The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-11-29

At daybreak they met again upon the
field of honor. rhe weapons were swords
and notwithstanding that the Russian
, principals in the affair were. owing to
their military training, accustomed to
the use of arms, they found no mean ad-
versaries in the Germans, who had re-
ceived liberal education in that direc-
tion while university students. When
the handkerchief was dropped and the
serious work began, fine show of skill
was displayed, and after ten minutes of
fighting, we'll sustained on either side,
the honors of war were about even. Capt.
Arsenieff, whose adversary was Won
Haifelder, received An ugly wound in the
chest and also one in the sword arm, but
in return he had hsshed his blade in his
opponents neck, dangerously near to the
jugular vein. Lieutenant Butterlin had
wounded Herr HabbeImann in the right
side and received In exchange a disabling
thrust in the shoulder and scar across
his cheekbone. Captain Arsenieff came
in for much praise for his stoicism and
endurance in having continued to fight
after his sword arm was wounded. So
the duel ended-not fatally, indeed, but
yet as anything rather than an exhibition
of child's play. To their homes went the
Germans, to the hospital the Russians,
for the medical treatment they all badly
needed.
The moro poetic side of the affair de-
serves some additional reference as it
concerns the ladies who. innocently
enough, precipitated the sanguinary cpl
sode. At first the sensation, with its un-
avoidable favor of scandal. was confined
to tie limits of Dorpat, but it was not
long before it spread. and reaching ST.
Petersburg attracted the attention OF
Pobedonostzeff, the Procuror General Of
the Holy Synod. Locally considered, the
liar cases elsewhere. The families of tho
ladies Van Patkui and Won Ongern-
Sternberg, greatly angered at the motor
iety they had gained, insisted that the
matter should go no further, and that the
cold shoulder must in future be given by
their daughters to all the men who had
quarreled over them. The Russian off,
GERS, they argued, were in any case inelig-
ible as suitors for the hand of a child of
either of their houses, for when had ever
a Won Patkul or a Won Ongern-S Stern berg
deserted his Lutheran faith to wed an
Rdherent of the Russo Greek Churchl
Oh, NO, they were too truly Lutheran,
too truly German for that! However, as
wilful love usually has its way, the fair
frauleins were just as insistent as their
parents. They went to tho hospital and
visited the convalescent couches
Of Arsenieff and Butterlin. Tho entrea-,
ties, the threats of their parents were
equally in vain, and the ladies declared
their resolve-they would marry those
men and no others. If necessary they
would even renounce the faith of their
fathers and embrace the doctrines Of the
Greek Church.
Meanwhile at st. Petersburg the matter
serious proporti ons in the official
mind, and it is rumored that formal
of the entire circumstances
will result in giving the occurrence an
anti-orthodox coloring, and that certain
persons in Dorpat may find themselves
brought under the ban Of the Synod. II
there is official interference, as is said to
be very likely, it is bound to cause trouble
for some one. Just now the affair 10 tho
talk of all that section of European
Russia, and in ordinarily quiet and peace
fol old Dorpat the universal query is:
Will the lovers be united and everything
forgotten and forgiven amid the sound of
wedding bellsi SERGE SUscHENKo.