Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-11-16
NEWS or THE WORLD.
BOER- BRITISH WAR.

Thirty-fve battalions of British
militia were ordered modified.
Half the colonial police OF Newfound-
land may go to fight the beers.
A boer proclamation annexes a part
of Natal to the Orange Free State.
Kimberley is surrounded by 5000
beers.
The French society for the relief OF
the beers Is collecting 81 900 a day.
Beers, thought to be from Mafeking,
reinfroced those investing Kimberley
Reports that Ladysmith has sur
rendered are persistently circulated In
Europe.
Lord Rosebery and other British
liberals in public speeches supported the
government
Paris expects beers to organize pri-
Watering expeditions against English
merchant ships.
A society to recruit and equip vClun-
teers for the Transvaal has been Or
ganized In Paris.
The British In south Africa Will use
lyddite shells each Of which Is capable
of killing 300 men.
The annexation of the upper Tugela
division OF Natal to the Orange Free
State Is proclaimed.
Portugal questions the right OF the
British to do police duty In Delagoa
bay, a Portuguese port.
The Transvaal government Is said to
have issued letters Of marque and
American ship owners offer privateerS.
While the beers were Smelling Lady
smith one OF their camps was surprised
and captured by British detachment.
The beers and Free Staters got much
OF their ordnance from France, having
placed large orders before the war be-
gan.
The Ladysmlth garrison Is reported
short OF supplies. Butler will have
10000 fresh troops by the end OF the
week.
President Steyns proclamation call
ing oil Orange Free State beers to sup
port the Transvaal charged the Eng
lish with bad faith, and said resistance
10 necessary.
Cen Sir Redvers Butler has left
Cape Town for Durham, Natal, and 1t
Is supposed that he will proceed to the
front.
The French war officials believe the
beers plan Ia to crush White, and then
go to Durham and prevent the landing
of troops,
The government gave permission TO
Britain to compress Canadian hay In
New York and Boston for shipment to
south Africa.
Con. BrIalmont OF Belgium says 1t
will take 10000 men six months to re-
duce the Transvaal to anything like n
condition OF subjugation.
Gen. White wired n further official
report OF the catastrophe ut Ladysmith
In which he attributed 1t to the STAN
pedlng OF tho mountain battery mules.
Lieut. Winston Churchill, war cor
respondent who accompanied Gen.
Bueller to Africa. cables that the beers
are advancing southwark into Cape
Colony.
1t was rumored at Capt Town that
second battle was In progress few
miles from Lndysmlth and that several
boer shells had dropped in the town. No
later news was received In London.
Gen. White reported that the royal
Irish fuslliers, No 10 Mountain battery |
and the Worcestershire regiment, sur
rounded by beers, had surrepdered.
This was about one-siXth of his force.
He said he was at fault.
London Ia without news, waiting |
for another carrier pigeon to arrive"
Whites sorties last week show that he
Is holding his own. Another sortio Is
reported Thursday, with battle Mt
Tatham's farm, in which the beers
lost 500 men, Joubcrt supposed to be
on his way to Piotermarlt2burg Lon
don claims ample deronses. but said the
same of Colcnso, Residents OF Est |
court. chief town on the way to Pieter-
marlt2hurg are warned to leave. The |
situation as known is: White Is iso- /
lated ut lndysmith, beers control the
only railway; Matching and Kimberley
are bcsiegcd; Free state beers crossed
the Orange river; beers are invading
Zululand the Basutos arc on the verge
of rising; uprising of Cape Colony
Dutch threatened,
OUR ARMY AND NAVY.