The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
YELLOW FEVER
 RUINS BUSINESS People Are Fleeing From Ital-
 ian Cities NOBLEMEN FIGHT DUEL Total Result; Smashed Telephone Re- ceiver and n Suit of Clothes SoiIed by Bucket of Dirty Water
 
NOBLEMEN FIGHT DUET

Rome, October S.-(Special.) )-The yellow fever outbreak which threatens to be- come an epidemic will be big setback to the country. It has already injured business and 1t is feared that travellers will avoid the country until the danger | is over. Travellers leave millions here annually. Indeed there are hotels and inns whose existence is dependent upon ! them. A number of wealthy Neapolitans who contemplated going to Paris to avoid the cholera plague had to change their plans because of the announcement that the French authorities were likely to quarantine them at Bercy. It Is said that one-third of the people of Naples have left that city. A number went to Switz- erland, many to London. A batch of Italians who had left their homes at Brooklyn, N. T., intending to pass the winter in Naples and whereabouts, have returned to the United States. One reason assigned for the cholera is that the people have been eating heartily of oysters cultivated in water contami- mated by sewage. Every undertaken in the city is busy conducting funerals and their facilities are limited. Two Genoese noblenen with pedigrees a yard long and bank accounts half an inch in length conversed over telephones one night recently; each told the other what he thought about, the words 'dast- ard,' Coward" ..mountebank" and "poldroon" were banded by the bellig- erents. Finally the more furious one challenged the other to a duel. He got this reply: T will designate my hostler to meet you" Whereupon the challenger drew revolver and fired three shots into the mouthpiece of the telephone. The following day he swaggered around | in the wine shops and declared he had met Count de Somebody in combat and wounded him. The Count de Somebody, who heard of the swashbuckler's boast | ing, came upon him in a restaurant and emptied three buckets of dirty water over him. The police had to interfere. A fearful tragedy of three years ago In 1 Sardina is brought to mind by the trial of two assassins, one woman. A Sar- dinian tax collector, Giovanni Esposito, | was going his rounds in the suburbs of Sassari, when Anna. who, with the aid | of her cook, Diego Marzeddu, knocked the official senseless, battered out his brains, cut the body into pieces and cremated the remains in a kitchen oven. | She has been sentenced to the galleys | for life, while her accomplice has been condemned to 20 years Imprisonment at | hard labor
 | The Catholics of this city announce | their intention to find out whether the king and his cabinet stand for the offen- sive conduct of Mayor Nathan? If he l Is acting on his own initiative or if he is lcarrying out their programme? Former Premier Polloux has given mo- tice that he will interpellate the govern ment in reference to the guarantees | against insults to the Pope, which guar antees, he charges, were violated by Mayor Nathan in his recent speech and subsequent anti-yatican letters.
 The Countess Tarnewska, who is eager l lya awaiting the result of her appea against the sentence passed upon her al the Kamarowska murder trial, is re- ported to be contemplating marriage with a nobleman belonging to Turin lCount Tarnowska, 1t is understood, has lappealed anew to the synod of Kieff for a divorce from his wife. The Countess is in Jail at Venice.
 There was a robbery very recently at the historic Sforza Castle Milan. A band of thieves broke into the castle and stole an irreplaceable series of coins il- lystrating the numismatic history of the city in the days of the dukedom and the Ambrosian republic.
 
 were visited on their homeward jour ney.
 l Mrs. John Cartwright and her daughter Miss Elizabeth Morris, returned from @ brief visit to Louisville.
 Judge and Mrs. E. C. Grove have pur | r.vu~ Ix avenue. and will take possession of i soon.
 MT. and Mrs. J. B. Francis expect tt spend the winter in Mobile. Dr. Joseph B. Greene of Asheville, N C.. is visiting his mother, Mrs. Robert Greene. at Earle Place.
 Mrs. E. G. Stevens has returned from a motor trip through Canada.
 Mrs. J. C. Burt of Talladega is visiting relatives in this city.
 Mrs Horton is visiting her sister, Mrs E. A. Powers. in Greensboro.
 Mrs. Garrett of Florence is visiting rel. atives in this city.
 
 | Mrs. F. T. Nesbit, Miss Sadie Coplar and Mrs. M. Coplan are here from Flor ence to attend the fair.
 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Badham and MT | and Mrs Webb Crawford are expected home from New York the first of the week.
 Miss Belle Wilkins of Selma arrived yes terday morning to spend several days l with Miss Saidee Gillespy. on her way | to visit in Mississippi.
 Mrs. A. c. Birch has as her guest Mrs F. G. Taylor of Montgomery. | Mrs. J. c. Maben, who had been ex- pectcd to reach Birmingham tonight, will not arrive until some time later in the present week. Her daughter. Miss Bet tie, has gone from New York to At I lantic City. She will remain there about | s.,;n fo