From the Lawrence Daily World for July 12, 1908: “The Bid Chautauqua is to open here Thursday and is due to move on and conclude at Iola next Tuesday. Considerable effort has been expended to promote the local event, which is controversial because of the plans to charge for tickets. : Prof. James A. Campbell of the Kansas University German department has been assigned to a Prussian university in exchange for a German professor there who will be sent to Lawrence for a year. The Carnegie Foundation is the sponsor of the interchange. : A jury in Ottawa trying Mollie Stewart for the murder of Jane Schneck returned a unanimous verdict of guilty in the first degree. Mrs. Stewart gets the same conviction as resulted to Frank Schneck, husband of the murdered woman whom the two were charged with killing. The butchery of Jane Schneck and her two small children at Centropolis in February of 1907 was one of the most brutal and, for a time, mysterious crimes ever committed here.”