Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 13, 1903, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1903 FIRE SALE! FIRE SALE! HE FIRE AT BENNETT'S Saturday at 9 a. m. the Bennett store will reopen and a great Fire Sale will begin. Every- body can save momney by attending this great fire sale. It is our determination to clean out every trace of damage by fire, smoke or water, and to this end we include every item of merchandise under the Be i i fire sale. It means $300,000 worth of up-to-date merchandise to be sacrificed. Slidustaniticl - ol Dry Goods, Clothing, Millinery, Pianos, Organs, . Furniture, Carpets, Draperies, Trunks. Wall Paper, Shoes, Hardware, Crockery, Groceries, Art Goods,Pictures, § Everything. | |We Want You fo Visit all Departments and See L sandySam. THE FIRE SALE PRICES. saurdaya.m. § Ing general under the present law and the powers heretofore unofficlally vested in the adjutant general, As drafted, the new regulations leave and equipments department is under his direct supervision. The new regulations make the general staff officery on duty in Washington boards consider all matters campalgn against Atlanta. He was three times wounded during the war, and was mustered out of the volunteer service at the close of the war as a major general. He was appointed to civil office in Dakota, and games of the double header from the Vin- ton team today by scores of § to 0 and 2 to 1. The afternoon game was particularly | fast, there being no errors made on either Batteries tendance: 150. Shenandoah, the champio of southwestern lowa, will play here Bat urday and Sunday and a speclal train bringing about 40 people will be run from CREATES POWERFUL OFFICER LAST OF FIGHTING M'COOKS side. Obief of General Army BStaff Given Many Duties NEW RECULATIONS ARE DRAFTED Committee 0f Twelve Having Matter in Charge ‘Almost Completes ‘Work and Will Soon Be Ready to Report, WASHINGTON, June 12—A committee of twelve of the general staff, of which Gen- eral Tasker Bliss is chairman, has nearly completed a draft of regulations for the vernment of the general staff. The regulations to carry the general staft act into effect will make radical chang:s in the army. The chief of staff will be an all-powerful person,, uniting in himself all little 0. nothing of the adjutant general's department and less of the inspector gen- eral’s department. The adjutant general will keep the records as now, and ihe orders to the army will be promulgated and published by him, but the chiet .of staft will direct the issue of thp orders. He will be the intermediary between the president and 'secretary of war and the army and staff bureaus will recelve instruc- tions and orders from the chief of staff in the name of the secretary of war. Chief of Stafr. The chlef of stafft will nave the super- vision of the troops of the line, will direct military operations and in general will he the most powerful officer that ever held 4 position in the army In times of peace. Of course at all times he will be subject to the orders of the president and secre- ltary of war. Not only the purely military | matters supposed to be vested in the com- | ,manding general are given to the new staff | the authority authorized by the command- {in the new regulations, but the suppiigs Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. THE WILSON DISTTLLING CO Baltimore, Md. ,Burlmémrfl - Route| That’s All} June 14, 15 and 30 and July 1 round trip tickets to Chicago for $14.75; return limit September 15. The Burlington Station is heart within a few minutes walk of the in the of Chicago, principal business houses and the best hotels. You can board a street car right at the door for any part of the city. Flyers for Chicago leave the Burl- ington Station 7:00 & m., 4:0 p. m. wnd 8:06 p. m., carrying évery equip- ment to ‘make traveling comtortable. J. B. REYNOLDS, Olty Passengor Axgt., 1602 Farnam 8 Omaha requiring investigation, including inspec- tlons. 3 The general staff will recommend officers for detall and promotion and the enlist- ment and retirement of soldiers also will be taken from the adjutant general's de- partment and given to the general staff. An important feature hot yet wholly de- termined relates to officers detalled from |the general staft to various army depart- lmenls. The regulations provide that the officers so detailed, either to a department or with a division or brigade In the fleld, | shall become chief of staff of the command- troops operating in the fleld, without re- | gard to the rank of any other staft officer {in the command. The committee hopes to submit a draft to General Young today in order that he may | send it to the secretary of war before he | leaves the city. General Young will make a tour of the Great Lakes next week, leav- |ing here on Saturday. Naval Plan Ready. Detalls of the general staft project which the naval general board has submitted to Secretary Moody were made public at the Navy department today. Under the new scheme the secretary of the navy stands at the head of the department and in his absence the fstant secretary. Under the latter's control are placed all the bureaus of the department with the exception of the bureau of navigation, whose dutles are to be performed by the general staff. In charge of the military end of the departmént will be the senior ranking naval officer on duty at the de- partment, who will have the position of chief of the general staff and will prob- ably rank as vice admiral. This officer will be responsible to the secretary for the movements and organization of fleets and for all matters relating to the per- sonnel of the service. der the chief of staff will be three grand divisions to be known as the divi- !sions of the personnel, of the fleet and of war plans, respectively. The chief ot the dlvision of the personnel wili rank | as a rear admiral and during the absence of the chief of the general staft will have general supervision over the entire or- ganization and will be charged with the | organization of the fleetd and squadrons, and shall be the advisor of the secretary on all war plans and questions of policy | affecting foreign fleets. The chief of the division of the fleet will rank as a rear admiral or senlor cap- tain and under him will be assistant chiefs In charge of the naval academy, the di- | vision of training men. the dlvision of en- !listed men and the Jlivision of officers. Each subdiyision chief will rank as com- mander in the navy. Elther a captain or a commander will be chief of the division of war plans, and his duties will be the study and develop- ment of all war plans; the organisation of reserves, convoys and sea transports; and another and extra transportation and to co-operate with the army general staff in plans of campaign. The scheme further contemplates the cre- ation of an executive committee whose duties will be the formulating of war plans and direction of the work of all branches of the general staff. The genefal board will be known as the general councll. Its duties will be of an advisory nature on | all matters referred to it by the sec- i retary. alf fare to Boston June 24, %, 30; July 1. 2 3 4 Long limit. Stopover privileges Cholce of routes. Through cars to Boston; no change en route via The Northwestern Line, the only double track route. 1401-1408 , Farnam street, ing officer of the department or division of | General Alexander McD. MoCook Dies at His Home in Dayton, Ohio. FAMOUS MEMBER OF A FAMOUS FAMILY Serves Forty-Five Years in the Res- ular Army Before Retiring on Aceount Seeing Much Hard Service. of Age, DAYTON, O. June 12.—General Alexan- der McDowell McCook, U. 8. A., retired, suffered a third stroke ~I paraiysis at 6 o'clock this morning and died a half hour later at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Cralghead. General McCook came from Washington several weeks ago and shortly afterward suffered a mild stroke of paral This waa followed a few days later with a sec- ond stroke, more serious than the first, but despite thiy fact it was belleved that he would recover. He appeared to be steadily improving until this morning, when the end came suddenly. Mrs. McCook, the widow; Mrs. Chauncey Baker of Washington, a daugh- ter, and Mrs. Craighead were at the bed- side at the hour of parting. The funeral arrangements have not been made. Detalls of the funeral have not been perfected, but it is probable that the serv- ices will be held here Monday. The burial will take place at Spring Grove cemetery, Cincinnati, where are buried the other members of the McCook family. General Alexander McD. McCook was the last of the famous family of fighting Mo- Cooks, which has had so large a part in the military annals of the ccuntry. His own services have been of the most brilllant order, but a sketch of him is hardly com- plete ' without something of the family of which he was a member. The American progenitor of the McCooks came to this country from Ireland about 1780 after the failure of the national movement in his na- tive land. The father of the dead general was 63 years old at the breaking out of the civil war, but offered his services to the government and was commissioned a major and rendered good service until wounded and discharged. A brother of this McCook was the father of General Anson McCook and died at the headquarters of his son in Washington during the civil war. These two brothers sent the following sons to the army Danlel's son, George Wythe McCook, was a lawyer by profes and was a law part- ner of Edwin M. Stanton. He served dur- ing the Mexican war. He was one of the first four brigadier generals selected by the governor to command Ohlo troops at the outbreak of the civil war. Another of Danlel's sons. Robert Latimer McCook, or- ganized the Ninth Ohlo at the beginning of the war. He served under McClellan in West Virginia, and being transferred to Kentucky took part in the battle of Mill Spring, Ky. January 19, 1862, and was se- verely wounded. While enroute to join his command in August of 1862, still invallded by two wounds, he was waylaid by gueril- 1as and killed while lying In" his ambulance. The third son is Alexander McD. McCook, the subject of this sketch Another son, Daniel McCook, was born in Carrollton, O, July 22, 1534 was graduated at the Alabama State university In 155, and after admission to the bar began the prac- tice of law in Leavenworth. Kan.. in con- junction with General Wililam Tecumseh Sherman and General Thomas B. Ewing At the outbreak of the civil war he became a captain In the First Kansas infantry and with it took part in the battle of Wilson Creek, Augus 10,1881 under General Na- thani<l Lyon. He subsequently served under Grant and Sherman west of the Mississippi, and waos killed at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, July 21, 1844 From Navy to Army. Another son, Edwin Stanton MeCook, was a graduate of the United States val scademy. When the war came on he joined the lund forces, ent to the front with the Thirty-first infantry, of which John A. Logan was colonel. MoCook was erely wounded at Fort Donelson, bul overing served with Grant at Vicks. 4| burg and Chattanoogs and took part in the ) there, while acting as go.ernor and when presiding over a public meeting, he was shot by one of the audience, dying at Yank- ton September 11, 1 Charles Morris McCook, another son, was killed at the first battle of Bull Run.' An- other son, John James McCook, served dur- ing the war in the Sixth Ohio cavalry, being mustered out of service a colonel of 'volun- teers. John McCook's son Edmond Moody Mec- Cook was born in 1533, He was among the earliest who went to Colorado at the time of the Pike's peak craze of the the regular army, throughout the éonflict. war he was mustere service a major general, and resigning his commission in the regular army he refurned to civil life. ernor of the territory of Colorado by Grant Another one of John's sons is Anson and served gallantly At the close of the George McCook. He had just been admitted | {o the bar when the ciyil war broke out. He went to_the front with the Second Ohlo infantry. He was at the first battle of Bull Run. He subsequently served under Buell, Thomas, Grant and Bherman in the west,'and participated in the Atlapta cam palgn. He was mustered out of the volun- teer service a brigadier general. Another son of John's. Roderick Sheldon MrConk was a naval officer, and took part all during the war in blockading the Atlantie coast; articipated in the naval engagements np Phe James river, and was af the capture of Fort Fisher. McCook, was a clergyman, but when the war tocsin sounded he dropped the shep- | herd's erook and selzed a sword. He served during the war serviceably and gallantly in a West Virginia union regiment.” After the war he took off his uniform and put on the | cassock again Served Forty-Five Years. Brigadier General Alexander McDowell McCook, a war member of the foregoin family of warriors, has served in the Waitea | States army sincé 1847. In that year he entered the United States military academy at West Polnt, N. Y., and was graduated in 182, and was assigned to the Third United States infantry. As a brevet second | and as a_second lleutenant he saw service in New Mexico scouting after Apaches and Navajoes, He remained on the frontier until 187, when he was ordered east, and recelving his first lleutenancy the same year he was mssigned to duty at the United States military academy as instructor in tactics, being given command of one of the cadet companies of the corps. He remained on duty at the academy until the spring of 1861, when the civil war broke out May 14, 1861, he was promoted to a cap- tainey in the Third infantry. But previous 1o that date, or in April, 1861, he was com- missioned colonel of the First Ohlo in- fantry, and with his regiment took part in the fil-fated battle of Bull Run, when the union forces, as Artemus used to say, “ad- vanced with’ great Intrepidity upon Wash- ington.” Shortly afterwards he was trans- ferred to the west. He took part in the battle of Perryville, was at Shiloh, com- manded a corps at Stone River, or Mur- feesboro, and participated Chickamauga, which proved so disastrous to the union arms, and which would hawe resulted in the rout of Rosecrans’ command | had it not been for the determined stand made by “Pap’ Thomas, General McCook became a brigadier general of volunieérs in September of 1861 and a major general in July of 1862 Service Since the War. While a lieutenant colonel he served on General Johir Pope's staff as inspector gen- eral of the Department of the Missouri Headquarters of the department at the time were at Fort Leavenworth. General McCook was relieved from duty with General Pope and was placed on Gen- eral Willlam T. Sherman's staff While on General Sherman's staft Generai McCook was promoted to the colopelc: the Sixth United Btates infantry in Decem- ber, 188, and forthwith took command of his regiment. At the time, in 1880, when appointed a brigadier general General Mec- ook was in command of Fort Leaven- worth, Kan., and was commandant of the school of cavalry and infantry. Since 18% General McCook was in command of the Department of Arizona, with headquarters in Los Angeles, Cal, until retired for age in 1592 Challenger is Expect NEW YORK, June 12.—8h; challenger for ' the America Shamrock 1. convoyed by pected to arrive today. The of which number 170 men, May 17, rock 111 cup, and , Are ex- the crews Jeft Glovrock Webster City Tal \\'EBETE%{'ITV Ia.. June 12.—(Bpecinl Telegram.)—Webster City won both ball ing and Jones; and Jones. double header tomorrow. | CRESTON, Ia. gram.)—Creston defeated Kent score of 11 to 1. Corbett and Stearns; ville and Hayes At the beginning | civil war he was commissioned in | out of the volunteer | He was twice appointed gov- | 3 33 Another son. John James | in the battle of 3 % % § Green and White; Barry The same teams play another Creston an Easy Winner. At | port, 10. June 12.—(Special Tele- |~ At oday by a 15. Creston, s, Mel- ids, 6. At-| At Batteries: Kent, N Umpire: Golden. INDIANAPOLIS & AND RETURN VIA Special Woodmen train will lzave Omaha 8 p. m. Sunday, June 14th, running through without change. For further information call ator address CITY TICKET OFFICE 1323 FARNAM STREET, OMAHA, NEB. C. A. RUTHERFORD. Rock Isiand System Goieieieieieie Gobeieiebded % When you have “That Tired Feeling”’ There s nothing better than a glass of Blue Ribbon pins again 1 Beer—it will put you on your ity your energy—There are other one that will do your body and soul most good is Blue Ribbon Beer. Sold in cases of two dozen bottles. bottiing. STORZ BREWING CO., Phone 1260, COUNCIL BLUFFS OFFICE: 932 West Broadway, W. A. WELLS, Agent. Yessler and White; Worth- | 8henandoah Sunday. Games In Three-1 League. Davenport—Rock Island, Dubuque. Bloomington, At Cedar Raplds—Decatur, 7; Cedar Rap- Rockford—Springfield, 2; 10 Rock Island Syste JUNE I3TH AND 14TH b ebede® e foies — Brewery's own rhedededeteodedededede ; ;