The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-10-06
BOERS MASSIN'
Five Thousand Of Them Near Dur
Natal, and About TO Attack
from All Points In the rrsnsvssi' Ns
and Cape Colony Comes Reports OF
Continued Military Activity
Joubsrt at Lsisgs Mex

publishes the following dispatch 70
Charlestowp: "Commandant Cen ~
bert will command the Boer fof - y
Laings Mex. This is regarded az ne
Transvaal's reply to the movementsoi
the British troops There Is consu-
cradle uneasiness here" -
DUNDEE, Natal, Oct. 2.-Five thousS
Beers are now concentrated in cl
proximity to the frontier, and IL hI
ported that they are about to attSS
Dundee. The most complete precr
tions have been taken.
Charlcs,own is deser ted. All the wof
en- and children have left and not noe
than 10 men are now there. A loconp.
tive is ready to bring away the ro'
way staf.
NEWCASTLE. Natal, October .. -lf"r
thousand Beers are at Sandsprit pc
Nolksrust, just beyond the Natal pr
der The Natal police are being cairo
in from outlying stations, and the To-
troops and caroinecrs are mobiliz u
for the defense OF Newcastle.
.LoNDoN, Oct. . --From all oints
the Transvaal, Natal and Cape Colciy
come reports OF continued military ie-
,ivity on the frontiers; and, while pc
movement OF individual commanders
yet do not show concerted plans, u Is
evident that the narrow, wedge-h ie
strip OF Natal. whose apex is CROWNS
with the OMNIBUS name Of Main p
Hill. will be the center of the coiii 8
storm.
Late Saturday the Beers establish'd
n camp at Schecpers Mex, near Wy
held, aud they will mobilize a great
force on the Buffalo river Mondiy,
which, the authorities at Dundee sx
pect will move across the borderGc
that point, probably at once. 1t Is T.
iievcd that conflict at this point Y
certainly occur early in the week.
At the same time the Beers are g.
lecting a force OF ., 200 men, under ID
notorious Commaudant Crouje, in ,h,
Muimani gold fields, near MatelSp 2
where Col. Baden Powell is stationed
Dispatches from Tuli, Rhodesia, an
l.nounccd that another force of blrrh
ers Is massed at Petersburg, 30 nj &
south and that outlying parties Dr.
posted az all the drifts along the Linn
popo river.
In the meantime Col Plummer'4 col
| umn IL moving 10 milss near -.
I Trnnsvasi frontier. and has cstnH ISL
| ed tele phone conn ctions TO within sil
miles of Rhodesia drift, on the Lim
popo,
Enthusiastic scenes az all the rail
way stations have marked the adyanr,
| of the Natal volunteers.
DISPATCHES from Mafcling announce
that Comma dant Cronjc, commando
Il the Transvaa, border police, Gro Sc,
the border and visited Chief Baralo ga
apparently with the object OF incltiu.
MIN to fight. The British civil com
missioner ordered the chief to sta
and protect the women and children
telling him that he would not be aD.
TO fight.
| JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 2.-Thc com
! Wandering orders are completed an
the burghers are ready for the fed.
large body passed through the tow
Saturday afternoon.
Business has virtually ceased tn
merchants have finished barraca0.n
| premises, and the proprietors OF Oh
drinking saloons expect To receive
notification To close their estau..sa
mentS
A party of 200 Germans has bee
not fed to leave and the Irish corp
commanded by blake, an Irish Amer
can, will go early in the week.
Three trains filled with arme
burghers for the Natal border wcT
Sunday evening reported as unable
leave Braalfontein, owing to 4 bloc
on the line, which has disorganizc
the whole train service.
Two thousand passengers left Sa
urday by the morning and afternoo
trains and nearly a thousand more b
outgoing trains Saturday night
The government undertakes to pr,
vide for the families of the burgheI
W no go TO the front.
Cold Snap In Wisconsin.
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