The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-15
Military Suspected of Planning 10
Overthrow Government.
SENSATIONAL CHARGES
GENERALS BOISDEFFRE AND
PELLIEUX INVOLVED.
Prince Louis Bonaparte Is Also
Charged With Being Implicated
Government Refuses to Give In
formation Concerning Discovery
of the Alleged Conspiracy.

Paris, Oct. 14.-It is announced here
this morning that a military plot
against the government has been dis
covered. The RaDpel, Aurore and
Petit Republique Franchise publish al
most identical stories on the subject. II
appears the plot was discovered by q
general holding an important position
The plotterS were to have taken action
on Saturday during the absence of the
minister ot war; General Chanoine. Ii
further appears that when the govern
ment was warned of the plot the min
listers were not surprised, having al
ready obtained information regarding
the conspiracy.
The Matin says the plot was not IT
favor of one of the pretenders to the
throne of France, who has been talked
about for some time, but was only for
the purpose of changing certain officials
of the government, without touching
the president. The premier, NJ. Brisson
was among those who were not sur
prised when notified OF the plot. He
promised to take action in the mat
ter.
The Liberte asserts that the military
men alleged to have been concerned in
the conspiracy are Generals BoiSdeffre
and PellieuX. Attempts, it is added,
were also made to compromise General
Zurlinden, the military governor of
Paris, who, for short time, was min
lister of war, but it appears the present
minister of war, General Chanoine, re-
fused to countenance it, According to
the Jour, the rumor of the plan arose
from forged letter purporting TO have
been sent by General Boisdeffre to Gen
eral Zurlinden, containing the words:
Let us be ready for Saturday"
The semi official Temps this evening
minimiZes the affair and says the Of
ficials of the ministry of war formally
deny that a plot existed. The TEMPS
suggests that misinterpretation was
placed on some of the numerous dis
patches now being exchanged between
the different garrisons in connection
with the present movement of troops,
which led to strange reports OF plots.
The government officials here refuse
to furnish any information regarding
the discovery of the plot, but it is ru-
mored this afternoon that the conspir-
acy involved Prince Louis Bonaparte,
a colonel of Russian lancers, in whose
favor his elder brother. Prince Victor
BonSparte, recently resigned the lead
ership of the imperialist party. It is
pdded that certain political personages
handed the premier important iocu-
ments, including a cipher dispatch COM
promising certain military men.
1t is impossible to pick out the truth
from the mass of rumorS current re-
garding the alleged military plot. The
general idea is that it was intended by
a pretended revisionist demonstration
designed to insult and provoke the
army into some act which might have
led to the arrest and incarceration Of a
Dreyfusite, and proclamation of a mil
itary government.
Apparently the Orleanists were at the
bottom Of the movement, and an Eng
liSh duke is mentioned. There is little
doubt that the plot has been 2rostrat-
ed, but very uneasy feeling prevails