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i hIG 1ILY SENSATIONAL MURDER
OCCURS IN ATLANTA, GA.
f ell known citizens suspected
former proprietor of a Liquor House
nd His Assistants Arrested Under
a
Charge of Suspicion.
I Atlanta, Ga., Monday night at
fj {3 minutes past 6 o’clock Policeman
I j 'j. J. Ponder was shot and killed
I a thief and an assassin.
I This cold-blooded murder of the
I I officer while he was on duty, the early
hour of the evening and the fact that
I j) occurred directly opposite the union
I j ep ot, in the very center of the city,
L I a de the tragedy one of the most
startling sensations that has occurred
in Atlanta in several years.
The killing occurred in the whole¬
sale liquor house of Louis Steinau, at
jio. 44 Wall street, which had been
closed during the day under attach¬
ment by the sheriff.
just after the murder there was the
wildest excitement in the neighbor¬
hood of the scene where the terrible
I crime had been committed, and sensa
tion after sensation followed the trag¬
edy so rapidly that the excitement for
s while rose to fever heat.
The noise of the shooting, the dis¬
covery of the dying officer and very
loon afterwards eight arrests were in¬
termixed with a number of officers and
detectives seeking to ferret out the
perpetrators of the murder.
Among the eight persons arrested
during the evening suspected of hav¬
ing been implicated in the dastardly
crime are L. Steinau, Julius Simon
and Walter O’Quinn, all of whom were
connected with Steinau’s business and
whose arrest is explained only on the
theory that they desired to secure cer¬
tain papers or valuables in Steinau’s
place before the store was taken charge
of by the receiver appointed by the
court.
Just how the officer was killed can
only be surmised by the facts as have
so far been gathered about the tragedy.
Some five or ten minutes before the
shooting, a man passing the front of
the wholesale store saw either one or
two men in the store and apparently
at work in the small office which is
partitioned off from the main body of
the store.
Passing along the same way, Officer
Ponder must have seen the men in the
office. lie was at the time stationed
on the Wall street beat by the union
depot. Knowing that the wholesale
house of Louis Steinau had been
closed by the sheriff in the morning,
and that no one had any business in
there working, he probably tried the
front door, and finding it open, walked
in.
Then followed a chase and the shoot¬
ing. Those who were in the store for
no lawful purpose doubtless ran to the
back of the store, having opened the
rear doors for the purpose of hasty
flight if discovered. The brave officer
followed after the fleeing men and was
fired upon.
thieves, Springing out of the door one of the
knowing that he was in the
dark, and that he was to be pursued
and probably run down, turned and
fired the fatal shot and then escaped
into the darkness.
When the ball struck him Ponder
wentback toward the front of the store,
and feeling that his life’s blood was
ebbing away, hastened to seek the aid
cf those who were the nearest to him.
In less than*- five minutes after he
hot he was dead.
THORN ON TRIAL.
ff iH> Mrs. Hack, He Is Charged With the
Murder of Guldensuppe.
Ike trial of the barber, Martin Thorn,
{ l0r the murder of William Gulden
suppe was begun at New York Mon
l,a 7- The entire day was taken up in
prise ^raring a jury, and much to the sur¬
of all those interested the efiorts
9 the lawyers for the prosecution and
defense were well rewarded, as twelve
good men had been sworn to try the
j :ase when the hour for adjournment
bal been reached.
county trial began in the Queen’s
before courthouse, Long Island City,
Judge Wilmot M. Smith.
THE SOUTHERN WINS
In ; he Bluthenthal & Bickert “Original
Package” Whiskey _ Case.
33w !
‘ tales circuit court in the case of Bin
e^Bail 1 & Bickevi against the S ° Uth '
^Railway Ike judge refused company. to sustain the de
S - l re L° not f issue - the ra the l! Way mandatory C T Fany ’ order 5^
^mpeliing SShcf*!- it 4 BiCkert to haul int the the goods ^ of °
°
Ti -lie 9 defendant a , rohna - allowed five , days .
was
; a wtnea to file additional answer
f.tfce an
allegations in the petition for
function.
STARVATION IN CUBA.
Women and Children are Dying by Hun¬
dreds On the Island.
The New York World’s correspond¬
ent m Cuba writes from Havana
follows: as
“Youwouid sicken at the sight of
the thousands of women and children
starving to death in Cuba today,
f llth y skeletons dying on bare, foul
boards, mothers and children driven
into the small towns by the Spanish
soldiers in accordance with General
Weyler s inhuman policy of “concen
tration,” to starve the helpless de¬
pendants of the Cuban insurgents
whom Spain’s two hundred thousand
soldiers cannot kill.
“Within a few hours’ travel of the
palace at Havana these helpless wo
men and children non-combatants are
daily perishing by the hundred of
starvation.
“The suffering is awful. Itisworse
than India’s bubonic plague, The
poor victims show the same awful
emaciation, suffer the same pangs and
die by the hundred under the eyes of
the soldiers. I have seen mothers too
week to stand, trying to force nou
existent milk from their breasts for
other tiny skeletons among the dying
ones, after their own young had per¬
ished.
“Well informed Cubans claim that 40
per cent of the peaceable inhabitants
have already starved to death. The
deaths from starvation alone have been
nearly a thousand a day during this
rainy season.
“Whether these figures are accurate
or not, it is plain to any one that the
whole rural population would be com¬
pletely exterminated in a few months
if the Spanish policy were not changed.
CENTRAL WINS A VICTORY.
A Decision By Supreme Court of Great
Importance.
A Washington dispatch says: The
Georgia Central and the Alabama Mid¬
land railroads won a decided victory
in the supreme court Monday morning.
Justice Shiras, the member whose
vote knocked out the income tax, ren¬
dered the decision:
First the courts of the interstate
commerce commission cannot take in¬
to consideration competing water ways
in determining short and long hauls,
and, second, that carriers should them¬
selves first determine the question of
rates.
It was a fearful blow to the inter¬
state commerce commission, and crip¬
ples its power.
Justice Harlan dissented from the
opinion of the court, and startled the
court, as he usually does, when dis¬
senting in matters of corporation
power. He said that congress intend¬
ed that the commission should have
the power to regulate the roads. He
said that this decision put the people
and small towns and communities at
the mercy of the railroads.
He said that for this and other ques¬
tions which were continually being
settled to the advantage of corpora¬
tions, he wished to make his dissent
emphatic.
DISPENSARY SALES SHORT.
Original Packages Reduce South Caroli¬
na’s Whisky Receipts.
A special from Columbia, S. C.,
says: The dispensary board of control
met Monday. The terrible inroads of
the original package is made more
manifest. Commissioner Vance’s re¬
port shows a falling off in the sales
of October as compared with the
same month last year, of $43,166.15,
reducing receipts from $135,000 to
$91,000. He says:
“I attribute this 'large difference to
the competition of the original pack¬
age shops and the blind tigers, but
principally to the low price of cotton
and the general depressed financial
condition of the country. It affords
me pleasure to inform you that, not¬
withstanding this large difference in
cash received, we have met promptly
ever y obligation of the state dispen¬
sary when presented and that I now
have $20,000 ready to pay to the free
school fund.”
Colonel Jones offered a resolution
that the committee pay to the state
treasurer on November 9th $2i>,000,on
December 1st $20,000 and on January
1, 1898, $25,000. think the
Mr. Williams did not
board would be justified in adopting
that. If the money was,on hand he
was willing to turn it over the state
treasurer, but promises of payments
should not be made unless they could
be kept.
NOTED FORGER AT LARGE.
Thomas Has a Penchant For Breaking Out
of Jail.
*. A. Thomas the
second escape Monday morning
bv‘sawm^'tlie bars* the of his bars cell in and the :
after -awing ■
^Thoroa^made 111 himself mil famous at Memphis by his
previous esp from
' bsequent
^ hig Btl
marriage with Miss Fannie Bother
fo f , f Charged Minneapolis. Three other J
prisonersch , g with minor offenses
also escaped after ihoma. } d de
tbe way clea '
Bill BP’S Mil lllffl
WILLIAM FINDS IT HARD TO GET
AWAY FROM INDIANS.
QUOTES ETHNOLOGIST PETERSON
The Gentleman From Washington Throws
Some Interesting Sidelights On
the Subject.
It seems to me that I am haunted by
Indians. The other night as I came
from Macon to Atlanta my friend,
Judge Hall, introduced me to Dr.
Peterson, of St. Louis, a very learned
and cultured gentleman, who was con¬
nected with the ethnological depart¬
ment of the government and was en¬
gaged in examining Indian mounds
and in writing up the history of the
Indian tribes, especially of the live
tribes known as civilized, viz.: the
Cherokees, Creeks, Chickasaws, Choc¬
taws and Seminoles. As these were
our Indians, I became much interested
in his discourse, for he had been care¬
ful and diligent in his research, and
what he knew, he knew well. We
talked about DeSoto and how, with a
handful of brave soldiers, he overran
this country and took captive as many
Indian girls as his men wanted.
“Why did not these Indians over¬
whelm DeSoto and his handful of fol¬
lowers aud extinguish them?” I asked.
“Because,” said the doctor, “they
were paralyzed with fear of this new
and aggressive race of people—just as
the Peruvians were paralyzed by Pi
zarro, who overran and conquered
Peru with less than a huudred men.”
The doctor has been to eastern
North Carolina investigating the tribe
of 4,000 Croatoaus over there. They
were originally called Hatteras Indi¬
ans, but about three hundred years
ago Sir Walter Ilaleigh planted a colo¬
ny of English and Portugese on Roan¬
oke island put them in charge of Gov¬
ernor John White, a very practical and
accomplished gentleman. A few days
after landing, Governor White’s
daughter, Eleanor, who had married a
Mr. Dare, gave birth to a child and
she xvas named Virginia, and so Vir¬
ginia Dare was the first English child
born on American soil. Let the boys
and girls remember that. But no man
knows anything more about her. Gov¬
ernor White aud Sir Walter went back
to England for supplies and farm¬
ing tools for the colony and on
their return trip got into a fight
with some Spanish cruisers and lost
their cargo and many of their men
and had to go back to England,
and it was several years before they
made another venture, aud when they
arrived at the island the colony was
nowhere to be found and little Virginia
has never been heard of. The colony
left some marks on a tree pointing to
an Indian town called Croatoan, but
tb-? town was deserted. The doctor’s
investigations have satisfied him that
the colony did not perish nor were
they killed, but that the men wanted
wives and went into the interior and
co-habited with the Croatoans—for it
was found a hundred years after that
these Indians were of mixed colors
and many of them spoke broken or
mixed English and Portuguese,
although they had no intercourse with
white people until the colony came nor
for a hundred years after. He believes
that Virginia Dare probably grew up
with those Indians aud her descend¬
ants are now of mixed blood.
It seems that these Croatons were
never Americanized until the last civil
war, when many of them came to the
front with their guns and said they
wanted to fight some. They were ac¬
cepted and enrolled and did fight for
the confederacy. During the war
there was an election held jn a county
where some of them lived, and they
were persuaded by an ambitious candi¬
date to go to the polls and vote for him.
Their votes were challenged by the
other fellow upon the ground that they
had some negro blood in their veins.
They were very indignant and said,
“Wiien you want us to ngtit mr y^u,
we are same as white folks; when we
want to vote, you say we are nagurs ”
And so a committee of four doctors
was appointed to examine them and
say what they were. The committee
took them out to a sandy place in the
road and had them take off their shoes
and make tracks barefooted. Five ol
them made very fair Anglo-Saxon
tracks and were accepted, but of th*
other two the report wasthat thehoHo
of their feet made holes in the ground,
and they were rejected. Newman’s There are
some of these Crodtoans on
ridge, in Tennessee, I remember that,
some years ago, a party of us were
riding in the negro car on the state
road, and when we reached Kingston j
a colored convention of preachers got j
aboard and claimed the car. Sanford
Bell ordered us out, and we retired, of
course, but one man did not move.
He was a dark, cadaverous individual,
a-ith black eyes and black bair. “What
are you?” said Sanford, “are you i
white man or negro?” He smiled an< j
-aid: “Mine fade a Portugee, mint
nudder a nagur. Sanford Iooke
perplexed and turning to one of th
colored preachers, syud: “What mu.-
I do with him?” And he said: “Let
him alone, I reckon.” I learned after¬
wards that he was a Croatoan.
And now to keep up the Indian sen¬
sation, I am receiving papers from the
territory that acquaint me with the
peculiar situation of the tribes over
there. What shall be done with their
lauds is the great qu stiou. The
Dawes commission appointed the by con¬
gress wants to divide lands per
capita and let the Indians sell them or
part of them to the white men, if they
choose. The Choctaws will get 70o
acres each, and n family of ten w ill
therefore have 7,000 acres and will be
tempted to sell most of it.
The full bloods do not want the
lands divided, but the mixed bloods
do and they are in a large majority,
and so in a few years the Indian’s au¬
tonomy will he gone forever aud he
will be extinguished ns a ward of the
nation. In a few years the five civil
ized tribes will lose their identity and
their lands will be absorbed in the
mottled masses of American humanity.
This is what these papers say, and
they are ably edited. What a sad
finale to a once proud, rich and happy
race of people. These papers tell of
an $80,000 steal and a $120,000 steal,
and say that now a big railroad cor¬
poration has got a finger in the pie
Enough and the Indians’ ill jpnd must go.
votes w be bought iu con¬
gress to force the allotment bill and
then will come a second Oklahoma.
In spt aking of these things, Dr. Peter¬
son got excited and said: “This nation
is a nation of robbers, and it is and
always has been a maxim of Anglo
Saxon people—
“That they may take who have the power.
And they may keep who can”
Speaking of Indians haunting me, I
received a letter from a northern gen¬
tleman asking me as a great favor to
get for him an ancient ante-bellum
powder horn—one with a history if
possible. Well, they are all ante-bel¬
lum, and so I found one that had been
laid aside for half a century—oue that
carried powder in Jackson’s war with
the Seminoles in Florida, and has the
odor of dead Indians and no doubt has
been in at the death of bears and pan¬
thers and wildcats innumerable. I
remember xvhen these powder horns
had rank and standing in the house
and children looked upon them with
fear and reverence, but one day the
percussion lock came along aud soon
after the breech-loader came along, and
the powder horn was hung on a high
nail and has been hanging there ever
since. Like the Indian’s bow arid ar¬
row, it has surrendered to the march
of progress and civilization.— Bill
Aki>, in Atlanta Constitution.
CONVENTION OF STOCK GROWERS.
All Associations In the United States Re¬
quested To Send Representatives.
A dispatch from Denver, Col., says:
The nationul stock growers’ conven¬
tion, which has been under considera¬
tion for some time, was called Saturday
for January 25th, 26th aud 27th, 1898,
by a joint session of committees from
the Denver chamber of commerce and
the Colorado Cattle Growers’ Associa¬
tion.
All stockgrowers’ associations in the
U nited States are to be asked to send
delegates, and breeders of fine stock,
government and state officials will also
be invited to attend.
AUTHORITY NECESSARY,
Before Government Can Extend Aid to the
Klondike Sufferers.
Secretary Alger has sent to W. S.
Mason, president of the chamber of
commerce of Portland, Ore., the fol
lowing telegram concerning the re¬
ported destitution in Alaska:
‘ “Your dispatch of the 4th, concern¬
ing Alaskan sufferers, received. Noth¬
ing can be done by the department
without congressional authority. But
I suggest you get all particulars, and
the department will also get what
facts it can, and you submit a plan for
relief. You may be sure of active co¬
operation as soon as congress makes
an appropriation, which, if found
necessary, will be urged.”
—
BIG FLORIDA HOTEL BURNS.
- 7~Z1—a
s.» . '• *
Sunday the Hotel
San Marco, at bt. Angnetine, Fla., wan
ft Li is is believed oeue.eu that it was the work of
incendiaries.
The owner of the San Marco was
Boston, ~• and was *"*• leased «*?'i to McDowell
k Palmer,and would have been opened
next month.
The citizens have offered $500 re
ward for capture of the incendiaries.
iKDEK AGAINST WEDDERBUBN.
_
Poitoflire department Kay* I’atent Attor
ney i» a Fraud. The] j
A Washington special says: fraud
ostmaster general has issued a
.rder barring from the use of the
nails John Wedderburn, John Wed
lerburn & Company, the National Re
•order and the National Recorder
’ublishing company, of Washington
The order is the result of charges
nade by patent attorneys of Washing
ion and other cities.
DISEASE IS RAPIDLY DYING OlT
IX INFECTED DISTRICTS.
BEING ROUTED BY COLD WEATHER.
Business ami llailway TraofJlc Resume*
Normal Conditions Once More,
tiimruiitlnoa Lifted.
At 12 o’clock Tuesday only one new
case and two deaths from yellow fever
were reported from the New Orleans
board of health, All interest in the
fever lias about died out. The new-s¬
papers are paving but little attention
to it, confining themselves to simply
the official bulletins.
In all the infected points the same
dimunition of the disease is reported
and it is expected that the next cold
spell will wipe out the pestilence cold. en¬
tirely. Tuesday was bleak and
Prospects for a real cold spell are ex¬
cellent, in anticipation of which the
merchants throughout, the city are
preparing for a rush of business.
The Montgomery board reports one
new case Tuesday in the suburbs.
None in the city and no deaths. Total
eases to date, 129; deaths, 12.
The complete record for Tuesday
was as follows:
CITIES. NEW CASES. DEATHS.
New Orleans 1 *2
Mobile..... 7
Montgomery 1 0
Walta Bend, Mo.;.. 1 0
Selma 1 0
Memphis Is Open.
The division passenger agent of the
Cotton Belt route has the following
telegram from the general office at St.
Louis:
“Quarantine regulations have been
so modified that passengers passing
through Memphis from now infected
points and not stopping at Memphis
will be admitted to all points on our
line in Arkansas, except at Clarendon,
and all points in Texas through Tex¬
arkana, provided they are provided
with proper health certificates. We
are at present only operating our
freight trains out of Memphis,”
DELBRIDGE IS DEFIANT.
He Says the Suicide of His Brother Was
I * ii t U|» <lol>.
Cliai les Delhridge,brother of Thomas
Delbridge, the Atlanta man who found
a watery grave at Lakewood some
time ago, returned to Atlanta from
New York Monday afternoon. He is
exceedingly wrafcliy about certain alle¬
gations that have been made against
him concerning the Delbridge insur¬
ance, and he gives a startling version
of the mysterious death of his brother
which smacks of calmly premeditated
suicide for insurance money.
Delbridge makes spicy charges
against C. W. Motes, the father-in-law
of Thomas Delbridge, and Mary Del
bridge, the latter’s wife. He says
both of these knew of 'Thomas Del
bridge’s intention, and that Mr. Motes,
knowing this, aided the deceased in
securing an insurance policy after his
life had already been insured for a
largo amount; that Tom left certain
papers in which he told how the in¬
surance money was to be divided,
which have been found and destroyed.
Delbridge also says lie confidently
believes his brother suicided just to
leave his family a sufficient sum for
future sustenance and says he has
much evidence to back his statement.
Moreover, Delbridge claims he is
entitled to one-fourth of the insurance
money by virtue of an alleged agree¬
ment between his brother and himself
several months before the latter’s
death, which he says he has not re¬
ceived.
THREE ONLY ESCAPED.
British Bark From NewraitUe Wrecked
and Man y of the Crew Drowned.
Advices of Tuesday from Valparaiso
„tate tli.t the lar„e BritUh hark Cor
• h ^ / e ^ ember ' , Mh on j
r *—■ hM b “
wr f[, e
All board drowned . except ,
on were
two ‘ jna tes and the ship’s .A' carpenter.
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LORD MAYOR’S DAY.
--
Londoner* Honor Installation of New
Mayor with Fitting Demonstrations.
A cable dispatch from London says:
In spite of a thick drizzle and a heavy
fog, the ancient custom of presenting
the elected chief magistrate of London,
Horatio David Davies, to the repre
sentatives of the sovereign and to the
people, was observed Thursday with
snccess. The usual throngs of people
lined the route and the decorations
were more ambitious than usual,
But in spite of the weather, a more
stirring p root of the popularity of
London’s yearly pageant, known as
the Lord Mayor’s procession, has not
been given in a long time.
