The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-04-19
A TOWN RETAKEN.
The Royal Irish Rifles Compelled
By Five Hundred Beers to
Evacuate ROuxville.
FREE STATERS RFJOIN THE DOERS.
The British Losses at Wepener in Four
Days Fighting We're 18 Killed
and 1872 Wounded.
1t Is Reported That Seven thousand
Beers Are at Wepener-The Brit
ish wnr Oiiice Claims to Have
No News From the Front.

No News From the Front.
Kimberley, April 14.-The town
guard has been remobilzed and guns
have been remounted at the forts ow-
ing to the fears of the populace that
the Beers will again attempt a siege.
A battalion of the Scottish Rifles has
arrived and the redoubts around the
town are manned with regular troops.
The military authorities, however, re-
gard these fears as groundless.
Pretoria, Wednesday, April H.
United States Consul Hay, in an in
tervicw had here, says that the report
that Capt. Reichman, the United
States military attache, participated
in the fight near Sannas Post is alb
solutely false. Capt. Reichman, it is
said, was occupied most of the time
attending upon the wounded Dutch
military attache. Lieut.. Nix, who has
sine died.
London, April 15.--The only devel-
opment reported thus far Saturday
in the cable dispatches received here
from South Africa is the heavy bonn
bardment of the British trenches at
Warrenton, April 10. but which re-
suited in no damage, the Beers, ap-
parently, being under the iml ression
that the British meditated an attack.
Maj. Gen. Sir Frederick Darlington
accompanied by detachments of bush
men and Scotch scouts. sailed Satur-
day from Cape Town for Hcira, I'ortu-
guese East Africa.
Beyond the mysterious cape Town
hints regarding the early expectations
of good news about Ma aling, ihsr'
is no further information at hand i'
connection with 'na EclcaSU,
town, which now must be in gay.
straights.
Milan, April ID ~ i!oer pcs
commissioners started tor IKE lIGgn
Saturday afternoon, Nr T. rts. .Hs
diplomatic agent fer the IyaH.,y
accompanying them a. lar as nrus.
sells.
Alwal North, April l4.-Fiv" bun
dred Beers under Comm"rm'- S'r".
nepoel forced the Royal ~" les 80
evacuate Rouxvilie. fhe in .i,.i ianu-
rost, who had Ls..s a, ~ Ter the
British, offered 10 so e. l"unt &c
prove himself tr,ic F;tr a'er. G"'
almost to man the. frg' :; rs
who had taken the oath relo!nr' re
Beers. Nearly every one proGd >
Mauser. Looting, hOwc",". Wa -
pressed.
1t is officially reportad IN; he
British losses at Wep, ncI n :-''r 'i@ys
fighting were ls men killed nd ia2
wounded. Among The c;,'l"lr;eS nr.
Quartermaster Williams. iiruG. I,aI-
ford and Lieut.. Duncan.
Ii is reported tnat there are i,aaG
Beers at Wepcner.
Sir Godfrey Lagdon. resident COM
missioner at Maseru. teicg"aphs That
no shelling has been heard from the
direction of Wepener to-day.
\ regiment of British infantry ant!
battery of artillery arrived Friday
Gen. Brabant's headquarters and
all the mounted troops have gone to
RouXville.
The Northern Post asserts that the
Rouxville district furnished 1000 re-
cruits to the Boer forces as the re-
SILT of the invasion last week.
Fourteen sympathizers have been
imprisoned. The Beers admit having
shot Mr.. Giney, the hotel keeper, for
taking forage to the British. A pay.
master with el.4OO was captured.
London. April 16.-The war office
has nothing to communicate to the
public. 1t may be taken for granted
that the rumor of Gen. Brabant's vic
70 af Wananar is atrrr Wftl
the remainder of his force he left Ali
wal North for Rouxville, and there
has scarcely been time for an engage
ment.
There is practically no fresh news
this morning. All the BloemfonteiI
dispatches, however, breathe conf
dent tone. There seems to be heavy
demand on the railway for so large
an army leaves the populace bare O
everything save the absolute necessi
ties of life.
The utmost Lord Roberts will b,
able to do for some time to come will
be in the direction of clearing tn,
Beers from the southern paru of tn,
Free State.
The dispatches announce the ap
rroach of winter. The first pinch o
frost has been felt at Bloemfontein
where considerable rain has fallen.
London, April 16.-The Cape Tow
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
telesraphing Sunday, says: San un
confirmed report is in circulation
here that Gen. Brabant has inflicted
crushing defeat upon the Beers a
Wepener, capturing guns and takini
prisoners.
London, April 16.-The Bloemfon
tein correspondent of the Times tele
graphing Sunday, says: 1T is re
ported that reinforcement for tn
Beers, with 60 wagons, have arrive
at DeweIsdorp en- route for Wepenel
This should precipitate an action"
Lieut.. Gilmore ON Duty Again.
Washington, April 14.-Lieut. Con
mander j. c. Gilmore, who has bee
on ieave of absenc, in this city recr
perating from extreme hardships il
cident to his long captivity among tn
Filipinos, was ordered 20 ilnmediat
duty at sea as executive officer of tn