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THE OMAHA DAILY HEE: SATURDAY, JUNE 13. 1003. C3 rvmn I o) 0) 7. WDO? J jtJLs, rUlnils 4 Saturday at 9 a. m. the Bennett store will reopen and a great Fire Sale body cati save money 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 Bennett roof in this gigantic fire sale. It means $300,000 worth of up'to-date merchandise to be sacrificed. will begin. Every- Dry Goods, Clothing, Millinery, Pianos, Organs, Furniture, Carpets, praperies, Trunks. r ! ,v'f Jv ... AX 1 K; H t Wall Paper, Shoes, Hardware, Crockery, Groceries, Art Goods, Pictures, Everything. 1-4 Saturday 9 a. m. UuCiili. 11 PIDJ III 1 0,11 Uiy llil lllluy 11 dlli' i Hb FIRE SALE PRICES. Saturday 9 a. m. DM CREATES POWERFUL OFFICER Ojief of General . Army Staff Given Many Duties NEW REGULATIONS ARE DRAFTED Committee of Tn-elre Maria Matter la Chara;e 'Almost Completea Work and Will Soon Bo Ready to Heport, WASHINGTON, June 11-A committee of twelve of the reneral staff, of which Gen eral Taaker Bliss Is chairman, has nearly completed a draft of regulations for the government of the general staff. The regulations to carry the general staff act into effect will make radical changes In the army. The chief of staff will be nn all-powerful person, uniting In himself all the authority authorised by the command ing general under the present law and the powers heretofore unofficially vested in the adjutant general. As drafted, the new regulations leave little o. 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 the orders to the army will be promulgated and published by him, but the chief .of staff will direct the lscue of the orders. He will be the Intermediary between the president and Secretary of, war and the army and staff bureaus will receive instruc tions and" orders from the chief of staff In the name of the secretary of war. Chief of Staff. The chief of staff 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 a position In the army in times of peace. Of course at all times he will be subject to the orders of tho president and secre tary of war. Not only the purely military . matters supposed to be vested In the com j mandlng general are given to the new staff I In the new regulations, but the supplies Established 1023. WILSON That's All! Mm Tub vrrLwov TsmxiNo cx balUmara, aid. Chicago and Return liifiin 1Mb! i k. ' L .--, June 14, 15 and 30 and July 1 round trip tickets to Chicago for fl4.75; return limit September 15. The Burlington Station is in the heart of Chicago, within a few minutes walk of the 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 Chlrsgo leave the Burl ington Station 7:0o a. m.. 4:00 p. m. and 8:06 p. m., carrying every equip ment to make traveling comfortable.. J. B. REYNOLDS, City Psasenger Art., 1502 Farnam St, Omaha and equipments department is under his direct supervision. The new regulations make the general staff officers on duty In Washington boards consider all matters requiring investigation, Including Inspec tions. The general staff will recommend officer for detail 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 Viot yet wholly de termined relates to officers detailed from the general staff to various army depart ments. The regulations provide that the officers so detailed, either to a department or with a division or brigade in the field, shall become chief of staff of the command ing officer of the department or division of troops operating In the field, without re gard to the rank of any other staff 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 Toung will make a tour of the Great Lakes next week, leav ing here on Saturday. Naval Plan Ready. Details of the general staff 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 assistant secretary. Under the letter's control are placed all the bureaus of the department with the exception of the bureau of navigation, whose duties are to be performed by the general staff. In charge of the military end of the department 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. Under 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 of the division of the personnel will rank as a rear admiral and during the absence of the chief of the general staff will have general supervision over the entire or ganisation and will be charged with the organisation of the fleets' and squadrons, and shall be the advisor of the secretary on all war plana and questions of policy affecting foreign fleets. The chief of the division of the fleet J will rank as a rear admiral or senior cap- tain and under him will be assistant chiefs In charge or tne navai acaaemy. me ui vlston of training men. the division of en listed men and the J I vision of officers. Each subdivision chief will rank as com- I mander In the navy. I Either a captain or a commander will 1 be chief of the division of war plans, and 1 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 plana of campaign. The scheme further contemplates the cre ation of an executive committee whose duties will be the formulating of war plan and direction of the work of all branvhea of the general staff. The general board . will be known as the general council. Its duties will be of an advisory nature on 1 all matter referred to It by the sec j retary. Half far to Boston June 24. fB, SO; July I, 1, 4. Long limit. Stopover privilege. Choice of routes. Through cars to Boston; no change en route via The Northwestern , Line, the only double track rout. 1401-1401 ( Firnam street. J LAST OF FIGHTING M' COOKS General Alexander McD. MoOook Dies at Eia Home in Dajton, Ohio. FAMOUS MEMBER OF A FAMOUS FAMILY Serves Fort -Five Tears In the Reg ular Army Before Retiring; on Account of Age, Seeing Much Hard Service. DAYTON, O.. June 12. General Alexan der McDowell McCook, U. S. A., retired, suffered a third stroke ii paralysis at o'clock this morning and died a half hour later at the home of hi daughter, Mr. Charles Craighead. General McCook came from Washington several week ago and shortly afterward suffered a mild stroke of paralysis. This was followed a few days later with a sec ond stroke, more serious than the first, but despite this fact It was believed that he would recover. He appeared to be steadily Improving until this morning, when the end came suddenly. Mrs. McCook, the widow; Mr. Chauncey Baker of Washington, a daugh ter, and Mrs. Craighead were at the bed side at the hour of parting. The funeral arrangement have not been made. Details of the funeral have not been perfected, but it is probable that the serv ice will be held here Monday. The burial will take place at Spring Grove cemetery, Cincinnati, where are burled th other member of the McCook family. General Alexander McD. McCook was the last of the famous family of fighting Mc Cooks, which has had so large a part In the military annals of the country. His own services have been of the most brilliant order, but a sketch of him Is hardly com plete without something of the family of which he waa a member. The American progenitor of the McCooks came to this country from Ireland about 17D0 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 otTnred his services to the government and waa 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 111 son In Washington during the civil war. These two brother sent the following son to the army: Daniel's son, George Wythe McCook, was a lawyer by profession, and was a law part ner of Kdwln M. Stanton. He served dur ing the Mexican war. He was one of the first four brigadier generals selected by the governor to command onto troops at tne outbreak of the civil war. Another of Daniel's sons. Robert Latimer McCook. or ganized the Ninth Ohio at the beginning of the war. He served under MuC'lellan In West Virginia, and being transferred to Kentucky took part in the battle or Mill Boring. Ky.. January it. 1&2. and was se verely wounded. While enroute to Join his command In August of 18t2. still Invalided by two wounds, he wan waylaid by gueril las and killed while lying In Ms ambulance. The third win Is Alexander McD. McCook, the subject of this sketch. Another son, Daniel McCook. was born In CarrolUnn. O., July 21 1K34. waa graduated at the Alabama State university In ltog. and after admlfslnn to the bar began the prac tice of law In Leaven worth. Kan.. In con junction with General William Tecumseh Sherman and General Thomas H. Kwlng. At the outhrenk of the rlvll war he became a captain In the First Kansas Infantrv and with It took purt In the buttle of Wllxon (Trek. Aunist 10. "1 mil. under General Na thaniel Lyon. H subsequently served under Grant snd Sherman west of the Mlslalpil and was killed at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain. July Zl. 1W4. From Havy to Army. Another son. Edwin Stanton MrCook. was a graduate of the United States Naval academy. When the war came on he Joined the 1m nd forrrs, and went to the front with the Thirty-first Illinois Infantry, of which John A. Logan was colonel. McCook wss severely wounded at Fort Donelson, but recoveilna- arrved with Grant at Vlcka burg and Chattanooga and took part in th campaign against Atlanta. He waa three time wounded during the war, and wa mustered out of the volunteer service at the close of the war as a major general. He waa appointed to civil office In Dakota, and there, while acting as governor and when presiding over a public meeting, he was shot by one of the audience, dying at Yank ton September 11. 1872. Charles Morris McCook, another son, was killed at the first battle of Bull Run. An other son, John Jamea 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 Mc Cook was born In 1S33. He was among the earliest who went to Colorado at the time of the Pike's peak craze. At the beginning of the civil war he was commissioned In ihe regular armv and served erallantly throughout the conflict. At the cloye of the war he was mustered out of the volunteer Bervlce a major general, and resigning hi commission In the regular army he re'urned I to civil life. He was twice appointed gov- . ernor of the territory of Colorado by Grant. Another one of John's sons is Anson George McCook. He had Just been admitted j to the bar when tne civil war prone out. He went to the front with the Second Ohio infantry. He was at the first battle of Bull Hun. He suDsequeniiy servea unaer i Buell, Thomas. Grant and Sherman In the .west, and participated In the Atlanta cam- i paign. ne was mumeru uui .j nns yuiuu teer service a brigadier general. Another on of John's. Roderick Sheldon McCook. was a naval officer, and took part all during the war In blockading tne Atlantic coasi; . participated In the naval engagements tip tne james river, auu r. i n" ltiui j of Fort Fisher. Another son. John James McCook. was a clergyman, nui wnen me mm tncain Bounded he drooned the shep herd's crook and seized a sword. He served during the war servlcenbly and gallantly In a West Virginia union regiment. After the war he took, off his uniform and put on the cassock again Served Forty-Fire tears. Brigadier General Alexander McDowell McCook, a war member of the foregoing family of warriors, has served In the Lnited States army since U47. In that year he entered tho United States military academy at West Point, N. Y., and was graduated In 1852 and was assigned to the Third United State Infantry. As a brevet second and as a second lieutenant he saw service in New Mexico scouting after Apaches and Navajoes. He remained on the frontier until 167, when he was ordered east, and receiving his flist lieutenancy the same year he was anslgned to duty at the United States military acadmy 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 IMil, when the civil war broke out. May 14, 1n61, he was promoted to a cap taincy in the Third Infantry. But previous to that date, or In April. 1861 . he was com missioned colonel of the First Ohio In fantry, and with his regiment took part In the Ill-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 hart In the battle of Perryvllle, was at Shlloh, com manded a corps at Stone River, or Mur feesboro, and participated In the battle of C'hlckamauga, which proved so disastrous to the union arms, and which would hiave 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 voluniWra In September of 1861 and a major general In July of 1862. Service Since tho War. While a lieutenant colonel he served on General John Pope's staff as Inspector gen eral of the Department of the Missouri. Headquarters of the department at th time were at Fort Leavenworth. General McCook was relieved from duty with General Pope and was placed on Gen eral William T. Sherman's staff. While on General Sherman's staff General McCook was promoted to the colopelcy of the Sixth United fetates Infantry In Deoem lier, 180, and forthwith took command of his regiment. At the time. In lKst. when appointed a brigadier general General Mc Cook was In command of Fort Leaven worth. Kan., and was commandant of the school of cavalry and Infantry. Since ltoO General McCook was In command of the Department of Alisons, with headquarters in Ix Angeles, Cel., unUl retired for age In 18M. " Challenger Is Kmperted. NEW YORK. June 12. Shamrock III. challenger for the Americas cup. and Shamrock I. convoyed by Erin, are ex pected to arrive today. The fleet, the crews nf which number 170 men, left Gluvrock May 17. Wehstrr Clly Takes Two. WEBSTER CITY. Is.. June U fBpeetal Telegram.) Webster City won both pall games of the double header from the Vin ton team today by scores of i to 0 and 2 to 1. The afternoon game wa particularly fast, there being no errors made on either side. Batteries: Yesaler and White; Worth ing and Jones; Green and White; Barry and Jones. The same teams play another double header tomorrow. Crestoa an Easy Winner. CRESTON. Ia.. June 12 (Special Tele gram.) Creston defeated Kent today by a score of 11 to 1. Batteries: For Cres'on, Corbett and Stearns; Kent, Nichols, Mel vllle and Hayes. Umpire: Golden. At tendance: 150. Shenandoah, the champions of southwestern Iowa, will play hire tiat urday and Sunday and a special train bringing about 4K) people will be run from Shenandoah Sunday. . . Games In Three-t Lragae. At Davenport Rock Island, ' 16; Daven port, in. At Dubuque Dubuque, 17; Bloomlngton, 15. i At Cedar Raiilds Decatur, 7; Cedar Rap ids. 6. 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