Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-02


FIGHTING MAY COMMENCE AT
ANY MOMENT-THE NEWS OF
YESTERDAY IN DETAIL.
JOHANNESBURG, October 1.-The
commanding orders are completed and
the Burghers are ready for the field.
A large body passed through the town
yesterday afternoon.
Business has virtually ceased. The
merchants have finished barricading
their premises, and the proprietors of
the drinking saloons expect to receive
a notification to close their establish
ments tomorrow.
A party of two hundred Germans has
been notified to leave, and the Irish
corps, commanded by Blake, an Irish
American, will go early in the week.
The mines are paying a pound, Give
dollars), daily, with food, to men who
will remain.
Three trains filled with armed Bur-
ghers for the Natal border were this
evening reported as unable to leave
Broemenfontein, owing to a break on
the line, which has disorganized the
whole train service.
Two thousand passengers left yester-
day, by the morning and afternoon
trains, and nearly a thousand more by
outgoing trains last night.
The government undertakes to pro-
vide for the families of Burghers who
go to the front.
HURRYING TO THE FRONTIER.
NEW CASTLE, Natal, October l.
The johannesburg mail train due at
midnight, only arrived this morning.
1t was crowded with refugees, who re-
ported that the train was s~ide-tracked
at Standerton, Transvaal, to make way
for trains carrying burghers to the
Natal border. A body of police arrived
here to-day from Charlestown.
Four thousand Beers are at Sand
sprint and Volksrust, just beyond the
Natal border. The Natal police are be-
ing called in from outlying stations,
and the local troops and carbineers are
mobilizing for the defense of New Cas-
tie.
MAJUBA HILL AGAIN THE CENTER
LONDON, October From all
points in the T~ransvaal, Natal and
Cape Colony, come reports of continued
military activity on the frontiers; and,
while the movement of individual COM
mands as yet do not show concerted
plans, it is evidence that the narrow,
wedge-like strip of Natal, whose apex
is crowned with the ominous nam of
Majuba Hill, will be the center of the
coming storm.
Late yesterday the Beers established
a camp at Scheepers Mex, near Vry-
held, and they will mobilize a great
force on the Buffalo river tomorrow,
which the authorities at Dundee ex-
press will move across the border to
that spot, 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
lecting a force of two thousand men,
under the notorious commandant
Cronje, in the Mulmani gold fields,
near Mafeking, where Colonel Baden
Powell is stationed.
Dispatches from Tuli, Rhodesia, an
nounce that another force Of Burghers
Is massed at Petersburg, fifty miles
south, and that outlying parties are
posted at all the drifts along the
Limpopo river.
In the meantime, Col. Plummer's
column is moving fifty miles nearer
the T%ransvaal frontier and has estab-
lished telephone connections to within
six miles of Rhodes drift, on the Lin
popo.
Enthusiastic scenes at all the rail-
way stations have marked the adj
vance of the Natal volunteers.
Dispatches from Mafeking announce
that Commandant Cronje, commander
of the Transvaal border police. crossed
the border and visited Chief Baraloga,
apparently with the object of enticing
him to fight. The British civil COM
missioner ordered the Chief to stay and
protect the women and children. tell
ing him that he would not be allowed
to fight
PRETORIA MORE QUIET.
PRETORIA, October 1-While to-
day found Pretoria somewhat more
quiet, as the result of yesterdays ex-
odus, detachments of Burghers are
still moving toward Volksrust, the
nearest station TO the Natal border.
1t is expected that martial law will
be proclaimed Tuesday or Wednesday.
Already all civil procedures have been
stopped until further orders, and an
other proclamation postpones the sit
tings of the circuit court
The sentiment of the Beers was sig
n~ifcantly manifested as the train car
rying the Pretoria contingent to the