The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-29
INTENSE EXCITEMENT
Continues 70 PtoVait at Pretoria.
The Win NstBe oaught Sap.

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The B6ersTFIH NiBbBe eaugiit Map
ping.
LONDON Sept 2S.-Intense. eNcita-
ment continues to preVaii at Pretoria,
whste; apparently 1t Is believed that
there is no escape from-war. The COM
mission appointed to consider the mat
ter. reported to-day as 70 what'oalcials
are necessary to carry on the govern
ment In the event OF war and fixing
their salaries.
The dald cornet at PretorlaalB again
serving. out rifles, communicating isan-
lively proceeding and all Preparations
iB being made to take the tieid.
An Englishmnu named RObertsOT1 has
been arrested at Johannesburg charged
with. high treason. BE u alleged to
have enlisted recruits for the imperial
light .hDTBe!
THE bHFghArs. are getting uneasy at
the concentration OF British troops be-
tween LadyBmith and Lalng,s Neck,
especially at Glencoe and Dundee. The
nominal reason for the concentration Is
the projections Of the Dundee coal fields.
but the bUrghess shrewdly suspect that
the real reason is the formation Of a
force which will advance across the
Transvaal frontier at VTyheld us soon
as war % declared. The Beers do not
intend to be caught mapping and are
now masaing around Vryheld. not, how
ever, merely as a protective measure.
but to be prepared. unless the British
reinforcement across the border cease,
to make dash In force through a por-
tlon Of Ztluland, crossing the Buffalo
river at point below Rorke's Drift.
and then, seizing the railroad, cut OFT
the British gaFTlBonB at Dundee and
DadyBmitll from the south, whici1i
would not only interrupt the British.
lines OF communication. but would SER
iously Interfere with a forward move
ment In'order to watch this portion OF
the railroad exposed to a Boer incur
sion British post will be estnblishe9
ut Rorke's Drift.
A dispatch from Mafeklng in Bech-
unaland. Just across the Transvaal bor-
der says a stream Of destitute people
Is arriving there from Johannesburg.
A British infantry detachment with
some engineers has arrived at De Aar,
southwest of the Orange Free State,
and an important railroad junction. EX-
tensiVe fortifications will be thrown up
there and the town will be made the
UHSe OF OpetdUOEb lEUnl ltlht bAuG
against the Orange Free State or the
Trnnsvaal. More troops will shortly
arrive at De AaE
From Cape Town comes the news
that at a meeting Of the ministeriallsts
there to-day, 1t was unanimously re-
solved to petition Queen Victoria, dep
recatihg the idea of war and urging a
Joint inquiry into the effect OF the
TransVaal franchise act as proposed by
the imperial government August 2 and
accepted by President Kruger.
/ A cable dispatch to the Times from
Cape Town, says: "The Beers would
have taken the Initiative by now but
for the scarcity of wnter. the rains not
yet being sufficient. Probably there
viii be great difficulties In providing
food supplies for the people remaining
ct Johannesburg after hostillfies have
commenced
Several responsible people here who
have long clung TO the belief In an ul-
innate peaceful settlement, now regard
war MS inevitable"
The Birmingham Post says two car
goes OF arms and ammunition leave
Hamburg or Rotterdam Friday for the
Transvnai. comprising $4,000 Improved
Mnusers, 100000 cartridges and several
mortar8 for dynamite charges.