St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 2, 1897

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SER cane ee 4 e: & Petit } - z.. W f HAM HE WON’T TURN OVER A NEW LEAF. ‘ ‘ of ) VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATION. AL BANK OF ILLINOIS. FOUND DEATH IN THE LAKE. The. Banker Could Mot Stand the Ex- posures of His Management of the Bank. CHICAGO, Ill., Jan. 2—W. A. Hammond, Vice President of the National Bank of Il- linois, has committed suicide. He drowned ed | DRUNKEN OFFICER OWA STREET CAR, TERRORIZED THE CONDUCTOR AND PASSENGERS. POLICEMAN LYNAM’S INERTIA. ing with the object of influencing the Gov- ernment of Nicaragua to establish in Cuba a labor agency to induce Cuban laborers to migrate to Nicaragua. Men and women here are now endeavoring by every possible means, excepting an armed revolution, to escape from the servitude incident ‘to the sale of their labor, authorized by the con- stitution of Nicaragua and enforced as vigorously as possible by military power, until ‘the money for goods advanced to them, interest thereon and heavy fines for delinquency have been paid in full by labor at low-rates, This year’s crop of coffee in Nicaragua is estimated at about 80 per cent of a _ full crop. The deficiency has been caused_by insufficient rains during the year. — The twigs on which the coffee crop of 1897 is to be borne Are from drought so small and short as not to be able to yield a full mae | in many estates in Nicaragua next year, number of persons in Nicaragua, especially in the eastern partion, are making prepara- tions to cultivate sugar cane instead of coffee, as heretofore. EXTENSIVE GOLD TESTS To Be Made by the Company Organized at Excelsior Springs. Premoted Since the Black Maria Out- rage, He Again Refuses to Protect Women. There was‘ wild confusion on a Tower Grove street car New Year’s morning. A private watchman terrorized a car full yf men and women with his revolver, threat- ning *o kill the conductor or anybody else In sear¢h of trouble. Poligeman Lynam, who looked calmly on while two brutish’ negroes assaulted two te girls in the Black Maria ten days ago, | summoned, but he refused to arrest the man or take his gun away from him. The man with the revolver and the mur- lerous theart was permivted to ride to the end of the line, though the ~ conductor ‘ wanted him arrested. After the Black Maria incident Chief Har- pigan announced that Lynam would be sus- pended pending thé layi of charges ‘ against him before the Board of Police Com- missioners. 15 was announced later that he had been puspended. The fact that he was still at work in another capacity as a policeman pwnd drawing his salary was not given such wide publicity. From the time Officer Ly- nam was taken off the Black Maria he has _been the officer in charge of the Arsenal _Btreet Station of the Second District. It is ‘pot often that a man’s incompetency is re- warded by a promotion. Of course the pub- lic is not supposed go know that Lynam was promoted. : When Tower Grove car No. 299 reached California and Gravois avenues at 6:30 New Year's morning it was loaded with men, | women and girls who had been dancing ‘the | old year out at Benton Half on South Jef- ferson avenue. A man got on at California avenue and pushed his way into the car. Two blocks further on Conductor John Lavin asked for ts fare. gin ‘ ( “Yon cit Pet any fare from me,” said the man gruffily. “I got off of the Cali- fornia avenue car.” “Well, give me your transfer,” said the ponductor. “Yes, d—n you, I'll give you a gransfer, but it won’t be made out of paper,” shout- ’ Special to the Post-Dispatch. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo., Jan. 2.— The Excelsior Springs Mining Co., which the gold mine here, holds its first annual meeting to-day in Kansas City, Kan. The resident member. of the company say it is their intention to make extensive tests of the mine and see what there may be in it. EUGENE RIDGEWAY CAUGHT. Last of the Men Who Tried to Rob an Electric Car. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 2.—Eugene Ridge way,the fourth of the quartet who held up and attempted to rob an electric car between Kansas City and Independence, on the night of Nov. 21 last, has been ar- rested at his home in Centropol!s and lodged in jail here. Oscar Bridges, the leader of the four, was arrested on the night of the robbery after & severe tussle with. the motorman, and Ernest Ridgeway and James Repine were arrested two days later at Leavenworth. Eugene Ridgeway escaped to Oklahoma, but returned home Wednesday last. When arrested he said he had come home to give himself up. Ridgeway’s parents are respectable, and he has never been arrested before to-day. He is 21 years old. He will have a prelim- inary hearing soon and together with his three pals will doubtless be tried at an early date. 7 GENEROUS PENNOYER. Gives Half His Salary to Portland and Half to the Poor. PORTLAND, ORE., Jan. 2.Mayor Pen- noyer may be very eccentric but occasional- ly his eccentricty takes a practical form for the benefit of his fellow -man. ‘When was formed for the purpose of developing: himself,in Lake Michigan some time last night. ~The body was found at 12:50 p. m. to-day, and the fact reported to the Coro- ner. The body was taken to the Evanston Street Police Station. The point selected by him was the Demp- ster street pier, near his home in Evans- ton. The recent sensational failure of the bank and following exposures undoubtedly led to Hammond's act, Mr. Hammond retired as usual fast night. This morning 'the members of his family on going to his room found ft empty. Search was begun for him and it finally led his friends to the Dempster street pier. There they found a number of private papers in Mr. Hammond’s handwriting. This con- vinced.the searchers that he had probably committed suicide by jumping into she lake. The Federal Life Saving Crew at Evanston was immediately notified and began a quick search for the body. A tug was also wired for to come from Chicago for the same pur- pose, : The Gdisappearance of Hammond recalis the suicide of Otto Wasmansdorff, the bank- er, a few days ago. Wasmansdorff’s death was the direct result of the failure of the National Bank of Illinois, the collapse of that institution pulling down ‘the firm of ‘Wasmanesdorff & Heinnemann, of which Wasmansdorff was the senior partner. Wasmansdorff blew his brains out with a revolver. Mr, Hammond was the Vice-President of the Ne@tional Bank of I}lino’s and active in the management, in fact, is said to have been the responsible head, since President Schneider, the President, was too feeble to do much work, and the large loans to the Calumet Electric Co., particularly, and to others, which resulted in the closing of the “O Abdul Hamid, pray reform?’ Cry the assembled. Powers; “Reform, or we will make it warm And bring about your ears the storm Which o’er your.country lowers.” “Not on your lives,” Abdul replies, “Your threats.cut no ice, in my eyes. “And hark you now, you Powers all— Wilhelm, J. Bull and Russian Bear— You can’t appall Abdul at all; For though as Caliph I may fall, A Khedive I'll not be, I swear. No New Year oath my lips e’er pass’d— Good Moody says such thing's don’t last, E ‘ Chaat. “Your interference I'll not brook, j And though I hate to cause you grief, I'll keep that book by hook or crook, So further in it you can’t look, For never will I turn new leaf!" “My, my!” they cry, “but this is teugt.. We've failed to run our little bluff.” f. ‘ N. A. J. other complications would have arisen that would have surely produced death. Dr. Sutter decided that laminectomy was mecessary. -An incision in the back of the LOCKED UP WITH SP) ot A ie ‘3 & . contest be- ad “Mr. McCullagh undoubtedly committed 4 2 It 4s the opinion of a neurologist es against thet of an undertaker. ie. 26 ee : Pe a aj 2 ‘> " se Me # ry 4 e. al Nae tee ‘ a ee 4 4 cf. Sse ia PENO WADA neck-was made and the spinal column laid bare. The broken and crushed bones were Tremoved,-the spinal cord placed in the cor. rect tion and the wound was stitched. The operation has already borne fruit, he entered upon his duties as Chief Execu- | bank, are understood to have been made by tive of this municipality in July last, he Mr. Hammond. To ype ye Mg I aa — to me only ; half o e Salary wed him by law, The home from which Hammond was 4 or which is $5,000, as he considered ft ex- missed last evening is sytuated on Greenwood a year ago, as we were going home one night, he said to me: ete. “ ‘Loule, many a man is going home to pd the passenger. R He drew a revolver and shoved itt in Con- Ructor Lavin's face, saying as he did so: “If you don’t go out on the platform, A BROKEN LBC. ere you belong, I'll blow your brains ¢* Then, turning to the other passengers, he ourished his revolver and added: “T'll do the same to any of you if you're poking for trouble.”’ , Men on the back platform jumped from fMhe car. Women and girls crouched down behind the seats expecting a murderous busillade to begin at any time. It is a five-minute ride to the Arsenal Btreet Station. During ‘that time the belligerent ruffian kept up his gun play und the other passengers remained in hid- ng. Women grew faint and young girls bysterical, while men's faces blanched. ‘Shere was none bold enough to tackle the man with the murderous-hoking six- shooter. : Conductor Lavin stopped the car in front the Arsenal Street Station. He ran into station and asked Policeman Lynam to irrest the unruly passenger. 3 Giynam and Policeman Fiegenspan went but to the caf and asked the man with the ‘fun to step off and be arrested. This he re- fused to do, though he consented to put up _ Ms gun. Fiegenspan, followed by Lynam, _ boarded the car. Conductor Lavin insisted that they errest the man. They tried to grapple with him, but he shook them off bth ease. “Give us your gun,” said Lynam. “Oh, you don’t want my gun and you fon’t want me,” said the stranger. “I’m a vate watchman and here's my badge.”’ ® pulled out a private watchman’s badge humbered 14 and showed it to the police- men. Lynam suddenly discovered a mistake had ee a ree Ss gun and with the con ess that he had biuffed two bluecoats rode on out towards Clifton Church wil residence, 3837 West R. Lake, telegraph editor? Mr. W. J. ; Capt. foreman of “That was during a time of financial de- pression, and I think some business man had a ‘ % eo : Sere ving? 2 xa es J. W. Miller, otk ; wae f night who would be glad to close his eyes and wake up no more, if it were not for the ° oe . nee be ¢ a oN: PS te : ae = ad _ 7 . > ‘ 4h ~* 4 - , i a *% ¢ i y renege PO on, 5 patel, * res, y ¢ . s « ~Aa f = : 9 S 4 aA / - y * ae ss Ys 7 7 ¢ > > ve