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ESTABLISHED IN V BRYAN NOT O F * Acceptance Speech Strong Plea For Government of and by the People. IS CHEERED BY IMMENSE CROWD THOUSANDS APPLAUD AS NOMI NEE READS HIS SPEECH' OP ACCEPTANCE?NOTHING TO MAR THE CER EMONIES. Lincoln, Neb. August 12.?Under ;the burning rays of an almost tropi cal sun, and in the presence of a vast assemblage, which cheered him to the echo, WilliamJ. Bryan to-day received from Henry D. Clayton, of Alabama, formal notification of his nominaton for the Presidency of the United States. Thrice honored by the Democra tic party as its standard-bearer, Mr. Bryan plainly exhibited the "pleasure it gave him once again to proclaim the principles for which he stood. His nomination for a third time, he declared in his speech of ac ceptance, could only be explained by a substantial and undisputed growth In the principles and policies for whish he, with a multitude, of others "had contended. "As these princi ples and policies,*' he said, "have given me whatever political strength I possess, the action of the' Conven tion not only renews my faith in them, but strengthens ,my attach ment for them." The ovation accorded Mr. Bryan as he rode through the streets of Lincoln on his way to the State House, where the exercises were held, were non-partisan. It was the homage of the citizens of the West ern city of the plains to a distin guished, neighbor. Almost the entire Republican Administration was re presented, Governor George L. Shel don and many State officers lending their presence both in the parade and on the platform. Before coming to Lincoln from Fairview?four miles distant?Mr. Bryan received 1,500 visitors. To all he extended a cordial greeting. His arrival shortly after noon at. the Hotel Lincoln, where he and John W. Kern, the Vice-Presidential can didate, were the guests of honor at a luncheon to the committee on no tification, was the signal for an out burst of cheers and applause. He was immediately surrounded by a great crowd, and was kept busy for some time shaking hands. Never before had Lincoln's streets and buildings presented such a gala appearance. On street was a riot of color. Around the mutilated Taft hannr a crowd of curious visitors was always clustered. With a na tional notoriety the banner was al most the first point of interest visit ed. The parade carried Mr. Bryan directly under the banner. Not an Untoward Incident. The State House grounds were a mass of humanity and Mr. Bryan's . appearance on the platform was greeted with vociferous cheers and . band-clapping. The ceremony of no tification was conducted on the north Kern retired to the Capitol, where and every window were jammed to overflowing. Not a single incident occurred to mar the proceedings. The police arrangements were ex cellent. Realizing that, the regular police force was not sufficient to cope with the great crowd, the Adjutant General of the State, at the request of Mayor Frank Brown, ordered out the 2nd Nebraska regiment, and with their assistance, perfect order was maintained. Before the notification and accept ance speeches were delivered, Nor man E. Mack, chairman of the De mo<jratFc national committee, iwho acted as presiding officer, called on John W. Kern, the Vice-Presidential nominee, to make a speech. Mr. ?Kern responded in a few felicitous remarks, in which he gave unstinted praise to the non-partisan character of the exercises. The speech of Mr. Bryan conclud ed the ceremonies and he and Mr. Kern retired to th Capitol, where tiey held a public reception. To-night Mr. and Mrs. Bryan en tertained the members of the notifi cation committee at a dinner at their home at "Fairview." The party was served by Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt and Miss Grace Bryan, daughter of the host and the hostess; Mrs. Spangler and Mrs. T. F. Allen, niece and sister-in-law respectively of the Democratic candidate, and Mrs. Winger. Arrested in New York A dispatch from New York says a young man. who says he is John E. Messervy. 19 years old, of Charles ton, S. C, and who declares his fath er is of sufficient importance in that vicinity to issue railway passes, is being detained by the police there on the charge of not paying a hotel bill. Before Messervy gets out of bis scrape he may also have to face as indictment for forgery. 369. IFIED DOMINATION. _ MR. BRYAN'S SPEECH. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. i2.?Upon the occasion of the formal notification of his nomination as the Democratic cjanddate for the presidency, Wil liam Jennings Bryan spoke as fol lows: Mr. Clayton and the Gentlemen of the Notification Committee: I cannot accept the nomination which, you officially tender, without trst acknowledging my deep indebt edness to the Democratic party for the extraordinary honor which it has conferred upon me. Having twice before been a candidate for the pres idency, in campaigns which en3\l in defeat, a third nomination, the result of the free and voluntary act of the voters of the party, can only be explained by a substantial and undisputed growth in the principles and policies for which I, with a mul titude of others, have contended. As these principles and policies have given me whatever political strength I possess, the action of the conven tion not only renews my faith in them, but strengthens my attach ment to them. N A Platform is Binding. I shall, in the near future, pre-, pare a more formal reply to your notification, and, in that letter of acceptance, will deal with the plat form in detail. It is sufficient, at this time, to assure you that I am in hearty accord with the letter and the spirit of the platform. I endorse it in whole and in part, and shaJl, if elected, regard its declara tions as binding upon me. And. I may add, a platform is binding as to what it omits as well as to what it contains. According to the Demo cratic Idea, the people think for themselves and select officials to car ry out their wishes. The voters are the soveregns; the officials ar? the servants, employed for a fixed time and at a stated salary to do what the sovereigns want done. Platforms are entirely in harmony with this Democratic idea. A plat form announces the party's position on the questions which are at issue; and an official ie not a*t liberty to use the authority vested in him to urge personal views which have not been submitted to the voters for their approval. Pf one is nominated upon a platform which is not satisfactory to him he must, if candid, either de cline the nomination, or, in accept ing it, propose an amended platform which in lieu of the one adopted by the convention. No such situation, however, confronts your candidate, for the platform upon which I was nominated not only contains noth ing from which I dissent, but it spe cifically outlines all the remedial leg islation which we can hope to secure during the next four years. Republican Challenge Accepted. The distinguished statesman who received the Republican nomina-, tion for president, said, in his notifi cation speech: "The strength of the Republican cause in the campaign at hand is the fact that we represent the policies essential to the reform of known abuses, to the continuance of liberty and true prosperity, and that we are determined, as our plat form unequivocally declares, to maintain them and carry them on.". In the name of the Democratic party. T accept the challenge, and charge that the Republican, party is responsible for all the abuses which now exist in the federal government, and that it is important to accomplish the reforms which are imperative ly needed. Further, I cannot con cur in the statement that tbe Repub lican platform unequivocally de clares for the reforms that are ne cessary; on the contrary, I affirm that it openly and notoriously dis appoints the hopes and expectations of reformers, whether those reform ers be Republicans or Deniorcats. So far did the Republican convention fall short of its duty that'the Re publican candidate felt it necessary to add to his platform in several im "portant particulars, thus rebuking the leaders of the party,' upon whose co-operation he must rely for the enactment of remedial legislation. As I shall, in seperate speeches, discuss the leading questions at issue. I shall a tthis time confine myself to the paramount question, and to the far-reaching purposes of our party, as that purpose is set forth in the platform. Shall the People Rule? Our platform declares that the overshadowing issue which manifests itself in all the questions now under discussion, is "Shall the people rule?" No matter which way we turn; no matter to what subject we address ourselves, the same question [?onfronts us: Shan the people con trol their own government, and use that government for the protection of their rights and for the promo tion of their welfare? or shall the representatives of predatory wealth prey upon a defenseless public, while the offenders secure immunity from subservient officials whom they raise to power by unscrupulous methods? This is the Issue raised by the "known abuses" to which Mr. Taf't refers. President's Indictment Against the Party. In a message sent to congress last January, President Roosevelt said: "The attacks by these great corporations on the administration's ORANGE BU actions have been given a wide cir culation throughout the country, in the., newspapers and otherwise, by those writers and' ^speakers who, consciously or unconsciously, act as the representatives of predatory wealth?of the wealth accumulated on a giant scale by all forms of in iquity, ranging from the oppression of wage earners to unfair and un wholesome methods of crushing out competition and to defrauding the public by stock-jobbing and the manipulation of securities, Certain wealthy men of this stamp, whose conduct should be abhorrent to every man of ordinary decent conscience, and who commit the hideous wrong of teaching our young men that phenomenal business feucciis must ordinarily be based on dishonesty, have, during the last few months, made it apparent that they have banded together to work for a re action. Their endeavor is to over throw and discredit all who honestly administer the law, to prevent any additional legislation which would check and restrain them, and to se cure, if possible, a freedom from all restraint which will permit every un scrupulous wrong-doer to do what he wishes unchecked, provided he has enough money." What an arraignment of the pre datory interests! Is the president's indictment true? And, if true, against whom was the indictment directed? Not against the Democratic party. Mr. Taft Endorses the Indictment. Mr. Taft says that these evils have crept in during the last ten years. He declares that, during this time, some "prominent and influential members of the community, spurred by financial success and in their hurry for greater weath, became unmindful of the common rules of business honesty and fidelity, and of the limitations imposed by law upon their actions;" and that "the revela tions of the breaches of trusts, the disclosures as to rebates and discri minations by railroadf, the accumu lating evidence of the violations of the anti-trusts laws, by a number of corporations, and the over-Issue of shocks and bonds of interstate rail roads for the unlawful enriching ol directors and for the purpose of con centrating the control of the rail roads under one management,"? all1 these, he charges, "quickened the conscience of the people and brought on a moral awakening." Paring all this time, I beg to re mind you, Republican officials presid ed in the executive department, fill ed the cabinet, dominated the senate, coutrolled the house of representa tives and occupied most of the fed eral judgships. Four years ago the Republican platform boastfully de clared that since I860?with the ex ception of two years?the Republi can party had been in control or part or all of the branches* of the federal government; that for two years only was the Democratic party in a position to either enact or re peal a law. Having drawn the salaries; having enjoyed the honors; having secured the prestige, let the Republican party accept the respon sibility! Republican Party Responsible. Why were these "known abuses" permitted to develop? Why have they not been corrected? If exist ing laws are sufficient, why have they not been enforced? All of the execu tive machinery of the federal gov ernment is in the hands or the Re publican party. Are new laws ne cessary? Why have they not been enacted? With a Republican presi dent to recommend, with a Republi-1 can senate and house to carry out his recommendations, why does the Republican candidate plead for fur ther time in which to do what should have been done long ago? Can Mr. Taft promise to he more strenuous in the prosecution of wrong-doers than the present executive? Can he ask for a larger majority in the sen ate than his party now has? Does he need more Republicans in the house of representatives or a speaker with more unlimited authority? Why No Tariff Reform? The president's close friends have been promising for several years that he would attack the iniquities of the tariff. We have had intimation that Mr. Taft was restive under the de mands of the highly protected indus tries. And yet the influence of the manufacturers, who have for twenty-five years contributed to the Republican campaign funds and who in return have framed the tariff schedules, has been sufficient to pre vent tariff reform. As the present campaign approached, both the pre sident and Mr. Taft declared in fav or of tariff revision, but set the date of revision after the election. But the pressure brought to bear by the protected interests has been great enough to prevent any attempt at tariff reform before the elcetion: and the reduction promised after the election is so hedged about with qualifying phrases, that no one can estimate with accuracy the sum to tal of tariff reform to be expected in case of Republican success, rr the past can be taken as a guide, the Republican party will be so obligat ed by campaign contributions from the beneficiaries of protection, as to make that party powerless to bring to the country any material relief from the present tariff burdens. Why No Anti-Trust Legislation. A few years ago the Republican leaders in he house of representa tives were coerced by public opinion into the support of anti-trust laws which had the endorsement of the president, but the senate refused even to consider the maesure, ana since that time no effort has been made by the dominant party to se cure remedial legislation upon this RG, S. C FRIDAY, AUG1 THE BRY/! subject. Why No Railroad Legislation. For ten years the interstate com merce commission has been asking for an enlargement of its powers, that it might prevent rebates and discriminations, but a Republican senate and a Republican house of representatives were unmoved by its jentreaties. In 1900 the Republican national convention was urged to endorse the demand for railway leg islation, but its platform was silent on the subject. Even in 1904, the convention gave no pledge to remedy these abuses. When the president finally asked for legislation, he drew his inspiration from three Deniorca tic national platforms and he receiv ed more .cordial support from the Democrats than from the republi cans. The Republicans In the sen ate deliberately defeated several amendments offered by Senator La Follette and supported by the Demo crats;?amendments embodying legis lation asked by the Interstate com merce commission. One of these amendments authorized the ascer tainment of the value of railroads. This amendment was not only de feated by the senate, but it was overwhelmingly rejected by the Re publican national convention, and the Republican candidate has sought to rescue his party from the disastr ous results of this act by expressing himself, in a qualified way, In favor of ascertaining the value of the rail roads. Over-Issue of Stock and Bonds. Mr. Taft complains of the over issue of stocks and bonds of rail roads, "for the unlawful enriching of directors and for the purpose of concentrating the control of the rail roads under one management," and the complaint is well'founded. Bult, with a president to point out the evil, and a Republican congress to correct it, we find nothing done for the protection of the public. Why? My honorable opponent has, by his confession, relieved me of the ne cessity of furnishing proof; he ad mits the condition and he cannot avoid the logical conclusion that must be drawn from the admission. There is no doubt whatever that a large majority of the voters of the Republican party recognize the de plorable situation which Mr. Taft describes; they 'recognize that the masses have had but little influence upon legislation or upon the admin istration of the government, and they are beginning to understand the cause. For a generation, the Re publican party has drawn its cam paign funds from the beneficiaries of special legislation. Privileges have been pledged and granted in return for money contributed to debauch elections. What can be expected when official authority is turned over to the representatives of those who first furnish the sinews of war and then reimburse themselves out of the oockets of the taxpayers? Fasting in Wilderness Necessary. So long as the Republican party remains in power, it is powerless to regenerate itself. It cannot at tack wrong-doing in high places without disgracing many of its pro minent members, and it, therefore uses opiates instead of the surgeon's knife. Its malefactors construe each Republican victory as an en dorsement of their conduct and threaten the party with defeat if they are interfered with. Not until that parly passes through a period of fasting in the wilderness, will the Republican leaders learn to study public questions from the standpoint of the masses. Just as with indivi duals, "the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the, truth" so in politics, when party leaders serve far away from home and are not in constant contact with the voters, continued party success blinds their eyes to the needs of the people and makes them deaf to the cry of distress. Publicity of Campaign Contributions. An effort has been made to secure legislation requiring publicity as to campaign contributions and expendi tures; but the Republican leaders, even in the face of an indignant pub lic, refused to consent to a law which would compel honesty in elec tions. When the matter was brought .(Continued on page five.). DST 14, 1908. IN SMILE. BOILER BURSTS; EIGHT KILLED. Death and Destruction Wrought by Explosion in Rolling Mill. A dispatch from York, Pa, says eight men were killed, nearly a score of others more or less serously in jurd and thousands of dollars worth of property damaged by the explo sion of a boiler in the York Rolling Mill late Monday afternoon. The dead: John Clency, York, Benjamin Bremer, Harry Searchrist, Paoli Puci, Alfred Struck, John Slossman, Harry Feger, all of Colum bia, Pa; Edward ritler. Marietta, Pa. The boiler, which was located in the centre of the mill, exploded wthout a moment's warning. A rescue party was quickly or ganized and search for the bodies was instituted. Ambulances from New York Hos pital were hurried to the scene, but owing to the number of dead and injured, delivery wagons and other conveyances were pressed into service in order that the injured might be rushed to the 'hosptal. While the injured were being look ed after, the bodies of the dead were being carried from the ruins of the building. A majority of those kill ed had their heads and limbs torn from their bodies, and were so badly mangled that identity was almost an impossibility. The milL had been closed down for about a week, and two score of men were engaged in making repairs to an engine. The men were working close to the boiler and when the ex plosion occurred not one of them was able to make his escape. The shock was so terrific that it demolished a large portion of the mill and sent heavy pieces of twisted iron and metal in all directions. The I plant of Broomal, Schmidt & Staecy Company, located near the scene of the explosion, was badly damaged and a horse which was standing 3 00 yards distant from the mill was in stantly killed. Box cars on the rail road siding, adjoining the mill, were torn to splinters and several persons near the building were slightly in jured by flying debris. The shock was felt over the entire city. The head of the boiler, about j four feet square, was hurled nearly! a block. The injured are all expected to re cover. AUTO BURSTS; TWO KILLED. M?? and Daaghter and His Wife and Mother-in-Law Killed. Mrs Mary Rowden, 05 years old, and Mrs. Rose Beckwith. 4.?, years of age. were instantly killed and Frederick ISeckwith, 45 years o'd, perhaps fatally injured and Bessie Beckwith, 16 years old, his daughter, badly bruised and burned by the ex plosion of an automobile at the foot of Stickey Hill, about eight miles from Painesville Ohio, l?onday. Mr. Beckwith, jaccompanied by his mother-in-law,wife and daughter, was on his way from their home at Windsor, Ohio, and was running the machine at a rate of about eight miles an hour when it exploded. The occupants of the car were hurled in all directions. Mrs. Rowden, who was on the front seat with Beckwith, was found about forty-five feet in front of the wreck, while Heckwitb landed about the same distance to the right. Mrs. Beckwith was hurled twenty-five feet in the air. Bessie Beckwith was thrown fifteen feet and sustained severe bruises. An ambulance con veyed the injured to the city. Shot His Mother by Accident. A dispatch from Spartanburg. says Pete Jackson, colored, shot Jane Jackson, his mother, on North Dean street Sunday afternoon, while cleaning a pistol. The ball passed through Jackson's left hand, and struck his mother, entering the stomach. The wound is thought to be serious. Jackson has been ar rested and is in jail pending devel opments. THIRTY" FEET JONG. The Largest Snake Ever Brought to This Country. With the largest snake ever brought to the United States, the Hudson, one of the Anglo-American Oil company's steamships, anchored ofT Sf.apletori, N. Y., on Sunday after noon from the far east. His snakeship, a python taken by Capt. C. B. Fenton, commander of the Hudson, is thirty feet, three inch es long and weighs three hundred and twelve pounds. Capt. Fenton would not say wheth er the snake, which is a magnificent specimen of the Indian python, was for the Bronz zological gardens, but a story that had been told months ago of the snake's coming said also that the big fellow was to increase the collection there. Under the forespeak, which had been turned over for use as a menag erie, containing other animals, the snake is held fast in a great iron bound wooden case, with a small netted air space cut in the top of the case. First Officer Herr said the snake was in small quarters, and that it could no possibly use its strength to force the sides of he case apart. While there have been snakes in plenty under twenty feet in length landed here, Capt. Fenton carries the palm for the largest ever brought, and when the steamer un loads her sugar cargo the snake will be delivered to the consignees. Besides the snake there are twenty-five monkeys, with a porcu pine, a cassowary, a pair of Japanese silk feathered fowls, three Japanese spaniels and numerous small birds. There were fifty-five monkeys when the Hudson left Singapore on May 21, but many of them died. A dozen miniature birds also died. The ship arrived with as polyglot a crew as was ever here, there be ing twenty-one Chinese, twelve Las cars, one Cingalese, one Japanese, two "black men" from Colombo and two Arabs, taken on at Aden, while the engineers are Scotchmen and the navigating officers British. DIED IN FLAMES. Fire Started by Firebugs Burned Four-Story Tenement. At New York four men are dead, two others are dying and six are in a serious condition from burns In a fire, started by a fire-bug, which early Monday burned the four-story tenement house at No. 332 East 112th street. Thirty persons were carried down ladders by firemen amid wild scenes of panic. More han 100 escaped from the burning buildingin their nightcloth ing. Pistol shots fired by persons who sought thus to summon aid add ed to the confusion, and thousands rushed to the scene. The fire is declared by the police and the fire marshal to have been of incendiary origin, and is one of several fatal fires in the neighbor hood. Vincenso Sausto, four of which children were hurled to death, bar ed his head and in a loud voice took an oath of vengence against those responsible for the fire. His oath in cluded the declaration that he would devote his life to the task. It was declared by Assistant Fire Marshal David Kelly that the fire was of undoubted incendiary origin. The fire is one of a number of fa tal fires that have recently terrorized the neighbhorhood. Two months ago thirteen persons were burned to death in a fire in the tenement house in 100th street nearby. :i KILLED IN TROLLEY CRASH. Two Cars on Ohio Electric Line Meet While Running at High Speed. A dispatch from Dayton, Ohio, says Three persons were killed and 18 injured in a head-on collision be tween two limited cars of the West ern Ohio Company line between Sid ney and Paqua at 6.30 o'clock Mon day night. The dead: George Robinson, banker, Sidney, Ohio; Mortormau, name unknown; passen ger, name unknown. The North-bound car out o<! Piqua was running on time while the South-bound car out of Sidney was late and running at great speed. The cars met almost directly in front of the Shelby County Infirmary, to which the dead and injured were conveyed. Physicians and surgeons were hurried to the scnee in auto mobiles from Sidney. The cause of the wreck uas nut been ascertained. TRAIN GOES INTO CHASM. Three Men Killed as a Result of a Washout. As the result of a washout on the Tonapah and Tidewater, near Shos hone, California, Monday night, a passenger train plunged Into a chasm and three men were killed. The dead: Engineer Hamilton, Fireman Broadwell. W. E. Moore, a passeng er supposed to be from Georgia. Shortly before the train arrived at Shoshone. a cloudburst washed out a hundred feet of track. The train daBhed Into the cut, the loco motive turning over and the bag gage and other cars rolled on their sides, but the sleeping car remain ed on the track. 0 ?1.50 PUB ANNUM. PERILOUS SITUATION. HUNG BY HIS TEETH HALF HOUR IN AIR. Coney Island Slack Wire Performer Finally Rescued From Peril Witfo Life Net. The New York Times says the dark thunder clouds which preceded Tuesdays storm were just beginning to come up into the sky, driven by a steadily increasing wind, when; "The Flying Howard," the profes sional title of Billy Howard, acro bat, trapezist and strong-jawed man, who appears at Dreamland. Coney Island, started his "slide for life hanging by his teeth to a leather thong attached to a pully running over a slack wire stretcning from the. top of the Dreamland tower down to the lighthouse atop the Shoot the Chutes platform. Many thousands feet beneath him a crowd of nearly 4,000,mostof them women and children, stood gazing upward, where but a moment before Howard and his wife had completed a trapeze act on a wire just below the one to which the athlete then hung. At a signal Howard sprang from the platform far up on the tower, and, with arms extended, shot out and downward, clinging only by nfe teeth, at a pace which grew swifter with every foot. The wire sagged? beneath his wei, until presently the expanse between Howard's sway ing figure and the end of the wire had assumed an almost horizontal position. The wire' had been 6trung too loose. The watching crowds saw Howard's pace slacken perceptibly, each in stant growing slower, until at last the whirling figure, buffeted by the wind then blowing with almost a. hurricane's fury, stopped and Ho ward, clinging by his teeth, revolver slowly round and round above the heads of the crowd. The storm broke almost at the same moment, but the downpour of rain, the vivid flashes of lightning, and the rumble of thunder could not drive the crowd to cover. All stood gazing up at the athlete, who was signalling desperately with his hands. His face was upturned to the rain; with his teeth he clutched the leather strap, and it was impossi ble for him to shout for help or give directions for aiding him Mrs. Howard had been watching: her husband, and the spectacle oi.r him swinging -helpless above Ser head overcame the woman. With ft cry, "He will be killed," she fainted, and men in the crowd carried her into the Emergency hospital, where Dr. Smith attended her. Other wo men promptly followed Mrs. Ho ward's example and there was inten se excitement. Meantime other performers and employes of the park were shouting encouragement to Howard, although, at a loss for a method of aiding him. Howard tried hard to haul himself to the wire by his hands. The strap to which he clung by his teeth was just long enough to prevent his get ting his hands upon the wire. The strap itself was soaked by rain and quickly became so slippery that to clutch it in his hands only relieved the strain on his jaws a trifle, while to draw himself up to the wire by it proved impossible, his hands slip ping back each time he instructed more than the slightest weight to their grip. Then some one raised the shout: "Get a life net!" The cry was taken up through the crowd and Howard waved his hand, apparently to signify that he could hold on a few minutes more. Already men had started toward the quart ers of the fire show in Surf avenue, and when they returned there came with them John Green, foreman or the show, with half a dozen employ es carrying one of the life nets used in their exhibition. The men took their positions and Grene, waiting until Howard's swaying form hung for an instant almost perpendicular ly over the net, shouetd the worrd. Howard opened his clenched teeth. A gasp arose from the crowd. Before they could Inhale another breath, the*athlete was safe in the net and a dozen hands were assisting him out of it to the ground. The crowd was forced back and he was hurried to the Emergency hospital, exhausted and almost overcome by the exper ience he had undergone. Howard hung by his teeth for nearly half an hour.* MILL BOILER EXPLORES. Mannger, Engineer and Two Firemen at Gold Mine Hurt. About half-past S o'clock Thurs day morning both boilers at the gold mill at the Halle Gold Mine, three miles from Kershaw, exploded, seriously injuring Capt. E. A. Thies, the manager of the mine; E. P. Truesdale, engineer, and two fire men, whose names are unknown. Mr. Thies was passing through the mill on his daily tour of inspection, and it was not known that he was hurt until several minutes after the explosion, when he was found under a pile of debries. His condition, and! that of Mr. Truesdale, is critical. The? others are only slightly hurt, or nolt seriously.