The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02
KISSES ENDED
 AWFUL DUEL

iNOHlts <tplll lt-iRPCSAoi'f o'Si which had dashes of comedy, tragedy and farce was recently fought at Flor ence, between Count Bastogi and Count Di Bruno, though it started tragically, ended in kisses. The counts quarreled over the murder of Princess Trigona. The duelists. assisted by four mem- hers of the nobility, assembled in the garden of a villa lest the encounter should be prevented by the police. The conditions of the duel were that swords should be used.
 At the first assault Bastogi sus tained a scalp wound, and the doctors decided that the duel could not con tinue. as the wound was serious. A reconciliation was effected, and there and then the adversaries fell fnto each others arms, kissed and embraced with great cordiality
 The duel was followed by dinner in which the principals drank to each others h edith.
 Nicenza of Antonio Fogazzaro, the famous Italian writer and poet, who died recently, though trained as a law yer he practiced his profession but lit- tie, and gave himself up to literary pursuits.
 His writings brought him into con- flict with the vatican, where his views on religion and evolution were con- sidered unorthodox. The crisis came with the issue of his book The Saint" which is the story of a mans repent ance and purification after previous gross sin.
 This book was placed on the Index Fogazzaro bowed to the will of the church and withdrew the book from circulation. at immense loss to himself He said he preferred peace of soul to money. He was member of the sen ate.
 The Pope has pronounced major ex- communication against three English schismatic priests. The priests named are Herbert Ignatius Bealo and Arthur William Howarth of the diocese of Not tingham, and Arnold Harris Mathew. The fact does not originate from any doctrinal question but is solely the con sequence of ambitious.
 Harris is in origin Protestant con- verted, who entered the ranks of the Catholic clery, who. -after some time separated himself from the church, and having remained for some years in the condition of a layman, went to Utrecht to the Jansenist church, asking eps-
 
 bishop. He obtained It.
 At last a union of the American acad- emy in Rome and the American School Of Classical studies nas been effected The school was organized in 1895 and owes it's support to voluntary subscrip- tlons of friends and appropriations from American universities and colleges. Another arrest has been noada hv th police in connection with the crime at the Boglio bank, where robbery was attempted and the caretaker and his sister were murdered. The woman was strangled and the man was suffocated between two pillows The thieves had ransacked cupboards and drawers, but their attempts to force two great safes were unsuccessful. Three arrests were made, one of the persons being clerk in the ministry of marine. The latter has confessed to complicity in the rob bery. but denies any participation in the murders
 The arrest just made is that of an ironsmith who is charged with supply ing the false keys and the circular saw used in trying to force the safes The police, through finger print clues, hope to arrest the other accomplices. The Duke and Duches sof Connaughr are expected April 21 when the duke will present King Victor Emmanuel with letter from King George, ex- pressing his feieitations on the fiftieth anniversary of the Italian unity. Brit ish, French, Austro- Hungarian and Ger man fleets will take part in the fes- tivities at Naples next July, when the ffteth anniversary of the establish ment of the Italian navy will be cele- hraf e6