The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-02
CAPTURED
THE DUTCH
PRESIDENT.
Report Comes from Lorenzo Marques
that Kruger is Prisoner Of War.
Roberts Silent about Pretoria.
BURGHERSINAPANICKYSTATE.
Rooms Engaged for Dom Paul at a
Hotel in Amsterdam-May be
Severe Fighting Yet.

LONDON, June 2, 8:45 a. nit is re-
ported from Lorenzo Marques that
president Kruger has been captured by
the British.
LONDON, June 2.-Lord Roberts con-
tinues silent regarding Pretoria, proba-
bly, because he cannot wire OF events
from his own knowledge. Lorenzo Mar
ques where all the news from the Boer
side is re-handled, cables that commu-
nIcation with Pretoria is now suspend
ed. Some messages by courier have
reached Lorenzo Marques, but none Of
later date than Wednesday,. These as
sert that the burghers are in a state of
panic and that Pretoria is being con-
trolled by vigilance committee.
The news blank gives rise to sus-
pIcion that the citizens committee at
Pretoria may not have been able to car
ry out their plans for securing the
peaceful entry OF Lord Roberts and
sparlng the city the horrors Of a re-
siege.
Peace Partly in the Ascendant.
The peace party appeared to be in the
ascendant, and, as soon as President
Kruger and his cabinet left Pretoria to
organize new capital, the citizens
committee persuaded the commandants
of the forts to withdraw some Of the
troops from the defenses. perhaps with
the view of keeping order in the town.
II messengers were sent to the British.
or II the British, being two hours march
from Pretoria, on Wednesday, entered
It then or at any time prior to Friday
noon, Lord Roberts wouiG certainly
have telegraphed this fact. Hence 1t
looks as though there was Boer force
between Pretoria and Johannesburg.
The soldiers trekking back toward
Pretoria, some Of them fresh from the
fight with General Ian Hamilton, would
have brought u new element into the
situation and would probably over-rule
the peace committee, taking the direc-
tion Of affairs out Of their hands. If
this has happened. the British may, as
the Daily Chronicle gays, see some
hard fighting before the British flag
flies over PRETORIA" for even II the
Beers held only three forts standing
close together on the hills south OF the
town, they would be in a position to
stand a SIEGE"
Kruger to go to Amsterdam.
The Beers, according to special dis
patch from Lorenzo Marques, have re-
entered the northeastern territory of
the Free State and are engaged with
the British near Ventersburg md Har-
rismith.
1t is reported at Amsterdam that the
best rooms at Het Haasje, one Of the
principal hotels there have been en-
gagged for President Kruger's occupancy
from June 95.
General BuIc: is moving slowly
against the Boer tanks.
A dispatch from vryburd, dated May
30, says:
During the occupancy Of This place
by the Beers they hosged the natives
for slight ofrenses. a whip AMI several
cords knotted and salted were found at
the uolce station. A boy who brought
a letter to a woman. received twenty
five lashes, and another, who sympa-
thlzed with him, received fifteen"
Lady GeorgIana Curzon has cabled
e17OOO to provide comforts and IuxurLes
at MafeKlng.
Conflicting Stories from the Front.
The Times has the following from 10.
renzo Marques. dated June 1:
Reports OF the most conflicting char
acter are current here, due to the ac-
tlvity OF the Boer agents While one
section declares that President Kruger
has returned to Pretoria for the purpose
Of arranging terms of surrender, another
aBserts that the British have been re-
pulsed outside OF Pretoria. Nothing
authentic is known here regarding Mr..
Rruger's whereabouts or the situation
in the Transvaal"