HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1900-9-27, Page 3WA IS AL OST FNDFD
Boers Destroy Their Uuns ansa- Flee,.Only a Few
Marauding Bands Now Oppose the British.
t despateh front London says;,. -Pete "Nothing le left of the Boer arny
lt,,tr Mite. has reeeived the follow.: but, afety marauding battik. One of
oar
Iron), n l:,ord Roberts, dated Net.
ern i n
"Oat of 3,000 of the enemy' who re-
traated toward Komatipoort as we
advanced from Maehadodorp, 700 have
created into Portuguese territory.
Others have deserted in various die
met ions, The balance crossed 1 he Kn.-
rne:1 river, are °er'la::eying the 1.e1,,nrne
ha mountain, south of the railway be-
tween Portuguese territory and the
bridge.
:1 genera/ tumult occurred when
tie;
enemy realieed e
o
alesnens
of
their cause. Long Torahs wed several
Veld guns, including some eapturcd
from the British, were destroyed.
Mese has tenon no a position in the
Dooz'uburg, north-east of ilrinhgrg,
anti is teing watched by Felly -Denny.
"Rundle attacked ;the enemy on Sep-
tember 18 from Bronkhorstfontein, and
captured one gun and 30waggons.
Zino;,: overtook the rear guard ate,
Klom esd
oarz s � i
r, so i•
." H o s -
la n ti a alt
u was
as
y
one wounded. card d Hart is moving success-
fully against anath r band near
Potchefstroom. Hildyarat has arrived
,et Creetvlel, 16 spites south-east of
Utrecht, and has taken three prisoners
without
q e
P
QSit•
1
ion.
ywo British officers who were nape
Lured at Cyphergat recently were r�e-
leased ren September 11 land reached
Bleenefontein on the 16th."
SPAN FROM It WUES
Newsy Mems About Ourselves and
Our Neighbors -Something of
Iitter'e$t .From Ivor
y Qtlikl"
for of t I6 (Hobe
Canada batt 48,000 immigrants last
year.
Mrs. J. C. Meredith of Lonlicin, Ont„
is dead,
ranitobe .hats experienced the
frost of the season,
The ICiragston District Fair
been a marked suttees this year
Thos. ItleCaffery, manager of
iltniort Bank, Winnipeg, has resai
Sir Alfred Jephson, MN.. Hon -in
o! Mr. Archibald Campbell, (ut±b
dead.
The t;.9'.R. bas revised the s
ale t L' tolls far this Vittoria Ju
bridge.
Liabilities t#t the 3tonteeal
Storturs Company amount to MO
of wh'oh $390.000 us secured.
The oteaznear Lea given up
loot wet St. Joseph, Mich,, bar
ssigiateci. She is en route to 1)ot
Mr. Thomas McCaffery, for n
years IIunugor of the Union Ban
Winnipeg, has severed his conueo
with that institution,
Hamilton had another ilestruc
wind staxrn last night.
Fire at Loudon yesterday drama
.the ,Colunthia handle fstctor'y.
Nitegaea !rule men estimate t
loss by 1 uesctay's gale at e1,000,00
Albert McConnell was drow
kettle at worts on. are Ottawa river
dredge.
Hie four physiaians report that
Premier Marchand, of Quebec, is im-
proving.
Caapt.. Hewett, 1t.A„ will be the new
disagree. rre't,, an
g d the 1 s r
e to -Pasta
of i vaso
�i t'"
tw all �
a esti s
l tie whether the
asherlft in entitled to $6 e day and e
a!tts:s for taking to the h:1izzaieo Tn-
-rial Sehnol two bays sentenced
Att }nsettleiently 'insulated electric
in the floor;
f the amain building at the fair at
radon yesterday; but there was
lmost a ;panic,
Jb N. Fulton. accountant, has been
une1 guilty at Montreal of the theft
of $1„000 franc ;le't's, Janes C'oristine,
tt•.itose, hushuess affairs Ito managed.
The wife of Dr. ij , A. 13. Button
first slot and killed herself at her home
at Fort Rouge. near 'Winnipeg, and
has'r,a. Paul W. Liple cut bet tbroat
at. Neep ut a,the oanae from Perlin,
the UNITED :;1'1T1.*,.
;redo f A bane highwayman robbed a Bur-
, t lingtos eIeepe r in Xebrask t recently
ee, -is; soa got e1.000.
It is bts.ieveisl haat 14 persona
a-ertt
'het - down with the ssteaz. r
nt John B. i,yota9,
Mice ' foundered off Girard, Pa.
Ilrtniken ntgroes h*ave caused a
t'uld rel m of terra
„ g rut Buren, near Brad -
.000, ford, Ind, :pix murders reported.
ire burnt as Tittle
for
leant
reit.
tatty
k in
1 ion
five
ged
heir
0.
neat l eepsie, N.Y., cunfessed tbaat he killed
Miss, Mabel McKinley, niece of Pre-
sident vieKInley, was married to Dr.
Ilcrutaanus L. Baer at Somerset, Pa.
l riga ler-Gezzoral James ii, Wilson,
Lr. S. V., has arrived at Pekin with
instructions, in report to 5f'atjor-
General Cheftce, eormnitntting the Am-
erican tortes thee.
First at Port Huron yesterday de-
stroyed the pleat of the afehlorran.
ilrill}ng {tempary at a less of $225,000.
The Port Huron & Northwestern ale
vator also went down.
Peter Austin, in jail at Rough
preftesor of artillery at the Kin
stton college,
Piro at Morden, Manitoba, has 1
etroyed the large warehouse of
'eraser.
Baines Caldwell, of Port Rowan,
rn+atd from poison, and an inquest
being held.
The salmon pack on the Pact.
coast is a thousand cases less t
year than last.
Lieut. -Gov. ,Tones opened the N
Scotia .Provincial Exhibition at eta
fax yesterday.
Jacob Mendztll is being tried
Hamilton on a charge of keeping
gaining house.
Concluatrxr Oldfield was seri,ousl
injured i,nt;'tn accident in the T., 7:1.
B. tunnel at liamilton.
?Three trolley cars collided at Lo
d rn eeesterday, injuring two passen
ens and a?