Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-13


ner opened with maxim and two guns
of the diamond field artillery sent in
support. He came into action at 5:47
p. m. and continued firing until dusk.
"Our further casualties were Private
Lub5e, of the Cape police, who was
shot through the head and who died
ON arriving at the hospital, and Ser
geant Watermange, of the Kimberley
division of the Cape police, who was
wounded but is doing well.
Col Kekewich is unable TO state
the enemy's loss, but believes these
MUST HAVE BEEN SEVERE,
judging from the precipitate retreat OF
the Beers.
.At $40 p. m. the enemy opened fire
with one piece of artillery from Kam-
pers Dam on Ottos Kopie, the latter
being held by the Cape police. The
enemy inflicted no damage"
A BOER REPULSE.
LONDON, November 12.-The fol-
lowing dispatch from Col Baden-Pow-
ell, British commander of Mafeking,
dated October 25th, and forwarded by
Gen. Butler. was posted this evening
by the war Office
"All is well here After two days
shelling and heavy bombardment,
body of the enemy made an attack on
three sides of the town which was re-
pulsed by our maxim fire. The enc
my is now drawing off. Our casualties
were slight.
Lieut.. Llewellyn, with several arm
ored trains, drove off the enemy at
Crocodile Pool on Wednesday, killing
eight
THE CANADIAN CONTINGENT.
LONDON, November 1.-THE Alan
line steamer, SARDINIA, from Montreal
and Quebec, with the Canandian con-
tingent for South Africa, has arrived
at ST. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands.
MEETING OF CONSULS.
CAPE TOWN, November S.-A dis
patch from Pretoria, dated yesterday,
says that the foreign consuls hold
weekly meetings at the residence of the
Italian diplomatic agent to discuss
matters of international interest.
According to the same correspondent,
the Rose Deep and Fereira Deep, with
ten other mines, are working. White
and black labor is plentiful and the
mint is busy coming gold.
GOT BACK ALIVE.
ORANGE RIVER, Cape Colony. No
yember S.-A squadron of the Ninth
Lancers. with company Of mounted
infantry, reconnoitered to-day in a
southeasterly direction, returning by
way of Pecasville, without incident.
The excursion had the effect of disquiet-
ing the inhabitants of the district.
GRANDSON OF JEFFERSON DAVIS
KILLED.
HALIFAX, n. S., November r.
Lieut.. c. c. Wood, of the North Lam
cashire regiment, reported fatally
wounded at Kimberley, and whose
death was subsequently announced in
Saturday evenings cable message, was
grandson of Jefferson Davis, presi-
dent OF the Southern Confederacy, and
a great grandson of President Zachary
Taylor His father is Captain ]. Tay-
lor Wood, who has resided in Halifax
since the close of the war between the
North and South. Captain Wood fig
ured with great distinction as naval
lieutenant and commander in that war,
his last command being the cruiser Tall
lahassee. Lieut. Wood was born in
Halifax and educated in the Canadian
royal military college al Kingston,
Ont
He is the first graduate Of that COL
lege to die in battle and the first Cam
adam to fall in the present war In
South Africa. The young man served
in India before going. to South Africa
He had a promising future. He has
brother in the Canadian military SER
Woe, who is in command Of the mount
ed police in the Yukon.
ENTHUSIASM AT DURHAM
DURHAM Natal, November S.-Wed-
nesday- Percy Scott, of the
first class protected cruiser Terrible,
has been appointed commandant here
in the place of Major Bethune, who
will assume active command Of the
mounted Outlander corps.
The march Of the naval brigade, with
twenty guns, through the town, was
an inspiring one. The band of the
Terrible, standing outside the town
hall, played the popular airs and the
crowds along the line of march ex-
hibited intense enthusiasm.
Another batch of Beer prisoners has
arrived. The British wounded will go
to Cape Town tomorrow.
Since hOstilities begun there have
been small factional fights along the
Pondoland border. but otherwise the
natives there have been quiet The
natives at Maritzburg however, owing
TO the situation al Laaysmith, are be-
coming nervous and beginning 10 seek
places which they think safe.
FPTTTT ESS F-0(N0TSS ANTH
LONDON, November 13.-The war
office this morning issued the following
official dispatch from Cape Town, dated
Sunday. November 18th, noon:
''Col. Cough, al Orange River, re-
ports that during the reconnaissance
of fifteen miles TO a point nine miles
west of Belmont on November 10th, the
officers OF the patrol first came on a
Boer position taken upon a great semi
circle ridge, standing out into a
plateau. They endeavored TO make
the Beers develop their strength By
demonstrating with two squadrons OF
the Ninth Lancers and a field battery
on the left wing, with one and one-half
companies OF mounted infantry on the
right wing and with artillery in the
middle of the plateau out OF the in
fantry fire.
''The enemy began by firing al our
cavalry from a gun at the north end.
As the cavalry, in open order. began
n eireI.s aro,luS then, tho hills oao-,nrS