The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-06-01
NEAR JOHANNESBURG.
Lord Roberts Headquarters Only
Eighteen Miles From the City.
"a u Reported That President Kru-
ger Has An Arrangements Made
for Flight. Presumably 60 HoI-
land-New. From the Front.

Senekal Sunday. May 27.-Gen.
Rumble with artillery. the yeomanry
and the Wiltshires. Middlesex and Lei
cester regiments, under Mai. Dalbiac.
has occupied Senckal whence the
Beers were driven by few shells. A
field cornet and a number of other
Beers were killed The British cas-
ualties numbered IL.
The Beers are believed 20 be con-
'ccntrating near Bethlehem.
London. May 2O.-Advices received
here assert that supplies continue to
go 10 the Beers from Lourenzo Mar
ques and that foreign recruits for the
Boer army proceed from the same
point. .t||.
A dispatch from Mafeking. dated
May %, says the total casualties since
the commencement OF the siege were
500. Out OF ~ officers. % were killed,
wounded or missing. and 100 men out
OF s75. white privates were killed,
wounded or missing.
London. May s9.-The war Office
publishes the following dispatch from
Lord Roberts, dated az Kip River,
'frrns,aal. May -. 5:25 p. m:
1--WE marched 20 miles to-day. and
are now n miles from Johannesburg.
The enemy had prepared several POI
sitions where they intended To oppose
us. but they abandoned one after the
other a. We neared them. We prensed
them 20 hard that they had only just
time 90 get their five guns into train
aud 10 leave as soon as some of the
Australian infantry dashed into IL.
"Fr,nch's and Ian Hamilton's forces
are apparently engaged with the en-
envy about ten miles 20 our left. a.
firing has been heard since noon.
"h. =. whigham has just returned
90 Laurence Marques from Pretoria.
where he wrnt disguised. lie wires
that Kruger has al the arrangements
made for flight. presumably TO Hol-
land \ special train. proyisioned IL
always ready with steam up. The
train waits some distance from Pre-
toria.
vance are surrcndering with their
arms and horses.
Rumble occupied srnckal on May
a. No report Of what took place has
reached me yet"
4 dispatch from Lourcnco Marques
saws. ~Cen. louis liofln IL az Pre-
forie urging President kruger 90 ar
range peace terms. Runaway burgh-
err from Iaing's Mex passed through
Heidelberg last week Wounded off,
GERS. with thor families. are leaving
Iohannesburgvand Pretoria for Ly-
denhurg. President Steyn occupies
che housc Of the British resident at
Pretoria. Passengers arriving al Lou
rcnco Marques Monday from Pretoria
said n was believed there that the
British would not be at the capital
for mouth. Nevertheless there was
much unrest and anxiety"
The Morning Post has the follow
ING dispatch from Lourenco Marques,
dated Monday; president Kruger
has issued public proclamation
WA ming all people o. leave Johannes.
bury or TO remain az the peril Of their
lives. a. Il might become necessary TO
destroy the town and the mines"
Tine Timeg publishes the following
from Newcastle. dated Sunday; -Four
hundred Beers are advancing toward
Dundee. There j. no fear that our
communications will be cut"
nirban. MAY eg.--James VI. Smith.
the American district messenger boy
who is carrying a message Of sympa-
thy from Philadelphia and New York
schoolboys 10 President Kruger, haz
arrived ~ Lourenco Marques, and
President Kruger has sent his private
car 10 convey him 20 Pretoria.