Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1899 — ROW AT THE PEACE CONGRESS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ROW AT THE PEACE CONGRESS.

The Husband of an American Girl May Have to Fight One or More Duels. The peace congress at The Hague has developed many rows that may eventually lead to something more serious. It is not unlikely that a duel or two will result from this gathering, where everything was supposed to move along peacefully and harmoniously. Rechid Bey, secretary to the head of the Turkish delegation, figures prominently in one of these quarrels and is after the scalp of a couple of Turkish and Armenian reformers who tried to get the conference to stop the Sultan from butchering Armenians. Rechid is very close to the Sultan and this stirred up his Turkish blood to such a degree that he challenged the two reformers. Duelling is against the laws of Holland and, anyway, would hardly fit in a peace congress, so the reformers

were expelled from the country and are now in Paris waiting for Rechid Bey to come along and fight them. The prospective dueling is of interest to Americans principally because the wife of Rechid Bey is a Yankee girl. She is Miss Edith Collins, once the ward of Chauncey M. Depew, and her marriage to Rechid Bey, Count Czaykowski, in 1897, in Paris, occasioned considerable surprise. It was rumored at one time that she was to marry her guardian. She is finely educated, strikingly beautiful and is very wealthy. Her husband is a brilliant diplomat, an adviser to the Sultan and has a handsome fortune. He has a fiery temper, however, as the incident related shows.

COUNTESS CZAYKOWSKI.