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DEAD KANSAS CITY MILLIONAIRE. HIS NEPHEW, SW0PE
SHIP SINKS; 158 DIE
HOME AND THE PHYSI CIAN CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Farmers! Attention!!
Burglar Blow Safe In Citizens'
The Trans. Atlantic Liner Heaeral
Chanzy Is Wrecked in tht)
Mediterranean.
President In New York Speech Say
Policy Toward Corporations Is
"Live and Let Live."
' National at ChaUworth, III.,
and Steal Cash.
BIND AND GAG TWO MEN.
ONLY ONE PERSON ESCAPES
SEES PERIL ONLY IN HYSTERIA
DEAD KANSAS CITY MILLIONAIRE. HIS NEPHEW, SWOPE I
HOME AND THE PHYSI CIAN CHARGED WITH MURDER. I
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Explosion Ruin Structure, but Wake
No Citizens Bandits Flee In
a Buggy.
The Citizens' National bank ot
Chatsworth, III., was entered early the
other day by burglars, who fled with
$8,D0O after blowing open the sate with
heavy charges of nitroglycerin.
Five unmasked men approached the
night policeman near the pumping
plant of the water works of ChaU
worth soon after midnight, engaged
him In conversation, then overpowered,
bound and gagged him. Afterward
they took him to a garage near the
Citizens' bank, where they left him
under guard. A baker employed In a
nearby bakery was aUo bound, gagged
and placed under guard in the garage.
The watchman and baker were the
only residents awake In the business
section at the time. After securing
these men four of the robbers took a
number of tools from the garage, went
to the bank and began working with
deliberation to get the money.
They blew the large outer door off the
safe, then the Inner door. The first
explosion wrecked the Interior of the
bank. After blowing open the second
door the burglars helped themselves to
the money Inside. They took $6,500
In paper money and 12,000 In silver.
Completing their work in the bank,
the four men went buck to the garage
and carried the baker to the bank and
laid him on the floor. Ono of their
number then drove up In a carriage,
the rest of the party entered the
vehicle and all departed.
No one in the village heard the ex
plosions. The burglary was not dis
covered by the authorities until 6:00
a. m. The bank carried $5,000 in burg
lary Insurance. The night policeman,
William Cablll, and the baker, Albert
Kerber, were found half dead -as the
result of being bound and gagged! Doth
revived, however, soon after their res
cuers removed the bonds. The robbers
were described by Cahlll as desperate
looking. One was tali and two were
short and heavy set.
SENSATION AT SW0PE INQUEST
Nurse Says Hyde Told Her to Give
CapBule and End Came Quickly.
Colonel ThomasHl. 'Swope cama to
bis death by reason ot strychnine ad
ministered In a capsule by Dr. B. C.
Hyde, husband of the' millionaire's
niece, according to the verdict of the
coroners jury In Independence, Jio.
Whether the drug was administered
1th felonious intent the jury declared
was unable to determine. The jury
was out but a little more than an hour.
The greater part of this time was de
voted to discussing the case. Dut one
ballot was necessary to agree upon, a
erdlct.
With the testimony of Miss Pearl
Keller, a nurse; of Dr. Ludwlg Hek-
toon of Chicago, of Mrs. Logan II.
wope and of Dr. Frank Hall in the
nquest over the body of Colonel Swope
Independence, Mo., came develop
ments In the mystery of the million
aire's death more startling than any
facts heretofore produced.
Miss Keller's detailed story of the
last moments of Colonel Swope's life,
replete with features of happenings in
the Swope household, produced a Bensa
tlon. Miss Keller testified that Ira
mediately following the death ot Colo
nel Thomas Moss Hunton, Dr. B. C.
Hyde asked her to use her influence
with Colonel Swope to have hlra ap
pointed administrator ot the Swope es
tate. Mr. Hunton had been the ad
mlnlstrator.
On the morning of Colonel Swope's
death, the nurse said, she gave him a
three-grain capsule, supposed to con
tain dyspepsia medicine. This she did
at the direction of Dr. Hyde. Twenty
minutes later Colonel Swope was In a
convulsion. Ills death soon followed
Five minutes after Colonel Swope's
death, according to the witness, Dr.
Hyde appeared, and with Attorney
John O. Paxton secured Colonel
Swope's will from his vest pocket.
Dr. Hektoen testified that one-sixth
of a grain of strychnine was found In
one-soventh part ot Colonel Swope's
liver. He believed there might be
grain In the entire organ. Half
grain would cause, death.
STEAMER WRECKED; 88 DROWN
Pacific Navigation Company Boat
Ashore in Magellan Straits.
The Paclfie Navigation Company's
Bteamer Lima went ashore on one ot
the Islands ot the Huamblln passage
of the Straits of Magellan, and probab
ly will be a total loss. The chief pilot
and fifty passengers were drowned
when tho boat struck. Twenty-seven
members of the crew also perished
The British steamer Hathumel rescued
205 of the persona aboard the steamer
but was forced to leave the rest
aboard, as It was Impossible to resell
them.
Asrd Couple Die by Polaon.
A suicide pact between octogeuarlunt
was revealed In Hamilton, O., whso th
bodies of Henry Stubernack and his
wife Mathilda were found by a son-ln
law. Stubernack was 80 years old ana
his wife but four years younger. They
had swallowed mo.phlue.
Frees Club Veraada.
Michael Ceary was found frozen to
death on the veranda of the ApawaraU
Club near Post Chester, one of the best
known golf clubs in the country, by
Bjdney Lawton, president of the eluh
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As a climax to the lengthy investi
gation of the mysterious death ot
Colonel Thomas H. Swope on Oct. 3,
1909, Dr. B. C. Hyde, husband of the
late Kansas City millionaire's niece,
was arrested on the charge of murder
ing the aged philanthropist. First de
gree murder is charged. The warrant
says that Dr. Hyde, with felonious In
tent, administered strychnine to Col
onel Swope on the day of his death.
TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC.
Dirigible Hnlloon Will Make the At
tempt Nt Mar
It has now been arranged that the
dirigible bulloon trip across the Atlan
tic which is ' projected by Joseph
Drucker will start from llerlln for Ten
eriffo on May 15. The enterprise will
be undertaken by S K Sihwurtz. a
New York promoter! and tho Ganz
Company of Mannheim.
The balloon, which will have Vancou
ver, U. C, as its objective point, Is be
ing constructed at Hamburg. It will
bo semi-circular, will be of 6,000 cubic
feet dimensions und will have two 60
horsepower motors. It will carry six
persons, all of them engineers.
The first stage of the voyage Is ex
pected to take four days. The balloon
will have the benefit of the trade winds
most of the way. Two steamers will
accompany the balloon, but they will
all two days ahead of the airship.
Han on '1J Muruae Fonda.
Alderman Dennis J. Kan has pre
sented to the Chicago t'lty Council an
ordinance prohibiting the cold storage
men from keeping their supplies more
than sixty days
, Million In Stolen Milk.
The superintendent of weights and
measures for New York City announces
that an Investigation has convinced
him that more than 60 per cent of bot
tles In which milk is delivered In the
metropolis are short measure. He es
timates that by this means the con
sumers are robbed annually of 14,000,
000 quarts of milk, which at t cents
a quart would amount to $1,360,000. He
wants a law passed making It a crimi
nal offense to manufacture or use bot
tles of leas than full measure
The death of Colonel Swope was at
tended by circumstances which mysti
fied the millionaire's family and close
friends. Dr. Hyde had treated Colonel
Swope during his last hours, and had.
In signing the death certificate, given
apoplexy a3 the cause of his demise.
When in December ar epidemic of
typhoid fever raged in the Swope
household, during which eight persona
were stricken and one, Chrisman
Swope, died under conditions that
caused much apprehension among the
attending nurses, John G. Paxton, the
executor, and Mrs. Logan Swope, moth
er ot Chrlstman, Instituted a vigorous
Investigation. Dr. Edward L. Stewart
came forward with the statement that
on Nov. 10 Dr. Hyde had secured from
him an active typhoid culture. After
Dr. Stewart had divulged this infor
mation, Dr. Hyde was placed under
the constant surveillance of detectives.
Dr. Hyde prescribed for Colonel Swope
during the latter's illness. The pa
tient was given a digestive capsule on
Oct. 3. Twenty minutes later, while
reading a newspaper, he went Into con
vulsions. His neck and limbs stiffen
ed and he groaned in great pain. He
rallied long enough to say: "I wish I
had not taken that medicine."
The basket ball team of the Chicago
University recently defeated the North
western University team by a score of
44 to 6.
The Walnut Hill Farm of Kentucky
will send forty-four youngsters up to
New York to the Faslg-Tlpton sale at
Madison Square Garden.
The fastest new trotter of 1909 for
Kansas, raced solely over half-milo
trucks, was Pat My Hoy, 2:17, whose
winnings exceed $1,700.
Yale defeated Princeton in the first
swimming meet of the Boa son at
Princeton by a score of 27 j to 25 Vj.
The visitors also won the water polo
game 10 to 6.
The high school basket ball team of
Menomonle, Wis., which holds the State
championship cup, recently won its
first game from the Stillwater high
with a score of 54 to IS.
Star Pointer, the 1 : 59,4 pacer, will
soon bo shipped from California to Co
lumbus, Tenn., where the balance of
his life will be spent at his old home.
At Oakland. Cal., Rubbling Water
gained an easy victory in the Follansi
bee handicap, from a field of seven.
Arasee ruled favorite, but Uubbling
Water went to the front easily and
won by two lengths.
A new half-mile track, sixty feet
wide, la being built at Oakdale, CaU by
the Driving Association. The track is
beautifully situated, and the grounds
will be further Improved by the plant
ing of trees and shrubbery.
French Steamer Helpless in Worst
Storm in TearsNo Amer
icans Aboard.
Driven helplessly from her course.
In one of the wildest storms that hat
wept the Mediterranean Sea In forty
years, the French Trans-Atlantic
Steamship Company's steamer General
Chanzy crashed at full speed, In thi
dead of night, on the treacherous reef
near the Island of Minorca, and all
but one of the 157 souls on board per
ished.
The sole survivor Is an Algerian cus
toms. official, Marcel Rodel, who wa
rescued by a fisherman and who lies
n the hospital at Ciuuadela raving a
a result of the tortures through whlcl
he passed and Is unable to give an ac
count of the disaster.
In the ship's company there wer
eighty-seven passengers, of whom
thirty were In the first cabin. The
crew numbered seventy. It Is not
thought that any Americans were on
board the liner. The ship was In com
mand of Captain Cayol, one of the
most careful officers of the line. In
his loDg experience he had never be
fore met with an accident. He had in
tended to retire" from the service in
the near future.
The passengers of the Chanzy were
mostly French officers and officials re
turning to their posts In Algeria, ac
companied by their wives and chil
dren; a few soldiers, some Italians
and Turks and one priest. The only
Anglo-Saxon names on the passenger
list were Green and Stakely. They
were members of an opera troupe of
eleven whichjiad been engaged to sing
at the Casino in Algiers.
The Chanzy Is a total wreck. Among
the victims was the celebrated Paris
ian music hall singer, Francis Dufor,
as well as other prominent music hall
favorites.
The General Chanzy struck at 9:00
o'clock at night after Captain Cayol,
with all his experience, had been un
able to cope with the tempest of al
most unprecedented violence. Other
ships in the neighborhood had safely
ridden out the storm, but the Chanzy
fell prey to the elements, was lifted
off her course through the Balearic
archipelago and brought up on the
coast of Minorea in the vicinity of
Cludadela. Fishermen at daybreak
picked up Rodel clinging to a piece of
wreckage.
The French consul at Cludadela re
ports that large numbers of bodies are
floating at sea, but that the storm con
tinues, making impossible their re
covery. The hull of the steamer is said
to bear evidence that an explosion,
probably of the boilers, occurred.
FAMOUS SEA FIGHTER IS DEAD.
Brigadier General Robert Leamy
Meade Succumbs to Illness.
Brigadier General Robert Leamy
Meade of the United States Marine
Corps, retired, died at his home In
Lexington the other day after an Ill
ness of several months. Gen. Moade
waa born In Washington, D. C, Dec.
26, 1841. The son of Commodore Rich
ard W. Meade, United States Navy he
came of fighting stock. Educated at
St. Mary's College, and at the United
States Naval Academy, he entered the
navy as a midshipman in 1856 and
resigned in 1858. Reappointed In
1858, he served continuously until his
retirement In 1906.
At the breaking out of the civil war
he was assigned to blockade work and
commanded a battalion when Norfolk
was rescued from the Confederates. In
1863 he commanded a company In
New York during the draft rlota. In
a night assault on Fort Sumter he was
captured and made a prisoner of war
for fifteen months at Libby and Rich
mond prisons. After the war he re
mained in the marine service and was
one of the party from the Shenandoab
that Invaded Korea and captured 1U
capital in the cruise of that vessel be
tween 1865 and 1869 In the waters of
India, China, Japan and Korea. At
Nagasaki he commanded both the
American and the British marines.
In the Spanish war he was fleet ma
rlne officer of Admiral Sampson's fleet
and led the marines In Cuba. In 1900
he participated in the Chinese expedi
tion and for a time he was In com
mand at the Brooklyn navy yard. For
his services at Tientsin, China, he re
ceived a medal from Congress.
BURN UP AS MUCH AS BUILD.
Kliturra l.i-.id Ilrlek Men to Launch
Kiife nnd Kaue'' C'ainiiMljfn.
Building brick manufacturers, mem
bers of tlie National BrU-k Manufactur
ers' Association, have formed an organ
ization to move for the construction of
"safe and sane" buildings. Statements
and figures showing that the people of
the United States are burning up as
many buildings as they construct each
year brought about formation of lbs
under organization.
i:uu t Litre Suffrra from I'lre.
Fire which started hi the crowded
Unique theater spread to the adjoining
Pythian castle and a number of other
business establishments and the Lead
er morning newspaper building In Eau
Claire. Loss, 530,000.
t-1 era ii Itailruud Muu Dlea.
Colonel E. S. Jewett, general agent
of the passenger department of the
Missouri Pacific Railway, and general,
ly known as the dean of the railroad
profession iu Kansas City, died of
heart failure at his home there.
Executive in Vehement Talk Says Ha
Will Safeguard Prosperity and
Fuflll Q. O. P. Pledge.
President Taft, speaking at the Lin
coln day celebration of the New York
Republican Club, made defense In detail
of the policies of his administration.
He declared business "hysteria," due to
agitation and fear of drastlo action
against corporations In general, to be
unjustified, and throughout hU talk
pleaded for the sinking of factional
differences toward the future of the
Republican party and the carrying out
of Its pledges.
"If the enforcement of the law Is not
consistent with the present method of
carrying on business, then it does not
speak well for the present methods of
conducting business, and they must be
changed to conform to the law," de
clared the President, and hl3 audience
at the banquet tables in the Waldorf
Astoria cheered the utterance. Gov
ernor HugheB, who shared the honors
of the evening with the President, Join
ed In the applause.
Mr. Taft adhered to his purpose of
discussing platform pledges and how
they should be kept. It was at the
conclusion of a detailed argument as
to how the Republican party is re
deeming Its pledges that he came to a
discussion of the anti-trust law and
Wall street, on which his utterances
had been awaited with the greatest
Interest. The President declared that
the administration would not "foolish
ly run amuck In business and destroy
values and confidences just for the
pleasure of doing so." Its policy was
"Live and let live."
"No one," he continued, " has a mo
tive as strong as the administration in
power to cultivate and strengthen busi
ness confidence and prosperity.
"But there was no promlso on the
part of the Republican party to change
the anti-trust law except to strengthen
it. Of course the government at Wash
ington can be counted on to enforce
the law in the way best calculated to
prevent a destruction of public confi
dence in business, but It must enforce
the law."
The President declared there were
signs which many construed to indi
cate that the Republican majority In
Congress might be replaced by a Dem
ocratic majority. The cause he assert
ed to be dissensions in the Republican
party arising out of differences of opin
ion in regard to the rules in the House
and to the personnel of the leadership
in the Senate.
He declared there existed a growing
tendency to the assertion of individual
opinion and purpose at the expense of
party discipline. The movement was
toward factionalism and small groups.
All this, Mr. Taft said, should be for
gotten in furtherance of the one great
aim party success. To this end, he
asserted, a campaign of education waa
required. '
'I am far from saying the Republi
can party is perfect," declared the
President, and then he gave a warning
that party Insurgents should be pun
ished. The high cost of living, Mr. Taft as
serted, primarily was due to the "In
crease In the measure of value of gold
and, in some measure, to combinations
In restraint of trade."
IS BARRED FROM VATICAN.
Charles W. Fairbanks Fails to Visit
Pope After Delicate Intimation.
The visit to Rome of Charles W.
Fairbanks, former Vice President of
the United States, brought about a very
delicate situation, owing to the fact
that he wished to pay his respects to
the King, the Pope and the American
Methodist church. By a tactful ar
rangement Mr. Fairbanks' audience
with King Victor Emmanuel was fixed
for one day, and that with the Pop
for two days later, and when every
thing seemed satisfactorily planned,
the Vatican suddenly announced that
it would be Impossible for His Holiness
to receive the former Vice President
If he carried out his announced inten
tion to speak in the American Meth
od 1st church there, because the Meth
odists had been active in proselyting
imong the Catholics.
Negotiations were immediately be
run with a view to avoiding any un
pleasantness, and a situation which
bight give rise to misconceptions, and
In these negotiations prominent Vati
can officials exerted every Influence to
remove the dlHlculties which had so
Unexpectedly presented themselves to
tor. Fairbanks' audience with the Pope.
I)... r i i . . .
I uui .nr. ruiruanKS nnauy aeciarea
that, although he was animated by a
trong desire to pay his respects to
, the head of the Catholic church, whose
I followers had played such an impor
tant part as good American citizens.
be could not withdraw from his prom
ise to deliver an aiddress before tha
imerlcan Methodist church.
$1 F03 "CHEAP" BROOM SOON.
luree Time .No mini Price Offered
tor Imlory Miila-rlal,
Housewives may within
noiufcn be compelled to nav-a
few
dollar
for an ordinary broom, is tha iiu,.....
- - ' w.at.vu-
iglng pTtdlctlon of the large manufac
turers of this commodity in southern
Indiana. Evansvtlle factories are re
ported to be offering three times the
aormal price for broom corn and And.
Ing it an extremely scarce article even
it that figure.
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