Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — SETTLED WITH BLOOD. [ARTICLE]

SETTLED WITH BLOOD.

An Afl'alc of Honor on the Site of ilie XVoriti’s Fair. Baron Rudolph Kalnoky, son of the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and another guest at tho Richelieu, who for convenience .sake may be called Jones, fought a duel in Jackson Park, Chicago, at an early hour on Sunday. They jabbed each other with rapiers, shed their blood on the gra s, and now Kalnoky is on a train with a wound through his leg, and Jones lies at the Richelieu under a doctor’s care. The meeting was as romantic as the third act of a modern melodrama, with the additional distinction, of being tho first duel fought in Chicago since Pottawattamie warriors hurled'stones at each other in the days before John Went-* worth and civilization landed on those shores. A nobleman, a pretty woman, and an intruding rival, a bottle of wine, an insult, a blow; a challenge, a meeting in the gray mists of a May morn and the click of steel on steel. The-e are the ingredients of a romantic tale which must make every honest burgher of that town feel like a citizen of Verona stalking through the streets with a rapier banging against his heels. The girl who was the cause of the dispute is Mittio Atherton, who wears tights and sings in the Duff Opera Company. She is reported as being pretty, shapely, vivacious, and engaged to marry another man from the duelists.