t Enctory —1119-1121-1125 Howard 8 We aro the ONLY Manufadturers of Boots and Shoesin the stato of Nebraska. A general fnvitation s oxteaded to all to Inspsct Kirkendall, Jones & | Amer, Hand-Sewed SHOE CO.. boots, fl;;«'&"- Wholesalo Boaton 1310 Harney Stre DRY GOODS, M. E. Smith & Co. | Kilpatrick liochlfi Dry goods, notions, fur- B 1ith and Howard Sts. Harney Sireets. FURNITURE. | _ COAL. _ HARDWARE. Rector & Wilhelmy | Lobeck & Linn, COMPANY. mech lRON»WDR’KL , L. Gibbon & Co | Omaha Sale and [ron Wholesalo WORKS, Hate, caps, siraw goods, | Safes.vaults, jull wool, gloves, mittens. 12th | 1ron shutters and tire es- and Harney Streots. apes. Gus. Androoa, th and Jackson __COMMISSION. | ~ Branch & Co. Produce, Cornor 10th and Juckson Stroots, —_HATS, ETC. _LUMBER. John A, Wakielield, nont, Miiwaus ntand Quiney frotts of all Xinds, oystors. ___LIQUORS. Frick & Herbert, Wholesale liquor dealers 'STOVE REPAIRS Omana Stove Repaix WORKS. Stova ropal 'and wator atta for any ki 1001 Farnam 8 s PAPER. o ougi: OILS. Omaha Upholstering | Johnson Bros, JOMPANY. 2 X toreabe farnituresl| Y AOLESALIE COALL 102-1104 Nicholns st | 1008 Farnam Street, ‘Wholesale only. Omal Standard 0il Co. Refined and Inbricating Carpenter Paper Co Carry a full stock of S OO olls, axle graase| ot than was appreliended, has encouraged the relation of stock and stimulated the interior demaund for feeding animals, so that there is an apparent scarcity at this time, and it is doubtful if a free movement of hogs will be shown for some weeks to come.” Receipts have been slightly in excess of last week, but _fall sharply short of the run a year ago. Nothung of unusual note has oc- curred, and the general situation is pract cally the sume as it was & week ago, the ex. ception being that prices are on an average be to 10¢ lower, There has been a very ac- tive demand for the fresh meat trade and a good inquiry from shippers for eastern butcher The inferiority of the offerings, however, has curtailed shipments to the smallest figure mn months. Packers both here and elsewhere have been moving heaven and earth to break the market down below $ before tho opening of the vegular winter packing soason, November 1. In this effort thoy have been very seriously handicaped, having to contend against light receipts and a very urgent demand for fresh meat capa- ble of absorbing the greater part of the sup- plies of hogs. With almost no stocks of pro- visions on hand and receipts lighter than a year ago, it is doubtful if packers will be able to buy many very cheap hogs, espe- clally during the early vart of the season. Jumped Pricos Up. The weel closed with a moderate run and astrong active mavket. Sellers had the best of it from start to finish and ex- enced no dificulty in getting prices from e to 10¢ better Friday for their hold- ings. There a very vigorous demand from fresh meat men; scveral ship- were it: the field and one - pi was o free buyer. 'Ihe to choice butchers woight heav) hogs sold mostly s while common light and grades went laveely at from §6.15 to 86,25, Business was li from the opening and less than two lours trading cleared the pens. Fair to good hogs, regaraless of woight, sold largely av §6.20 and 86.25as agnigst $0.10 to §0.20 Friday and §6.2 to $0.35 one weels ago today. y good good and and mixed packing Trouble in the Sheep Trade. The sheep market has been very unevenly supplied this we cs have fluc ated very little. They are 50 low, they can't go much’ lower, and the heavy recoipts pre- vent any advance. The run today was th heaviest of the year, but_one-half of them were billed through to Illinois for feeding. All that were offe) . nine double decks of fairish 4-1b. Wyoming sheep, sold readily for $2.80, u good, steady figure. I'he market is quotably firm. Fair to good natives, $2.75(@ 8.25; fair to good western @3.00; com- mon and stock sheep, $1.50 good to choice 40 to 100-1p. lambs, .00 roonl ‘I.. pricos Wi Ko ORICAG cattle, of duotibly di ini otably ¢ s quotab Ipts lore thin and the oy close September The It rANge Cutl Orrespon‘| largest of the 0 the record 19, 1891, wh 45,6 wook's re pLs in 51,000 N divided as follows: 19,000 Texans and In: dians and D00 Western riangens, agalnst 000 Texnns tud 21,000 westerns ' the lur week of the season for the. latter— the ¢ sponding weels last y Th war week closed strong, 20c lower on Docves, from 26c 1o 86¢ lower on wes rangors and 16¢ lower on Texuus, wi ers und feeders in good demund ing little pric boeves sold at f 25 10 80,50, fa at tho lutter prico averaging only 00d 1,600-1b. cattle sofd Tunge beeves sold at from 88 10 84,60 clow 83.50, with foeders av from $2.70 To'88.80; canners and cows 4¢ frou §2.2 your, i bréaking of head ar ge in ' 82.856; Texus stoers at from 8280 to Very fow good native cat oW "“‘“5 forward t0 any of the wostern markets, an the preseut eicessive recelpts sre wade up SOUTH OMAIIA. . Union Stock Yards Company, South Omaha. Best Cattle Ho and Shasp warketia the wai P e S ——— COMMISSI0Y HOUSES. Wood Brothers, Live Stock Commission Merohunts €01th Umaha—Telepiono 11 — Chlosts JOLIN D. DADISMAY, WALTER K. W0OD, Markot reports by mull and wire cheerful araished upon application. | Managors chlefly of rangers, but, too, largely of unfin= i i native and the market was higher and activs averaged 10c higher, there being s only b¢ higher and othier sales fu quotatio Tho m Ligh 0 vy so'd toan, w3010 0 8 from 8¢ i bulk, from arrivalof sheop wore small, belng at only 1,500 hewd. The market Was, netive and values wero stendy ut yostor= day's prices. fpts for the week were neitrly 14,000 moro than the previous weeks lnrue recoipts. Salcs v from #1.60 to #2,45 for sh 0 10 #4.40 for lnmbs. Only 1,000 arrived today, bul enough W duy 10 keep sulosin usiial was of an SUIlL u numbor of stendy prices. and a good ¢ ing thit 83,000 h the market ivod sheep u and vilues s y. The indifforent witles we 1 no importan Fortunntely th ent to absor 15, Uiey beld nearly p were the hirdest ower than last weeks m #1 1o #4, mos westeres, from 40 Lo #4580, SO0 head; enlves, sop, 1,500 hoad, 000 I; hoks, 4,009 100 000 hibad Cattle, 1,000 Le D, 1,000 hilud. Journal Recoipts, 11 9,000 7 ester sold; shipients, 1 5505 medium, #5 5.30; g other Texuns, 82 erns, Hoas steady top st 1, 410000 40,200 5, 40,00 ht, $6.70@0.76 TAMBE - Receipts, 16,000 hoads, prime natives, $4.00004.60% 375400 mixed lymbs wnd uiby, $4.7065.705 pavy i shipin good 10 wethers, others, ¥ 5,3 ads steady 1o 10c | 2.00415.50 COWS, ks wnd y 10 10¢ higher; bulky vy, packing and mixed, $6.008 orkera wnd pligs, 80000440 shipuionte, 1,100 head steady St. Lows Live Stoek Market. ) E—Kecelpts, 1,400 d; marketstoud top for natives, #4.70, i head; sbipuent rket strong; cholc 1, 86.00%6.45; hiewy y'8 700 head; swudy;i §ood top for Hu(xn Re L0 hewd; 24 b que.60; wix 6.50, HEEP — Recelpts, hoad; wmurket shipmentsy 200 nutlvesy 4276, Manufacturers & Jobbers Directory *