The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-18
TRIED TO K|LLLA
Latest and DiaboicaI Develop
ment of the Fight Against
Dreyfus.
Els CaIEF COUNSEL SHOT DOWN.
Assassin Waylays Him as He Goes to
Attend the Court.

Rennes, France, Aug. IA man am
aushed Maitre Labor, counsel for Drey-
Jus, and one shot was fired, hitting
Labor. NJ. Labor fell in the roadway.
Maitre Labor left his house alone for
he court at about o'clock this morn
ng. He had reached a point half way
On his journey when two men who had
evidently been laying in wait for him
rushed out of a narrow lane and one Of
hem fired a single shot from re-
vOlVer. The assassin escaped.
The would-be assassin was evidently
crank and looked a workman. His
weapon was a revolver, the theatre Of
the crime the Quay Richemont.
Rennes, Aug. 15.-The following bull
letin regarding the condition of M.
Labori has been issued: Temperature
37.05. No fever. Condition stationary"
There had been, therefore, aslight i'm
prOvement. NJ. LabOris mother arrived
here last evening She had believed him
dead, and a most affecting interview
ensued
Rennes, Aug. 16.-Owing to the op-
position of Major Carriere, the govern
ment commissary, the court martial
has refused the application of Maitre
Damange for an adjournment of the
trial until Monday.
Rennes, Aug. 16.-At o'clock last
evening M. Labor was removed in an
ambulance to the residence of Profess
sOr Basch, in a suburb of Rennes. He
stood the journey we'll, although natur-
ally fatigued. The doctors are extreme
ly hopeful of a speedy recovery, but
consider it would be unwise for him to
return to court until there is absolutely
no danger of Il relapse. -~~
Paris, Aug. demonstration oc-
Cured last evening outside the offices
Of the anti-Semite League, where Jules
Guerin, president of the league, and
Max Regis, the former Jew-baiting
mayor of AIgiers, against whom orders
of arrest were issued Saturday on
charge of cOnspiring to bring about a
government,
sieged by the police. These men are
barricaded in the building and armed.
They say they will kill auy officer who
attempts their arrest. Fifty anti
Semites took up a position in a restau-
rant opposite, and NJ. Guerin harangued
them from a window. Finally the po-
lice closed the thOroughfare to prevent
the demonstration becoming serious.
In the course Of the evening M. Code
frey, president of the committee of the
Jeunese ROyalists was arrested and q
dispatch from Saint Lo. capital of the
department OF Manche, announces the
arrest of NJ LIE Menuet, secretary Of
the League Of Patriots.
'sPatriots'' Charged with treason.
All this is continuation of a raid
Of the police begun Saturday morning
on the 'PatriOts" and anti-Semites, and
the accusation is treason. Paul De-
roulede was the first arrested He is
the founder of the League of Patriots
and & member Of the deputies. His ar
rest on the charge of high treason is
the graVeSt affair in the last ten years
in France, and may be the beginning
of revolution. The government, I'M
der the firm hand CT Premier Waldeck-
Rousseau, is determined to crush out
the threatened rebellion against the re-
public in it's infancy DerOulede will
be tried before the high court, a tri-
bunal that has not been evoked since
BOulanger's lay.
Some Others Under Arrest.
NJ BaTiller, the former companion OF
Henri ROchefOrt when the latter es-
capped from France, and De Ramel have
also been arrested, with De Sabran,
POntayes, Dunay, Michaelin, Godefrey,
De FreChancOurt, De Frescheville Geo.
Thiebault escaped arrest by jumping
through a window. The son of General
Maillard is among those under arrest.
He was the director of Patrie Fran
caise, the newspaper which Deputy
ClOvis-Huges charged with being Sc
ditious on account of its asking officers
Of the French army to vote on the
question whether or not a change in
the present form of government is de-
sirable
Plot Against the Republic.
The reason for these Wholesale ar
rests lies in the fact that in searching
the apartments of the accused definite
knowledge was obtained by the gov
eminent of q plot against the republic.
1t IS announced that in the progress Of
the investigation it was discovered that
the Duke d'Orleans had sent a teIe-
gram worded, ''All OR men are ready"
and another one sent after the failure
of Deroulede to induce General Roget
to lead the army to the Elysee on the
day of LOubet's election, saying, ct is
useless to come"
DRAMATIC SCENES IN COURT.