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Dirk Faber Askn CLEARS UP A MYSTERY The Captain and the Entire Crew of Eleven Men Went Down With the Pnlmeir—Another Disaster Added Jo the T<nng List of Those Caused t liy the Storm. The wreck of the five-masted ir schooner Davis Palmer was located Tuesday morning Just outside ot De vil's Bank buoy, north ot Commis sioners Ledge, at the entrance to BPOiff Bound, Bditoh harbor. The Mg vessel lies submerged, but the mast heads project from the water. ' It is thought that the Palmer touch ed a shoal spot early Sunday morn ing, the teas during the terrific storm sleeping the decks clear and carry Ing the crew of twelve men to their wreath- The Palmer was bound from New port News for Boston, with a cargo of coal, and carried a crew of twelve jm-n. The vessel lies In the channel, ^ And is a dangerous menace to other vessels. The loss of the Palmer be came known Monday when wreckage bearing her name was found on Pull Beach. The discovery of the wreck Of the Palmer was followed by the re port of another wreck In the outer harbor. This second victim of the great storm, which swept New Bdg land Saturday night and Sunday, was . reported by Capt. Kemp, of the tug Ariel, who asserts that he saw three masks of a schooner projecting above ^ the water near the shoals known as - "the graves." Although Capt. Kemp locates the vessel three miles east of the wreck of the Palmer, some marine authori ties think that he may have been mistaken In his bearings, and that he saw the Palmer’s masts. Seafearing men. who believe that the tug boat captain is not in error about' his bearings, are diacussinc the possibility of s collision between the PalMer and the unknown schoon er. / 1 . - probably the last person to se* the Palmer before she sank was Capt Sookamp, of the barge Hopatcong which docked at Lynn from Hobo ken. He reported passing the Palm er off Cape Cod late Christmas after noon. At that time the Palmer’s sailors were on deck singing and cel ebrating the holiday In true sea fash ion. all unknowing of the fate that awaited them within a few hours at the entrance of thadr home port. Tu©day’s roll of wrecks was In creased Wednesday. The schooner • Ada K. Damon, the sole suppore of her aged master, Capt. A. K. Brew ster, of Yerk, Maine, went ashor* near Ipswich. She will probably be • total loss. Her crew managed to reac$>Aore safely. In Chelsea, where a tidal wave ~ broke a dyke and flooded the honied of t.OOO people, a high tide opened .new breaks. Many of the cellars AND CHILD IN COLUMBIA FOR ANOTHER WOMAN. J. Thomas Frankllif, Claiming to Represent a Church Paper, Wanted on Serious Charge. The State saya that J. Thomas Franklin, a former resident of Col umbia, la wanted there to answer to a charge of wife desertion, and Sher iff W. H. Coleman Tuesday-sent re quests to., officers in a number of cities, which will douhtlegg result In his speedy arrest. A warrant issued by Magistrate T. J. • Roberts sod New Yerk Jirist Deckres Tkat Patarittic Aft Is N« l«rc. D0I1AR USURPS HOMAGE sworn out by Mrs. Mamie H. Frank : lin charges the accused v^th the de sertion of his wife and infant child In Columbia. September IS. 1909. Franklin Is, or represented himself to be, a traveling representative of The Christian Observer, a well known religious publication Issued by Con verse A Co., of Louiscllle, Ky. It is to be, a traveling representative of desertion, he may be also con fronted with a bigamy charge as he has married again since leaving his wife In Columbia. It Is alleged that he came to Col umbia last September and succeeded in Inducing his wife to let him have certain money that she had In the bank here and since that time has not returned. Shortly after leaving on this trip, he Is said to have mar rled again and removed his residence Co another State. The second marriage, not having 'incurred In South Carolina, nothing has been done on the bigamy charge and Franklin Is wanted to answer to the charge of desertion. But there Is some Indication that he has even a third wife, and that at least two live In this State. That will make out a case of statutory bigamy If the facts can be established. It la also said that he has been a criminal before, and will not be In the toils for the first time, having served two terms in the penitentiary for forgery. Representing such i well known publication as The Chris tlan Observer, which has been for many years a visitor to numerous Christian homes. Indicated that he was above reproach and the news of the warrant Issued in Columbia w be a surprise In many parts of this State and elsewhere where he is sup posedly well known. Sheriff Cole man Tuesday communicated with Converse & Co., telling of the charg* 1 against their representative ATTACKED BY A FIEND. Brave Young Woman Faced iu*ath to . Save Her Honor. With both feet so frozen that they probably will have to be amputated and suffering from shock, Miss Nellie Strayer, twenty-two years old, Is at the home of an uncle in Eau Clair. Butler county, Pa , following a dea perate experience In which she brav ed death to save her honor. The young woman arrived at Par ker station during the night and en gaged » — — Supreme Court Justice Wesley O. Howard, of New York, la aa Opin ion Reducing Compensation Com missioners, Declares that Craft is a Product of Onir Times. "The age of patriotism has yield ed to the age of commercialism. Uppermost in the human mind todav la not the Stars and Stripes, but the doUar mark.” —-— Such was the declaration of Su preme Court Justice Wesley O. How ard, of New York, in an opinion Tuesday reducing the compensation of members of a commission appoint ed to appraise damages to property resulting from the construction of Ashokan reservoir In Ulster county, which la to furnish a water supply for New York city. "While the commission furnishes avenues for the reckless escape of many dollars, there are other chan nels of leakage ms wastefully appall ing,” said the Judge. "it is greatly to be regretted that no public enterprise can be projected and consummated without this ap palling loss, called 'graft.’ Graft is not necessarily an Illegal expendl ture of money, but It Is that unnec essary wasteful use which character Izes the construction of every public venture. At least 40 per cent, of all the money appropriated for public use is lost In graft. All could he possible if this frightful leak could be stopped-—roads, canals, libraries, asylums and hospitals. "Graft Is a product of our times and institutions. It Is the people who are responsible. They expect graft,' and even spoil and booty, to deplete their resources whenever any great undertaking Is ventured by them; and then look with complac ence and toleration and indifference at ravages upon their property. Graft is as much an element to be reckon ed wkh in computing the cost of a public structure, as Is cement or lumber. It has come to be a matter of course—this rake-off—a loss re cognized by all who make estimates of cost in such cases. A public struc ture built honestly would be a freak ” Justice Howard declares that the "whole project of the condemnation of the land in the Ashokan valley Is characterized by waste, disorder and confusion.” ONE OF THE WORST BLIZZARDS IN TWENTY YEARS. The Whole Oowet Enfolded In the Uraep of the Ice King on Christ- mns Dny. I*OLL TAX FATAL J. J. Hemphill .Misses a Good Fat Job for Paying It. The payment of his poll tax In South Carolina has cost ex-Represen- tative John J. Hemphill s |5,000 dol lar position In the serxl" The blizzard that started on Xmas day is said to have been one of the worst in recent years, the worst that we hare had In'.December for a long tlma. The death roll is mounting high In the northern latitudes. Ship ping has suffered terribly, snd among the ships to suffer 4s the Irlquois of the Charleston-New York lin. Here the bllzzsrd hardly amounted to anything more than making peo ple uncomfortable and freezing water pipes, but in New York and New England, many people froze to death, communication with different parts of the eountry was cut off or serious ly Interrupted. The United States weather bureau announced Tuesday that the snow storm had been the heayiest for De cember In nearly twenty years. Be ginning at 11 o’clock Saturday morn ing snow fell continuously for twenty four hours to a depth of more than ten Inches. The maximum wind ve locity for five minutes In this time was fifty-eight miles an hour. The storm covered all the country east of the Mississippi Valley and in creased in Intensity as It moved from the Interior toward the Atlantic coast. The wind blew harder and the snow fell faster In New York than anywhere else. First Assistant Fore caster E. S. Nichols at the New York station, No. 100 Broadway said: "Away back on Dec. 26 and 27, 1 890, we had a fall of fourteen In ches during twenty-four hours. That is the only snow fall during Decern her that compares with the present one. "The greatest snow fall on record for New York for twenty-four hours occurred on Feb. 17 and 1 8, 1 893, seventeen and eight-tenths Inches fell. On Jan. 24, 1 908, nine and a half Inches fell. That’s the only storm during recent years that com pares with this.” Ad Skittered Wreckife Tells tf Cm Disaster at Sea VESSELS GONE TO RUIN Many .Ships Are Stranded on the New England C oast and Flotsam From Big Schooner Leads to Grave Fears for the Safety of the Crew of tohlnei Supplies Rlumbln 0 COLUMBIA. 3. C. A Feather in Our Cap Twelyg Men., With the news of the probable loss of the big five masted schooner Davis Palmer with her crew of 12 men, off Boston harbor, and the wreeking of nine other vessels along the Massachusetts coast, the open ing chapter of the toll taken on the sea by the great storm which swept New England Saturday night and Is oar system of cnrling and dyeing feathers. Bat MADE RESTITUTION. A Man Is Converted and Returns Money He Had Stolen. The Hamilton, Ga., Journal says about twenty years ago Messrs. C. H. and John A. Cook were doing busi ness in Hamilton under the name of Cook Brother. One day a sack con tainlng silver coin to the amount of at least $185.00 was mysteriously stolen from their store, every effort to recover the same proving a fail ure and the money long ago given up as forever lost. Last week a letter from Mont gomery written on a letterhead of the Montgomery Bank and Trust company, and containing a draft drawn by this company on New York exchange f^r $199.00, was received by Mr. C- Cook for the former Sunday was bared to the world on Tuesday. Cape Cod Is still cut off and with the restoration of communi cation it is feared that a tale of marine disasters and storm damage unequaled in years will be related. Wreckage borne into Boston har bor Is believed to be the mute evi dence IsT The loss of the schooner Davis Palmer. Newport News, for Boston, somewhere near the entrance to the harbor. A signal box among the wreckage contained a burgee with Die Palmer’s name as also did i quarter-board found near. The wreck itsejr has not been located. he three-masted schooner Natas- ket was hurled ashore at Situate and probably will prove a total wreck, Voluntee life savers with the breech es bouy rescued her crew of ten men. With a cargo of lumber she was bound for Boston from North Caro lina. The schooner Belle Halllday is ashore at Barnt Point, Natucket. The fate of her crew Is unknown, but it is believed that they have been res cued. She was from Philadelphia loaded with railroad iron. On the rock shores of Martha’s Vineyard, two water-logged schoon era are being swept by every sea. They are the A. K. McLean, a British vessel, bound from Perth Amboy to Halifax, and the Stonlngton (Me.) schooner Maude Steward, Port Red ing from Provlncetown. The crews of both vessels have been taken off. At Provlncetown the sloop Bonita is aground and in the flats of Ply mouth harbor are four small schoon ers similarly distressed. The work of filling the gaps in telegraph and telephone wire sys tems and In railroad and trolley lines which had been opened by the blizzard is proceeding. The telegraph companies report a capacity of about 25 per cent, of the norma! while the telephone and trolley lihe schedules were largely filled, although delays of from onehalf to three hours we*-© noted on railroads trains. Southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod’s sandy peninsula * • 'V P hortp we hare maay other feathers in our cap. We excel in cleaning and dyeing Gloves, Laos Cartains, all kinds of drew goods, an d even Carpets, Vi Jlfiret _ iftinre the finest fabrics. Our work Is the best Our pries moderate. ▲ posta l wilt bring them. THE W. S. COPLESTON CO. 80 Society Street, Local and Long CHARLESTON, 8. C. HUMAN BODIES BURNED. On the Battlefield of Rama Down -Nicaranga. A dispatch from Bluefield, Nlcar- auga, says hundreds of dead are burning on the Rama battlefield Tuesday. With pathetic speed, piles of bodies have been Incinerated daily for the last few days, and reports re ceived by the provinlcal government, state that the gruesome work is near ly done. Stacked like railroad ties, and saturated with oil, the bodies the victims are set afire. Many children and some dead women were found among the dead of the gov ernment troops. Famine is increasing the horrors of war in the interior of Nicarauga. The situation in a score of towns Is reported to be serious. The opera tions of the Zelayan troops before their defeat near Rama by Gen. Es trada prevented traffic in snppN**© during the weeks the government troops were stationed there. The drain on the country's re sources—meagre at the best in many districts—made by the government commissary in its futile attempts to keep the army in condition depleted the natural supplies greatly. This development Is an Important factor in the Insurgents’ fight. The people place the blame on the Zelaya and Madrlz factions and advices from the hill towns say that insur rectionary spirit is rife. The situation in Bluefield Is In proving under the constant labor of the American surgeons. Sanitation is better but suffering in the hospi tals is still Intense. Scout parties are still bringing wounded and pris oners from Rama. THE NEW FERTILIZER. A discovery of far-reachiig Impcr tance to the farmers of the South 1> the new fertilizer which has beei perfected on one of the islands nea Charleston, S. C. It has long beei known that lime Is an essentia! foo< for plants of all kinds snd that the> cannot live when It has-been exhaus* -oil / CLASSIFIED COLUMN This Cares All Diseases—Send for free box. Prof. Wna. Dulin, Ne braska City, Neb. Red PoUed Cattle- Berkshire Hogs and Angora Goats. Breeders. W. R. Clifton, Waco, Texas. The Latest Books—Send for our lat est booklet describing them. Sims Book Store, Orangeburg, S. C. 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