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Show DUEL FOLLOWS. STRIKE I IX THE HOUSE OF PEERS LISBON, June 14. There was a vio- .H j lent sec no in the Hoiimp of Poors todav during the consideration of the advance I nf money to tho members of the royal house winch resulted in a challenge to fight a duel and acceptance. Alfonso Costa, the Republican leader, charged I it was impossible to probe these scan- . j dais to tho bottom so long as certain j ministers who had been compromised in 'M j the past wero sitting as judges. IIo j named Count Penha-Garcia as such a minister, whereupon the challenge fol- lowed. The duel was fought today. During I the fourth bout the count was wounded ' in the arm. but his injury is not serious. ' There has been no reconciliation be-tween be-tween the two men. |