Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1901-09-20
RUINED DY REFUSING. {,
Dursomnstcr Who Declined n ceal-
lenEe to Fight n Duel ouAte0
from the Military.

Another curious insight toto the IL
traordinary views held in German so
ciety" on the subject % d~ueling was
lately given by the LEGAL newspapers of
Bad Kreuznach. One Gay the burgo-
masters deg barked At the dog of the
doctor. The latter omp~laiued aooutit
to the formers wife in so insulting 4
manner that the burgOmaster wrote
him an indignant letter. The doctor
thereupou challenged his correspond
cnt TO a duel. which was refused. Now,
the doctor was not an ~"otiicer OF the re-
serve" but the burgomaster was. so the
former revenged himself by reporting
the refusal. whereupon the ~burgomaS-
ter's name Was struck of the list Of
Officers OF the reserve" whereby he
lost caste and suffered injury in his
career.
The Nolks Zeitung cites the following
as pendant: An aged woman OF the
laboring class was sitting alone in her
room when a drunken man forced his
way into il, abused her with the foul
est language and struck her and
wounded her till she bled profusciy.
While this was going on her son re-
turned home, and, very naturally, flew
into a rage and rushed ut the rutlian
whom he did not treat in the gcntlest
of Ways. lie was u hard.wOrking.
steady fellow. but he was entitled to
nvenge so cowarGly an outrage on any
woman, and certainly in this case, az
the woman was his aged mother. In his
anger he wounded the ruilian with q
knife. Although the l%atter's wounds
coon, Ea-f,I ~. .,aa f.Ifa,,. So.
dragged before Il magistrate and con-
Gemned TO a years imprisonment.
The pubic prosecutor and the mag
~istrate were both OF them officers Of
the reserve" and they both asserted
hat his use OF the knife betrayed the
brutality OF his character, so hat he
deserved the most severe punishment
that it was in the power Of the court 10
I give him"
1t may be remmeherCi that n few
weeks = a deputy in the German diet
was bold enough to state before the
house that his majesty the kaiser was
i'll informed by his encourage and al
lowed himself TO be fed with newspaper
cuttings a.one. instead OF reading
whole heaps OF the Lai.ies. One Of the
stock exchange daily papers tells MS
that the kaiser reads = great many
more newspapers than the ptop.o
think, while the kaistrin devotes an
hour a day 10 this type Of literature and
keeps her HIustrioUs husband we'll in
formed on al. subjects Of interest.
The professors OF the University OF
Bonn he'd n meeting recently to which
the students we're invited. The profess
sOr urged that measures should he
taken TO stop the excessive drinking
now in vogue amCug the students.
From their ranks drinking j. spread
ing TO all other classes of the pGpu.a-
tion and * well-nigh becoming a vicious
fashion in the country.
The professors are very earnest in
their attempts 10 stop this. They have
appointed q committee. and n govern
ment councillor. Herr QueuSeI. Of
Cologne, viii report on the matter. Al
the universities in Germany are invited
20 support the movement. which is
chiefly intended to abolish the many
! rites ind methods which 0U,ige the stu
dents to drink and which are atthr bot
tom y: the training" for drinking.