The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1900, Page 2

ee ‘ ~ _ Miss Hahn,Who Handled His Money, Received $300,000 a Month from Dupes, [Money Came So Fast That Force of Clerks Was Constantly In- Tiller Had His Full and Schies. Inger Teok in: $45,000, Franklin Syndicate none oes “ the late 4s of ere importance to show what an immgnee ewindling business WF. Miller of 4 Bahn, who had charge of part “ Miss toward the last days the synd_ ‘te handled on an average 910,000 a day, or about $906,009 a month. Bho tells Interesting facts about er and others, showing thee from the Bigwest to the loweat the swine dle a Klondike for all. Big the order of the day. x Was Rot om the pay-r0i, Ward Behlesinger's salary e week. His address was on the bodke Of the concern as “Staten Island.’ Daly, Who was appointed receiver, got MO a Week. T. Sullivan, who was the re- celvim.seller-and took in all the cab, got HO a week, MISS REID GOT $50, ‘Miss Reid, the ty typewriter, was employed at #2. an Sa known her jor tem yeers as an expert! Bhe was wi False’ to $9, an! when she to Lesite’s position wot #4. Fi Miller’ brought busingpe to him for 9) hlow! 3 “Att it, who is 1 went to 5 2 When Working “forte cor Charles Begmidt, it. The buainess sarge and top floor of 1M Floyd was.emple enough 10 trapeact it, , “In Novem » Lesite assigned me to pesist Louls’ dm the ma ling de- partment. 1 om an average $10,900 4 day In express and postal orders and checks. This i exelusive of the ampunt which passes through Louis Mil. | Jer's hands “As nearly as I can estimate $200,000 pagsed through my hands. The daily re- celpts of money kept increasing at @ great rate; even to the day when the crash came. “Bchlesinger came firat to the office fm October, He at once assumed charge and run things to muft himeelf. His, name War at once put on the payroll at $209 a week, W. F. Miller was not on the payroll, but he carried the satchel, LAST DAY’S RECEIPTS, “Om the Inst day of {he syndicate 1 counted the day's mailing receipts and tied them up in a bundle, They amounted to 4.50. Louls Miller came fo me about § o'clock in the evening and asked me to place the money I had in a satchel which he had. This I @i@. 1 don't know whether there was other money in it at that time, f# the bag that was taken to the howse of Mre. Gorrie. } “Mrs, Miller, mother of W. F., helped the business by procuring investors, at the usual commission, In this she was “very successful. To my posiive kn @fige she brough: in £2.00 worth o = ness during the iam week, collecting ° the statements made by employ: | did than ie given by Miso al oe mn {it until after the $10,000 A Miller's Cashier=Bhe Mandled $10,000 « Day,” tintin your friend.’ { MILLER OUT. “A few’ weeks later | heard he was backsliding and doing business on a jer scale, | again went to him at his plave of business and told him | wanted to taik to him, “He brushed me aaide, saying he bad no time to talk to me, “I then told him he would have to resign from the churth, reply was, ‘T will thine about tt." ‘Barly ta June the syndicate was 0 notorious that J appointed a committe to draw up a Porm of resixnation. This Was presented to him by my brother Richard, and he signed it, That settled our connections,” It Is now evident that the total re- hoot the swindle, including that received by mull, amounted in the last month to $1,600,208) ‘OF Chis 9500.00 was t paid out, . The mystery of the alligator bag car- ried by Miller from the rooms of the Ayn dicate in Brooklyn to the Ammon In the first pante following the raid has been partly cleared away, That bag contained $45,000. There have heen Many theories regarding the final dis Donition of this bax Mesers, Belfer and Fiash. the attor- Beye for the creditors, suggested that Probably, Miss LC. Murphy, the s:enog- rapher for Loule J. Grant, whose roo:n able to throw a certain measute of light OM the matter, Below is Miss Murphy's statement showing that the bag put by Miller under her desk wag given by her to Schlesinger, who was talking with Col, Ammon, “Replying to your inquiry,” Mins Murphy, “as to what Weeane fs bag alleged to have contatned $5.00 which Was left under my desk on the afternoon Of Nov. 24 last. and also us to my know! edge of the Franktin Syndtonte, 1 bee to state that I know nothing about the Franklin Syndicate, and never heard of hat Miller, of sd). ber-cent. fame, disappeared. 1 had seen this Miller quite frequently in passing $100, the usual § per cent Miss ‘Thomas every night received! $R.@ for the next day's dividends. This fe her statemen’ “I anly worked for the Franklin Syn dicate ten days as paying teller, @ucing that time | fled enotgh Money to make me Independently rich. “For from twelve to fourteen houre @ach day | war kept busy paying out the weekly profits to investors. $60,000 IN TEN DAYS. “Every evening (here was left with me %.0%) with which to pay dividends the following day. This amount | usual Jy placed in a slide under the plate vover which J paid the money. Any one could have secured this amoun: by lmerely reaching through thy «malt win- dow of my ‘cage and taking tt from tte Wading piace, It war never put under Jock and key _ | “During the last work's existedce concern 1 paid out $800 tn div! Gers, which represents $58.00) cxpttht fiwested. Thin represented the mity Wet Floyd street and did not include « jeutside deposits 7 On the evening of the day of the ) Ginale of the concern 1 had $1,009 let Swhich the Sheriff seized. although a Behgry mob was at the window clam: vald tha the Rev. Dr. of the Tompkins Avenue i investor 3 wa i% : | DR. MEREDITH'S DENIAL. » ‘te Pepy to this, hough. Dr Merediis pews B found Miter was in o game 1 denounced the busi- fold him that he must leave \ to me that he would we, He came (ome and showed me a receipt he claimed war the to and from his lawyer's offlec, but dd not know his business. Col. Ammon, Miller's lawyer, had his office adjoining mine “L have » Idea what became bag alleged to have contained $4.0m, and which was left under my desk, gave it to a man who, by his de tion, tallies with Schlesinge ° was with Miller and his associates tn Col, Ammon's office That afternoon I had been taking SCHLESINGER @OT $46,000. adjoined that of Col, Ammon, miaht b« | ‘HE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, DA HAEN. the new statement to-day Aw regards the artest of the sper: rent man it is as “dopy” aa the report which evoked the terse comment from the Chief of Police. Capt. Reynoldg devotes nearly three quarters of |t telling of the events lead- ing up to the Indictment and escape of Miller, of his Mret bootlens trip to Mon- treal. Then, without stating the date, he wdds simply what was mistily stated in the first report: “On Tuesday 1 followed a man to Montreal and on Wednesday night about 7 saw him meet a man. When on get- (ing fear him | saw it was Miler, 1 {1 ‘Hello, to him and said, ‘Don't you know me? I am Capt, Reynolds nl home see his wife and child. I then informed him that 1 could not elther advise or force him, as I had no jurisdiction, He then said, “Let us go home’ And we went to Mt. Lambert's and took @ train for the States. “On my arrival at Forty-second street | notified him he was under arrest and went you word. As to (the streets in Montreal I could not tell you. I was glad to have found him and anaious to return, JAILBD FOR EPILEPSY. While 1, sent to Hugh Higains, Jr, of 15 Bast Twenty- necond street, wae released from Ray- mon] Street Jail, Brooklyn, to-day, af [ter having been locked up for Intontoa- [tton wi st Saturday. He tn an epliey- fo ant has been under the care of Dr Willlam Noyes, of the De Mit Dispen- rary, Manhattan, for four years. On Feb, # Higgins went to Brooklyn to visit some friends, On his way home at about 5 o'clock he was selged @ith an ch of his malady near the Broadway | terry. He was arrested by a policeman, | who declared him to be drunk, | His father, worried by his invalid son's | ate: mace Inquiries the next day at [the Twenty-second street station and | Pott Headquarters About noon he ried that hie son had that morning committed to jail fer twenty-nine by Judge Andrew Lemon. in the re Teureday, armed with certifies Dre Boting and Noyes and a tet Alderman Murphy, Mr Higgins from ame again before Justice Lemon, who nee instracted the clerk to make out order for the prisoner's release stenographic notes for Mr. Grant in his! 11 wis impoeslble to mistake the private room, and when I returned t0{ nature my son's trouble,” «ald Mr. my room to transcribe the same J] iiggtis. “and he doesn't even know the found an alligator bag under my desk | tasts 0 . A 1 suppored that some one in Cok Am-| (16, it 8 Ivpical epileptic patlent.” Mons ole Nad p cand return-| constantly to dispensaries and physl- ed It to that off Since then T have} ota offices, He does not show the learned that the bag contained money, |Hahtes: vlan of aley and I taquired of Mr. Ammon if it was ee really a fac GIRL FUGITIVES CAUGHT. know about the! - whole (ransact ee “T beg furthe » state that the no-| Tertare School mates Whe Bee toriety that has been given me in this we detectives Ih me—ever: far as to call at my home— 4 great deal of annoyance orriment to my family Thie ie uly statement | have ever made in te affair, and were It not rf repeated an ravagant insinua- ze of such extrem jens | would no mike it Signed) UL © MURPHY” COURT BEGINS WORK. The free toward the unveiling of the t © sutrounding collapse the Pravklin Syndicate has been by an order from Judge Thomas, o: United tutes District Court, authorizes counsel for the pet creditors tn the bankrupt to subpoena Wiliam P. Mul ie whose testimor of hen the h ther per Koehler, the Sean REYHOLDS'S SECOND REPORT Set Clearer than ‘tle Piret One Concerning the Arrest of Miller. Capt. Reynolds, of Brooklyn. who war Tes Se reer ama SS ae Rat eaped Vesterday Retarecd te Tresion Inetitution. TRENTON, No J. Feb. ¥0.<Prancee Dorsey, aged nineteen, Sarah Mavpey, aged clghteen both cetered. and Alice Bush, aged sixteen, Sophie Rite. Inger, aged seventeen, four girl | who yesterday escaped from the Btate Industrial School here, were captured j {his morning mt Yerdiy Pena, and Teturned (o the jnett SUGAR WORKS MAY RESUME that All the Treet Re- Averies Will Reepes Monday. In the wholerale sugar trade it wae reported to-di the American Sugar Refining Company will resume operations next Monday. At the office of the Trust persona in subjeri. e then remerked he wae gtad to go) ax he was tired and wanted (0! thority were non-committal on the FEBRUARY 17, 1900, I WILL DO ALL I CAN TO ‘BY BA \ “Now that Hold B. Molingtim ts in the death celi af Bing Sing aWaiting death in the electeic chair in the week Desinning Mafeh $8 do you not think, Mr. Weeks, that fh offering np @etense to the cape of the grosecution you made a cooesal blunder?” asked an Byening World reporter of Bartow 8. Weeks, senior counsel for Molineux, this after. noon. LJ “The old trial t* past and gone, eald Mr, Weeks reflectively, “Old people often think that ff they could only go back 10 the days of their childhood, with the experience sequired through life, they would be an unqualified suc- coms and de able to steer straight “If I had known that the verdict of the fury was te have been ‘guilty of SAVE MOLINEUX RTOW S. WEEKS. murder im the first degree’ 1 might have dene differently. But without a pertenes I have just had I prod. abiy have one just what 1 di@ do.” “What afe you going to do now te save Molineux from the electric chair?” 7 rything in my power and everpe bly de.” fense at the new thi that man can poi 1 you put ina trial “My course In the new trial will be governed entirely by the circumstances h may arrise at that trial.” “What will be the line of defense?" “You don't want me to answer that question, | cannot tal about my method of procedure, Would you want me to expose my case?’ “But will you put om apy witnesses for the defense?” “That depends entirely om the circum- stances which may arise.” DID WEEKS BLUNDER? Everybody te talking of the Molineux cage, Everybody i» thidhing of it Everybody has a theory about it Thousands discussing it in the ears, on | the streets and tn public places, may they belleve that the evidence Was not aul: clemt to convict him, The great ques- tion that te pending In the minds ani consciences of people who are jealous of the faurnese of our courts, ap@ who wis! to see justi€e remain ever apetters and blameless is: Was everything done to Molineux that could have been ne? Out of this grow other like | questions: Could Molineux have saved jhimecif? What could he have done to *stgtlion hit innocencet = What could lawyers have done? Did Do that and this church yordered to make another one, turned in| they blender Ia handling hie defense or Aid they do all thef could? Are there witnesses they might have called? Is there any evidence they could have pre- sented? Ip there any they should have resented? The case is vver—as Recorder Goff said yesterday in reply to Molineux's plea in hie own defense—so far as the trial court is concerned, but the greater, more important court, the American public, fe still considering it, and for this reason The Evening World throws | Roland B. Moiineux's family move to Sing Sing so as to be near Mm. Arrangements to that effect were com- pleted to-day, and this evening Gen. Molineux, young Mre, Molineux and the | mother of the convicted polsoner will j remove to the prison city, which will | Warden Johnson, of the penitentiary, i MOLINEUX'S FIRST DAY IN SING SING DEATH CELL i} | Roland Burnham Molineux wat on the ledge of his narrow cot in the “death house" of Bing Sing prison last night and gaged at a door which marked the end of 4 narrow passage between the cella on (he cpposite wide of the room ‘The gilttering hoods! head of the cobra never fascinated a Nuttering bird more completely than this plain wooden | door at the end of that narrow passag Molineux knew when that door lopened to him it would mean death, | What fearful mental one the youn | chemist conjured as wide-ey' and fascinated, watching that awful door, no one can conjecture. At times bis eyes would wander about} | the death house, He woull scan they imnpassive faces of bis Keepers. note the) hetpless, hopeless, despairing attitude | of the other condemned murterers ta) the quiet room, and then slowly but! surely Nis eyes whuid go back to the) | door at the end of the peasage |ALONE WITH HIS THOUGHTS. Molineur had nothing sise (0 do. He j arrived too late to make a requisition jon the library. He bad no literature of ‘hie own, save the Bible But the Holy | Book did nor seta to clatm his atten- | thon, That awful door at the end of the | passageway was the attraction. To his | distorted mind yhat door stomd forth ithe a beckoning angel. It seemed to whis- | per to the eondemmed man “Come. 1 ath | walting for yeu” ‘The youls an, plevured fe | hie reeting brain the of hte last | morn.ng, Hedould see the chaptatn tead-| leaped ing the way, the sheriffs following. That doot weeld opem at om would be (he grim chair it arms out chad 0 ' ahs ts the pris. oner |. ae if enn iy nero ral) ‘The keepers times during the night. noticed the restless movemen: and | asked Molineux if be wanted anything, “Noshihg, thank he reptied, | ee Then he would sink thto that though'!- fui would seek the fateful passage Hie | thoughts almost erted aloud in death house could be ] AIS MALALDBAAAS 35100 matzes *100 4 as : WHAT 3 WOULD YOU 2 HAVE 3 DONE 3 TOSAVE > MOLINEUX HAD YOU BEEN + HIS LAWYER? 464A SAS OND SD of any new evidence oF new suggest concerning (he old evidence tha: readers may be able to make, 8 8, 9, 2 8 2 BAUILAABADS 3 s +P] open its columns for the presentation fons its t weald you have done to) ,...49 MOLINEUX FAMILY WILL RESIDE IN SING SING, will re-) has acted as their agent in the matter. | T of the American Hotel at Sing Sing for the purpese of discovering whether the purioses a resident of Sing familly could be accommodated there. He wan Informed that po AFrange- ment could be made for @ protracied the family temporarily, - a te be thetr home for an Indefinite pertod. stay, but fpally secured apartments Cor or ery. Anything to break the horrible stillness that oppresed him, thet see to presk upon hik head until tt as if ft would burst Yer he made no outery. sighed nor moaned. The mask of few | He neither In- difference he hus worn since his advent Into prison Ife rematned in Its place and neither the keepers nor the con- demand of the other cells knew wha: awful thoughts were careering through he young chemist's brain. At times he smiled. He wa: of his young wife With almost his breath he had raired his voice and fended the one he loved. He had ' jet-Attorney, and he emiled as he face when the General, lated how nobly his father, These were pleasant thoughts to thinking last de- de. | nounced tie attack of the Assistant Dis pie. j tured the vovelight on the young wife's! re- Roland had defended the young Prisoner, and under their sooth- ing tmfluences he fel! asleep. He awoke ecariy—at ¢ eepers sid. hia cold. bare cel! and at the bars wire cate outside. o'clock, his position, he rank back upon his and ‘ay still—so stil that one of He eat up, stared around Then, overcome by the utter desolation and hopelessness 0! hie and cot the) keepers. with the tread of a cat, crept aver and peered in at the young pris- oner. ADJUSTED HIS MASK. Molineux recovered quickly when he sew the keeper. How's the weatherT’ sald the keeper, evinced surprise, but “Bnowy,’ Molineux mech He stepped to the Ittle basin tn Tt Red been Moltnewx's custom in reverie onge More and his eves Tombs to eat an orange and waik howr before breakfast. Then the scan tle bill of fare ang that all the works of a*ful quiet, Noi a sound foreign to the cacies. This beard. His mask of indiffer- ence was quickly readjusted and he out of bed with a cherry “Good the save Molineur had you been his lawyer? What evidence would you have of- fered? What witnesses would you have called? In there any new light you could have thrown upon the case? All readers Sf The Evening World have mo doubt followed the history of thie great criminal trfal closely, and are famitiar with all the facts presented to the Jury, and all are competent to give some answer to these questions The Kvening World will make It worth your while to pormer and study the Mol- ineux cane @ fittle, It will give $100 in prises for the best replies to the ques lions here put forward, the replies not to exceed 1 words in length: 1 FOR THE BEST 10 WORDS, 3 FOR THE SECOND BEST 1 WORDS. % FOR THE THIRD BEST 10! WORDS. 9 FOR THE FOURTH BEST 1© |worDa Send letters to “Molineux Case Balter. Evening Wortd P. 0, Box 204 New York City.” Do net write more than 100 In the course of a few days Gen. Mol day he called on the proprietors jneux will engage a house in the town ‘nd become te all practical intents and Sing. When Reland B, Molineux heard the news today he was delighted, {t t¥ a source of great comfort to me to have my dear faniy near me," he jfaid "There is nothing they could 4 that woukl more touch and please me.” e plates mourntuly for @ moment and akfast with a keen ie with a spoon. faite found none, The no stuused hin, Molineux took bis half hour's exercise (hie morning. e was the | peiscn physician, Dr. Irvine, who. pro- | hourcet him to be on perfect heaith. Warden Johnaon, who was present at few, sal Molineux js one of the fines! omens of a man | ever raw “think | physical other. There | wa Ich Chaplain | Sanderson read ani th sent to the prisoner, After ling the letters Moli- heux sent to the | brary and secured one 1 Charies Reade's novels, whieh he pe- tused with nt interest. Keeper Connaughton said this morn- ing. * HE LIKES MOLINEUX. gent and toid me last nigi hi retdeat Bet jon than the 7 hos i i 322}; rei $32 a i i u ii iF ing - © tj i 3 BEN TROPS SHELLED BY THE MAT. (Continued from Firet Page) vision and ammunition trains and TO SQUEEZE Bond Companies in Al-|%°"? belts taken prisoners, leged Combine of HARASSED BY FRENCH. Another foree of Boers was report- Rates. @d to be fleeing from the Spytfontein trenches in 9 morthwesterly direction, ‘and these Gen. French was harassing. Other despatches from Jacobsdal say Gen, Cronje Bas been obliged to “out- span,” in other words, to form a iaager, @r camp, in order to rest his oxen, This explains Gen ¥-Kern; Spatch referring 1) shelling the laager, Which alee brougit long-expected word of Gen. Kitchener's whereabouts That the General woo so relentlessly It war reported to-day that a come bination hag practically been formed tu stop rate-eutting on beads for liquar tux certifeates For some time the Raines law weat into effect the greater purt of the bond burineme was done by the Fidelity and Deposit Company, of Maryland, nown in excise cin as the “Pate ompany.”” There i also the United Btates Fidelity and Guaranty Company, | Pursued the Khalifa to his doom ls ne | supervising the pursuit of Gen. Cronje also a Maryland corporation. This I*| 044s greatly to the contdenne of known as the "( er Company,” An-| a confidence of the nation, now a0 eagerly awaiting further A news. If Gen, Tucker, wit! (he Seventh These companies have pach charged! 1) vigiog, is able to effect the projected $19 for exdive bomds tm thle county @Ur-) sinction with tie forces of Gen Keily- ing the past year, When the Raines) Wenpy, while tiie Minih Division, under law went into effect the rate was 8 | gen Catvitie, ig rapidly coming up trom per bond. ‘The Mattenal Serety Com=| ine rear, the hero of Mhartoum should pany, a New York corporation, has 41801] jaye a suffleient force to docistvely wot $10 during ghe past year, engage Gen, Cronje and prevent him The other om re Obl 10 BAYS! trom reaching tein with an Issued bonds @& lower rates, one Com | .weetive force. pany golng as low at 8, it te reverted. Under the new agreement, ft is sald, BIG AREA OF WAR. $2 will be charged for bonds im Over the whole Modder River district York county, and under conditions}: nere jx such tremendow military activ- which will practically relieve the com-|iiy that it is hurd to realise the area pantes of all chance of tess. covered Or grasp the full meaning of One of the ether companies chataes | (ne movements. from % to $8, gmother fram % to %. The Boers, though retreating from ts sald that ome compamy has written &| Magersfonteth, are active elsewhere. A few bonds at $2.60. special Aespatch from Grange River, “That is due to the ree of the | dated Friday, Feb. 15, says they are at~ aid OM OM- | tempting to cut the British line of com: We ie keawt: | munication at Gémspan, But, it 1s said tative Is one | they are not likely 10 effect a serious ree ‘ri "If the} But they @te\undowbtedly making ‘* es no ‘rake-off’ the i a strengous effert to @ut the British | SMe fees as apranged by’ the new | lin es to De Aar. | echeme provide, in effect, that no bonds| On the other hand comes the news shall be writter without satisfactory in- , | that Gen, Macdonaid has again occupled demnity by the applicant or his brewer * unless the applicant has had a contin- | Koodovsberg. What precautions Lord uous certificate ever since the Raines| Roberts has adopted against counter- toe sent ee, sie pe aes, ae attacks are not yet known, but the War dealers, arel consequently most of them Office and the public are thoroughly will have to.gtve « bond to the Company | convinced that he /s fully able to cope In order to get a Bond.” with all contingentses and that, if it te = within human possibility, he will infllet the Jefeat on Gen, CYonje that is so | MAY DIE AT DANNEMORA, much more important than the relief of Kimberley, brilliant as was the latter May Me Eseanted nt New uy “De beue: Death Plant Under Coiling —_ [that enthuse Bil Warden Jo&neon sal to an Bvening| (gp World reporter at Sing Sing this morn- ing that sot would probably be executed at Danmemora prison, in the Eastern Adirondacks. “A DI has been introduced in the Assembly,’ said Mr. Johnson, “at the suggestion of St Superintendent of Prisong Collinn providing for “the erec- tion of a brand-new execution plant at Dannemora, with condemned celis, death-house, an electric plant and a Modernized and improved chai". to which all murderers convicted in this State will drew Freidimnan being ite vice-president from Cape Town announce istic demonstrations follow. ne o m, thetic to the Hoere dnd before the reat deness of Ministers oved to be im ol was 5 | caleoraited in towns of Cape ATTACK ON GATACRR, Heere Open with Artiliery on Mele ai Advance Post—Bat. tle im Progress. | | rm indorsement of i ver Sing Sing, Auburn LONDON, Feb, 17, 237 P. M.—A special tus.« It Comte Weeks hew plant coud) despatch from Sterkstroom, dated to» 00 und would be run|day, says the Boers, with artillery, \commenced an attack carly this morme ing on Molteno, near that place, ocew- | pled by troops commanded by Gen. Gate ore, be put up for at much leas expense “Sing ins is too near New York City ns are Very demora pline. They have @ effect on the other for a week after | e only that, but they | help to increase the visitor nuisance; “HF, inet Augum alone there were 1,700 visitors to the prison. and three guards their time fully taken up with sho them arow Thee fre all in favor o: NOT MRS. MOLINEUX. “One Who Knows" Offers to T Mysterious Woman at thi Raraee Funeral. The Evening World recetved this letter to-day, mailed this morning at Btation| A despatch yesterday said “T," which t* the branch post-office at! With ten guns, from Colesburg, attacked convoy consisting of 30 wi 4319 Third avenue, between One Hundred a Bri Rist River on. ‘Thursday. and Sixty-fifth and One Hundred and Rein! is had been sent from Ja Bixty-mixth st co ra Yor She ting lle LED AND WOUNDED ad AT JACOBSDAL ONLY 18 Molineux ey, C. Ba he | LONDON, Feb. 17.—Gen. Roberto re hat rmet's brother att 2 like an ities during the Bovey WEF the British casua : Jacovedal as follows: ies = ARE fourteen wounded and three iO KNOWS. | ing. Like Pie? Try one of Grape-Nuts, tastes much like Pumpkin Pie Savory Winning Healthful Molteno is about fifteen miles north of Sterkstroom, Gev. Gatacres head- quarters, and Was occupied earty in the campaign by the Boers, then by the British. Gatacte is supposed to have at least 6,00 troops in the neighborhood, CAPTURED A CONVOY. Boers Reported te Have Corralled 200 Wagons of British Supplied JACOBSDAL, Feb. 16—The Boers have captured a large convoy at Riet that Boers. name and the mystery = #3: i ———~eniiiee ie Steps that Coamh