Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-11-02

ACTIVE
Reported Ships Ordered
Ready to Proceed
to Cape.
Said Also That Russian
Vessels are to Follow
Them.
Both British and Beers
Are Preparing for
Hard Fighting.

IolN hNIIS'
Paris, Oct. 2S.-The Journal asserts
that five cruisers of the French squad
ron now at the Piraeus port of Athens
have been ordered to place themselves
in readiness to go to Cape of Good
Hope.
Russian Ships to Follow.
| Paris, Oct ga dispatch to the
Petit Journal from Toulon says:
"Two or three of the fastest cruisers
have been ordered to go to Delagoa
Bay, and Russian warships will follow
them" The Figaro, while pointing
out the contradictory rumors from
Toulon on the subject of the dispatch
of the naval division from the south
east coast says: 1T is certain that the
cruiser Cassard sailed from Toulon FOR
Port Said on receipt of an important
telegram enclosing sealed orders"
Both Sides Preparing.
London, Oct. 2S.-The war situation
this morning presents no new features.
1t is presumed in Natal that the beers
are reconStructng their plans and that
the English are resting, but kilograms
from Ladysmith still occupy As hours
in transmission to London; therefore it
is not impossible something is happen
ing. Special dispatches assert that
Col. Baden-Powell, British commander
at Mafelling, is aware that Pretoria
has given Gen. Cronje orders to stay
his hand, as already there is quite
enough to employ the beers in Natal.
Miners Counter Proclamation.
Capetown, Oct 2S.-Sir Alfred Mil
ner, governor Of Cape Colony, and w.
F. Schreiner, premier, have issued a
proclamation declaring null and void
the proclamation of Orange Free State
tSStl llllSo lllil Il pOl llOll VI SApC Soiohy
is now Free State territory. Sir AL
fred Miners proclamation warns all
British subjects in Cape Colony of
their duty and obligations to the
queen.
Outwitted the Beers.
London, Oct. 2S.-rhe Daily Tele-
graph publishes the following dispatch
from Ladysmith dated Tuesday:
Gen. Symons ordered the column to
march back to Ladysmith, and under
instructions, himself and all the
wounded We're placed in the hospital
at Dundee. 1t is supposed the beers,
puzzled by the retirement, imagined a
trick was being prepared and therefore
remained at Dundee watching their
guns, instead of pursuing the British.
The Daily Telegraph has the following
from Ladysmith dated Wednesday:
Our cavalry patrols have been fired
on this forenoon and chased by the
enemy near the scene of the Reitfon-
TEN engagement. Beers show signs of
becoming aggressive. We learned OF
the capture of the hussars from Com
mandant General Joubert.'
Spies to Be Shot.
Durham, Oct Delayed) MANY
spies have been arrested here and some
of them will be shot. On the strength
of representations made by the mayor
of Durham and the governor of Natal,
Sir Walter Francis Hutchinson
has prohibited the landing of all Brit
ish refugees. Undesirable persons of
All nationalities will be rigidly exclud-
ed. Already there are too many of
this class in Durham.
Want No Intermeddling.
London, Oct. S.-Commenting upon
the petition to President Mckinley,
promoted by the New York World,
urging that the good offices of the
United States be offered in settling the
differences between Great Britain and
the Transvaal the Standard says:
we very much doubt whether the
WASHINGTON government will at all APP
preciate the suggestion but in any case
/
Germs. particularly for those whom It
does not concern, to understand that
the Transvaal question is one which
exclusively affects ourselves, which we
propose to settle without assistance or
Intervention of any kind"
Cecil Rhodes Watches Fight.
Cape Town, Oct, 2S.-According to
further adyices from Kimberley the
beers removed their killed and wound
cd in carts. No reliable estimate 81
their losses has been made. Rhodes
roed out to watch the fight. Towns
people including women, mounted the
trenches. watching eagerly for the re-
turn of the troops
No Franco Russian Intervention.
Paris. Oct. 2s.-An authoritative