The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-15
MORE ARRESTS In FRANCE.
Conspiracy to Overthrow the Govern
ment Seams widespread-Guerin
Barricadod In His House.

PARIS, Aug. 14.--Demonstrations oo-
Cured outside the offices of the Anti.
Semitic League where Jules Guerin,
president of the league, and Max Regis,
the former Jew batting mayor of
Algiers, against whom orders of arrest
were issued Saturday on charge OF
conspiring to bring about a change of
government, were still besieged by the
| police.
Fifty anti -Semites took up position
in restaurant opposite and M. Guerin
| harangued them from window.
Finally the police closed the thorough.
fare TO prevent the demonstration be-
coming serious.
In the course of the evening Mr.. Code
| frey, president of the committee Of the
| Jeunesse royalists, was arrested and a
| dispatch from Saint Lo, capital of the
department of Manche,, announced the
arrest Of M. lie Menuet, secretary OF
League of Patriots.
1t appears that the report Of the ar
| rest of M. Marcel. Habert, member of
the ch amber of deputies for Rambouil-
let and high official Of the League of
Patriots, was incorrect, He is still at
large.
Out of 81 warrants issued some rs
have been executed.
M. Paul Deroulede, founder of the
League of Patriots and member of the
chamber of deputies for the Augouleme
division of Charente, was arrested Sat
urday at his estate at Croissy, near
Paris. He was incarcerated in the Con-
ciergerie prison.
The arrest of M. Mariel-Habert was
expected.
When an attempt was made to arrest
M. Guerin he refused to surrender and
barricaded himself in his house. NJ.
Guerin announced he will blow up his
house before he surrenders.
The police closed the offices Of the Pa
triotic League. which were guarded by
gendarmes.
Several members of the anti.Semite
and Patriotic Leagues were also ar
rested.
On the application Of M. Fabre, fresh
searches of various houses were made,
including the headquarters of the anti
Semltes, where only unimportant papers
were seized.
A semi official note, issued Saturday,
read as follows: "a certain number of
arrests were made this morning, as the
result of magisterial inquiry and by
virtue of article 80 of the penal code,
regarding a conspiracy organized for the
purpose of accomplishing a change in
the form of government. The persons
implicated belong to the group Of Roy
alist Youth and the Patriotic and Anti
Semitic Leagues. At the trial of the
Neuilly barrack affair facts relating to
that incident alone were used as the
basis of the prosecutions; but searches
were then made and then documents
were seized which led to the discovery
of an organization, dating back to July,
1898, and of plot to seize the govern
ment by force. The documents leave
no room for doubt, either in regard to
the existence OF the plot or as to the
chief actors therein. After very close
watch. organized proof was obtained
that the same groups were preparing
for fresh attempt at an early date, the
proof being such as to enable the dis
turbances to be averted by immediate
measures. The investigation of the af-
fair Is intrusted to M. Fabre, examining
magistrate"
A police commissary called at the res
idence Of M. Thiebault, on the Quay
Voltaire, and number of policemen
surrounded the house. But M. THE
bault escaped by balcony to an adjoln-
ing house,
The police seized the Drapeau news.
paper office.
The house of Andre de Buffet, repre-
sentative of the Duke of Orleans and
vice president of the Young Royalist
League, was searched and number of
papers were seized. Buffet was ar
rested at Feiguier, on the frontier. as he
was about to cross into Belgium.
M. Mailliard of The Petit Parisian
staff was arrested on the charge of urg-
ing soldiers to plebiscite on the form Of
government.
1t was stated that the government
possessed precise and detailed instruc.
tions from the Due d'Orleans to his
agents.
Those already arrested include Comte
de Sabran Ponteves, Comte Chevilly,
M. de Monicourt, secretary of the Jeun-
dsse royaists, and M. de Frechencourt,
wee president of the Geillet Blanc, or
White Carnation society.
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