Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-13

In the matter of courtship the same rule OF
loyalty forcetully applied to their mutual
relations, and as fate would have it, the OBJ
jects of their alteration were the two
"queens" OF the chessboard.
The crisis of affairs was reached when the
attention of the onlookers was attracted by
the sound of loud talking coming from q
corner of the auditorium, where heated
discussion was in progress. Conspicuous in
the dispute were the good Herrs Won
Haifelder and Habblemann, and before the
rest of the spectators realized the extent of
the trouble four or five men descended from
the terrace to the edge of the improvised
chessboard and engaged in angry argument
with Amilon and the Russian officers
The Game Resulted in Two DueIs.
The game finally broke up in confusion,
several ladies tainted and all efforts made 10
straighten matters out only accomplished
the adjournment of the disputants to an
other place. Too highly bred to come to
fsticufs in the presence of the audience,
they resorted to no physical violence on the
pleasure grounds, but council OF war was
held the same evening in the hotel, chal-
lenges passed, seconds were appointed and
two duels arranged for the following
morning between the Russians and their
jealous German rivals. Love alone was not
at the bottom of the trouble; international
jealousy and the traditional instinct of
racial feud had more than a little to do
with it.
At daybreak they met again upon the
field of honor The weapons were swords,
and notwithstanding that the Russian prin-
cipals in the affair were. owing to their
military training, accustomed to the use of
arms, they found no mean adversaries in
the Germans, who had received liberal
education in that direction while university
students. When the handkerchief was
dropped and the serious work began, a 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. Captain Arsenieff, whose adversary
was Won Haifelder, received an ugly wound
in tine chest and also one in the sword arm,
but in return he had heshed his blade in his
opponents neck, dangerously near to the
iugular vein. Lieutenant Butturlin had
wounded Herr Habbelmann in the right
side and received in exchange disabling
thrust in the shoulder and O scar across his
cheekbone. Captain Arsenieff came in for
much praise for his stoicism and endurance
in having continued to fight alter 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.
Officially Considered in Russia.
The more poetic side of the affair deserves
some additional reference, as it concerns
the ladies who, innocently enough precipi-
tated the sanguinary episode. AT first the
sensation, with its unavoidable flavor of
scandal, was confined to the limits of Dor
pat, 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 con-
sidered, the effect in Dorpat was very much
as in similar cases elsewhere. The families
of the ladies Won Patkul and Won Ongern-
Steruberg, greatly angered at the
notoriety 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 officers, they argued, were in any
case ineligible as suitors for the hand of a
child Of either of their houses, for when had
ever Won Patkul or a Won Ongern-Stern-
berg deserted his Lutheran faith to wed an
adherent of the Russo-Greek Church? Oh,
no, they were too truly Lutheran, too truly
German for thatl
The Young omen Are Persistent,
However, as willful love usually has its
way, the fair frauleins were just as insist
ent as their parents. They went to the
hospital and actually visited the GONZALES
cent couches of Arsenief and ButturIiu.
The entresties, the threats of their parents
were equally in vain, and the ladies de-
ciared their resolve-they would marry
those men and no Others. If necessary thew
would even renounce the faith Of their faith
ers and embrace the doctrines OF the Greek
Church.
Meanwhile at st. Petersburg the matter
assumed serious proportions in the official
mind, and it is rumored that formal inyes-
tigation OF the entire circumstances will re-
suit in giving the occurrence an anti-ortho-
dox coloring, and that certain persons in
Dorpat may find themselves brought under
the ban of the Synod. If there is official |
Interference, as is said to be very likely, it
IS bound to cause trouble for some one. |
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