The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21
FRANCIS JOSEPH
EIGHTY YEARS old
Withstands Ceremonies With
Wonderful Ease
COUNTRY rs AT PEACE
my on Frontier Is Abandoned
ON Account. of Chambers,
1t Is Said

Vienna, August 2o.-(Special 1.-THE EN-
peror has stood the fatigue of the cere'
monies of his SOth birthday wonderful,
well. He was born August is, 1880, anc
acceded to the throne In 1913. Only two
of the present reigning monarchs hao
been born when the Emperor ascended
the throne He was the recipient of many
congratulations both from home and
abroad and was in better spirits than he
had been for some time. This is perhaps
due to the fact that there is less unrest
In the empire than has been the case
for many years.
Some days ago rumors were, spread
that in the cavalry garrisons in Galicia
CHAMBERS had appeared among the horses
and men are also liable to be attacked
especially violent in two of the cavalry
regiments the first plan proposed was
to withdraw these from the maneuyers
and replace them by others.
A change OF province was also dis
cussed by the generals, under the pres
idency of the commander-in-chief, the
Archduke Francis Ferdinand. The EN-
peror has decided that the Galcian ma
neuvers shall be entirely abandoned this
year.
In official circles 1t is emphasized that
this change of plan has been occasioned
merely by the epidemic of CHAMBERS. The
view, however, can scarcely be avoided
that the abandonment of the maneuvers
on the Russian frontier may also have
been brought about by political consider
atoms.
DR.. Teltscher, trustee of the missing
Archduke Johann. alias Johann Orth, has
tremendously difficult task in ifpuiring
into the daily increasing number of ro-
mantle stories by persons who more OF
less positively declare they saw Orth alive
after the departure of the Santa Marga-
reta from La Plata on July IL, 1890.
The statement of the Frenchman Rem
aux seems the most important. He de-
clares that as an employe of the harbor
works at La Plata he was instructed to
examine the cargoes of cement from Eng
land. and consequently was often on
board the Santa Margareta- He noticed
that there were really two commanders
one was called captain and the other
Don Juan Orth by the crew.
Renaux made the latter's acquaintance
and was told by him that OWL to differ
ences with the captain and several at
tempts on his life during the voyage he
was forced to leave the ship and settle
as a farmer in the Argentine.
Renaux once accompanied Orth to look
over his farm. which was surrounded by
primeval forest, and he is sure that Orth
bought this for another farm.
Renaux met Orth again in August and
December of 1890, at Rio Quarto and
Buenos Ayres respectively, when Ortiz
asked him to forget his name and simply
call him Don Juan.
Renaux thinks that Orth is living as a
farmer in the Argentine, but may again
have changed his name.
A Trieste merchant named Demanius
declares that he spoke to Orth who then
called himself Cabaellero, in Buenos
Ayres in 1894.
The Belgian explorer. Lecointe, thinks a
hunter named Friedrich often, an accom-
plished gentleman, with a large library,
whom he met living in a tent In Pata-
gona, may be identical with Orth, whom
he greatly resembled.
According to another detailed report,
Orth, under the name OF Barton Otto, WIS.,
tied Paris last winter, where he con-
ferred with several lawyers, to whom he
revealed his Identity and returned via
London to America.
DR.. Degre also writes that Professor
Sisto at the Buenos Ayres university told
him that Orth Is still living and In Periods
receives sums of money from Austria.