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Xixkj Aj.LAi> jlA UiiiUiibiA-v. MODERN EXPERT DENTISTRY AT REASONABLE PRICES. Crown and Bridge Work Set of Teeth $4 $5 All oth.r Dental Work et Pricee .that will pleaee. Plataa made and delivered aama day. DR. E. G. GRIFFIN’S GATE CITY DENTAL ROOMS J41-2 WHITEHALL STREET Bell Phoni 1708. HOURS: S A. M. TO 9 P. M. SUNDAY8, 9 A. M. TO 4 P. M. BISHOP A. COKE SMITH PASSES TO HIS REWARD DEAD A UTHOR'S WIFE WINS ADMIRATION OF FRANCE BY ACT OF MAGNANIMITY ~ Woman Knocked Off Sidewalk by Black ' Trooper. Died at Asheville After Lingering Illness of Many Months. THOUGH FEEBLE. DEATH UNEXPECTED Able Preacher and Instruc tor of the Methodist Faith Surrenders His Armor to the Inevitable. Speclnl to The Georgisii. Asheville, X. 1\, I>ec. 28.—After a lingering Illness. Bishop A. Coke Hmllh, of the Methodist Kplscopal church, died last night. Although Bishop .Smith had been In III health for some time, having been relieved, by the conference, from active duty for one year, with the hope that he woulfl permanently recover, his death was entirely unexpected, utid the news came as a great shock to his friends. Bishop A. Coke Smith was 77 years of age. having been born In Lynchburg. S. C„ in 1825*. He graduated from Wof- BISHOP A. COKE 8MITH. Who died at Asheville, N. C., Thursday night, after a linger* ing illness. ford College, Spartanburg, S. f\, In and Immediately joined the South Carolina conference. He was pustoi at C'heraw, Columbia. Charleston and other South Carolina points. He was at different times a member of the fac ulties of Vanderbilt and Wofford. While pastor of Kpworth church. Nor folk, Va., In lftft2, Ite was elected bish op. Two years ago he removed to Asheville for his health. 150 WOMEN ARE FACING DEATH ON THE PRAIRIES Philips, S. D., Dec. 28.—One hundred and fifty young women are suffering for want of food and fuel on the prai ries of South Dakota, and an appeal lias been sent from Sioux City ami lies Moines by Influential parents to the head offices of the Northwestern Railway Company to relieve the young women. With their hands reddened and roughened by toll, with undying ambition to prove up on their land claims, the girls are actually In want, and In real danger, us their claims are scattered and many of them many miles from the railroad and even off the trail. To her huabarid in Sioux city Mrs. A. A. Prichard, one of the home- ateaders, writes ns follows: "You see 1 am saving of writing pa per. They are out of everything at the store. The storekeeper says his hulr has turned white during the past month trying to keep people from starving. I don’t know’ what another atorm will do to the railroad, but peo ple of Rloux City and Des Moines ought to do something to get things shipped In here soon, as freight lug on the trail Is altogether too slow. Do something, and do it quick, or all of us will starve and freeze.” The 150 women who have been lead ing the pioneer life on the prairies of South Dakota never dreunied of facing the danger which Is now besetting them when they went to their claims, happy and carefree, last fall. The set tlers have money, hut there is nothing to buy. Through a desire for the rough and romantic life of the plains many girls from the most prominent and wealthy families of Iowa have secured land claims. Among them are. .Misses Jennie and Mary Lytle, of Sioux City, (laugh ters of a wealthy coiitntw’fnr. Iwist year the girls attended the Northwestern University, hut this year decided to prove u claim. Miss Lottie Rogers, of Ames, la.. Is Mother gl rl who has a claim far out on the other Rosebud reservation. Miss i’hilllpe Watrous. of Des Moines, whose father is estimated to be worth nearly $1,000,000, has a farm. „ El.„Reno,.. Okla., pec. 28.—Intense feeling has been created by an assault on Mr* T. Clifford, wife of u prominent physician, by a negro soldier of the Twenfy-flffh Infantry, The attack oc curred yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Clifford and her sister, Mrs. 8. H. Clarke, were attempting to pasji the soldier, when he viciously grubbed Mrs. Clifford alounfl the waist and threw her Jnto the street, exclaiming that the sidewalk belonged to tyxn. Mrs. Clarke screamed- for assistance and t|ie as- Fallant fled," escaping before help ar rived. News ni the attack spread rapidly. The entire police department, reinforced by' Several hundred men !and boys, searched the town and surrounding country, but the chase was given up last night. The negro was In uniform and must return to the post or become a deserter. Word was sent to Fort Reno and all absentees npted. Mrs. Clifford and her sister ore posi tive they can Identify the man and will go to Fort Reno and attempt to pick him from the soldiers who were out of tin* |*#Kt when the assault occurred. ROOSEVELT i8 INDORSED BY NEGRO MILLIONAIRE. Lurclimont, N. V.. Dec. ‘28.—Thomas Harris, of Larchinont. widely known I as the "negro millionaire.” who has | received n't !*cst 26ft letters grunt negro societies throughout the United States asking his oplnlen a* to President Roosevelt’s recent action In discharg ing tl|ree companies of negro Infantry and asking his signature tp a petition to have tho dismissed soldiers re instated, announced today that after reading the letters'of ’ both shies that lie Is compelled to stand by the presi dent on the subject. THINKS ARMY CANTEEN WOULD PREVENT TROUBLE. Chicago, Dec. 28.—A. C. McComb. commanding officer at Fort Sheridan, today asserted the army canteen should be restored. He caine to Chicago to take out a warrant for Sergeant John A. Griffin, the negro soldier who shot and killed Herbert Taylor, corporal, nt the fort on Christmas day. "Just as long ns the army posts are without a canteen Just so long will the soldiers go to the villages in the Vi- Inlty and drlhk the nqttor served OUR INVENTORYSALp Will start tomorrow (Saturday) and continue all next week. It will offer Exceptional Advantages inasmuch as you can purchase your merchandise at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES and pay for them by Our Easy Payment Plan We wish to thank our patrons for their generous patronage during our largest holiday season and hope that you will continue with us throughout the coming yeftr- We will do our part toward your satisfaction. TERMINAL CLOTHING COMPANY’ 7 West Mitchell Street West Mitchell Street Pictures of Mine. Rozert. on the right, and Mine. Zola, on the left. Mine. Zola, widow of the famous French author, has won the admiration of all France by asking the courts to allow her lute husband’s Illegiti mate children to bear his name. ■WHAT! ROCKEFELLER TOO POOR TO PURCHASE OYSTERS? said the vert ages Tlqu ilor. “If the S/1)S THAI STARVING CHILD IS THE HEIR 10 $50,000 New York, Dec. 28*—A boy of G years, who a woman, asserting herself to be his mother, says is Edmond Pullman, •on of George H. Pullman, and a grand son of the Inventor of the Pulltnun palace car, and heir to $50,000 in trust, was found cold and wrapped In rags on the top floor of a tenement house at 4S7 West Twenty-eighth street last night. Agents of the Children’s Socie ty went to the house on Information* given them and carried the boy to the rooms of the society, where he was fed and given proper clothing. The woman, who gave her name ns Lillian Pullman, or Breslin. was In the children’s court. Hhe told Justice Olm- steud that the boy Kdmond was the son of the late George II. Pullman, who was her husband, she claimed, and that she was now living In the tenement with u man'nutiled Cornelius Hreslin. a brick layer. Acccrdiug tr her statement to the magistrate, George Pullman, before Ills death, about four years ago. had rec ognised tho claim of the child upon Idm by leaving a trust fund of $50,000 for him, which lie Is to have possession of when 21 years of age Mrs. lircNlin, as she culled herself In court, said that she was married t<» George H. Pullman and that they had resided In Baltimore until they cuum to New York th live. Hhe declared that she hail secured a divorce from Pull man on statutory grounds, and he died shortly afterward. Before the birth of Kdmond, she said, Pullman had ar ranged for the trust fund. FEW WITNESSES FOR THAW TRIAL District Attorney Expects to < ’arry Case Through Speedily. LIVE WIRE KILLS WEALTHY OIL MAN I Findlay. Ohio, Dec. 28.—-While put* I ting coal in the furnace In hi* cellar ’last night. James Kelley, a wealthy oil I man, happened to touch a highly- [charged electric wire and was Instantly i killed. Persons who chi received shocks. he ten the men. We could give them soft drink Instead of hard; that Is. beer In stead of whisky. A mun must drink an awful lot of beer to become Intoxi cated. ami we could regulate the quan tity ys well as quality.” WITH THROAT CUT, New York, Dec. 28.—John D. Rocke- nn * I feller, king of oil, was # atlacked and de- fifty-seventh annual meeting of the American Association for the Advance ment of Science. Henry Laurens ('all, of Washington, In a paper on, "The Concentration of Wealth," attacked the light of Mr. Rockefeller to Ills fortune. He declared that the ell king’s riches had not been the result of natural causes, hut had been created through the activity of corporations. Mr. fall referred to these corporal inns as "vi cious.’’ When It came his turn to speak, Louis McPherson, assistant to the lute Samuel Stiencer, as president of the Southern railway, came to the defense of Mr. Rockefeller and replied to the attack made by Mr, t’uil. Mr. McPher son said the oil king had had Ills finan cial struggles and that he hud done a great deal of good, which had been lost sight of In the mass of celticism which had been hurled at him. Speaking less seriously, Mr. Mc Pherson told of u dinner party sev eral years ugo fit the Rockefeller home when Mrs. Rockefeller explained the absence of oysters by saying: "We like them, but are too poor to have them.” Mr. McPherson’s point was that al though a man might be worth $100,000,- ftOO he might still be without ready cash If he kept Ills enterprises going on full time. • The meeting of the association Is be ing held at t’olumblu University, und fully I.Gftft persons, members of the as sociation and Its affiliated bodies, are In attendance. Npci-lnt to The Georgian. Hawklnsvllle. Oh.. Dec. 28. In Hart ford, Just across the river, Lucius La mar and Stella Flanders, negroes, ware celebrating on "booze.” when laimar cut Stella’s throat. Hhe walked over to the drug store uml bad the wound stitched. Sheriff Rogers went t * arrest I .a mar, who lairred himself In a house and defied arrest. The sheriff had the door knocked down, when the negro came at Itlni with a pistol and dirk, | but John Rogers was never known falter when in a tight place. He shot Lamar Just above the eye, the ball coining out at the back of Ills bead. PRIDE ASKS TRADING SI AMP; IS GIVEN A KISS INSTEAD PISTOL 8HOT FIRED THROUGH CAR WINDOW. Special to The Georgian. •ecutur. Ala., Dec, 28.—Tuesday flight a pistol ball was fired through a imlow of one pf the cars of the North Alabama Tracflon Company. In West Decutur. Fortunately no one was hurt. There were but few passengers on tho ar at the time. Git.. chased ten acres of ground mlj« their mills at North Highlands, on which they propose to build houses for their operatives. The eompuny has been iependelit on others f.-r houses heretofore, but they will build cottages which w III be rented to their help at a New- York. Dec. 28.—Hearing that Justice of Peace Charles Sweeney gave trading stamps with marriages, Mrs. Ilattle M. Darby, nee Valentine, of 34 Lafayette place, Brooklyn, and lawyer Robert I. irons, of ^Brooklyn, who says he lives now in Jersey City, called at the Judge's office. In the court house, Jersey City, yesterday, und were mar ried. When the knot was tied Mrs. Irons asked for trading stamps. The Judge said, the only stamps he gave were kisses on the bride's cheek. He was al lowed two and a good fee. TAKES OUT AN INJUNCTION TO PROTECT HIS WHISKERS SLAYERISLYNCHED Crowd Overpowers Sheriff and Hangs Man for Killing Farmer. - Las Animas, Colo., Dec. 28.—A mob of masked men lust night lynched Lawrence Leberg for the murder of Henry Lavenmpyer. About forty men entered the Jail here shortly before ft lock, overpowered the sheriff and other officers and locked them In a room of the building. The men then went to the cell occu pied by Leberg, struck the shackles from his limbs and took him from the jail. A % larger body of men and boys were waiting outside and when tho prisoner and his captors appeared they formed a procession and proceeded a short dlstunce from the Jail and banged Leberg to a telegraph jvolc. The self- confessed murderer made no resistance and made no statement. The members of the mob offered no violence and no shots were flred during the entire affair. Before the mob reached the Jail Leberg heard them coming. He arose from his cot, dressed himself coolly and awuited them. The leader of the mob made no effort to disguise himself and It is declared that the ringleaders are known to the jail officials. Low Rates ONE WAY #R ROUND TRIP TO Arkansas, Oklahoma,' ' Texas, New Mexico, Missouri, Kansas and Colorado — Birmingham and the Tickets will be sold from Atl.-min on first und third Ttiesdnys of Jiuiunrv. February aud March. Holders of rouud trlp tickets via Iliim lughnni aud ’Frisco will be allowed III, oral stopover privileges; also diverse routes west of Memphis to lunny point* III Oklahoma. Kansas ami Colorado. Patronize the road that Is trying r<» In Jp you. Write for literature and detailed Information to 5. L. PARROTT, Diltriet P.ssanger Aj.nt. 6 N. Pryor St. Atlanta. TO HONOR GUEST Cleveland, Ohio, December 28.—John Glade got an Injunction today to pre vent his wife, Johanna Glade, from pulling out any of his halt- or whiskers and to prevent her from Interfering with his business or "Jawing him on the streets of Cleveland." Glade In his petition for divot In honor of Colonel M. F. Elkin, of Lexington, Ky„ Grady Tent No. 3, Knights of the Maccabees, will have a smoker und buffet supper Friday night In their hall/ No. 85 Central avenue. State commander O. W. Gunder and Deputy State Commander M. D. 6lea- has a particularly bail temper When she I son, of the order, will also be present has been drinking, but that even w hen she has not been drinking at all she has a wav of jumping on him. pulling out his hair and whiskers and other wise annoying him. She has pulled out "great quantities of his hair and whis kers.’’ he says. Judge Philips granted the temporary that his wife, when he married In 1305, • restraining order that he prayed fqr. Three Valuable Horse* Stolen. flpcciul to The Georgian. • Brunswick. Go.. Deo. 28.-John Cur rie. of St*. Simon* Island, had three valuable horses stolen from him re cently. No clew as to the Identity of the horse thieves has yet been oh-, falned. Mr. Currie had two other horses stolen from him on the island a year Big Trad* at Brunswick. special to The Georgian. Brunswick, On., Dec, 28.—All the lo cal merchants report line Christmas trad* and the volume of business was probably the largest In the history of the city. The banks have had a big rush on since Tuesday. ntul deliver addresses. Colonel Klkln Is supreme sergeaht of the Knights of the Maccabees; the highest office held by any resident of the Southern states. He is also state commander of Kentucky, and one of the most popular officials of the organi zation. Eleven years ago Colonel Klkln organized Grady Tent, In the welfare of which he has always shown the deepest interest. ilk* WinTirRoom. Nperlsl to The Gecrglsu. . Augusta, Gu„ Dec. 28.—It was an nounced yesterday that the Augusta Lodge of Elks would fit up a room In the Churles Crittenton Home. The room will be furnished handsomely and the Klks have agreed to maintain It »n the most approved style. SLIGHTLY BRUISED ftp vein I to The Georgina. Crawfordvllle, Ga., Dec. 28.— Wllk-i Smith, a negro well-digger * f this place, was burled two days ago l>* *i falling wall In. a well thirty-live iv.: deep. It took several hours to remote the rock from the well, but the nest » was ^finally rescued with only stiff'-* bruises. NO AGREEMENT YET ON NEW WAGE SCALE. Rpeeial to The Georgian. Brunswick. Ga., Dec. 28.—The lum ber an»l tie men und stevedores • *f tin* dty have held several meetings k*- eently for the purpose of discussin:; and ugreelng on a policy with refer ence to the disposition of the demands made by the local Longshoremen's I »]* Ion for an Increuse in the wage settle Of about 33 1-3 per cent. N" «»»' plans have been formulated, but n M th» general opinion that the differ ence* between employer* and the m. ■;* bei-* of the union will be amicably ad justed. The now wage scale to lie agreed • is to take effect January’ 1. New York. Dec. 28.—The trial of Horry K. Thaw for the killing of Stun. ! ford White will be the shortest «»f Its , kind on record in the criminal history 1 of New York. From the moment the • trial Is opened in the latter |»art of* next month there will not be a second . wasted by the prosecution. An Indication of how s|M-cdtty Dis trict Attorney Jerome means to dis pose of the case Is the fact that not more than half a dozen witness*** will he called in the direct examination by ! the district attorney. If this number is exceeded it will be by not more than two witnesses, so that the total Hunt- 1 ber called to prove the killing of Whit** will be not more than eight. Court Docket Heavy. 8p«-la| to The Georgian. Brunswick, Ga.. Dec. 2*.—Mayor! Hopkins has had unusually’ busy* sen- ; -* i of his court (hi* week, the list of t being far In excess of ordl- I ’ on account of too much Christmas tiou. Jf‘. S. COX Ss CO., Distributors. Atlanta, Ga.