The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
DEADLY ITALIAN DUEL
Brilliant Author and Statesman
Killed on the Field of Honor.
WAS ORIsPrs BITTER OPPONENT.

WAS URlSPl'S BITTER OPPONENT.
Signor Cavallotti Brought the Charee,
ofTrafIicklng In Decorations Against
tho Ex.Premier. and Relen tIessiy
Pursued Him.
Rome, March 7.-Signor Felice Carlo
Cavalotti, poet, dramatist. publicist.
and the well known Radical member of
the chamber Of deputies for Corte-
Olona. was killed here yesterday af-
ternoon in a duel with swords with
Signor Macola. member OF the chamber
OF deputies and editor Of the Gazzetta
Di Venezia. The encounter was the
outcome Of a press polemic in the col
umns of the Milan Secolo and the
Gazzetta Di Venezia. 1t took place at
an unfreQuented spot outside the Porta
Maggorie.
The first two engagements were with
out result. but In the third Signor
Cavallotu received thrust in the
throat that severed his jugular. The
doctors and his seconds carried him to
Zellino and laid him on bed in the
residence of the Countess Cellaro.
Tracheotomy was performed. and arti-
ficial breathing attempted. but all ef-
forts were useless. Signor Cavallottl
expired in ten minutes. Signor Macola
did not receive a scratch.
Signor Cavallotti made his will i'm
mediately before the duel. which was
the 32d he had fought. The body will
be embalmed and lie in state at his
residence.
Though political opponents. Signor
Vavallotti and Signor Macola were per-
sonal friends. For this reason their
seconds tried to avoid the duel. but the
matter becoming ridiculous In the pub
| lie eyes. the principals decided that
they must fight. The death Of Cavai-
lotti is a great loss to the Radical party.
Italian laws regards killing in a duel
as qualified murder" but Signor Ma
cola has gone to Venice, unmolested.
under the protection Of his parliamen-
tary prerogative.
The news on reaching this city caused
q great sensation. Numerous deputies
and friends hurried to the SPOT, and
there Is universal regret over the
tragic end OF Cavallotti.
The late Signor Felice Carlo Eman-
uele Cavallotti. who was a member OF
q family originally Venetian. was born
at Milan on Nov. 6. 1912. Al the age
Of IS. having become already noted fol
his poetry breathing hatred for Aus.
trla, he threw himself with ardor as q
writer and a soldier Into the struggle
for Italian Independence, taking par,
In various expeditions and publishing
In the newspapers Of the day article.
and verses whose revolutionary al,
dacity attracted wide attention.
Often elected to the Italian parlla
ment. his career In the chamber from
time to time was signalized by no les.
agitation than the publication OF hi
poetic efforts. More than opra. hi
interpretations and his speeches invoked
the parliamentary tempests. He wa,
a lifelong opponent of Signor Crispi
and was glad to be known as one O
the Italian politicians who resisted
with all their energies the tide which
under the auspices Of Crispt. carried
Italy toward Germany.
In 1895, when the Banca Roman,
scandal was the sensation Of Europe
Signor Cavallotti, then leader of tn
opposition In the Italian chambers, dis
covered what he called a new and mos
promising lode. Going through the lis
Of great and little men entitled to wea
the Grand Cross of the Order OF 81
Maurice and Lazare, he came upon tn
name Of DIR. Cornelius Herr Right,
conjecturfng that II would not be ther
except for a cash consideration, n
prosecuted his inQuEies until he fel
warranted In making the public de
claration that Signor Crispi, the pre-
mier Of that day. wss guilty of an II
licit trafiicking in decorations. No
long after he published a pamphle
against Crispi repeating this charge
and adding the charge Of bribery in tn
fifth district Of Rome. where the pre-
mier had defeated the Siciliaa, Socialis,
Giuseppe de Felice Gtuffrida. He evel
gave notice in the chamber of a mo
tion to annul the election. When tn
matter came up Cr.spi fatty decline,
to make any statement as to the quar-
rel, and She chamber sustained his &c
ton.
Signor Cavallotti then renewed tn
attack in his paper, The Secoio. OF Mi
Ian, and announced that he would pre-
fer charges in the courts. This threa
he carried out, and In his denunciatioi
Of Crispi to the criminal authorities h
asked for the examination OF the Mar
quis di Rudini and Signor Berai. secre
tary Of the department Of decorations
as witnesses in support Of his charges
as touching Cornelius Herr, a Panami
canal lobbyist These proceedings. witt
various notifications, were continue,
until the court of cassation recent,
transferred the whole matter to par
lament. Pending this decision. how
ever, Signor Cavallotti proposed tn,
impeachment of Signor Crispi, ther
fallen from power. for the disasters II
the Abyssinian campaign. To the las
he relentlessly pursued Crispi. and tn,
latter, in the death Of his brilliant ant
fearless adversary. viii probably se,
the end Of the long campaign agains,
him.
NINE PEOPLE DROWNED
BY the UpsettinC OF y Schooner on