The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1904-09-15

fire simultaneously. When young
O'Connell's conditions were made
known the bullying Briton declined to
fight.
Two expert swimmers, whose repu.
tations are international, engaged in q
hot argument one night several years
ago at beach near Boston, and a
novel duel was the result. They
agreed to swim at midnight, straight
out to sea, in the rays of the moon
light, no boats to follow, until one or
the other became exhausted. They
swan several miles, and the Boston
swimmer towed his adversary back
to the beach and restored him to con.
sciousness.
Less than ten years ago two lccomo.
tive engineers in Texas, who had sew.
eral petty differences which they
wished to settle, decided upon a most
original duel. Taking two engines,
they went out upon plain on the
same track, and when half q mile lay
between them they whistled for the
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throttles wide and hurled their loco
motives at each other with tremen.
dous speed. In a few seconds there
was a frightful crash, the boilers ex-
ploded and the explosion was heard
for miles, attracting large crowd to
the scene. 1t was found that the two
engines had collided and that the two
engineers had been killed. The alb.
sence of firemen in the locomotives
brought out the fact that duel had
taken place.
Capt. Castentenus, Barnum's origi-
nal tattooed man, who died few
years ago, engaged in a peculiar duel
many years ago.
Castentenus was a Greek and in
early life belonged to a crew of pi.
rates which operated in the Aegean
sea. When pirating proved hazardous
on account of cruising war vessels
he had himself tattooed from head to
foot, came over to America and be.
came very popular freak.
During his career as buccaneer
he became enamored of very pretty
girl, daughter Of the mate of the
blackfiag craft which he commanded,
but he had rival. Under oaths which
bound them together they could not
fight, and SO they appealed to the
girls father to decide their respective
claims upon his daughters hand. The
father knew Castentenus and his rival
as desperate men, and SO he resolved
upon desperate method to test their
love for. his daughter. He outlined his
proposition to them and both accept.
ed
One night he went into the small
forecastle and set barrel of sulphur
ablaze, and then ordered both men to
60 down into the sitting gases and to
remain there for ten minutes. They
did as he directed, and upon the ex.
piration Of that time he signaled the
lovers to come forth.
Castentenus, who was man of re.
markable physical powers, groped and
staggered UP the companionway to
the deck, bearing on his shoulders the
limp and unconscious form of his ri.
val. Castentenus was bleeding from
the eyes, ears and nose. When he got
into the fresh air he swooned. He
revived an hour later, but his rival
passed into the great beyond. He had
lived but few moments after being
carried out by the tattooed man.
The woman for whom the great sac
riice was made never married, for
she was taken sick and died In few
weeks.
There have been electrical duels,
duels with poison wherein two rivals
have dared each other to quar- q
deadly draught at specified time,