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NAUG4.TOUK »«»¥ IN 0OCT I'M AFKIOA.Frank Kell«-h«r la wltli UeW«t’ii Arnij him!Wrttan lut*jr*«iln*ly of l-lfo J«i theTransvaal.Frank Kslleher, a welt known Nan-gatock yoaug runn, and a son of Mioh-ael Keil^hpr of Carroll ► trust, is fighting with General De Wit's army in Soatb Africa. The young man loft homo last RDinmer, and went West where ho remainedfor some lime, Ho silly deciding to go to Sooth Africa. That be arrived there all right is apparent from the letter paOii-hwd below which wee received last evening by Mr. K I-leber. The letr is quite interesting and will undoubtedly be greatly an joyed,not only by the yoong man’s friends here,bat by the public in gen oral. It is as follows :Burgerest, S. A.January, 15, IbOi,Dsnr Father,I suppose yon will be surprised to hear from me,hut hope this letter will find yon and all the family well as I uni myself afc the present timeI imi at present with I»«Wet’s nrrny of Boers fighting in the colony. There is no fighting going cn in the Transvaal. The fighting is all going on south of fbe Orange river, I oaoie near being captured two weeks ago in the Orange Free state We fuaght 14 hoars lrOJi sanrtown nutil dawn next day, losing 8 men killed and 20 wounded. Wn fought onlil the British retreated. You don’t get any news in the States that is oorreot or you wouldn’t: think the English were winning. The Bot-re have got onlV 65 000 in the field to the Euglish ot 280,000 10 active service,and they haven’t, half enough yet to held half the Boer army. They will b« an uprising in the colony in a itw woeks and then it will look bad for the English. I atu now 62 miles from Port F'izabeth in Gape Colony, The main flank of the Baer army 1b only 50 miles from Oaoe Town. We captured 600 hordes on the veidfc crossing the Veldorf moan tains going north to Heberts. Wo get fresh meat now and then from villages we go into, Every* body sympathizes with the Boer*.We had a battle in a Zulu village, killing 400 of their army. They got so excited that they didn't known euongh to shoot. They rasbed at ns with bayonets fixed and we oat them down like grasB. The Boers are so determined that they will never give up till they lose the last man. The English neen 200,000 more eoidiers to stand any,show at alt as the Boers whip them in every fight. Of ooarae yoa aou’t hear that at all. Yon bear theother side of the story. This makes the third letter I mailed to yon, bnt two of them 1 beard were captored by the English. The oourier started out from oor camp , with mail and we found him dead next rooming six miles from eamp with all the mailjuJ rur.AnnEUtuEshuEJohr Eliei J. \S Mrs. Brid St ' et-n Tboi.fa hc Mrs.KillTuulBn wail feeli fluir off h Sidn of ti an a wi till is « Hi lass baiJi eggs hiiHH! pbas stod the i fuse-on o the iN(post; last the ; done she i 30,0C in a 11 SJKitlN.Hego1 idThoi Tl com no n tion Ortheyw.Thu' Marl Tc Web Tt we»i popn by tl Fo Slid e*tat
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Naugatuck Daily News
Naugatuck, Connecticut, US
Tue, Feb 26, 1901
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