The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-10-25
! He B0ER'S WAR.
Ve.y Little Fighting Done So Far
in the Transvaal.
FLOWING UP OF soERs.
The Beers Lost Several Hun
red Killed at Mafeking,
at Which Place They
,n. Doo,,tec y
Were Repulse d.

The London Daily News Capetown
con spondent says: 1T is rumored
her.. that news has reached Deaax
Junction that the Beers attacked
Ms;eking in force, but were repulsed.
The defenders, seeing the enemy re-
trea ing, pursued them for some dis
tancc, allowing themselves to be driven
in v the Beers, who, eager to retrieve
the;r position, again advanced to attack
and were drawn over Lyddite mines
lsit for the defense Of the town. 1t is
reported that l, 500 Beers were killed
by he explosion.
it is reported from Delagoa bay
tina. the Ssazi king, Bunu. is collect
ing his forces with the object, pre-
sur.ably, of attacking tie Beers. 1t
is stated that the Portuguese forces at
Del goa bay will be raised to war
strcr 9Th. 1t is announced from Pre-
tor;a that an eccentric person known as
Baron Deginsberg has been courtmar-
tialci and shot as spy. Plans Of the
local forts were found in his possession.
Tie Capetovn correspondent OF The
Daily Mail, telegraphing at 10 o'clock
Thursday night, says: ''Ary burg sur
rendered Sunday Touight's dis
patches from Kuruman, 80 miles west
By south of Vryburg, state that the po-
lice having Withdrawn from Vryburg,
the town surrendered 70 the Roers. the
inhabitants fleeing in all directions,
mos,ly toward Kuruman. When the
police withdrew the Cape Beers mott
fed the fact to the enemy, thus invlt-
ing them to take possession. There
was fearful panic The British are
wildly indignant at this scuttling."
A special dispatch to the Cape Argus
reiterates the statement that the fight,
ing at Mafeking Col. Hore repulsed the
Beers, inficting less Of 300 men.
Com plants Of Boer outrages upon the
natives centinuetoa arrive. These serve
further to infane the Basutos and
Zulus. Yesterday one hundred and
fifty Basutos from johannesburg ar
rl7ed at Burshersdorp, Cape Colony,
aa6 alleged that the Beers had robbed
them wholesale and logged them with
stblack snakes" The party, which in
cluded a son of Chief Lsrothodi, was
supplied with provisions, and the Ba-
suites then started homeWard: cheering
for the queen and chanting war songs.
The Cape Times publishes the follow
ing dispatch from Kimberley: 'Reli-
able information from Mafekipg says
that an armored train, while reconnoi-
tering north cf the town last Saturday,
engaged 500 Boers, who suffered heavi-
". Col. Fitz Clarcnces column folled
the Beers, infictiog severe loss. The
British casualties were two killed and
fourteen wounded, two severely.
sk1RNIsHED NEAR KIMBERLEY.
The Beers suffered reverse on Sun.
day at Spruitfol tein, ten miles south OF
Kimberley. An armored train went
out to bring in train reported to have
been captured by the Beers near the
Spruitfontein siding. A party of Beers
who were encamped nearby lowered the
railway signal and displayed a white
flag, apparently with the idea of induc
ing the train to proceed. The driver
suspected that the Beers were IN pos
session and stopped the train, where.
upon Beers issued in large force and
opened FIRE, but without any effect.
The soldiers replied from the train
and about half dozen Beers we're
killed. The British we're unseratched.
Seven hundred Beers surprised party
Of thirteen Cape Colony police who
were guarding the railway at Riverton
Road, Is miles north of Kimberley, on
Sunday morning. The police retired:
A terrific explosion was heard later and
it is believed that the Beers blew ap
the station.
A relief party Of 2o police sent from
Kimberley met the Boers near River
ton. The enemy displayed a white Tag
to induce the troops to fall into their
,--er. but the police We're ordered to re-
tire. Then the Beers opened heavy
fire upon t1eu, dischargiug about 4O0
rounds. A bullet struck the horse OF
Surgeon Major Sullivan, who, with a
trooper whose horse had stumbled and
dislnounted him, was captured.