The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-18
AWAITING
NEWS FROM
MAFEKING.
Bsleaguersd City sal Holding ouh
while the British Forces az
Moving In Its Direction.
FREE STATERS SURRENDERING.
willing for Annezaacn-suIIos
Pushing Ahead-Rundle Cap
lures 10000 Bags Of Com.

LONDON, May II, $50 a. m-EnC.
land stlll waits with intense and almost
breathless interest for news Of the ~
lief Of Mafeklng. A crowd remarkable
for the number Of men in evening dreas
and including many ladies. fingered
around the war ofice even after mids
night, hoping for some announcement.
Only reluctantly did the people diSperss
when the Hobbies OF the war offce were
finally cleared with the word that noth-
ing had been received.
One thing seems clear. The town stilI
holds out. Were It otherwise the Beer
wires laid to the camps Of the beleag-
ured would have flashed the news.
Beers Fell Into Trap.
Skeleton messages from Lorenzo Mar
ques, based upon information that Leak
ed out at the Pretoria war ONCE. show
that the Boer stormers Saturday fen
into a trap. Col. Baden-Powell permit
ted them to seize one fort and he then
surrounded and overbore them before tina
large forces near at hand perceived
the strategem. 1t was thus that sareI
Eloh, President Kruger's grandson, and
part of his commando, were taken and
fifty Beers killed.
The Canadian artillery contingent Of
the RhodesIan force is now reported 70
have reached Buluwayo, May 2. The
distance from Buiuwayo to Mafekins 10
400 miles. AS the railway Is open all
the way to Pitsani, twenty-elght miles
from Mafeking, where Col. Plumer 10,
they may yet take part in the relief.
French Moving Northward.
Gen. French. scouting northward,
found tho Beers In strong force aG
Rhenoster spruit, thirty miles from
Kroonstad. Generals Botha, Delarey
and Olivier with artillery, were holding
the position.
President steyn, according to one dis
patch, has gone to Pretoria Another
says he is a fugitive at Lindiey. Tho
Free staters are surrendering on all
sides. A dispatch from cape Town lays
that proclamations are being printed
there to be published on the queens
birthday, May "a, annexing the Free
State.
One of President steyn's brothers,w who
is prisoner Of Gen. Brabant, says that
the Free staters will accept annexa-
tion. Those who took UP arms the Sec
ond time, he explains, had to do SO un-
der threats Of instant death II they re-
fused.
Receive Commissioners In Good
Spirits.
Lord Roberts has directed the British
commanders to receive all commission
ers In a good spirit and to tissue to them
passes to go to their farms.
General Butler is pushing straight
ahead without opposition. He has only
lost 1--WE wounded during the move. APP
parently he is aiming at Laing's Nets
which is the direct road to the Trans
vaal, although he may diverge to Bot
has pass.
Gen. Hunters movements in the vest
ern Transvaal are rather puzzling. Ho
has returned to Fourteen Streams with
one brigade, leaving another, General
Barton's, at Christiana. Lord MsthueA
is said to be advancing along the south
bank of the vaaI. Col. Kekefich Is with
him. The loop railway limo across the
Transyaal is fast nearing completion.
The probability is that Gen. Hunter
took back brigade to Fourteen
Streams, owing to the scarcity Of trans-
port.
Large Amount Of Corn Captured.
General Rumble has captured $4,000
bags Of corn. He is marching slowly
through district which is described as
literally teemins with cattle, sheep and
horses"