Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-12-29
THREE HIGH OFFICIALS SLAIN
On Same Day--Fourth Is Wounded.
Governments Threatened I'm Each. y

VI PSISohdBSS Hlsn III once were re-
ported last Wednesday from widely
separated points. The prime minis
ter Of the Korean cabinet was stabbed
intense feel ng in Korea against Jap
anese influence.
In st. Petersburg the chief of the
secret police, Col. Karjoff, was
blown to pieces by the explosion of
bomb, supposedly thrown by an
anarchist.
At Bombay, British India, the
chief magistrate of Mask, Arthur NJ.
L. Jackson, was assassinated by a
native for revenge and presumably
as part of the seditious movement
against British official authority.
In each of the countries the gov
erning authority is menaced by a
dangerous element directed against
the existing regime. Ea~
The prime minister of Roumania
was also shot and seriously wounded.
Premier vi, Of Korea, Slain
by Youth Who Used Knife.
Seoul, Korea, Dec. 22.-Premier
vi. the head of the Korean cabinet,
was stabbed and fatally wounded to-
day by a Korean, Vie Chain Yong.
Premier vi was formerly minister
Of education in the Korean cabinet.
He became prime minister in May,
1907, when a reconstruction OF the
cabinet followed five-hour audience
that Marquis Ito, the Japanese presi-
dent, had with the emperor. VI was
regarded as firm and competent
officer, but his efforts to carry out
the policy of the new administration
met with continual and determined
opposition from his political adver-
saries.
The attack occurred at 10 O'Clock
in the morning. The assailant was
a young Christian, who was for many
years resident of the United States.
The premier was riding in his jim
ricksha when the assassin came up
with a long kitchen knife in his
hand. He drove this twice into the
abdomen Of the premier, and once
into the latter's lung.
The assassin then turned on the
premier's jinricksha man, whom he
stabbed and instantly killed.
The assassin was Immediately ar
rested He was a youth about 20
years of age, and is believed to be a
member Of political society.
vi was always credited with fos-
rea. He bitterly opposed the faction
among the Koreans which, favored
the annexation to Japan and refused
to present a petition for annexation
to the Korean emperor. Notwith-
standing Yis known sentiments In
regard to the relations between ia
pan and Korea. Marquis Ito regard
ed vi as an honest and conscientious
patriot. .
Chief of Russian Secret Police
Is Blown to Pieces.
st. Petersburg, Dec. 22.-Col. Kar-
joff, chief of the secret police of st.
Petersburg, was assassinated early
to-day, He had been enticed to a
modest apartment in a remote street
of the Viborg district and there was
blown to pieces by bomb, exploded
supposedly by his host, one Michael
Vosskressensky, who had leased the
rooms few days before. .. &c.
The murderer rrshed into the
| street following the explosion and
was captured. An assistant Of Kar-
Joifs, who had accompanied him was
severely injured.
Karjoff was appointed from Baku,
where he had been chile of the secret
police.
There have been several convic-
tions of bomb makers recently.
Nasik Magistrate Slain by
Native at the Theatre.
Bombay, British India, Dec. 22.-
Arthur Mason Tippetts Jackson,
chief magistrate of Mask. was assas-
sinated by native while attending
theatrical performance last night
Thn fxrn fo,. In L.,
posed to have been a wish for re-
Venge upon the magistrate, who had
recently sentenced a criminal to life
imprisonment Mask is a hotbed of
sedition Jackson had been in the
British Indian service since 1888.
Whatever may have been the i'm
mediate motive for the assassination
of Chief Magistrate Jackson, the out
rage cannot fail to increase the ever
present fear of an uprising against
British rule in India. Attempts have
been made in India against the lives
OF Lord Mimic, Lord Kitchener, Sir
Andrew Fraser, the lieutenant gov
ernor OF Bengal and many other Brit
ish officials.
On July LIST last Sir william Hutt
Curzon Wyllie, who had recently held
important Indian appointments, was
murdered at the imperial institute
In London by an Indian studact. who
subsequently was hanged. DR.. Ca
was Lalcaca. physician of Shanghai,
who was visiting in London, also
was killed during the fusillade Of
shots, though his death may not have
been intended originally. .
Another Prime Minister Shot;
Seriously Wounded
Washington, Dec. 22.--An official
dispatch was received by the State
department this morning from
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