The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-10-03
Beers MASSING.
Five Thousand of Them Near Dundee,
Natal, and About to Attack.
From All Points in the rransvaal, Natal
and Cape Colony Comes Reports of
Continued Military Activity
Joubert at Laings Mex.

CAPE TowS, Oct. 2.-The Cape Argus
publishes the following dispatch from
Charlestown: "Commandant Gen. JOu-
bert will command the Boer forces at
Laings Mex. This is regarded as the
Transvaal's reply to the movements of
the British troops. There is consid-
cradle uneasiness here"
DUNDEE, Natal, Oct. 2.-Five thousand
Beers are now concentrated in close
proximity to the frontier, and it is re-
ported that they are about to attack
Dundee. The most complete precau-
tons have been taken.
Charlestownis deserted. All the wom-
en- and children have left and not more
than 10 men are now there. A locomo-
tive is ready to bring away the rail-
way staff.
NEWCASTLE, Natal, October -Four
thousand Beers are at Sandsprit and
Tolllsrust, just beyond the Natal Dor
der. The Natal police are being called
in from outlying stations, and the local
troops and carbineers are mobllizing
for the defense of Newcastle.
LONDON, Oct. 2.-From all POINTS in
the Transvaal, Natal and Cape Colony
come reports of continued military &C
tivity on the frontiers; and, while the
movement of individual commands as
yet do not show concerted plans, it is
uI6n haf ha
strip of Natal, whose apex is crowned
with the ominous name of Majuba
Hill, will be the center of the coming
storm.
Late Saturday the Beers established
a camp at Scheepers Mex, near Vry-
held, and they will mobilize a great
force on the Buffalo river Monday,
which the authorities at Dundee ex-
pect will move across the border to
that point, probably at once. 1t is be-
lieved that a conflict at this point will
certainly occur early in the week.
At the same time the Beers are col
Letting a force of 1000 men, under the
notorious Commandant Cronje, in the
Mulmani gold fields, near Mafeking,
where Col. Baden Powell is stationed.
Dispatches from Tuli, Rhodesia, an
nounced that another force of burgh-
ers is massed at Petersburg, so miles
south. and that outlying parties are
posted at all the drifts along the Linn
popo river.
In the meantime Col. Plummer's col
umn is moving so miles nearer the
Transvaal frontier, and has .estab lish-
ed telephone connections to within six
miles of Rhodesia drift, on the Linn
popo.
Enthusiastic scenes at all the rail-
way stations have marked the advance
of the Natal volunteers.
Dispatches from Mafeking announce
that Comma dant Cronje, commander
Of the Transvaal border police, crossed
the border and visited Chief Baralolga,
apparently with the object of melting
him to fight. The British civil COM
missioner ordered the chief to stay
and protect the women and children,
telling him that he would not be able
to fight.
JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 2.-The COM
Wandering orders are completed and
the burghers are ready for the field. A
large body passed through the town
Saturday afternoon.
Business has virtually ceased. The
merchants have finished barracading
premises, and the proprietors of the
drinking saloons expect to receive
notification to close their establish
| mentS.
A party of 200 Germans has been
notified to leave and the Irish corps,
commanded by Blake, an Irish Ameri-
can. will go early in the week.
Three trains filled with armed
burghers for the Natal border were
Sunday evening reported as unable to
leave Braalfontein, owing to block
on the line, which has disorganized
the whole train service.
Two thousand passengers left Sat
urday by the morning and afternoon
trains and nearly thousand more by
outgoing trains Saturday night.
The government undertakes to pro-
vide for the families of the burghers
w no 60 to the front.
Cold Snap in Wisconsin.