The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-13

owners" Price of Monaco, Duke of Va
lentinois, Marquis des Paux, Count Of
Carlades, Baron de -Buiss and seigneur
of half a. dozen other places recorded
on no map or chart, who has Just
transferred 30,000000 of francs hereto
fore held in common between him and
his American ex-wife, nee Alice Heine,
OF New ORLEANS, to his own personal
account. And the family of the Bank
ef He1ne having no alternative, acced-
led to this frightful slaughter of pure
~ American fortune, while the civil
court of the principality ratified the
arrangement and decreed that her
h1ghness that was shall have no fur
ther interest in the name and dignity,
the castles, palaces, lands, treasures
and chattels of any kind appertaining
to the royal family
Alice Heine, then, paid for twelve
years of welded bliss" on the tiniest
and least reputable throne in the
world at the rate of 100000 per an
mum. the Identical amount her hus-
band charges the Sea Bath society
Tor the gambling privileges.
The Wedding Contract.
1t is almost inconceivable that a
shrewd American papa should have
signed marriage contract of that
sort; but Heine did-did it in Paris,
too SO that there was no getting out
Of it on any pretext whatever.
eff the Duchess of Richelieu, nee
Alice Heine, leaves his serene highness
or gives him just cause for divorce,
according to the laws of the principal
ity, the party of the first part shall be
entitled to her marriage portion,
amounting to thirty millions of francs,
which is herewith turned over to the
minister of the princely house in
bonds and securities as follows, etc.,
etc.
So runs the document, gotten up by
one of the shrewdest of Italian law
yers.
The amount of the forfeit" is as
staggering as it is unprecedented.
Even the beggar king of Servia ask
ed but half that amount when he Of
fered to make Miss Pullman his bride,
a figure the late sleeping car magnate
thought quite reasonable. He would
have accepted, but for the condition
made that his own name be suppress
ed. The Chicago girl was to become
a royal parsonage under the name and
title conferred on George Pullman by
papal breve. I heard from a lawyer
very near to the court of Monaco that
the prince will invest the American
millions right royalty. After setting
aside 100000 for the heir to the
throne, he will devote the rest to scien-
tific investigation and discovery. AS
Alice Heine loves science and is deep
ly interested in every line of progress,
the appropriation Of one-half Of her
dover for scientific ends will not wor-
ry her much, but that fifteen millions
more should go to the boy responsible
for the princes determination to di-
vorce her, is an awful blow to the
proud women.
Prince Louis Provoked Scandal.
For it was her quondam stepson
who provoked the scandal that eventu-
ally drove De Lara and the princess
out of Monte Carlo. Prince Louis is
the son of Albert and Lady Mary
Douglas Hamilton, his first wife, who
after the annulment by the Vatican
of her marriage with Monaco, married
Count Festetics of Austria. Louis is
still very young, but it riled him to
see the "intendant" of the opera strut
about his fathers place as If he own
ed it. In the fall of 1899, when De
Lara recorded his first widely advertis-
ed success, "Messalina," matters came
to a clash between the composer and
the hereditary prince, then nineteen
years old.
"Messalina" had been brought out
at cost of 100000 francs, and Louis,
ascertaining that the Casino people
paid only half of that amount, while
the royal exchequer footed the rest of
the bill, refused to congratulate his
mothers protege. whereupon the latter
complained. The princess tried to per-
suade Louis to say few compliment
airy words to De Lara, but Louis an
swered that he would see him at the
bottom of the deep sea first. Then
Princess Alice had Mysteries, and her
cries bringing De Lara unon the scene.