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2 HAVANA’S NEWJEGIME Tradesmen Welcome Ameri cans Because They Pay. SPANIARDS WERE ROBBERS Change in Social and Business Con ditions Wrought by American Occupation. By Associated Press. New York, iDec. 17.—-A dispatch to the Tribune from Havana saya: Havana i» at the half-way stage between •he departure of the (Spaniards and the roaring of the Americans. The city looks lonesome, fit Is not desolate because hope fulness and desolation do not go together, and everybody i« hopeful of the future. Trade is not brisk because, except in there is no im|M>rtations. That will be changed as soon as the new tariff «oes into effcct. In t'he retail districts oc cupied by the middle classed, a fair amount of business is done. A walk through those sections shows more activity than there was two months <igo. This is due to the return of so many ‘Cuban families. In what would be called I rhe shopping district of the city, such as ' Obispo street, which is the (Fifth avenue I of Havana, nothing is doing. Nevertheless, ■ the Spanish shopkeepers are complacent. 1 They prefer a .period of dullness for a slm- [ pie reason. The families of t'he Spanish officers and officials were customers and 1 were not good pay. The tradesman dread ed their patronage and nought to evade it a« much as possible. Neither were the •Cubans god (pay, but. credit could be refus- 1 cd them without fear of the consequences. I The Americans are coming. They are at ' nhe same time good customers and good pay. So the shopkeeper is content with the 1 present dullness i ntrade. The city feels the departure of so many Spanish families in away. They helped Ho give it life. 'A few’ weeks ago it wan id most impossible to rent houses in any ' desirable quarter of the city. Cubans, I chiefly professional men, returning from their exilein the Urited States and Europe, •had leased tho’b. Now in the suburbs the niumbor o* houses which are closed and ’barred gives these places the apearance of » fleserted town. The yhave been occupied d»y both military and civil officials, who are returning to Spain. The deserted appearance will not last , long. American officers whose duties will j keep them in 'Havana for some time, and . who have been looking in vain for houses, I will take advantage of the opportunity, as 1 will a number of business men from t'he ' United States, who are likely to change a short stay into a perod of permanent res- [ idence. Some of the Spanish officers are I anxious to secure their discharges and re- ■ turn to Cuba. They have property which they do not want to sacrifice. It would not do to inquire too ckaely ho wthey became 1 lr. possessin of it. That was under the ' ey-h m by whicn they all profited. As j 'Spain will not aavc need of a large army in the fut’iro .t Is presumed that these of- . lici”6 will euc *fd :r. securing their dis-' c'i: iges. Soin? of ‘bom hive Jarlist con- ( neviione 'and this will be an additional ■ reason for enabling them to return to Cuba. The civilian glasses who are going back to Spain are taking their property with 1 them or are arranging to have it convert ed into cash and forwarded to them. They have plucked it to the last feather and all of them return rich. To assume other wise would be' to assume that they have not taken advantage of their opportunities. | •No Spanish official, whether he served un- I der the old regime of under the regime of autonomy, cares to be placed in that, cate gory. Whether he was in the custom ‘house or in some other branch of the gov ernment service, he would consider it a reflection on his ability. The fact of the departure of so many of ficers and army camp followers in the cases of Havana was a few wefks ago the subject of interesting speculation. It was thought most of them would be compelled to close for lack of patronage. This will happen in some parts of the city where ahe ’barracks were located, but in the sec tion which is the center of social life, the neighborhood of the Parque Central, the theaters -and the clubs, this will not be so. The proprietors have met the new condi tions by leasing their places to “enterpris ing”' Americans who are converting the cages into barrooms with all the gilded at tractions which go with these institutnons in the states. The barroms have annexes in which gambling of all kinds can be cnodttoted after the moat approved Amer ican methods. The annexes are, in fact, the main concerns. Their managers expect to do a “rushing 1 * business. One of the •leading backers is understood to be the .proprietor of the .game which is patroniz ed by (wealthy New Yorkers who go to (Long Branch or Saratoga, in summer. The Spanish proprietor* were at first doubtful about putting their places In the hands of the Americans. They thought trouble would arise with the. military authorities 'alter the, flag was floating from. Morro « astle. They were assured chat all of this (had been “arranged.” The first business of the American •ntiHiary commander of Havana wiU be? to that not been arranged. " ’ ■ r ”' When the details of Ihe'Spanish evacua tion wefie first arrange, wwie >nxiet? was •felt lest a large number 6f the Spanish commercial and indu»u4«l- classes should also repatriate themselves, This fear has not been realized. Whatever doubts the Spanish business men may have bad about the security of life and property under the new ord,er,. wijre quickly dissipated. They found the guarantee, of the United States sufficient and they discover that the transition period is fraught with less dis turbance Lhaa might have been naturally expected. In a feu' places in the interior of the island where the Spaniards, are few in number, they dreaded io remain in the midst of the 'Cubans w-ho show an un friendly spirit. Some went to Havana and others are going back to Spain. At Man zanillo the greater part of the Spanish col ony is starting for ‘Mexico. But these are exceptional instances. As a rule wherever a Spanish commercial house is closing up Its business that buines ha been depen dent on the official system. With the end of that system no other course is open. That a vacuum exists in Havana is a pa tent fact. More people are going out than i are likely to come In for many months. • The rottenness of the Spanish military methods could be judged during the insur rection by the great number of officers who were always in Havana on staff duty. The disproportion to those who in any cir cumstances were seeing active service in the field were marked. Since the officers hav gone the void created by their depart ure gives even a strong impression of their numbers. They were literally th only class of the population which were too numerous to be counted. The void is one which will not be filled. The American garrison will be kept out of Havana. American officers will not be quartered in the city and spread over it like a cloud of locusts. MOORE FOUND GUILTY. He Was Recommended to the Mercy of th# Court. . • New York, Dec . 17.—Abraham bevy, counsel for AV iiiiam A. E. Moore, began to sum up for bls client this morning in part 4 of the court of general sessions before Recorder Goff and a jury. Moore’s second trial for robbery in the first degree began on Monday. His first trial, which ended week before last, re sulted in a disagreement. The charge against Moore is that on November 4th be robbed Martin Mahon, the proprietor of the New Amsterdam hotel, after his wife, Fayne Strahan-Moore, had enticed him to iheir rooms in the Hotel Grenoble. The proceeds of the robbery, it Is alleged, were in cash. Mahon also, it is alleged, signed a note for $5,000 and a confession of guilt. The prosecution rests its case late yes terady afternoon, after dramatically get ting before the jury the testimony of Mrs. Marguerite Gaw, of Cleveland, 0., to the effect that Moore was her daughter’s hus band. The evidence of Mrs. Gaw was stricken out by the court, but it got before the jury, however, and such things, ex perienced jurists declared today, always have their effect. The jury was not lock ed up over night, as it was thought would be the case. The jury In the second trial was considered much beter than toe jury in the first case, and none of the remarks that were made about the members of the jury in the first case have been heard any one this time. General opinion during the day was that this jury would probably find some sort of verdict. There were a few bets made, however. In the court house at odds of 3 to 1 that this jury would also disagree. It was practically decided that if sach should be the case Moore will not be tried again. Not a woman was present when court was called to order at 10.-40 o’clock. Moore followed by his guard came in a few min utes later. Throughout the two trials he has lost his nerve but 'twice. The first time was when the recorder charged thee jury in the first tri'al and the second time was when Mrs. Marguerite Gaw- took the stand yesterday. Mr. Levy began to sum up at 10:45 o’clock. His address was on th? same lines as that of the first trial. “Martin Mahon.” declared Mr. Levy, “did not secure this defend'ant’e arrest In the interests of justice, but his own self ish interest. He did not want to appre hend a criminal but to provide himself with the evidence that might bring him into court upon a charge of adultery.” In explaining the fact that the defense had not introduced a single witness. Moore’s counsel said that the prosecution had failed to establish a ease sufficient to prove Moore’s guilt. The attempts of the district attorney to influence the jury by introducing a witness whose testimony he knew would not be admitted Mr. Levy de nounced as outrageous. He ridiculed that assertion that a man-about-town, as Ma hon evidently wanted to be considered, would for three years ‘‘drive, dine and wine” a handsome young woman, not out of her teens when they first met: visit her in her room and lend her diamonds, solely because he liked her society, “Such platonic friendship in a man like Mahon was impossible,” declared the speaker. “I am not here to besmirch the woman In this case. She is the wife of the man whom I defend: but who is it that be smirches her? Martin Mahon, theman who for for three years basked in her smiles; who for three years admitted that he en joyed her companionship, gave her pres ents. lent her diamonds, but never asked the return of them. “Why does he seek to cover this woman with infamy? Is it to s'ave himself from disgrace?—to protect himself from a di vorce suit? Would Martin Mahon ha\| done anything in this case if he had not signed that confession of his relations with Mrs. Moore after he had been caught in her room by her husband?” Lawyer Levy characterized the story of Mahon as absurd. He went over in detail' all of Mahon’s testimony and peppered it with ridicule at every point. ’AU during the delivery of his speech Mqpre rocked back and forth on the hindlegs of his chair, with his hands in his trousers pock ets. He looker more like the associate counsel, thoroughly familiar - with the points to be presented to the jury than the defendant whom the lawyer was seeking to save from twenty years In prison. (District Attorney Asa Bird Gardiner himself then began summing up for the prosecution. Colonel Gardiner said the means em ployed by Moore to blackmail and rob Martin Mahon were the most dangerous and insidious. The game was not new. It was as old as the days before Homer wrote of Paris and Hehhi of Troy and must be stamped out. Colonel Gardiner was particularly nice in trenching upon the incidents in Mrs. Moore’s room at the Grenoble when she and Mahon were together playing seven up. “She sat on his lap,” he explained, “but I won’t go into that subject; it is not pleasant or agreeable.” He went on to recite the salient facts of the alleged assault and robbery as re lated by Mahon, in short sentences, with no attempt at oratory or display. Leaning with his hands on the table that separated him from the jury. Colonel Gardiner talk ed to the jury as Abe Lincoln is said to have talked to the backwoodsmen when he was a circuit rider in Illinois. And the jury listened. Colonel Gardiner picked out the 'celling bits in the testimony for them, and served them without flowery garnish only peeling the ofilons, as It were, and the other odorous things not palatable to defined tastes with “the jacket on.” He then dilated on the fact that the defense hads placed no witnesse in evidence- Among his. last points was ,the .fact that nothing had appealed 'at the trial to show that Fayne Strahan was the wife of Wil liam A. E. Moore. .. Court then took a ‘recesi at 2 o’clock and on reassembling Recorder Goff began his charge to the jury. He defined differ- I ent phases of the crime and mXe a deep impression on all present by his quiet elo quence. The case was given to ihe jury at 4:15 au/i it retired immediately ia*von sider a verdict. Upon returning to the court room at 7 o’clock sharp they rendered a verdict of guilty with a strong recommendation for mercy. Baira the J? Kind MACON NEWS SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17 1898. CHIEF SHROPSHIRE, Head of Rome's Police Departmet is Mis sing—Account Short. Rome, Ga.. Dec. 17 —(Special)—Cl| f of i Police J. B. Shropshire is missing and | Rome has ‘been in the throes of a great i sensation. He was given leave of absence Tuesday to go to Atlanta to attend the Peace Jubilee. The leave expired Thurs , day and the chief failed to appear. Mayor Seay, Mayor Pro Tern. D. B. Hamilton, ’ Jr., and the finance committee of the coun cil have been busy all day making an in vestigation of his affairs. A shortage of over S3OO has been discovered, but it is not known how much more it will amount to. This was from city taxes and police fines collected by Shropshire. The council met yesterday to take action with 'Mayor Seay and Mr. Hamilton favored declaring the office vacant and elect a new chief, but the other members overcame this. They wanted to let the committee make a full investigation before taking such. a step. It is more than probable, however, that even should Shropshire return now’ he would be dismissed. The town is full of rumors. He is said to have met in Atlanta a notorious woman formerly of this place and who was once the wife of a 'prominent citizen here, She sold property in this county not long since, it is said, securing SB,OOO for it. When the present city administration came into office last March a bitter fight was made to defeat Shropshire. The min isters, many leading citizens and not a few wives of councilmen pleaded to have him defeated, but he was re-elected. The city officials, nearly all believe that Shropshire has skipped for good. ALABAMIANS INDIGNANT. They Say They Got the Cold Shoulder in Atlanta. Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 17—(Special)— 'Most of the members of the lAlabama general assembly came home feeling slight ed. They were invited to Atlanta, they said, by the general assembly of Georgia, accepted the invitation formally and by resolution, wired the Georgia assembly when dto expect them and left here in their best clothes, expecting to be noticed. They were not met by any committee at at the depot, but they lined up together and marched under the Alabama flag to the capitol, accompanied by the ladies in their party. There, to their astonishment, they learn ed from two negro porters that the as sembly had some time before adjourned for the day and the Alabamians thereupon proceeded to break ranks and buy victuals with their own money. Later in the day some of the officials of the Georgia assembly ran across the wan dering Alabamians and made apologies, saying there was a misunderstanding ae to time as arrival, etc’. Several Georgia legislature roast resolu tions were introduced ac last night’s ses sion of rhe House, but Speaker Waller hung them all up. The assembly adjourn ed last night until January 24th. O jflL JS T OR. T A. . Bears ffie Kißd Yoo Have Always Bought S1? T 9 ‘ OLD SLEUTH” IS DEAD. Made a Great Fortune From Detective Stories. By Associated Frees. ’ ’ - -j »-j New York, Dec. ii —Harland P. Halsey, the author known as “Olod Sleuth,” died last night of cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Brooklyn. He was born in New York sixty-one years ago. Robert Treat, the first colonial governor of Connecticut, was one of his ancestors and Halsey was a member of the Sons of the Revolution. In all he had written one hundred and thirty-five books and his fortune was esti mated at $500,000. He wrote often two books a week, his last book being “Only a Photograph.” He was the organizer of the Hamilton Trust Company, helped to organize the Kings County Trust . Company, was a member of the Union League Club of Brooklyn, and of the Board of Education. A Word * to Doctors We have the highest regard for the j medical profession. 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Send for price list and other information. Phone 265. The Altmayer & Flatau Liquor Co. 566 and 501 Fourth Street, near Union Passenger Depot. 8188 COUNTY SHERIFF SALES. Will be sold before the court house door in the city of Macon during ithe legal hours of sale on the first Tuesady in Jan uary, 1899, the following property: Two tracts of land lying in Vineville district, Bibb county, and known as part of a itract of land consisting of eleven acres of land, sold by Henry J. Nichally to J. M. Daly, known in the resurvey and subdivision of said land as lot No. 22, in block 2 (this 'block being owned by Rosa Simmons), and also lot No. 21, in block 2 (this lot being owned by Addie Thomas), each of said lots having a frontage of 50 feet on a street and running back an even width 190 feet, as shown in plat of said eleven acres, now of record in the clerk’s office, Bibb superior court. Said two lots being bounded as a whole on the north by lot of Alice White, on east by a street, and on the west by lot of E. G. Ferguson. Levied on as the property of Rosa Simmons and Addie Thomas to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from Bibb superior court in favor of the Equitable Building and Loan Association vs. Rosa Simmons and Addie Thomas. Also, at the same time and place, that parcel of land in Vineville, Bibb county, back of Huguenin Heights, fronting south on Columbus road 52 feet and running back 417 feet to land of Mrs. V. A. Napier, bounded on West by Charles H. Flowers and on the north and east by Mrs. V. A. Napier. Levied on as the property of A. H. Gaston, to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from Bibb superior court in favor of Mrs. Vir ginia A. Napier for use, etc., vs. A. H. Gaston. Also at the same time and place, one acre of land in Walden, Bibb county, be ing a portion of the northeast corner of lot of land in the Rutland district, Bibb county, bounded as follows: On the north and east by lands of W. J. Willis, with ail the improvemnts thereon. levied on as the property of John D. Dunbar to satisfy a fi. fa. issued form Bibb superior court in favor of Evan T. Mathis, executor of Thomas W. arvey, vs. John D. Dunbar. Also, at the same time and place, that land in said county known in the plan of “Newberg,” recorded in bock “A J,” folio 706, clerk’s office, Bibb superior court, as lots 5, 6 ,7 and 8, in block I; lots 1,2, 3 and 4, in block 3; lots 2,3, 4, o, 6,7 and 8, in block 2; loti of block 2, except a strip eight feet wide at the southeast corner of said lot and running back 110 feet; all of lot 0 in block 2, lying north of an east and west line running 110 feet north of the south line of said lot; also seven shares of the capital stock of the Bibb Real Es tate and Improvement Company, of the par value of SSO each standing in the name of A. C. Knapp on the books of said com pany. ’Levied on as the property of A. C. Knapp, deceased, in the hands of W. A. Stokes, administrator, to be administered to satisfy an execution issued, from the city court of Savannah in favor of said company against W. A. Stokes, adminis ■£r3t tor. G. S. WESTCOTT, Sheriff. 8188 COUNTY SHERIFF SALES. Will be sold before the court house door in the city of Macon, said county, on the first Tuesday in January. 1899, between the legal hours-of sale, the following prop erty, to wit: One farm lying in a body in Rutland district, Bibb county, Georgia, consisting of all of land lot number 210, except 45 acres in the northeast corner, owned by Mrs. Cook, 20 acres in the southeast cor ner of lot qumebr 227 and 77 acres in the northern part of lot number 228, except 2 acres with house thereon, now occupied by station agent of the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad, in the northwest cor ner of said 20-acre tract; said farm con taining 22% acres and being the same as bought by said Joseph H. Hall at public sale of Macon Construction Company. Levied on as the property of defendant, Joseph H. Hall, to satisfy a fi. fa. Issued from the city court of Macon in favor of Scottish-American Mortgage Company, Limited, vs. Joseph H. Hall. L. B. HERRINGTON, Deputy Sheriff Bibb County.