Evening journal., 1892-04-13
ANOTHER DUEL ON DECK
Editor Coelho Wants the Bra
lillian Minister'S Blood.
CHALLENGE SENT TO WASHINGTON.

The Big Newspaper Man Declares That
Diplomat Da Mendonca Cannot Call
Him Negro and Live-Dom Pedro's
Old Opponent Full OF Fight.
NEW YoRK, April lS.--The envoy extraor
binary and minister plenipotehHary from
the Brazilian government 70 this country /
stands good chance OF being mixed up in |
a duel He is Senior Salvador da Mendonca,
and he resides in beautiful house at Wash.
ington. The man who proposes TO fight |
him IL giant, and he wears a long name
Antonio Hilario de Paula da Coehlo. Last |
fan he started the new steamship line now |
plying between this and Brazilian ports |
Ex-Judge Dittenhoefer is the president OF
the new company, and associated with him !
are ex-Postmaster General Thomas L. !
James, John n Howard and Rufus r. VIII
son. senior da Coehlo is now conducting
the o Brazil Os Sstados Unidos, Spanish
American publication now In its second
year.
The ChalIcnge Sent.
Antonio ayers that the Brazilian minister
has treated him most shamefully. "He hai
heaped contumely upon meln the Brazilian
said with gulp Of indignation, at COS
Temple court, and Banker Kellys big build.
| ing throbbed under his tread. Then the
colonel-the senior won his title as a Re
publican leader and an opponent OF Dom
Pedro In Brazilian warfare-turned around
TO his secretary and said, "Franz, has the
challenge gone 20 Washington The sec
retary assured his 'bossn that the blood
curdling document had been placed in the
hands OF Colonel Tom Wilkinson, a magnate
over in Ozone Park, l.. l,
Must Eat His Words.
"'ris well, 'tis we'll ze Colonel Tom he
Is my friend Eef Minister da Mendonca
take advantage Of his official position, eei
he refuse to meet me, win 90 down 10
Washington and pull his nose In the street.
He haf called me a negrol Hal win make
him eat his words. SO sure as live / win
kill him. l haf instructed my represents
tive, Colonel Tom, to bring me back Da
Mendonca's answer inside Of twenty-foui
hours He is a liar and he is a cur. Eef he
refuse I viii not be found tomorrow in New
York win fight him IN Westchester county
or / win fight him on the shores OF the Poto
mac. An say is simply. i viii fight himr D
II everything that Colonel Antonio Hi.
lario de Paula da Coelho tells Is true he Ger.
tainly is an abused man. He gives a straight
account of why he challenged the Brazilian
minister
The Fighting Editors Story.
'tWhen I came back, some years ago
from Paris, ! bought house up in Ford
{ ham When / moved down TO the city
B from the suburbs rented the place 20 Mrs
4 Florence Jones, 8nd she lived there a good
b while without paying me for the use of the
premises. One day she came down 10 my
Office and said she wanted to get her love
| letters back She had written me a good
many OF them She was : tender SOU
. when she wrote letters expressing her afec
b ton But she wouldn't pay her rent. Sh,
b even refused 10 surrender the key she had
J. TO my apartments up on Murray Hin unles
gave up her correspondence with me.
sent her the letters and went up 70 he
house on West Twenty-fth street on th'
4 night Of April 2. Her mother was there
e and so was the daughter. / simply asked
r for my key. Both women began 20 abus'
d me, and had to leave the place TO avoid
d scene.
e 1T is a case Of blackmail all around HoI
2 can say that ] openly denounce the Jone
: woman as a blnckmAiler Behind the whol'
d matter is the Brazilian minister. / canno
fight a woman. i can fight him. He mus
answer my note. Colonel Tom Wilkinson
will return tomorrow with his reply. In
!, afraid that the coward viii not meet me
y but win chase him out Of this country