The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-11-23
Was Wounded in the Hand and
Is Prisoner in the Model
School, Pretoria
The VIEWS CONVEYED TO hts MOTHER
A Force of Fee State and Burghers
Occupied Colesberg, Cape Colony
Without Opposition Thursday.
Bombardmsnt of Kimberley Hsssmse-
Beers Are Believed Enesmpsd PIE
Miles From Estcourt-E"giish
Position There ls G"sd.

LONDON. Nov. 2l.-A special dispatch
from Estcourt, dated Sunday. Novem-
Der 10. says:
"All is quiet here, the enemy 1" be
lieved TO lie encamped six miles away
Our position Is good and our forces are
sufficiently strong TO repulse attack
LONDON, Nov. 2l.-A special dispatch
from Estcourt, dated November ~
says a report has reached there OF
battle at Ladysmith Wednesday, No
vember IS. lasting from day break until
. in the afternoon. Many Beers are
said to have been killed and many re-
ported to have been taken prisoner
The British losses are reported to oe
much lesa Another battle 10 ssio 10
have occurred Thursday. II IL dcscrio-
ed as the heaviest yet fought. Tho
Boer dead, it i, added, number hum
drcds, while the British losses "ero
comparatively small
PRETORIA, Nov. lS-By way OF LOU
rem 70 MARQUEE. Nov l9.-At noon to-
dav 50 British prisoners including men
OF the Royal Dublin Fusiliers ana
several blue jackets, arrived here
There were large crowds At the rail-
way station but no denomination was
made. Winston Churchill, who 10
wounded in the hand. was taken TO the
model school, while the rank and hle
are being sent 10 the race course
One spy WAS lodged in jSil. Ihs
wounded had been treated nt Colenso.
The Boer version OF the conhiet IN
which these prisoners were taken says
that two British were killed and ten
wounded.
The mining department has discov-
cred beneath the managers house ut
the Ferreira mine a passage leading TO
suite OF apartments 40 feet below
ground, with gas and water laid on.
This is supposed to have been intended
,o serve as rendezvous for the EN-
Moves OF the Fsrreira mine In ths
.v.nt OF n bombardment OF Johannes
burg.
Lospoy. Nov. ol.-The first definite
news regarding the fate OF "in"o'
: Churchill was conveyed to his mothei
Sunday evening by press represents
tive. Lady Randolph had just return
ed home from a quiet dinner with
few friends when the gratifying intel
, lieence that her son is living was con
r yeyed to her. The fact that his woun'
| il not necessarily dangerous, and tina
8 he is nlivc in Pretoria, caused her tn
;. greatest qualification. rs she had bee
r hitherto without the least intimatio
= OF his whereabouts
CAPE Towy, Nov. 2l.-Advices jus
e received here she W that on THURSDAY
h November lG, a combined force OF Ere
s State and Transvaal burgher' occ'
pied Colesberg. Cape Colony, wi'hou
opposition by the residents and pre-
claimed the district to be Free stat
territory.
{. The British troop ship Manila M
- arrived at Durham.
\ IouRESzo MARQUES, Nov lS-Tf
n following dispatch has been receive
u here from Pretoria, dated Mover
Der l6:
G "The statement that the Boer art
ie lery is officered by Germans is deni'
e here. 1t is asserted officially that
the Boer artillery officers were born
the Transvaal, although two we
". trained in Europe.
Id The British prisoners OF the raj
We and file have received new outfits fro
a the government.
IN at is reported that the oomoa'
a, ment OF Kimberley was resumed ou
he day morning.
he "Bateman. British private, capt.
i'll ed outside Ladysmith and brought
Pretoria, has since become insane