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SAFE IN PORT ' Steams Into New York Almost in Sinking Condition. BALTIC COMiS FIRST llringiiig tin* Rescued Passengers. Passengers of Wrcfkcxl Republic ( raphically Describes Tragedy. Tho Ki'Clixled ( lioors of Thousands, (antlicred at Walor Front. Now York, Jan. 2r?.?Loss than seventy-two hours aftor the crash betwoen the ocean liners Republic and Florida, off the Nantucket Shoals, which eventually sent one to the bottom and reduced the other to a state of staggering helplessness, the survivors of this thrilling deep ?ea tragedy have found a haven at last. At nightfall l.GfiO passengers from j the two vessels were safe in this port, brought here by the Baltic, while Hearing it were the rescued officers and crew of the Republic safe on board the derelict destroyer Seneca, to which they were transferred from the revenue cutter (liesham, after staying up to the last moment by their sinking vessel. At her dock in Brooklyn was the battered Florida, about which her crew had remained throughout her trying experiences. Only the ill-fated. Republic was wailing to complete the list. She lies beneath 2 8 fathoms of water, fifteen miles south of Nantucket South Shoals light ship. Frenzied cheers from the thousands at the pier when she docked greeted the arrival of the Baltic, tears of thankfulness were shed, affect,. >tnate greetings were exchanged and only here and there did a note of sadness appear upon the scene. Following the Baltic up the harbor was the liner Florida, battered almost to the sinking point herself by the force of the blow she dealt the Republic, and bearing the bodies of her own three dead and the injured members of her crew. The Republic's passengers told graphic details of the crash, of the (>vci I nnwill I Mil li I- - vv/tfivnv v/H i/viui u, ui tin* dth very of the officers, the good behavior of the crew and the efficient work of rescue. Prom some, who had been on hOArd the Florida, and were brought into port by the Baltic it was learned that something went wrong with the j'lorida's steering wheel when the co Mission was imminent. One story had it that a quartermaster had the wheel when the commander yelled for it to he jammed to starboard. He put it to port instead, and the liners crashed into each other. Another version of the story is that the man dropped his wheel in .i panic when danger impended. Iloth versions agree in saying that the commander felled the quartermaster with an iron spike following what he must have considered the seaman's recreancy. An injured quartermaster from the Florida was brought to port on the Raltic today, lie stoutly asserted that he was not at the wheel when the accident occurrod Capt. Scalby. of the Republic, true to the best tradition of the sea, kept his ship beneath him as long as there was enough of her afloat to afford him a foothold. And practically all accounts agree that, aside from the starting of an incident panic among the steerage passengers on the Florida, both ships' forces and passengers kept their heads well in the midst of most trying conditions When the Florida, in from hei fateful experience, passed l,P the harbor today she looked every bit the pv-.c of the ocean battering ram she had played. Flying the signal "Not under control," she was guided up the hay by two tugs. Her bo w> were cnitnpled up from the impact with the Republic, the plates and beams being buckled and twisted foi a distance of fully thirty feet. Caught on the jagged iron braces and angle irons was a canvas covering to keep out as much water at possible from lu?r forward compart merits, with her forcpeak full of water, her burdened bow dipped low while the stern showed high above the surface. When the Florida reached her dock it was learned thai it was three, and not four, of her crew who had been killed when the steamers collided. They were sleping in their forecastle quarters and met instant death, two of them being badly mangled and so tangled in the wreckage that it was not until after the -.steamer got Iter berth tonight that their bodies could be extricated. The men killed were I'uquafc l^ava!lo, Caterogo Martuscelli and Salvatoro IVAbioo. Three others were severely injured. Capt. Rosplni stated that he had hoard the Republic's whistle at intervals for some time on the morning of the disaster, but they seemed quite far away. Suddenly the big liner loomed up out of the fog and the vessels came together with a crash. The Florida veered off and the Republic was swallowed up again In the mist. A cautious search for WANT TO HELP TAFT \ ltl?M)RIJCAl*U ANXlOUtt TO CX)N- I HIMi OKUM'* NOMINATION. Mrswrs llliett Mid Waring of Chariot*- 1 (on SmniMiintMl to Washington b; Nonator Tillninn. ! Washington, Jan. 29.?If the qucsUon of the appointment, of a e negro as collector of the port of j Charleston is to be put up to Mr. ^ Taft at the opening of his administration, it will have to be done by a ' herculean physical task by Senators Tillman, Gary and what other Item- 1 ocrats they can get to assist them, ' for the Republican leaders of the ' senate are determined that ('rum shall be confirmed at this session, 1 and the confirmation is on its way. Mayor lthctt and Hon. Thos. K. Waring of Charleston were lure toI day, having come in response to a telegram from Senator Tillman yesterday, which stated that the senate committee on commerce had reported favorably the nomination of (bum. Mesfrs. Ithett and Waring had a conference with Senator Tillman and left this afternoon for Charleston to get. up data and put forces to work to help Tillman, who told them ho could not make bricks without straw and it was up to them to furnish tin? straw. Hut it is the opinion of those who know what is working in the minds of certain Republican leaders friendlv Mr T?f? II...I !t ..ill t-.l .J v? ..... ...iv- null ii ?iii liir.i* HUM r than straw to inako bricks hard enough to hobl off tins confirmation. Senator Frye, president pro tern of tlie senate and one of the big bosses, is in charge of the matter, lie it was who had tin? confirmation brought out of the committee. The nomination had been referred to Senator Simmons of North Carolina, the leading Democrat in the committee. lit* refused to report it to the senate, even after Senator Frye had secured a majority of the committee to vote for a favorable report. Frye declared that he would report it himself, and he did. When Crum's nomination was first made by President Roosevelt, Senator Tillman was able to hold it up for two years. Hut now things are slightly different. Then there was a good deal of sympathy for him and senatorial courtesy prevailed. Now there is not that sympathy for Tillman nor any consideration for Charleston on the part of Republican leaders. Resides all, there is an incoming president, the rising and not the setting sun who wants ('rum confirmed, and the senate leaders on the Republican side are decidedly friendly to Taft. They will do anything to force through this confirmation in order to relieve Taft of embarrassment. The only thing Tillman can do to block it is simply to get the floor and hold it day and night through all executive sessions from now till II! o'clock March 4. If he gets the whole Democratic side to help him and makes up his mind to go through tlu* strain he might be able to do it, but 1 lit* indications are that he ! is not going to get much help from his old friend, senatorial courtesy. ZACH Met! 1010. * MONMY TO HUNT CRAFT. Rockefeller, Carnegie and ScliRT Contribute to the Fund. Now York, Jan. 27.?It has jurt 1 i ecoine known that John 1). ltueke1 feller, Andrew Carnegie, Joseph I!. 1 Soli iff and several other well known ' financiers and philanthropists arc backing the bureau of municipal re! search, which was organized to in vestigato the ctiy's finances and al1 leged graft. To carry on the work tnese men with Mrs. ltusseil Sage I and others have subscribed a fund > of $100,000. Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Rockefeller are said to have donated 1 : $20,000 each. Many Cats for Japan. Washington, Jan. 2 9. ? Five thousand eats, whose sole mission in life, or rather in nine lives, henceforth is to serve as nit destroyers in Fair Japan, have been shipped from Chicago. The purpose of this curious feline Invnulnn iu t e ol/l In 1 fighting the plague which is spread , by the rodents. * Voted It Down. Austin, Texas, Jan. 20.?Tn the ; Senate this afternoon Judiciary Committee No. 2 killed by a vote of 6 ! to 1 the Senate bill providing for the establishment of statutory prohibition in Texas. This effectually terminates that feature of the prohibition fight in the Texas Legislature. A good housewlfo novor opens vne condensed milk can with her husband's razor, nor will a loving husband curry the horse with the nutmeg grater. I her was begun and It was two hours, the captain said, before the Florida again located her partner In misfortune and began the the work of rescue which resulted so fortunately. VANTS PAKCtL POST < iRVHV viuiuu (X)N<;RR?S TO U1TH IT TKIAL. < TrtnkJi It WfH I'?h?|>1c iu ( (Wntry, *> Whom Tl?*tter Fn- 1 t rilities Sltonld lx> (iiroa. No Congressman takea more inter- } st in the farmer than Mr. Lever. Ie rightly wants them to have all 1 he benefits the government bestows >n the people living in the cities , tnd towns. So when the fanners inked that they be allowed the privilege of a parcels post in jier?i?r lance with the recommendation of I Lho postmaster general, Mr. Lover did all ho could to secure the passage of the measure by Congress. That the hill did not pass was no fault of his, as ho did all any one could" do to have it enacted into law. In his report the postmaster general said: '"1 recommend the establishment of a special parcels post system on rural delivery route or at the distributing postoillce for delivery by rural carriers patrons thereof at a rate of live cents for the first pound! and two cents for each additional pound up to eleven pounds; for two ounces or less, one cent; over two ounces and up to four ounces, two cents; over four and up to eight ounces, three cents; over eight and up to twelve ounces, four cents over twelve ounces and lip to one pound. five cents." In his speech before Congress, Mr. Lever said, "Tills recommendation carries the idea of giving the farmers of the country conveniences additional to those now brought to them by the rural delivery service. One of the annoyances of country life is the inconveniences involved in obtaining for use many of the small necessaries of life. Every farmer here present knows of his own experience how much time is taken in extra trips to town and city for those necessities of the home and farm. He knows that in the aggregate the waste is inoalcuable, and 1 am sure, If given an opportunity to have a direct vote upon the proposition, he would guard himself and all of the farmers of the country against its continuance. Let me illustrate: "The farmer makes his usual trip to the village on Saturday to provide himself with supplies for the following week. "Likely as not lie has jotted down a memorandum of the various things ho is to purchase. It develops on | Monday morning that his feood wife had overlooked the fact that she was in need of a package of soda or a pound of coffee or a few yards of clotli for the children. A plow must be stopped in the busy season of the year, it may lie at the sowing or bar vest time, when every hours is valuable, and some one must make the trip to town, else the bread goes without soda or the breakfast comes without its usual cup of coffee. "This is not only a serious inconvenience, but, I repeat, in the aggregate amount to a great drain upon the time of the farmer, and it must tie remembered that time is money to the farmer as well as to every other class. "Under the system recommended by the postmaster general, and which I most earnestly advocate, this inconvenience and waste of time will be obviated. A post card to his merchant setting out that a package of soda or a pound of coffee or a few yards of cloth or any other article Of Hinnll u/r?lfrV?# Jo < I o llCt'llfU will have the desired article forthcoming hy rural carrier tlie next morning, and at a cost which amounts practically to nothing. "This plan is so simple, so pregnant with benefits to so large a class of our population, so justified by good sense and the desire to legislate in the interest of all the people. that it must seem strange that Congress has not already authorized by law its establishment. The fact is that practically no consideration has been given it. It has been neglected, cast aside, and to that extent met unfavorable consideration." Mr. Lever called attention to the fact that wo now havo a general percels post; but the system is such that it is little used by the general public, for the reason that the limit of weight for each package is noly four pounds, and the postage per pound is sixteen cents. The system proposed increases the weight of the package to I 1 pounds and reduces the OOStnPO r?n n ?? f , ^H U1 flt'YV!! founds to a little more than two cents per average pound. Such a system, In my judgment, as is sought by those who agree with the recommendation of the postmaster general would And universal favor and In a short time become as popular with the people even as rural delivery, and llkowiso as indispensable and as fruitful of benefits. In answer to a question, Mr. Lever stated that the limited parcels post, and as he favored, gave the merchants of local towns from which rural routes emlnatod the benefit of a reduced rate over merchants and companies of other cities and towns, j In other words, the mail-order hous-1 eg would not bo able to compete with . 5iOI>Y POUND IN fiUfEO). | 1 < 3lrl of Slx(??a Ahili by ou Loaelf Rood. Dayton, Ohio, Jan. 2?.?A murder | pvhJeh, in ltn revolting details re -nlltt the famoaa Dona Oilman ease >f more than two year? ago, was mcovered here a few days ago, when he body of nixtoen-year-old Mary Korschner waa found in a wagon died in the outskirts of this city. The girl had been strangled, as were Dona Oilman, in November, 1006, and Bertha Markowitz, in AnFlint IOH7 TI.? . i uu iiiiuijisy snowed that the reason for the killing; was the same in all three cases. The body was found by Robert CJoppert, the girl's step-father, who had been searching for her. The girl had been terribly beaten, and her face and neck were badly lacerated. IJy following a plainly marked trail it was found that she had been attacked while walking along the road and that her body had been dragged over a stone wall into a Held, across the Held, across another road, and then placed in the shed. Charles Snider, who lives in tin; (Jeppert house, has been arrested on suspicion, and a man named Samuel Morris is held as a witness. Mary Korschner worked in King's tobacco warehouse. She was a pretty girl and popular. Saturday night her step-father gave her and told her to deposit it with a downtown loan association. the local merchants upon the basis of the postage rates recommended by the postmaster general for a limited rural parcels post. The wisdom of discriminating in favor of the local merchant must he apparent to anyone who regards for a moment the danger Involved in a system which would inevitably centralize the commerce of the country. Unfortunately there is too much of this at present, and every expedient should ho adopted to chock its growth. Rut I insist, Mr. Chairman, that a great system should not be throttled and kept from consideration because, perchance, a few great corporations think tlioy are to suffer on account of it. We are here to legislate in the interest 01 all the people, and here Is a pian offered bv whietl 1 g nun rtfU) Iinntiln .... I . II W V? |>U" | tiently enduring many inconveniences may bo helped, and it is our duty to afford the aid. Mr. Chairman, I shall not attempt a further discussion of this mosf | important proposition in the short time which has been allowed me, but I want to say that the opportunity is ours to authorize this experiment as is recommended , an experiment which will, in my humble opinion, bring a "direct and vital benefit to every man, woman and child within reach of a rural route." We have been generous to the rural delivery system. It had its beginning in the teeth of the most violent opposition; it was begun as an experiment; it is now a settled policy. Who would destroy it? It is the belief of those of us supporting a limited parcels post that ten years from the first experiment with it it will prove as beneficial, as far-reaching in its influence for cno.l :i ? Unlnful i ? I.. ? -- '' " in i a nil ill*' happy and con ton tad as has the groat system of rural delivery. And, Mr. Chairman. I want to call the attention of the House to the unfortunate tondenev among our rural population to drift away from the country into the towns and cities, and this is especially true of our young men and women. The reason is the desire for more conveniences, better schools, better roads, and a closer social contact upon the part of the rural population. Whenever tlie day comes that our country people become dissatisfied with the conditions which surround them, and find it necessary to move into towns and cities to find the relief they seek and which they should have, It will ho an evil day for this Republic, j Rural delivery has had much in lluonce In cheeking this tendency; the rapid inauguration of rural telephones over the country is having a large influence in the same direction; and the establishment of a system of delivering small packages at a mere nominal cost at the gates of the rural population will, in my judgment, he a most, vital agency to the same end. In fact, I doubt not that, these three influences acting together, resulting in better roads, improved school facilities, easy communication, and greater convenienc/ic fr\n OAiinf vtr 11 ?**?? ? * ^ ' ?" ^VIUILI j iiici WIII iiiiu till? tide, and the drift in the future will ho from the city to the country; and this is a consummation devoutly to be wished. * Young Woman Missing. Now York, Jan. 2!).?Samuel Feldman, a restaurant keeper, has renorted to the police that his seventeen-year-old daughter Hattie has disappeared and that in his opinion she was kidnapped by sailors and token to sea. * Tillman and Burrows. Washington, Jan. 27.?Senators Tillman and Harrows were designated today by the Senate as members ! of the Naval Academy Hoard of Visitors. Southern States Supply Company PUOMI 164. COLUMBIA. S C. ^ Gibbes Unproved (2 i? 1) tS? iSitcr^. . . \ Mill I II \ 1 WII 1 " C'lt^Tfrc't UMl*. . T i y ^T"*V Pay f<?r Itm-lf In n dar. Hun with least ix>w- mi ^6 |T QJ /< llv\ er. 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She gazed in speechless won der ct the magic contrivance by m *% . |r|. ~~ which messenger boys were made to uLAOvIiIlU UULUlVlN move with breakneck speed, barbers CCC^O^C^XXXXX^CCCCCCOCCCCCO to shave their customers in less than 'i,?r ?Indian games, brown Rega minute and heavy policemen to horns, buff Orphingtons and Beadash along the street at a rate never Kle hounds. Poultry, $1 and up, attained by a living specimen, ellh- according to quality. John L. Joler on or off duty. b'. Anderson, S. C., Route No. 3. It was all real to her. She could ? not doubt the evidence of her sens- Cabbage Plants?Garden plants, OB. All those things were taking Krown in the opou alr> w,n sUnd place exactly as depicted. (ho coi(lest WfMlt htn* .. vt. < i iws, one "" "u^'noiM'. j came in t() f()lll. thousand, $1.50; four to sight in tho far background. moving nine thousand. $1.25; nine thousdirectly toward the audience at tin and, $1 per thousand. We have rate of at least a mile a minute. special express rates. Write us Just as a catastrophe seemed inevi- for our ageut.a outfU an(1 propo_ table it swerved aside, passed on . sItion N H mitch Co^ Mog. and disappeared. getts, S. C., the largest truek farm Aunt Hepsy could not stand it ln the wor|tj no longer. Hastily grasping the hand of her little niece she rose and The Kcwancc System of taster supply started swiftly for the door. meets every requirement of doI Come along, Minervy! she said. mestic service and affords tire pro"It ain't safe to stay here any long- teclion to country residences, or! That thing didn't miss me more Thousands in use. For informathan two feet."?Youth's Compan- tion and pricea addreBB Sf s. *on* Ingman, Columbia, S. C. Norfolk Shocked. . Norfolk, Va? Jan. 26?A section Wn (:,,w r????Advise of .he city was thrown Into excite- "s lho ?umb?r of buHhels yo" h,lvs ment yesterday afternoon l,y the for ail'? an<1 son" 1,8 Bamnle9! I sprinting through the streets of R. ^,m*ke ,yo" our, b*8t?pr,C" I 1). Armington, In nude condition, fol- 'l^vored Clmrleston l. M. Pearllowed by men and boys, white and ,hons' 20,;2?3 Ettat "ft)' I,lack. Finally ho was taken to ?o- 3t" Charleston, S. C. lice headquarters, where he had to 3 be put in a straight-jacket. He pro- OMENTAL lU'G COKVNY, claimed he was the re-incarnation not Cathedral St., Raltinioro, Md. of the original Adam, and command- Wemake you handsome and dared by God not to wear clothes. aWo RuB8 froIll your 0ld, wornout carpet, any size to fit. a room or hall. .lilown b rom Ills Porch. Let ns send you a price list; just St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 29. ? Robert write for one AlacCormack, the oldest member of . ? the police force, was blown from Shop by Mail?Send for our Catalog the lv?-foot high porch of his home of bargains, it's free. E. Dowda & and probably fatally hurt in the Co.. Mail-order r>? - . w. i??\/i vuiiUtCi UUA ; nun hi toany. Points through Mis- 302. Atlanta, Oa., I sourl reported severe storms of wind and snow- * A QUESTION BETWEEN An Old n-auurrd-up Avrn A Modern Up-To" lHi///,ar<! ill Northwest. Cellar Window Date Coal Chute ? . ... _ ALSO FURNISHED WITH GLASS St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 29.?An old- mini time blizzard in the Northwest to- A day. Telegraph c^m^ schools closed. * The Mtlestlc Coal Chute protects tho Riding ' ' alwivo tno opening where most of tho dnrongo . nrni i omhm, 1'reseiiis a nrnt nppearnnce, Is burg* An exchange trul> says. The lar-prnof, nnd will Inst a lifetime. Can bo meanest and most despicable char- ' piacod in old walls as woll iiHnew. scter in any community is that man | l2J woVcilv.^^01 ASUPPLCoUmw.,s.a 9