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GA., ItntDAT. JANUARY 10, 101a. Briggs’ Semi-. WINTE intial Clearance Sale CLOTHING The Public knows the policy of this store ia not to carry over Clothing from one season to another, but to keep our stock always fresh and new. Following our usual Semi-Annual custom, every Suit, Overcoat, pair of Pants, Boys’ Suit or Overcoat is placed on sale at extremely reduced prices. Below we give you only a partial list of the reductions. $10.00 Suits or Overcoats $7.50 25 pei\ cent Discount on $3.00 Men’s Pants $2.25 12.50 Suits or Overcoats 9.38 all Boys Suits, Over- 4.00 Men’s Pants 3.00 15.00 Suits or Overcoats 11.20 5.00 Men’s Pants 3.75 18.00 Suits or Overcoats 13.50 coats cir Odd Pants in our store i H - 6.00 Men’s Pants 4.50 20.00 Suits or Overcoats 25.00 Suits or Overcoats 15.00 18.70 7.00 Men’s Pants 7.50 Men’s Pants 5.25 5.63 Do not confound this with any of the so-called sales, but remember our method of marking everything in plain figures and having but one price guarantees to you la big, bona fide reduction and enables you to tell exactly what amount you get off of each garment. At this Reason of the year, with all the cold weather ahead of us. Clothing buyers will take advantage of this big reduction, so try to get here before the cream of the stock is picked over. The prices quoted are strictly cash. % : : : ; : M. A. BriggslClo thing Co. IS WORST IN FORTY YEARS UP NORTH Many Degrees Below Zero in all Sections WEATHER MAX l*UOMISF.S A IlllEAK UP NORTH TONIGHT, RUT STILL VERY OOM> FAR INTO FLORIDA. Now York, Jon. 13.—Tho Bioit lorrlflc cold weather In twenty yearn with plonty of mow and a tempera ture of three degree! below nero, l» tho condition here today. Ronton In neretiteen below aero. Brooklyn, Conn., thirteen below, Wilmington, Del., Bra below, Bal timore, four below, Franklin, Pa., forty below, Oakland, ltd., thlrty- nln. below, Rome, N. T„ thlrty-al* below, Utica, twenty-fire below, Plttaburg fourteen below, Thera la heavy enow throughout the eecttoa demorallulng truffle and eauilng much suffering among tha poor. Snow la Atlanta Today. Atlanta, Jan. II.—There ,waa three Inchea of anow la thla city thta morning and the mercury la twenty- one degree, above aero. There la abating on the lake, for the tint time In yearn. low aero In Iowa and tan below at Columbua, Ohio. Five people are dead from the cold In Ohio. Warmer Weather la Promiied. Washington, Jan. IS.—Tha tem peratures will gradually rite to night In thn Middle and Eastern elates. There will be enow and rain In the Sontb Atlantic etatee .Storm warntngi from Jacksonville to Nor folk. Colder weather for Florida, In Penlneuln freezing. Snowing In Savannah today. Twelve Relow In Virginia. Winchester, V«., Jan. IS.—The mercury vrna twelve below rero to ny an ( j there In n foot of nnow on tho ground. It le tho coldest wonth- er In fiffen yenrn. Freeing to Tho Gnlf Const. Now Orlonnn, .Inn. IS.—The mer cury l» twenty-three nhove this JACK MOORE’S DEATH RECALLS! PRETTY CASI from South Georgia Mr. Moore eetved a handsome naw tailor- hade overcoat He sever, did leara Ijus* exactly who aant It An Act of Kindness fto Prison Boy Came Ba^k TIIE PRISON INSPECTOR GAVE OVERCOAT TO A SHIVERING YOUTH ANI) HAD A NEW/ONE COME TO JI1M LATER, FIRE LICKED UP PROP 1 ERTYIH MANY TOWNS Picture Palace in Philadel phia, Michigan Hotel. West Virginia Town. Philadelphia, Jan. IS.—Tha Lu- bln Royal Moving Plcturo palace on Market street wa* burned this morn ing. The German Ten C«nt atoro and St. Stevens Episcopal church were badly damaged. Tho loss la ouuds 1200,000. Illg Hotel Is Burned. Frankfort, Mich. Jan. 13.—Tha MORSE TO HOT SPRINGS. liner chief Inspector of prisons and Royal Fontenac, a big summer hotel, I prominent figure in ptrtltLice, who was 'burned thla morning. Tha loss Rnnker Prisoner Will Re Carried died day before yesterday in Smyr-jl® $100,000. There for the Tlatlin. | n a, Ga. 7 W. Virgin* Town Hit Hard. Atlanta. Jan. 13.—Tha 4 . Charles j None of them in more chairacferls-1 Logan, W. Va, Jan 13.-^he coun- Moree will never again see tho In-!tie of the man *■ hla frfenida knew ty court home with all of lta rec ede of a prlaqn te the opinion freely | him than a rrory called to /mind hy orde, five business house* and eight Atlantn, Jan. 13.—A fl morning. Tho trotting extended to ' lnlsccnc0 , are going the tho Onlf Conet. In the corridors at the capitol /among the old friends of Jake Moor*, for mer chief Inspector of prlscfns and expressed here following the sud den announeeent yesterday aft.r noon that the famous prisoner would ho remornd Immediately from the Cspt. Goodloe Tancey, of the state residences were burned today. The prison board. I .loss Is a Quarter of a million dollar*. While Mr. Moore was nrlaon In- [ speetor, years ago, ears Crept. Tan-.CAUSES PRISONER TO HOLLER my hospital a*. Fort McPherson to eey, he happened to be/down Hot 8prlngt, Ark., where he will South Georgia during § treating Alarm Is Means of Stopping What take the baths. Although pardon has been with held. Mores has been materially and physically lust as well off since he was remored to Fort McPherson as he would hare been with an actual pardon. Wont la Forty Years In the Went. Chicago, Jah. IS.—Tbs mercury was fifteen below nero today and the voidest weather In forty yean. Tar re were thirty deaths from extreme coif during the pair week. Many schools, factorise and colleges were closed. Traffic of all kinds was hampered by the heavy snow. Several trains the Warn warn Mailed. feL ' THIEVES POORLY PAID. winter lime Inspecting thW] camps In I Mlgh Hare Been a Bad Blage. the pine and turpentine wtfode, when I Waycrose, Oa„ Jan. is.—Fire he happened to meet, all alone, a from a stove caused eoasMerahla young white boy ceavletff ynny and excitement among SO prisoners In evidently la til health, elkd only In Ware county Jail esrly last night, the cotton convict garb und shiver- Their cilia were heard by people Ing In the wind. ■ passing, and quick work of attaches , "Ton look cold, boy/' comment- of the sheriff'* office stopped what cd Jake Moore. / might have been a bad Mass. "Yes, sir. Pm slnJost froren,": said the boy, and buret out crying MARKET REPORT TODAY, at the unexpected kindI word. | Jake Mlore looked Around. There Stocke Closed Steady, Cotton Steady was nobody to see hlaj and he slip-1 Provisions lower. sire over-1 New York. Jsa. IS.—Stocks opea- NEWS OF A DAY AMONG PEOPLE OF tor the nee of Harbor Master John Carr. The ever Increasing com merce and) the extension of the city* water front property will necessi tate the nse of a powerful motor boat to convey tho harbor master about the harbor. Firemen Threaten a Strike. An Interesting Suit in the Bell Estate Case THE LARGE RELTi ESTATE IN EMANUEL COUNTY IS IN LITI- CATION IN THE FEDERAL COURT IN SAVANNAH. the boy's ed Irregular, but closed steady, knitted awuv! Cotton eloaed steady, net 1 t* 4 nngtttr know points higher. January 1.40, May Nothing Missed from Merchandise Par or From Whole Grocery. America*. Os., Jan. 11.—Thieve* this morning raided the freight yard of the Central of Georgia Rail way. breaking Into eight ears side tracked In a secluded locality. For tunately seven ear* ware loaded with hay and grain, and only from on* ear of merchandise could the thieve* have stolen anything. Attar raM- rpnvtet camp wham Jng the ear* they entered the ware- nnd he explained so house of a wholesale grocery com-, body recognised pany, but nothing them could he serlptton. Nothing (was said of It er. Hog* 5 eeuta lower and cattle missed. jthen, bnt On tha following Chr'jr- steady. « -m l 1 * vj-i v . \ pert out of hla own 1 coat and threw ft ehouldera. Then without letting the who had befriended 1 But the hoy had ' 9 67. explain at the ' Chicago Provision Market Cot the coat, ( Chicago, Jan. IS.—Wheat wae that eomc- easier at one-fourth to one-half Moore'* do* lower. Prolslons we era shade low- Savannah, Ga., Jan 13—Solicitor* representing the respondent in tho equity suit of DIvola Bell vs. J. Leon Bell, have filed an answer to Miss Boll’s claim for a child’* part in th? estate of Green Bell, deceased, amounting to $135,000, charging that her father, George Bell and Blanche Burton were never lawfully married. The anawer la filed in the United States district court here. The estate la located in Emanuel eouaty. The answer denies that the estate la worth more than $115,000. It Is alleged that George Bell never mar ried Blanche Burton; bnt that at his death he left a lawful wife and child, Mrs. Rose Folks Bell and iarah Bell, both of whom reside In Wayeross. The answer asserts that Green Bell, tho original owner, waa twice mar ried, his first wife being Sallle Sum ner and his second L* Lee. The proceedings commenced here last fall before Judge Emor£ Speer were directed against O. Leon Bell, ft was charged then that DIvola Hell * the daughter of George Bell, her mother belag Mrs. Blanche Burton, formerly Mrs. Blanch* Bell, and that George Bell wae tha ton of Owen Bell. A Motor Rost for Harbor Master. In preparation for the Increased work necessary when the poller for the extension of the municipal wharf- ace Is carried out, tho city council will purchase a Urge motor boat A conference Is being held here today between \he firemen of *.hw Central of Georgia Hallway and Mr. J. T. Johnson, general superintend ent. The question of more pay for the white firemen la being consider ed. The result of the conference will not be known until late In the day. iviatirtti Chest Pains and Sprains Sloan's Linitnent is an ex cellent remedy for chest and throat affections. It quickly relieves congestion and in flammation. A few drops in water used as a gargle is antiseptic and healing. Here’s Proof " I tare used Sloda'fi I.iiiiment for year* find can tcatiiy to ^iki wonderful 1 it gmrfiififilfifit relief.” REBECCA JANE ISAACS. croup, I Ante ."IE ISAM S, Lucy. Kentucky. SLOANS LINIMENT is excellent (or sprains and bruises. It stops the pain at once and reduces swell ing very quickly. Sold by all dealers. Prlco, 230., BOO., SI.OO I