Show A2VOTIU33C AMERICAN ARRESTED JIlin Engineer and Son of the Late Georsre Tiel nor Curtis XHW YORK Jan 15A local paper jiaj < = Among the Americans who have ben arrested at Johannesburg for alleged conspiracy against the Bci = r government is J S Curtis de rorb ° d in dispatches received hereby here-by London a being a wealthy mining t englr er Further information about l the cause of his arrest ha been sought In vain toy his many friends In this city The prisoner is Joseph Storey Curtis a son of the late George Tick no Curtis and a man of considerable prcminence in the mining circles of the vorld His mother and sisters live in the Kensington apartment house and thy as well as their friends are amazed at the report of his arrest for being one of the leaders in the recent uprising in the Transvaal as he has alwavs been strongly opposed to the English schemes for securing control of the country and has olften mentioned men-tioned the matter in letters written to friends in this city His sympathies have always been with the government govern-ment although he went to Africa originally orig-inally a the agent of an English company com-pany For some months now Mr Curtis has not written home and his mother lia been dependent entirely on newspaper news-paper reports for new of him Al tbxnjirh a American citizen very lit < le of Mr Curtis life has been spent In this country He traveled in Europe Eu-rope for many years and received his education at Priedenburg Germany Eight years ago he was sent to South Africa as an expert mining engineer by an English company to examine gold mines there He has been there ever since During his residence in the Transvaal republic he ha accumulated accum-ulated n fortune and is now one of the wealthiest men there Mr Curtis Is married but has no children |