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sOme more lenient state. It would clos~
up the divorce mills that now thzivs
to the detriment of public morals.
The Electoral Colle~e.
There was no telegraphic r~por~ at
all of mectings of the electoral college
last week at the capitals of the various
states. This fact shows how far away
the country has drlfte~l from the plan
of the constitution in Lhe manner of
What proml~es to be the most sen- i ....... ,..
sational murder trial Kansas City has : presidential electors. Under the lef:ter
ever known will be fought out when ! LULU PR,~E of the constitution the people wauld
Lulu Prince Kennedy faces a Jury to ~[~-~D,~r not vote even indirectly for president.
answer the charge of murdering her They chose only presidential elector's,
husband, Philip H. Kennedy. The who wer~ entirely untrammeled in
coroner's Jury has recommended that voting fol~ president. If the spirit and
she be held for murder in the first de- letter of the eonstitution were followed
gree. That means that a demand for / in practice the meetings of the various
.bodies of"~residentlal electors would
be of as much importance as attaches
..... -J to a national convention or a presideu-
PHIMP-H tlal election under present circum-
stances. Now the meetings of the pres-
]~EHHEI~ idential electors are mere legal forms.
They never will become otherwise ufi-
less a successful candidate for presi-
dent should die between the election
and the meetings of the electors. For
instance, if the apprehensions of the
country regarding Mr. McKinley's Ill-
ness last week had 'been fatally ful-
filled the electors would have faced the
problem of choosing a president who
/ had not been nominated as a candi-
date. They would not have been com-
pelled to choose Roosevelt, although
that might have been the natural
, course.
' Americar~ Cos! in Europe.
The January issue of the United.
,.
States consular reports is devoted
goes out to a woman under such el'r- largely to the prospects ef American
coal in Europe. The last year has
cumstanees was given to her. It was been noteworthy for the arrival of car-
alleged that the man she shot had been goes of American co~I in Europeau
forced to marry her by threats of death ports, where it was never seen before,
at the hands of he]; father.
especially in countries bordering on
But since that time there has been a the Mediterranean. England also has
change on the face of the evidence, been startled by seeing a few cargoes
Testimony was given before the core- of American gas coal landed at Brit-
her's jury which gave rise to the sus- ish ports, but high freights still pre-
picion that Kennedy was the victim of vent our coal from competing serious-
a conspiracy in wh'ch the family of ly with the British product in London,
the woman were concerned. Dr. R. O. even with the abnormal prices existing
Cross. the physician who was inter- there. The only genuine invasion of
viewed by Lulu Prince last November, European markets is in Mediterranean
, a few weeks before the alleged forced ports, where the question of freight
marriage, testified that the girl tots does not" play so important a part.
him at that time that she was the wife Hitherto the EngIish mines have sup-
the infliction of the death penalty will band, the trial will probab:y be bKter- of Case Patten. a baseball player who plied all deficiencies in continental
be made by the state and with a we- ly contested and attract widespread is now at Westport, N. Y. Should Europe, and Cardiff steam coal is the
man on trial for life, 'after the nSto- attention. When the news of the ki,l- that prove true the case will assume a standard for steamships at all ports
riety that has been given to the case ins of Kennedy by his wife was first vastly different aspect from that which from Liverpool to Hongkong. But
since the day she shot down her hus- published the sympathy which usually was first presented, prices have almost doubled during the
' --'~---------~---------~ past year, owing to the shortage in
fill Iml II [I I I I I SUpply.' Cardiff coal now costs over
Trouble O er Lo an ,~ at Cardiff. $7.50 at Marseilles, $13 at
Rouen and $45 at H0ngkong. Pocahon-
• tas coal, the American e'quivalent of
J , ,,I , , the Cardiff'article, is delivered at Mar-
seilles for $6.68 a ton.
For over a month ~l'~n for 2)x~orce ~eform.
the $50.000 statue t The State. Bar association of New ln~rance Asa]~ ,.~ri3(e Lo~e~
of Gem John A. Lo- York has formulated a divorce reform One of the leading subjects which
gan, ordered by law that would stop certain ~bjection- came before a great convention of Aus-
congress in 1887 able practices if it were adopted by the trian manufacturers in October last
and mc
