Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1900 — BOERS WIN A BATTLE. [ARTICLE]

BOERS WIN A BATTLE.

British Have Four Officers Killed In a Fiifht with Delarey. Lord Kitchener reports that after severe lighting at Nooilgedaebt Gen. Clements’ forces were compelled to retire by Commandant Delarey, with a force of 2,500 men. Four British officers were killed. The other casualties were not reported. Lord Kitchener also reports that the Boers made an attack aud were repulsed at Li eh ten burg, and that lien. liCtmor was killed. Attaeks upon Bethlehem and Vrede were also repulsed, the Boers losing ten killed and fourteen wounded. The scenes nt the war office In Imndon recalled Friday those witnessed in the early stages of the war. A constant stream of excited people filled the lobbies, all seeking details of the disaster. Orders were issued at Aldershot, Malta and other military ceuters to dispatch all the available mounted infantry to South Africa. St. Petersburg Is to have a publishing house, to be run by women chiefly, which will make a specialty of bringing out books by women. Tlie bods of the immense coal fields lately discovered in Zululnnd Extend downward for 45 feet iu places, nnd the coal hi of good quality. There wa* a net gain of thirty-seven cities having a population of 25,000 in 1900, as compared with 1890. President Dina, Mexico, baa been reinaugurated for four years.