Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-10-31
ADVANCE OF THE Beers.
Transvaal Troops Are Near Brit
ish Camp at Ladysmith.
CAPTURE TOWN GUARD
DUN. Dunn Bullets Found-NatalT Town
Looted-Movement to Depose
President Steyu.

London, Oct 2S.-The lull in the news
from Ladysmith, Natal, which was be-
ginning to be regarded as ominous, has
at length been broken by a Cape Town
dispatch. under this mornings date say
ing: Scouts from Modderspruit having
reported the Beers in force on the Help
makaar road, Gen. White ordered out a
strong force of artillery, mounted infan-
try and cavalry. 4 small patrol of
mounted infantry was Snelled by the
Beers nine miles from Ladysmith and
the Boer position was finally located
three miles beyond Modderspruit The
British fierce is now four miles from the
Beers.
The dispatch does not give the date of
the above occurrence, but 1t must nave
been since Thursday. when the last news
arrived from Ladysmith, so the Boer ad-
vance from Dundee southwark ana from
Besters station eastward evidently pro
ceeded steadily in the interim and the
engagement fOreshadOwed by the above
dispatch may already have been fought.
Town Guard Captured.
The other news from the front does not
enlighten the situation in Natal. Erag-
mentary details are arriving of the occu-
patton of Dundee by the Beers, 1t IS be-
lieved that twenty men of the Town
guard occupied an outpost couple or
miles from the town, when a Boer shell
dislodged them and the men fed to
neighboring hill, where 300 Beers sur
rounded them and shot the majority. The
Beers then entered Dundee, dragging sew
eral civilians out of their homes and PTS
tolled them in the streets.
As a pendant TO the above comes the
story from Cape Town to the effect that
several cases of dum-dum bullets were
found by the Beers at Dundee which the
British abandoned in their fight. Some
Of the Beers wanted to use the dum-dums
in the next battle, but President kruger
vetoed this. saying:
NO. it must not be so. Whatever the
British are, we Beers are at least hui
name.
The bullets were then destroyed.
The Eooting of Lobatsi.
Further details from Buluwayo. Rho
desia, show that the armOred train from
there on October II, sent towards MAIZE
king under command of Lieut.. I.lewel-
lyn. got within seven miles of 1obatsi
when the British found the railroad bad
ly damaged. Beers were visible on hills
in the vicinity. Lobatsi had been loot
ed. The train encountered the Beers
three miles south of Crocodile pools and
the British opened fire with their Max
inns and drove the Beers back to the
hills whence they had advanced. Be-
sides eight men killed the Beers lost elev
Dispatches from Sydney and Mel
bourne record the departure Of the Aus
tralian contingents for the war amid wild
scenes of enthusiasm. A Dutch ambu-
lance corps has also started from Am
sterdam for Lorenzo Marques.
+. lesser Coope of London has placed
his steamyacht Sunrise at the disposal
OF the government and starts for South
Africa Monday with several women vol
untcer nurses and doctors.
To Depose the President.
London, Oct. 2S.-According to Il spe
cial dispatch from Cape Town received
here today rumors of dissensiOn at
Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange
Free State have reached Cape Town. 1t
is said movement is ON foot to depOse
President Steyn and install Mr. Fraser
us president.