Arizona republican., 1899-02-06
DUEL IN HUNGARY
Rn Outbreak Of Encounters Among
 Legislators.

Budapest, Jan 9. - (Correspond-
 ence. )-The very atmospnere in this
 proud Hungarian Danu5ian city is
 redolent of duelism and there is no
 forotelling what the end will be. Only
 yesterday I providentially escaped a
 challenge for offering Magyar bara-
 tom Cny Hungarian friend) cigar of
 a brand inferior to his own. Tt was an insult" he cried, ito tender a friend
 q weed WithaI os eZecra5le." 1 waited i for no more. l saw by the look in his
 eyes that he had the deadly distemDer ! and 1 beat the h2stieSt of retreats. Thankful I was that 1 had not dis cus5ed with my Magyar friend the at
 tiiude cf the Costructionists in the na- tional assembly, in my ignorance Of
 his political views, for if l had thus far committed myself, ten to one this
 letter HoUnld never have been written. | Our Semi-As a:ic friends. the Magy3rs, l permit me to add by way Of further 1 introduction, are among the most chiy-
 alrous of European nations, since they
 are eyer prepared to die on the slight | est prOvocation in defense, not alone Of ! their country. their honor, but also Of i their manifold opinions. They are i < | Oy erfoWing, when not crossed in love and politics, with the milk, nay. the | cream, Of human kindness. They 1 beast of 9 god all their oWn-the Mag I yar god Isten-a deity who led them
 on to victory when pag2ns, and whom | they did not desert Cn entering the | Christian fold. When 2ll else is lost
 to the true hearted Magyar. honor al-
 ways rem2ins-hOnOr to be preserved
 urblemished at every cost.
 Parliamentary GUels have for the last two nCnths been the order of the day in the dcminion8 under the crown Of s. Stephen, and scarcely day
 passes but some legislative Iuminary challenges a rival politician. Minis tcrial duels take the lead in their san
 guinaTy encounters, and so entirely do they absorb the attention of the aver
 age legislator that the weightiest top
 ice under deliber3tiOn, affecting more
 OF less narrowly the constitutional cansolidarity of the monarchy sink
 into comparative insisniffcance.
 Of all the many political duela which
 Of late ears have absorbed public at tcnticn in Hungary, nc2e has equaiied the BanTy-HoTa nszky pistol encounter, which took place the other day at the
 hUssar riding school at Budapest. In Q recent sitting of the raichstag Ferdi- nand I0ranszky, president of the na-
 tiOnal party, speaking OH the election Of a new president in the place of De- siderius Szi1agyi, accused the minister president of not having treated him (Ioranszky) in an honorable way. The minister president, Baron Banffy. aux- i0us to preserve his prestige, published Q letter in terms which rendered 8 1 challenge. according to Magyar lights, 1 C,9 vii Q CTS were deputies Count Karoyi and 1 Szmcre; the presidents seconds were | the minister. Baron Geza FejerVe1 y | and Deputy G3iary. The four esconds i met at the National Casino to discuss preliminaTics HOransZky's seconds | were alone in favor of q ''retorsicn | with the weapons" while Banffy' repT Tesentatives insisted on *'uncond5- tiOnaI satisfaction" Beth parties de- clined to negotiate further, and on BanMy's seconds ridiculing 'retOr- sion, " 'FIoranszky's seconds challenged them then and there. Count Karolyi and Baron Fejervery exchanged pistol shots, neither being wounded, but in the sword duel between GajjaTy and S1crmcre both were severely wounded Not content with this exhibition uG arms. H0ransZky thercupon challenged his advcrs2cy's seconds and was nor tifiCd to learn the deCislon of a cOU"t CT honor. which sat to discuss the sit- uati0n, that he could not enter into further engagements as long as his en- with his rival, the minister president. had net been satisfactorily carried out. Eor2nszky thereulOn felt 1t ircumbe tS challenge to mortal combat the seconds of Banffy's sec onCs. namely Major General Halassy and Baron Atzel, who, in their II appointed Cs their seconds the Barons Uschtriz and Zoltan. HOranszky is q notorious dUeiist and was apparently determined to make clean sweep of the liberal party in poWer on the field of honor. The Barons Uechtritz anI Zcltan were, however. likewise Cf opin- ion that as long as HOranszky had not concluded bis engagement with BanHy , he was unworthy of satisfaction in other actions Horanzzky vas accord fnelv prevailed uron to ehallenE= Ea1ffv Uncondltionauy which ohal- len=e terminated IT the pistol duel fought on Ianvar-- tha details ct which are already widely known. Sui fec it 10 say that the minister presi- lSnt, who was the first to shoot. fired (