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The Military Die ADJUTANT-GENERAL If one were to harrow the country with a fine-tooth comb he would find no man more fitted for the hero of a soldier-of-fortune novel than Sherman BelJ, sometime trooper in Roosevelt's Rough Riders, now Adjutant-General i- \ ~ of the State of Colorado. Xor would the author long remain in doubt about the title of his novel. He would natur, ally call it ''The Dictator." Because Governor Peabody's hammer is vain, fearless, obstinate, theatrical, and an4 untrammeled leader of men by grace of natural fitness, Mr. Richard Harding Davis should put him into immediate reouisition. * SAFETY HOOK FOR BAT AND COAT. i.. m ????? Garments Securely Locked When Hung Upcn the Rack. The watch-your-hat-and-coat signs &? ; v which are an inseparable feature of lunch rooms and public assembly rooms in this country, indicate that the petty thfft cautioned against is often practiced. Uncle Sam recently issued a patent for a hat and coat protecting hook, the invention of a subject of A SAFETY HAT HOLDING DEVICE. the King of Saxony, residing in Leipzig-Stotteritz. indicating that this country is not the exclusive home of the sneak thief. The device consists of two arms, pivoted together after the manner of scissors, forming two sets of hooks, an upper and a lower pair. The upper hooks are intended I The World's Gre ?/ ' I? III IHMIIII III || | i II I II - ?* y. I -m i JBSiliiS Built by the Scbuekert Compuny, of 000,000 candle-power; bas a diameter c Tisible eighty miles distant. 4 tator of Colorado.j ?? " ?.i?i '" SHERMAN M. BELL. The outcropping stratum of Gen eral Bell's mental make-up which first catches the observer's attention is his cocksureduess. He never showed doubt in his gusty lifetime. That ; quick, lop-sided brain of his sums up ' the matter, largely regardless of the ! evidence, and comes to an immediate decision. He is one of the most un- j fettered of men. It is a safe guess ; that down deep in his heart he does not ; care one jackstraw for abstract law. j lie decides what course is best to follow and the legality of it does not trouble him at all.?William MacLeod Raine, in Leslie's Monthly. j to clamp ovei ?ne of the hooks usual- | ly found in public places for holding i hats and coats or outer wraps. The lower hooks are turned inwardly toward each other, one being adapted : to receive the suspension loop on the ; coat collar, and the other having a : fiat surface against which the bout round rim of the hat may be clamped ! by the other hook, so that the hat can- j not be taken from the hook, but will not be damaged by the clamping ac- ! tion of the two hooks, owing to the fiat surface against which it is pressed. ! When the coat has been suspended, and the hat rim clamped in position, the two arms are locked in the closed position by a screw operated by means of a key through a key hole. When clamped tightly the key is withdrawn. As the device is quite small and of i very light construction it can readily j be carried in the pocket. Of course, the device is equally adapted for ! equipment of public coat racks, and j might be handed to the patrons on en tering the place, and returned on de- j parture. The Flower Girl. At the age of six she has just had ; her first experience as flower girl at a wedding and has thereby accomplished an ambition of some years' standing. : "Do you know/' she said after the ; ceremony was over and she had taken < off the dress made for the occasion and. j put aside the large basket of flowers ! that she had carried so proudly up the j aisle. "I would rather be a flower girl than anything else at the wedding." "What? Rather than the bride?" "Yes." "But she is the chief person at a i wedding." "I know it, but the bride can be a i bride only once. The flower girl can be flower girl just as often as she is ! asked to be." Whereby it will be seen that this ' youngster is one of those who disbe- | lieve in remarriage by the widow or widower and an enemy to divorce.? ; Philadelphia Tress. atest Searchlight. | nHgnaBMHaaamaanHBiiMM I f Nuremburg, Germany. It is of 316,- j if six feet six inches, and gives a light j FOURTEEN SENT TO DEATH I Frightful Horror Results from Gas 1 Explosion in a British Columbia Coal Mine?Bodies Found. A Fernie, B. (J., dispatcn to me su Paul Pioneer Press says fourteen min. v ers were killed at the Carbonado s mines, near Morissey, Friday afternoon, as the result of a terrific explosion of coal gas. The disaster occurred in No. 1 mine, 10 miles west of Fernie. The , work of rescue was kepi up all af- ' terncon and all the bodies have been ' recovered. EDITOR SMITH ACQUITTED. Florida Jury Decides Scheme of Publisher Was Not Criminal. The celebrated case of the United . States vs. Joel F. Smith vras concluded at Tallahassee, Fia., Friday morning, when the jury returned a verdict of acquittal. Smith was formerly edi- i tor and publisher of The Constitution, i at Monticello, and was indicted for de- i.? vising a scheme to defraud and violate the postal laws and using the mails to further the sceme. In 1901 Smith sent out circular letters offering prizes of bicycles and watches upon receipt of twenty-five ; subscribers at one dollar each, also offering agents twenty dollars a month j compensation. These agents were re- | 1 quested to take up the work and se- c cure sub-agents and the result was * that an endless chain was formed and i during one year Smith received an ag- ; gregate of eighty-seven thousand dol- ! lars' worth of premiums- His circu- | " lation was built up to forty thousand. Eight witnesses testified that they ! were not paid as agreed by Smith. 11 Shnith denies fraudulent intention, and ;1 says he was forced to suspend business 11 en account of attacks of the press. 1 3 Judge Boarum charged the jury to base J 1 their verdict upon the defendant's in- j1 tentions in the scheme. The former j 1 trial resulted in a mistrial. j ^ GARNER SEEKS DIVORCE. j1 Erstwhile Southern Railway Agent j 1 Wants Marriage Vows Annulled, j ( J. H. Garner, at one time Atlanta j freight agent of the Southern rail- j road, who left the city on February j 3rd, shortly after his marriage to Mrs. I ' Phillip Dodd, has entered a suit for j divorce from his wife of such short J duration. j ' Garner is located at Watertown, j 1 South Dakota, a state famed for its j ' divorce mill, and the suit that he has ; brought against his spouse of less J ' than a year was filed in the circuit j court of the third judicial circuit, j Codington county. South Dakota. Wa- j tertown is located in the county men- j tioned. IS OFFERED NEGRO LIBRARY. j j > 8eparate Institution in Atlanta is Prof- j fer of Philanthropist Carnegie. An offer of $10,000 for a seperale j library building for negroes has been made to Atlanta, Ga., by Andrew Car- ; ' negie. through whose liberality the ; city has already been endowed with | a library structure second to none in , the south. The offer has been made in a letter j from Mr. Carnegie's secretaxy and j , is based on the usual conditions re- j quired by the great philanthropist, j that the city furnish a site for the j building and the appropriate annual- I ly sum equal to 10 per cent of the | original gift for maintenance. SHAW CALLS ON BANKS. j National DepDsitors Asked to Forward ! 25 Per Cent of Their Holdings. Secretary Shaw has announced a ] call upon national banks holding gov- j ernment deposits to the amount of ! 25 per cent of their holdings, 10 per [ cent to be paid on or before January i 15 next and 15 per cent on or before ! < March 15 next. This, the secretary 1 estimates, will bring into the treasury about $25,000,000. i: This will make a working balance j < of approximately $50,000,000. j 1 NOTED OUTLAW GOES HENCE. j Taylor Delk, Slayer of Sheriff Gwynn, j Drops Dead in Prison. ? Taylor Delk, who. with his son Tom, ! I shot and killed Sheriff G-wvnn, of Pike county, Ga., eight years ago, ? dropped dead at the Georgia prison j ' - o* VfiTl.irlo'or'illo Thnrndflv T-Tft I i lai LLI au , was 62 years old. His death occurred j , while the prison commission was in ' session ai the capitol in Atlanta en- j gaged in hearing a petition for his ! pardon. Tom Delk was hanged, while the j old m&n was given a life sentence. RANDOLPH A FREE MAN. Ali indictments Against Alabama Ex- ? Probate Judge are Nolle Pressed. j Six more indictments against ex- ! Judge F. C. Itandolph, of the probate court, were nolle' prossed at Montgom- i : ery, Ala., Friday. The indictments ! ; charged embezzlement from the state j and county ttf about $9,000. Seven j other indictments involving about $21,- ' 000 were disposed of gev&rai days ago ! in the same way. \ \ N CALDWELL MUST ANSWERj ndicted as Being Responsible for the Recent Frightful Wreck Near New Market, Tennessee. | W. B. Caldwell, of Knoxville, Tenn., \ vho at the time admitted his respon. | I ibility for the terrible wreck on the ! Southern railroad near New Market, j Tenn., early in September, in which ixty-twj lives were lost, has been iniicted by the grand jury of Jefferson ounty, Tennessee, for criminal negli. | ;ence. The indictment was found at ! Dandridge Weanesday. Caldwell was conductor on the vestbound passenger train which cveran its orders to meet the eastbound >assenger at New Market aLd crashed nto the eastbound train a few miles vest of 'New Market. His engineer, he only other man who could have j )een held resconsible, "was buried be_ ! i leath his engine ir* the crash. The penalty for criminal negligence in Tcqlcssee is imprisonment from two to :en years. Attorney General W. H. Buttram, of j refferson circuit court, states that ne | eceived a letter from Judge C. W. Heiskell, of Memphis, whose son, Clayton Heiskell, was killed in the wreck, requesting him to prosecute Caldwell on the charge named. Acting - ~ m An. A? n r? I LUIS icyucsi, lilC nuo >btained. Criminal negligence, in the sense in vhich it is used in this case, is a felrny in Tennessee, punishable by a pententiary sentence. CREW LASHED TO MAST. i Terrible Experience cf Eight Men Shipwrecked by Storm. A Philadelphia dispatch says: Af;er having been lashed to a mast for nore than 24 hours and with hope of -escue almost abandoned, Captain risher and crew of seven men of the Drig C. C. Sweeney were taken from heir perilous position Tuesday after. loon by the steamer Hawaiian from | Honolulu for Philadelphia. The brig left Charleston early last veek for Philadelphia with a cargo of umber, and encountered the southern ourricane Sunday off the Virginia loast. LEFT FOR PARTS UNKNOWN. Two Athens Young Men aVe Alleged to Be Embezzlers. There is a shortage in the accounts of the cashier and ticket seller at the depot of the Georgia railroad in Ath ens, (ia., and me two young men wuu held those offices?J. Hammond Childers and Joseph J. Hunter?have left, for parts unknown. The amount of the shortage has not" yet been ascertained, and will not be until the accounts nave been audited thoroughly. ERRING AIM OF GOULD. Shot at Birds and Hit His Attendant By Mistake. Y/hile George Gould was shooting birds near High Point, N. C., Wednesday, he accidentally shot Edward Burns, an attendant. Several shot entered Burn's eye. A specialist of Greensboro saying there was small chance of saving the eye, Mr. Gould at once sent the man to New York, where eminent oculists were told to spare nothing that science and skill can effect to save the man's sight MISSISSIPPI TOWN BURNED. Flames Wipe Out the Business District of Dublin. The entire business district of the town of Dublin,-Miss., on the Yazoo , and Mississippi Valley railroad, with J the exception of one building, was | wiped out by fire Wednesday. The loss is estimated at $50,000, with partial insurance. Negro Hung in Connecticut. Joseph Watson, the 18-year_old col. ored boy who murdered Henry Os? born, of Hartford, Conn., last August, paid the penalty for his crime Wednesday morning when he was put to death by hanging on the gallows in kV TTTo^V, LUC iLilLC pi 12UU AC YY ^uiciouviu* I ALABAMA IS FOR MERGER. State Presbyterian Synod for Console dation of Universities. By a vote of more than 3 to 1 the Alabama synod, in session at Anniston, voted for the majority report from the Atlanta conference. By this motion, the synod of Alabama concurs in the majority report which provides for the union of the Presbyterian school at Columbia, S. C., and the Southwestern Presbyterian university, now !o. cated at Cle-rksville, Tenn., into one large school, to be located in Atlanta, provided legal obstacles are removed. NAVAL ESTIMATES INCREASE. Secretary Morton Asks for the Sum of $114,530,338. a Washington iiapa&eh says: rBM i aval estimate for the fiseai year adding June 3d, 190$, aggregates $11 v 550,325, an increase of 9ver the last appropriation. -The estimate for the navy department proper is $7$8?H). k * 'V?" v>-x:.r-.A SWAYNE ON RACK; Coco nf Plnrir'a "liidcrp k 11 n < UUUU VI I IUI iuu |j uu^w av ?' |- , Again Before Committee. j I IMPEACHMENT IS SOUGHT! Damaging and Sensational Testimony ! Given by Witnesses for Prcsecu- j tior.?Judge Present at Hearing. I A Washington special says: A sub-committee of the house judiciary i i committee Monday resumed investk. gation of the .impeachment charges against Judge Charles Swayne, of the northern district of Florida. In the last oongress the committee ! made a majority report recommend-; ing the impeachment of Judge Swayne, but minority reports were made against impeachment proceed- j ings by most of the republican mem- ! bers of the comittee. Shortly before the adjournment of congress a resoiu-' tion of impeachment was set for con ; siaeraticn in the house on December 20th, the second week of the re-as-j assembling of the short session, and the judicary committee was instructed to continue the investigation. Representative Palmer, of Penn- ; ?sylvania, and Clayton, of Alabama, the | sub-comittee, were present but Rep- j resentative Gillett, of California, the ; other member, was unable to attend. I The committee, however, decided tc ! go ahead with the investigation and Charles T. Forbes, a clerk in the gen- j eral land office, was called as a witness. He testified against Judge Swane Regarding a timber trespass case in Florida, in which he alleged that Judge Swayne had exacted the fine a j second time for the trespassers. J. N. Stockton, of Quincy, Fla., tes- ! tified that J. N. Stripling told him that he, Stockton, could get anything he j wanted in the way of receiverships j if he would stop the prosecution j against Judge Swayne. This occurr* i ed ten years ago. Ellis F. Davis, of Marion, Fla., testified in regard to an attempt to settle ! the Hoskins contempt case which j was pending before Judge Swayne | for $500. j Judge E. C. Dearborn testified that' in 1893 he was a conductor and went with a p?vate car to Delaware and . brought Judge Swayne and his fami- ! ly to St. Augustine, Fla., the whole party traveling on passes, the Florida railroad at that time being in the hands of a receiver. Judge Swayne was present at the ! Investigation and frequently <pnvers-! ed with his attorney, former Senator , Higgins, of Delaware. After hearing | Z. H. B. Floyd, whose testimony threw no new light on the case, the committee adjourned until Tuesday. | CONFESSES JUDGMENT. Act of Former Auditor of Macon and Birmingham Road a Surprise. At Macon, Ga., Monday, E. R. Hen- i derson .former auditor of the Macon i and Birmingham railroad, confessed judgment in the sum of $47,000 in the civil suit brought against him growing out of his alleged defalcation of that amount from the railroad. He gave as ?is reason for this step, which allows the road to take judgment against him, that he did not wish to expose his defense in the criminal case which is also against him and will be tried at the present term of court. The step taken by Mr. Henderson as a srreat sumrise to many of his friends and leaves the impression that he will spring a considerable sensation when the criminal action against him is called. Henderson was jointly indicted with Julian R. Lane, general manager of the road, and both cases v/ill be heard at the present term of court. CITIZENS ATTACK JUDGE. Street Scrap Occurs at Columbia, Tenn., as Result of Court Case. A sensational attack was made on Circuit Judge Holding at Columbia, Tenn., Monday, by Lloyd Cecil, a prominent citizen. The affair occurred on Vreedland street and was witnessed by a number of people. The men were separated before ar.y great damage was done either. The cause of the trouble originated in trial before Judge Holding last Sep-1 itn w?VtlAVk PAill'] TT7 O O O "CjiTTlfiSB ItSIliUC*, 1U WIIIVLI *??o CM ww AirUvI CHICAGO WANT?, A SUB-WAY. Company With Authorized Capital o? Fifty Millions Organized. The sub-way company Tcith. an authorized capital of $50,00C,000, all common stock, was incorporated at Chicago Monday. The company is given power to build and operate railroads and it is understood that the purpose of the company is to build a subway in Chicago. f t # : '. J i ' 'i: ' . :v.V v 'S^9j 4 ... j 1 RATES UP TO PRESIDENT. < gfc Conference at Washington Wharein j' < Roosevelt is Asked to Urge More ^ j' - , Power for Commission. ?; .5; A Washington special says: Inte? > $ state transportation matters witlr -' ^ specific reference to the fixing of rail- ^ road freight rates formed the subject _ J| of an important conference at the HnnCft \'Tr\r*rlo>r TJ.r nvfirtftnn nn IT lii L v UUUCC MVJU\XO,J, UJ jJlV/YlL/Ua Ck?t X/ t JB pointment, Governor Samuel R. Van , Sant, of Minnesota; Governor A. B. Cummings, of Iowa; E. P. Bacon, of ^Bj Milwaukee, secretary of the eonven-^- ; H tion, and R. A. Higbie, of 'New York,|J -'fl an official of the National Lumber* fl Dealers' Association .called on the president tc urge him to use his influence to secure the enactment of a law J which would confer upon the inter- /i..-*! state commerce commission power to - . fix railroad freight rates in the commerce between states. The subject was considered by the president and the delegation at some* *1 length, the members of the party pre- : .-1 senting their views as individuals and .1 the resolutions adopted by the inter- Jj state commerce law convention which . was held in St. Louis in October. The ^ convention included delegates from^A more than three hundred business and % u| commercial uuuies luiuuguwtb uic v y -? country. It was pointed out to the : J president that for ten years prior to | 1897 the interstate commerce corn- \ mission had exercised the power to ad- V * j just railroad freight rates in order to , ^ prevent discriminations, but that since * that time, by reason of a decision of - vv4 the United States supreme court,'the % * power had been denied. It was ashed % by the delegation that a law be eh- C J acted by congress conferring upon the commission the right to adjust rates^jH when they were found to ce discrimi^^^H native In their operation or in violar tion of the interstate commerce act. The delegation also suggested to the 5 president the desirability, as members , . | viewed the matter, of discussing the " } subject in his forthcoming message to \; < congress. The president did not ihdi- J cate, however, what his personal views* * J, were, contenting himself with giving t a careful hearing of the statements made. '. FIFTY MEMBERS THE LIMIT. , ; Orders Issued Curtaling Enlistments in Georgia State Militia. Military companies in Georgia vrilUj , hereafter be lttnited to 50 men. company can have over that number of enlisted men nor less than 35. Adjutant General Sampson W. Harris at Atlanta has issued a very important J companies which have recruited to j companies wihch have recruited to C-W f men or more will find it necesary to '# confine themselves to the maximum 2I allowed as soon as the terms of en- A j listment of. some of the men expire. V [ The idea of the order is to make. V ! more uniform all the companies in the. V .'l 1 state. Then the state has not snffi- ? j cient equipment to give companies,^ p I having more than 50 men. - ? LUCKY SCOOP FOR GEORGIA. * 3 Was Successful Fight for Special Tax ^ Claims Against Railroads. ? The state of Georgia will get in the ?\ ^ neighborhood of $130,000 as a result of the decision of the supreme court 1 of the United States holding that the ';|j bonds of the Western of Alabama rail- 5; way, which are held by the Central of ? Georgia, and the Georgia railroad, are % t f\ taxable. \ .? ! Comptroller Wright says he has no authority to suspend the collection of taxes, and that under the law he will be required to tax the property from * .j | 1889 to the present time, and to add * y] j thereto 7 per cent interest for each 1 year. . DINNER WAS NOT READY . V And Zeigler Forthwith Proceeded to Hang Himself. Dissatisfied with his wife's house- M ! keeping, and finally throwing himself. ^1 into a towering rage because dinner was not ready the moment he arrived hone, John P. Zeigler, a furrier of /. j New York City, hanged himself at his "Vi home in the Bronx. ^ J COLOMBIA SEEKS SETTLEMENT. ; | Wants Financial Affairs With Panama Submitted to Arbitration. A London special says: A movement . .. j is on foot to get President Roosevelt v to arbitrate the difference between . J Panama and the corporation of foreign J bondholders in regard to the Colom- - 1 bian debt. A meeting with the'Colom- it *. bia committee 01 tne corpurauuu. jm? been summoned to consider the be&t means of recovery from Panama "of a portion of the $10,000,000 paid by fhe United States in connection with the i il canal, a FIFTEEN SAILORS GC DOWN. Spanish Bark Whelmed By Storm t J and Whole Crew Perish. The British steamer Aros Castle, Captain Day, fifty-seven days out from Java, with a cargo of sugar, arrived j at Philadelphia Monday and reported the probable foundering on Novem- , * ber 15 of the Spanish bark TafaSa, ? with her crew of fifteen men, dwfbg . the recent southern storm. * i