The independent., 1907-01-24
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ing to "get unanimous the jury in
the Shea case reported disagreement
on Monday and was discharged. The
case will now have to be tried all over
again. This was the case in which Cor
nelius p. Shea and other labor leaders
were charged with conspiracy In con-
nect1on with the late great teamsters'
strike In Chicago. The case was called
Tor trial on the. thirteenth Of Iasr Sov,-
tember. For eleven weeks, or until No
vember ~, the lawyers quibbled over
the drawing OF jury, ana the expense
to the state of the case to that time
was estimated at about thirty thousand
dollars. The trial continued through
cut December and until late last week.
wnen the case went to the jury. The
firSt man to be drawn on the jury
mas been virtually a prisoner for four
months. Whether 1t will be possible
under the present rules for drawing
jurors to fill up a panel for another
trlal is somewhat doubtful. Altogether
s,SOO veniremen were examined in get
ting the twelve who finally heard the
case In the new trial any venireman
not desirous Of being snatched from
his business and the bosom of his fam
hy Tor period of from three to six
months Is pretty sure to have opinions
that VIII disqualify him from serving
as juror. Moreover, since nobody who
ever saw or read about the strike or
acts Of violence connected Herewith IS
eligible to place in the jury box there
may be difficulty to find twelve more
men sufficiently ignorant to serve: un-
less, indeed, the bars be let down and
citizens OF Pike county or recent ar
rivals from Palermo and the valley or
the Yang-tSe- Kiang De drawn upon to
make jury of our peers
To its great surprise the city Of
Cleveland finds itself under obligation
to supply its Jail birds with clothes
law was passed requiring wardens to
supply prisoners with beds, bedcloth-
Ing, and SO forth" In transcribing the
law somebody, presumably the usual
scapegoat, the intelligent compositor.
dropped an extra comma into the com
position, making it read ''beds, bed
clothing and SO on. Through an in
advertent slip OF a semicolon in a
Massachusetts law the bars of Boston
were required all last year to close at
II o'clock, when it was intended thev
should close at twelve or half past. AS
a rule lawmakers and drawers of legal
papers Of all sorts try to cover the
matter in question IN such way that no
change in~ punctuation could alter or
destroy the meaning; hence the many
apparently absurd repetitions and cir
cumlocutions in legal documents That
they do not always succeed in, this the
Cleveland and Boston experience
shows. Our legislators need to mind
not only their p's and as but their
periods also and other pauses.
Rather frequently nowadays may be
seen in newspapers throughout the
west such inquiries as this: 1.-TWO
years ago took homestead in Can
ada, being required in order to do so
to swear allegiance to the king of
Great Britain. have now come back
to the United States to live Am / |
still citizen of the United States and
have / right to vote here?" Just
what proportion of the western farm |
ers who followed the late food to |
western Canada have returned and |
would like to be America citizens |
again there is no present way to dis
cover, but there evidently are many
such. The absolute number cannot.
be enormous, for the Ca
madam emigration that caused some
concern in the west two or three years
ago is proved by Canadian statistics
not to have been in itself enormously
large. The Canadian reports give the
into western Canada from
the United States for the three fiscal
years ending last June at 146,00O. but
hardly fourth Of these were citizens
OF the United States. In fact in the
eight or nine years of the Canada
only 62,717 American citi-
Zens, men, women and children. have
emigrated to Canada. The difference
this number and the larger
total represents evidently Immigrants
who passed on to Canada by way of
the United States.
The Philadelphia Record called at
Iention to the disappearance of the
shawl as an article OF womans attire,
quoting physician as follows 81
take keen interest in looking for this
garment Yet there are
lew places In which I see It, Even I'm
he poorest sections the women wear
some sort of Jacket. however old and
worm !, may be, | suppose that the
Of tailor made clothes has
Il