The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, January 06, 1910, Image 4
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
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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
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