Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-19
Domestic

d sensational tTlal OF the murder Oh
Col. Thomas H. Swope, millionaire
philanthropist, was granted new
trial by the Missouri supreme court,
sitting at Jefferson City. Doctor Hyde
has been in the county Jail at Kansas
City nearly a year, following a sen.
tence to life imprisonment.
Sam Lloyd, the well-known puzzle
expert, whose problems have interest
ed not alone the rising generation,
but others, died at his home in Brook
Ign from a stroke of apoplexy. He was
seventy years Of age.
Men of his own flesh and blood
conceived and assisted in kidnapping
little Waldo Rogers, son of A. +.
Rogers, Jr, prominent attorney, &C.
cording to confession made at East
Las Vegas, N. NJ, by Joe Virgins, an
ex-convict. Virgins accuses Will and
John Rogers, uncles of the kidnapped
boy, of having participated in the alb
duction. The men are under arrest.
The sum of $1,200;000 has been de-
posted through fiscal agents In the
United States sub-treasury in New
York, by Duveen Bros, art dealers Of
New York, London and Paris, in SET
Element of the government claims
against the firm for customs under
valuations.
Four new tangled 12-inch guns are
to be given tryout on the big battle
ship Connecticut, flagship Of the At
lantic feet. which has just tied up at
the Brooklyn navy yard for overhaul
Ing.
Rev. DR.. e. T. Turmick, chairman
Of the evangelization board of the
New England Methodists, condemns
Philadelphia, San Francisco and Bos-
ton as corrupt.
The fishing tug Eagle Of Lorain,
O., was seized at Kingsville, Ont, on
a charge of illegal fishing in Cana
dian waters.
Norman P. Curtis, instructor in
railway engineering at the University
of Wisconsin. committed suicide on
the university grounds by shooting.
Illness is said to have been the mo-
tive.
Michael Smith Link, former mem
Der Of the Illinois legislature, who
was one Of the representatives in
volved by Charles A. White in his con.
fession in the Lorimer election scan.
dial. was found dead In a bathtub at
his country home near Mitchell, Ill.
His death was due to heart disease.
Lieut.. H. E. Honeywell of the Mis-
souri, National Guard has started on a
balloon trip from San Antonio, Tex
He and a companion hope to reach
Canada, establishing a worlds record
Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, pro
prietors Of tho Triangle Waist com
pany at New York city. were arrested
on indictments charging manslaughte1
in the first degree in connection with
the recent Washington place fire, IL
which 142 lives were lost.
John ]. DAILY, head Of the wholesale
stamp department Of the Chicago posi-
office. who stands accused of takina
$500 In government funds, walked
into the federal building and gave
himself up. He was locked up in Tho
county Jail.
! Twenty lives were lost when the lit
tie wooden steamship 1roquois, plyin,
between Sidney, Vancouver island. ant
the islands OF the Gulf OF Georgia
capsized soon after leaving Sidney
b. c. Four passengers and seye,
members of the crew were saved.
In celebration of tho flftieth ami
;versary Of the founding. Of tho jMassa
chusetts Institute Of Technology 4
Boston, there was hold at that schoo
a great symposium Of alumni On tn
discoveries In scientific managemen
of business snairA. .&.