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LUSHED TH. RUE STANDS BY COOK Admiral ScUej Oils Upu Peiry to Sabsit His Data to Dues. WHO REJECTED COOK'S So Reaffirms IDs Ooafldoaco ia the arooklya Explorer sad That the Saas Mea Who Repudiated CookV Should Also Pass Cpoa Peftry's Proof. his complete confidence ia Dr. Oook.

Rear Admiral W. Sohley? retired, Wednesday called psihiicly upon Commander Peary to submit his proofs that he reached the North Pole to some scientific body other than the National Geographic Society. This the Admiral decalrea, should be done at once in the interests of justice and to establish beyond question the claims of Peary. The Admiral believes that the same body which threw out and repudiated Cook's data should be permitted to pass upon the data submitted by Peary to the Geographic Society. Danes are the beet posted body of men in the world on Arctic matters," he said.

"The consistory of the University of Copenhagen should ba given the opportunity to examine the Peary proofs, for la. that way they would be submitted to the same test that was spoiled to those of Cook." Moreover. Admiral Scaley, believes that the submission of the proof to Copenhagen should be insisted upon by Peary, despite whatever the National Geographic Society's attitude may be. Admiral Schley declined to say on what grounds ha took exception to the finding of the scientists of the University of Copenhagen that Cook bad not been at the North Pole. He merely reaffirmed his belief in the explorer, adding that he also that Peary, too, had gained the top of the earth.

The importance of the Admiral's demand is increased by the fact that be has had wide experience In the far North. In 1884 be was la of the Thetis expedition, which eesalted in tee reacts Lieut Greeley sad six bad been east away at Cape Sabine, and whoa the eivillwid world had practically given up for lost. For bis rescue, Sbhtey, then a captain in the Service? was awarded a gold watch and a rote of thanks by the Maryland Legislature, and a medal of honor by the Massachusetts Humans Society. Members of the National Geographic Society declined to discuss the suggestion of the retired naval officer. The Society is still smart-1 log under the somewhat curt reply made by the University of Open-j tagen to Its request that a committee representing the Society be per-1 mitted to be present wben Dr.

Cook's data was examined. DRANK POISONED BOOZE. Oino Man Dead and Another Very ni From the Stuff. Samuel Hogan is dead and a neirxo Is in a serious condition at Starke, from drinking whiskey that is alleged to have been poisoned. The whiskey was seat to Jolin Bennett, a well known resident, an! is the package was the following note: "From a friend, wishing a happy Christmas." Mr.

Bennett sent the negro to tthe express office for the package, giving him a drink upon his return. He then pa33ed the bottle to who drank. The bottle was next passed to Mr. Bennett's son, who drsck. prcsently all three were suddenly ill and Hogan djei aid reached him.

The is better, but the negro is in a dangerors condition. The package was shipped from Jacksonville and the autfcnr'tles are now investigating the crse. JeMrosy Cansea Tragedy. A trini? murder and suicHe occurred at Plttsbnrg, a mining village, Wednesday when Wfllllam Murray, a miner, and Killed hts wife and her mother and Elbert Ode and himself. Murray, objections to the of Cole to Mrs.

Murray are given as the euase of crimes. Hlovm to Pircen. At St. Petersburg, Chief Karpoff of the secret Russian police blown to bits shortly after midnight We Tnes-'ay In his apartments. The flat was wrecked, and the official was literally cut into small pieces by the force of the explosion.

Pri Minister Slain. An official dispatch received by the St-te Wednesday morning from pftei prime minister of Roumanla bad been shct seriously wounded by an Evploslon in Colliery. An occurred in a coal mine r.e?r MeAIester, a few days ago, and it Is reported that many miners are hurt. TIMES A WEEK. FAILS TO SPECIFY The First Man.

to Beach the 7C Pole Before the University of Copenhagen, A dispatch from Copenhagen, Denmark, says the University of Copenhagen, the first Institution of learaiag that recognised Dr. Frederick- A. Cook as discoverer of the North Pole, Tuesday solemnly declared that the explorer had failed to establish the claim upon which his high honors are based. The committee appointed by the university to examine Cook's records recently presented a report to the consistory of the university, which reviewed the deductions of the experts with the greatest care and discussed the findings from every standpoint Both the committee and the consistory were disappointed. The consistory met and.

adopted a written report that the alleged records submitted for examination by Dr. Cook failed to prove the claim that he reached the pole. Tie report of the committee. Prof. Cstromgren, chairman, as presented to the consistory, states that Cook's papers are without any value, and that, bis report to the university is practically the same as published in the New York Herald upon bis return from the expedition.

Copies of his not? books submitted, says the committee, contain no original emulations or ob serrations, but only the results thereof. Accordingly the committee concludes that he offers no proof of having reached the pole. The documents submitted to the University of Copenhagen for examination included a typewritten report by Dr. Cook and a typewritten eopy of Dr. Cook's notebooks.

Dr. Cook's secretary, Walter Lonsdale, told the commission that the not -books were sent to Europe by another route. Despite the explorer's promise of the original notebook and diaries; they have never reached the commission. The explorer's address is not known, even to his THREE LIVES WERE LOST fa a.Big Lorafem Store Fire oh A disastrous fire involving the loss of three Uvea and the destruction of the big drapery store of Arding and Hobbs at Chapham, a southwestern quarter of London, occurred Monday. The Are occurred when th? store, covering an acre of ground-, was crowded with customers.

But in little more than an hour the building was a mass of ruins. The damage is estimated in the vicinity of $2,500,000. All the customers made their way out of the store In safety. The three hundred employes followed them. The progress of the flames which was assisted by the Christmas decorations and festoons was so rapid (that some of the employes were caught in the upper floors.

jO'nei of the giris descended the fire escape in safety, while the seeon i fell and was killed. The two men then jumped and also were killed. Many persons were assisted from the windows by the firemen and several of the employes were seriously Injured, a few possibly fatally. Some cf the employes are unaccounted for. SEVENTY MILES OF RAILROAD Were Constructed in South Carolina During Pfst Year.

According to statements submit tel to the railroad commission bv tve difTprent lines of the State, 68.14 miles of railroad have bten con? Rtructel in South Carolina during the past year. Only six and a fraction miles of were Installed, which Is I conpl'ered by members of the comI mlssirn as the least number of i on record. Only eight miles of track were added to the main lines of the larg! er systems of the State, and seven cf these miles were added to the Greenville Knoxville read. The roads constructing the larg 1 et numhe- of miles are the Carolina, Cllnchleld Ohio. 18: North Sovth Circllna road 27.3.

and the Bennettsviile Clieraw extension 15 I miles. Fell Fro Train. William Snnford, a white man about 35 years of age, met his death five miles below Prosperity Tuesday afternoon by falling Columbia, Newberrv aurons passenger No. 52, bound from Columbia to was going to Newberrv to visit relatives. When Us relatives last from him he was working in the Lexington cotton mills.

Killed by Nrtive. At Bombay. India, Arthur Jackson, chief of N'sik, wps assassinated while attending a theatrical performance Wednesday. Ti-e motive frr the murder was a wish for revenge upon the eintrete, who sentenced a criminal to life Imprisonment. 0 ORASTGEBUR? LYNCH1NGS Rear.

1909 SUws Ike Number to Be Sefenjy 11 WHITER 59 BUCKS Occurred in 12 States and One in Previous Tears Crimes Against White Women Was the Cause of the Majority of the Executions. According to a report issued from Waahlagton. D. C. a few days ago, lynchings in 1909 have numbered 70, the highest number recorded since 1904.

The victims numbered 11 whites and 59 negroes. The lynching occurred In 12 States anl one Mexico. As in previous years, crimes or alleged crimes against white women and murders caused most of these summary executions. One case, occurring in Cairo, 111., combined both causes anl resulted in the placing of the city under military control for several dayB. The Cairo lynchings were the only cases of the kind that occurred north of the Ohio river diarlng the year.

Several double lynchings occurred at various points in the South, and Oklahoma furn- lohed a quadruple lynching, with four cattlemen as the victims. In the following record the word "lynching" has been held to apply only to the summary punishment inflicted by a mob or by any number of citizens on a person alleged to have committed a crime. By States the 70 lynching cases here recorded are classified as follows: Georgia. 11 Texas. 10 Florida 8 Mississippi.

7 Louisiana. 7 Alabama. 6 Oklahoma 5 Kentucky. 4 3 South Carolina. 3 New Mexico.

2 Illinois 2 1 West Virginia. 1 The detailed record for as S. unidentified nojTO, attempted criminal as-j santt. Jan. Jim Gilbert, negro, accused of counterfeiting.

Jan. Pink Willis, negro, attempted criminal assault. Jan. Hilllard, negro. Insulting white woman.

Jan. Douglass Roberson, negro, murder of a deputy sheriff. Jan. Sam Davenport, negro, Incendiarism. Feb.

Will Parker, negro, criminal asEault. Feb. Roby Daskln, negro, murder of Rev. W. T.

Hudson. Feb. Jake Wades, negro, criminal assault. Feb. Roily Wyatt, negro, shooting a white man.

March John Fowler, negro, murder of deputy sheriff. March Anderson Ellis, negro, attempted criminal assault. March Joe Gordon, negro, shooting and blinding a white man. March W. Joseph Brown, white, shooting chief of police.

March N. Daniel Johnson, negro, and Manuel Sandoral, a Mexican, kidnapping young girl. March Joe Redden, negro, insulting white woman. April Dave Alexander, negro, murder of pollce' man. April Ben Brame, negro, attempted criminal assavlt.

April City, Howard Montgomery, negro, assaultive; an ofTcer. April John Smith, negro, attempted criminal assault. April J. B. Millar.

B. B. Burrell, Jesse West and Joe Allen, all white, charged with murder. April John Themas, negro, assault. April Charles Scarborough, attempted criminal assault.

April Creole Mose, Hill and Mal Chase, uei grces, murder. May Jim Hodges, I negro, criminal assault. May Unidentified negm. crimlr.pl assault. May Albert AlkPn, negro, shooting white man.

M-y Bluff, Livett I Davis, negro, attempted criminal as1 sarlt. May Tom Barnrtt. white, shct to death in his cell convhte-i of murder. May Joseph Blakeley, negro, threatening murder. June John Maxey, negro, scooting white man.

June Malk 8. C. TUrjKSDAY. DI WAS BUNTED DOWN ONE NEGRO SHOT AND BURNED IN HIS OWN HOUSE. Murder of Young White Man Leads to Death of Slayer's Brother and Wounding of Member of Posse.

Magnolia, Is quiet Tuesday night, following a day of Intense excitement with much bitter feeling manifested between the whites nod bracks of that community. Eir-est Slade, one of four shot by Clinton Montgomery, a desperate is fatally Injured, ar-i bis death, expected at any minute, may serve to further fan the flames of race hatred. Clinton Montgomery's charred body lies in the ruins' of a small negro house, near the town, tue work of a posse of citizens. Blister and Shelly Montgomery, brothers of 'the burned negro, barely escaped lynching early Monday morning, when the sheriff of Marengo county captured them ani eluded the ma1; hunters, taking them to the county jail at Lindon. Search is being continued for Will Montgomery, another of the four brothers, charge 1 with the brutal murder late Saturday night of Ali gerncn Lewis, a young white man, which crime precipitated the trouble Monday.

Practically every negro resident of Magnolia left there Monday afternoon. The whites are well armed. Monday afternoon Clint Montgomery and several.other negroes were found barricated a house, which was soon surrounded by a determined body of whites. Fearing for their lives, Montgomery's companions, deserted him and surrendered to the posse. Montgomery fastened the door, after defying the men to attempt to get him.

One of his negro companions then forced to set fire to the house, and when the building was enveloped in smoke, Montgomery threw open a window and opened Are upon the posse with a magazine shotgun. Ernest Slade fell mortally woundel, face and body Oiled with shot. N. G. Cirlton, Tom Shields and Wm.

Llndsey were also wounded, though not, seriously. A fusillade of shots, struck. Montgomery as he was attempting to. leave the house, his body being riddled and then allowed to be coasumed in the burning building. A report is to the effect that Brister scd Shelly Montgomery were placed in Linden Jail.

Albert WatklnB, another negro iuspected of harboring the Montgomery "brotuers, is under arrest. Morris, negro, convicted of murder. June S. Quillle Simmons and Frank Samuels, white, charged with murder. June Unidentified negro, attempted criminal assault.

June William Caneker, negro, murder. June Joe Hardy, negro, charged with Instigating June Albert Reese, negro, assaulting white woman. June Sylvester Stennlen, negro, murder of deputy constable. July Unidentified negro, found biding under a bed in the home of white family. July Albert Lawson, negro, shooting a sheriff.

July Branch, Unidentified negro, attempting theft of horse and buggy. July Oneslme Thomas and Emile Antolne, negroes, assault. July Sim Anderson, negro, peeping into a white woman's bedroom. Aug. City, George Johnson, white, murder.

Joe Miller, negro, criminal assault. Aug. Will Robinson, negro, insulting white girl. Aug. John Sweeny, negro, aiding a negro murderer to Sept.

Josh and Lewis Balaam, negroes, murder of a deputy sheriff. Sept. Herman McDaniels. negro, accused of being concerned In a murder committed by his brother. Sept.

Henry Hill, negro, browned by mob, attempted criminal assault. Sept. Charley Andersen, negro, murder. Oct. Ape Ard, murder.

Oct. Frank Williams and "Louis," negroes, criminal assault. Nov. 111., Henry Salzner, white, charged with wife r'nd Will James, negro, confossed assalb.r.t and murderer of a youn; whit? woman. Nov.

James Estes, neero, shnntinc; city marshal. Nov. Morgan Chamber criminal assault. Nov. Shreveport.

Henry Rachel, negro, attempted criminal assault. Dec. John Harvard, negro, burned at stake, shooting white man. 3CEMBER 23 190.4., WANTS REFORM Jones Scores Big Corporaiiws for DODGING THEIR TAXES He Declares That Largo Are Assessed for Two Little, and Mentions Hasses ft Some of la His Oritkisni of Persons of Large Wealth. "It iooka as If the malefactors of great wealth," said Comptroller General Jones recently, "have set aside the laws and adopted a low assessment and a high rate.

It catches the wage earner and man of moderate means a'coming and a'going." "The law of this State requires that all property be assessed at its true vale In money," he continued in speaking1 of the matter of taxation and assessment. For the pact twenty years the comptroller general has been fighting for an equalization of property taxation both in reference to the corporations and the small taxpayer. Little has been gained by the comptroller's onslaught, yet it has had its moral effect. That there is Inequality in the assessment of street railways, power companies and such enterprises will be pointed out in the annual report of the comptroller general. Especially does Mr.

Jones direct attention to the assessment of the Charles ton Light anl Power Company, which is assessed at 9.8 per cent of its capital stock. The capital paid in of this company is $1,000,000, while the assessment for taxation is COS.030. Comptroller General Jones is trying to get more Information as to the lighting and power plants of tae State. In many cases the value of the property was not given so that It cannot be seen exactly upon what basis the taxes are placed. A striking example is the case of the Greenville Gas and Electric Company, the capital ptoek of which is while assessment tct is SI 43.285.

or 268 per cent of the paid is. Evidently tbe property must be worth this much or it'would not hare been assessed at this rate, while in the case of other companies the per cent of capital for taxation appears to Qomptrollen Geceral Jones to be much lower than- it should be. The Columbia Gas Company hflB a pall in capital of gross receipts, assessed for taxation per cent of capital assessed for taxation. 50.8. Some Instances Ciud.

Charleston Light and Power paid in gross receipts $11 assessed for taxation, per cent of capital assessed for taxation, 9.8. Greenville Gas and Light paid In gross receipts, assessed for taxation, per cent of cap tal assessed for taxation, 268. Paris Mountain Water Company? Capital paid In gross receipts, assessed for taxation, per cent of capital assessed for taxation, 43. Union Power paid In, gross receipts assessed for taxation, per cent of capital assessed for taxation, 50. Greenville Carolina Power paid In gross receipts, assessed for per cent of caplI tal assessed for taxation, 15.8.

Beaufort Waterworks Capital pad in. gross receipts, $2, 923; assessed for taxation, per cent, 50. Reck Hill Light and Power gross receipts, assessed, per cent, 24. Camden Water, Light and Power gross receipts, assessed, per cent, 23.7. Georgetown Electric Light gross receipts, assessed, $1 1,000: per cent, 44.

Anderson Water, and Power gross receipts, $11 assessed, per cent, 42.8. Hartsvllle Electric Light and Water gross receipts, assessed for taxation, per cent, 50. Florence Light and Power gross receipts, assessed, $1 per cent, 23. Columbia Electric St. Railway L.

an 1 Power gross receipts, $1 50,000: per cmt, 18.8. These assessments are taken fntr. the annual of I Jones. The compilation, however, Is net ytt complete 1 and it 11 be note I 3ome companies are omitted in the above list. Information as to the Scuthern Power Company has not yet been receive 1.

and the same is true of some other companies. The Infonnaticn was net complete as to some of the panles given above. TV KILLED IN THE STREET THE KOREAN PREMIER ASSASSINATED WHILE RIDING. His Attendant Was Also Subbed by the Assassin and Soon Died From the Wonnd. While riding along one the streeta of Seaul on Tuesday.

Premier Tl, the head of the Korean cabinet, waa stabbed and fatally wounded by a Korean, Ti Chamm Yong. Premier Tl waa formerly minister. He became prime minister in May, 1909, when a reconstruction of the cabinet followed a five-hour audience which Marquis Ito, the Japanese resident, 'had witth the emperor. Yl was regarded as a firm and competent officer, but his efforts to carry out the policy of the new administration met with continued and determined opposition from his political adversaries. The attack occurred at 10 o'clock in the morning.

The assailant was a young Christian who was for many years a resident of the United States. The premier was riding In his jlnriksha when the assassin came up with long kitchen knife in his hand. He drove this twice into the abdomen of the premier and once Into the letter's lung. The assassin then turned on the premier's' jlnrikoha man, whom he stabbed and, instantly killed. The assassin was Immediately arrested.

He is a youth of about 20 years and is believed to be a member of a political secret society. The premier was removed to the hospital. Yl waa always credited with fostering anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea. He bitterly opposed the faction among the Koreans which favored annexation to Japaen and refused to present a petition for annexation to the Korean emperor. Notwithstanding Yi's known sentiments in regard to the relations between Japan and Korea, Marquis Ito regarded Yl as an honest and conscientious patriot and refused to listen to the premier's repeated requests that he be allowed to resign hla office.

It is believed that the assassination Is the result of political intrieue. i r. -yy 1 HELD ON SERIOUS CHARGS. MMe His Friend Drunk and Took His Watch and Money. The Columbia Record says Henry Fox, a.white man living near North, has been sent to the county jail In default of bond of $500 to await trial at the next term of the court of general sessions on the charge of highway robbery.

Saturday evening Fox was In Columbia with a friend of his, W. Y. Gardner. It Is alleged that Fox plsced his friend under the influence of whiskey and led him down into the re 1 light district. They entered the house of the notorius negress, Carrie Baker, and there, Gardner claims, Fox robbed him of his watch and some $85.

After the hour of the alleged robbery, It Is said, Fox Bpent money freely. Fox is said to have handed It out for this things and that an 1 paying exorbitant prices for that- he bought. Detectives have Bticceedel In recovering $41.85 of the amount Gardner claims was stolen from him. The defendant, in answering to the charge of stealIn? the watch, stated that he bought the watch from a Main street pawnbroker's shop und paid $2.50 for It. OUTLAW KILLED HIMSELF When Surrounded and He Saw no Avenue of Escape.

The most thrilling man hunt which ever occurred in Henry county, terminated Mon 'ay afternoon, when Boy O'Haro, the young negro desperado, killed himself when sur I rounded by a posse. Since Tues lay I of List week when the negro shot 1 two officers, the chase has continued. Plocdhound6 pursue 1 him so closely that he shot one of the dogs. One mile south of Abbeville at the entrance to the Mwh'-t-hle Swamp a enrdon of a hundred men surrounded him VYoun barefooted and tired he I saw that escape was Impossible Rather than fall Into the hanis ol his pursuers he place I the barrel of a shotgun to his breast and push ed the trigger with his tee. His boi'y w.s tied tr.

a buggy and rlragge 1 to Abbeville and placed is the court house wlere It lay foj I several hours. Killing Roll Weevils. Tho slert an I snow over the north ern section of Louisiana and Mis sippl is worth of Ito the districts Infested by the ct 1 ten weevil, according fo government entoniriog'st. Expertsay i r.tr! 1 Ir.roa's "re being madion tins v. evils.

Oh Id reu Burned. At Chicago, 111., C-rroMo aged seven. Carles Com'io. aged two; Mary Corrc'io. "gel four, were burned to when thrlr bom? fire during the parents' ab sence Monday.

0 iO cents pub DAGOS FIGHT Battle Between the Traops of Zclaya ati Estrade ia Which THE FORMER WHIPPED The Result of This Rattle Put? tb? Revolutionists in Nicaragua Top, and May Mean the Downfall! of Madriz, Who Has Just Been Elected President by A Washington dispatch says Zelaya's troops were routed by the Nicaraguan revolutionists today fife fierce battle at Ramo lasting several hour's. Gen. Estrada, in command of the revolutionary army is reported to have been successful all along ths line. The first announcement of the soecess of the Estrada arms came in a cablegram to Dr. Castrilk), the representative in Washington of the provisional government.

It was signed "Diaz." Diaz is secretary of state "of the provisional government. The cablegram said: "Complete vietory Is ours: Zelaya's troops are fas retreat" Later Tuesday evening the state department gave out the following message from Cones! Moffat from Colon. "Estrada forces at Tatnmbla and Recreo, near Rama, commanded ky Gen. Mena at-the former places, and Generals1 Chamorro, Nattuti and Forno Diaz, at the latter pir.ee partially routed and defeated the forces of Zeteya after desperate fighting of several hours. The Zelayan forces were commanded by Gen.

Gonzales. A great many were killed, the number being unknown; 100 were wounded and 150 prisoners weil? taken by the revolutionists. The Zelayan troops at Recreo have cocapied what has been considered a strong position. Estrada is confident of defeating the enemy when he renews the attack later and of forcing their surrender." The clash between the two affmies was not unexpected For days the troops have been lying practically "fjle'ln their trenches around Rama, skirmishing only marred tho peace brooded over that section. Estrada played a waiting gams ln: the hope: that the Zelayan command enr would take the initiative and attempt the capture of his position, which was reported to hs very Strong; None-of the officials of the stats department would discuss the reported victory cf Estrada.

It is however, that the news was not unwelcome. Had the Zaiayas army won over Estrada, this g-overnmerit would have been In a somewhat embarrassing position, having espoused openly the cause of the provisional government. In Central America diplomatic circles the word brought Joy, and there was a general celebration. The diplomats join In the prediction that this victory Is the "beginning of the end" of Zelayaism and that the next step will be to force the retirement of President Madriz, on the ground that he is a tool of Zclaya anl not the real choice of tho country. A YOUNG WHITE FIEND Lodged in Laurens Jail Undes Serious Charge.

A dispatch from Laurents says Roy Wood, a youn? white man connected with the best people in Sullivan's Township, was lodged in jaH on the charge of attempted assault upon the person cf a young white girl, possibly 15 years of age. The allegej crime is said to have been committed, last Ihursday morning. Acceding to statements of the officers, it seems that the young woman had gene to the pasture not fpr from the house to take the cows for the day. Young ood, who had been at the home of the girl a few minutes before, hearl the instructions given by the mother about the cows and made his way by a roundabout path to the pasture. The young woman when attache 1 screamed and ran to bouse, where an ol'er sister was, the rest of the family having meanwhile gone to Honea PathSome neighbors were notified and for a while trouble seemed Imminent.

Constable Abercomble, armel with a warrant for-the youn? man's arrest, apprehended him at his home Saturday afternoon. He was kept bv the cnrtable until Monday afternoon, when he wis lodged In jaiL It stated that the at assault was not successful, and that the youns sneered no Injuries other thm friiihL Young Wocd Is annarrntty 21 yenrs old. Driven to Perth. R-ther f-ce Fix call 'ren presents, Mrs. Ennh suicide by asphyxiation at Philaielphia Wednesday.

Five J'io in me. Theodore Fredericks, his wife and three children were burned to death In a fire whclh destroyed their home In Yonkers, N. on Tuesday..