Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-19
THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

Colonel Baden-Powell is reported
dead.
The seventh month of the war is
beginning.
A winter campaign in Africa seems
inevitable.
Cecil Rhodes has arrived in London
from Cape Town.
Gen. Butler has 214OOO effective
troops with him.
1t is estimated $4,000 boer troops
are now in Natal.
Hilyard Steyn thinks the war will
last until Christmas.
British casualties were eleven killed
and forty-one wounded at Wepener.
Beers formally protested against
the landing of British on Portuguese
territory.
Gen Brabant is thought to be sur
rounded by beers at Wepener, southern
Free State.
Lord Roberts is fortifying Bloem-
fontein to defend himself against ag-
gressive beers.
There is no official confirmation of
the report of a British defeat at Mer-
katsfOntein
Messenger boy sailed from New
York with a greeting for Kruger from
rs 900 children.
Great Britain may land troops at
Lourenzo Marquee if the beers act
against Portugal.
Consul Hay finds no evidence to sup
port Macrum's statement that his mail
had been tempered with.
Webster Davis told a meeting in
Washington that he had seen the Brit
ish violate the flag of truce
An uprising of blacks in the rear of
Lord Roberts is feared. Swaziland is
in the midst of reign of terror.
Beers have captured five companies
of British troops in the Orange Free
State and British have captured So
beers
The beers reported that they cap
tured eleven Cinstead of severn Brit
ish guns at the BIoemfontein water
works.
The British are reported to have suf-
@ered another defeat near Brandfort,
losing 600 killed or wounded and 900
captured.
Plumber was within six miles of
Matching when he was driven back
with severe loss, he himself being
wounded.
A message from MafeIzing brings
down the story of the siege to April
1. 1t shows that the garrison was in
sore straits.
The British colonial troops are said
10 be surrounded at Wepener and are
being subjected to a terrible fire
from the beers.
Lourenz0 Marquee reported $4,000
beers with ninety guns between
Kroonstad and Winburg, forming an
almost impregnable line of so miles
The British troops in Natal, it is
said, are being driven back into Lady
smith, and the beers are reoccupying
their old positions around the town.
Fischer, chief of the boer mission,
said he hopes to negotiate a peace
without prejudice to the political
rights or independence of the beers.
The boer peace commissioners have
asked Italy to intervene, but have re-
ceived the reply that the best the gov
ernment can do is simply to transmit
their proposals to London.
The beers have posted a big gun on
Il N 10Th hi 80 = ~.
and another in the vicinity of Vessels
mex station. The enemy is reported
strongly intrenched at Helpmakaar.
Kinsardt was formally reannexed to
Cape Colony, amid the cheers of the
assembled troops. A large number of
insurgent colonists, including many of
their leaders, are now imprisoned here.
The boer troops will try to block
Gen. Roberts plan to play a waiting
game by compelling him to continue
an active campaign. This is the rea-
son they are so active around Bloem-
fontein.
Information has been received to the
effect that G130,000 worth of negotiable
securities, lodged by law with the Free
State government by foreign insurance
companies, have disappeared. The
New York Mutual has issued a warn
ing against dealing therein.
Lady Sarah Wilson and other MAIZE
king correspondents send diaries of
the doings there, showing that the,
beers have tried, by abandoning