The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-06-07
johannesburg Quiet and a Gener-
al Feeling Of Relief at the
Peaceful Occupation.
ARMS AND PONIES BEING SURRENDERED
COmmandant Botha, His Field Cornet
and 100 Prisoners We're Taken in
the Johannesburg Fight.
Col. spriEE and His Battalion OF
Imperial YeOmanry Attncked be-
tween KrOOnstad and Iindiey
No News From Pretoria.


dent Kruger Friday was still at Mach
adodorp (about half way between
Pretoria and the Portuguese frontier
on the railroad between the Trans
vaal capital and Delagoa bay). Boer
commands totaling about 10000
men, held, Thursday, all the positions
and hills around Pretoria. Another
large command was at Bronkhursts
Spruit tabout forty miles from Pre-
toria, on the railroad leading to Del
agoa bay).
London. June 4.-Lord Lans1owne,
secretary of state for war, has re-
ceived the following from Lord Rob
erts. dated Orange Grove, June 2:
Johannesburg is qnlet. The peo-
pie are surrendering arms and ponies
Only three Boer guns were left in the
fort. Ihe shops are being opened
and there seems to be a general feel.
ing of relief at the peaceful occupa-
ton of the town.
The Queenslanders captured May
so Creusot, with II wagons of stores
and ammunition.
"Commandant Botha, of Zoutspans-
berg. his field cornet and 100 prison
ers were taken in the fighting around
johannesburg, some belonging to the
foreign contingents and the Irish hri-
gaze.
"Owing TO the interruption of the
telegraph lines, / only to-day received
a report from Col. Sprigg that his
battalion of imperial yeomanry was
attacked between Kroonstad and
Lindley on May 20. Casualties to fol-
low.
''The proclamation announcing The
annexation of the Orange Free State
was made known at Bloemfontein on
May 26 by Gen. Pretyman, military
governor. The troops under Gen.
Kelly-kenny formed a square, the
oyal standard was hoisted, the troops
salnted, royal salute was fired and
the queen was cheered. The name
Orange River Colony was well re-
ceired.
Received report yesterday that
four prisoners had escaped from Pre-
toria."
There is no direct news from re-
toria of later date than Thursday
evening. Gen. French's cavalry were
then at Irene, eight miles south of
Pretoria, and firing was heard there.
Lord Roberts messages about secon-
Diary operations elsewhere and the
situation at Johannesburg, dated al
Orange Grove, farm four miles
northeast of johannesburg, show
that on Saturday at 9:1O p. m. he was
25 miles from Pretoria.
The correspondents with Lord Rob-
erts have not got through line about
the operations after the occupation
of johannesburg Official messages
continue TO come through. but press
kilograms are held up, probably to
avoIu their giving hint as to what
may be the pending operations. From
the other side there filters through
Lourenco Marques mass of state
ments, some contradictory, others OBJ
viously improbable, but all purport.
ing to be facts.
Passengers arriving at Lourenco
Marques Saturday direct from Preto.
ria say that the capital was prepar.
ing to surrender when they left on
Thursday. The first trains were dis,
mantled. The boer guard at Komati.
poort searched all trains and turned
bacA most of the fugitives. among
them deserting foreigners who were
trying to reach neutral soil.
Gigantic Proposition.
Denver, Col, June 2.-Gov. Thomas
has given his Endorsement to gi
gantic proposition, having for it's OBJ
ject the bringing of the defeated
Beers to the valley of the Platte, ir
Colorado.
The Union Pacific Land Co. pro
poses to give million acres of land
to be taken up under the Carey LAND
act, on the Julesburg and Wyoming
divisions. There is to be no charge
for the gift, and the company will un
dertake to transport the Beers tc
Colorado. being repaid on the install
ment plan after the communities ar,
established and prosperous.
c. Wantland. agent of the Unior
Pacific, has left for the east, where h,
Will meet the Boer ENJOYS, and ex