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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-22
DON'T RETREAT, BOYS"
LISCUM'S LAST WORDS
Account Of How The Colonel Snatched Up the Flag
and Then Died a HerO'S Death.
Anxiety for Major MeachamPekin Relief Expedition De-
layed Until Aug. administers Again Safe.

Dt Colonel isums last
word. accounting to the latest dispatches
owing caught in terrible position
,fn severe onta enfading
Gallant colonel
fr wash Colonel Licum:
IN dovnt the roadan anywhere, quickly
order obeyed, the
walked of
ger Chinese bullet struck
Some of Ninth
for many prominent practitioner in Salt Lake
trying
wounded % Ninth"
None the
probabilities are thai he is unframed
2The OF
emey this afternoon
Admiral Remey that
s Of of
the foreigners imprisoned at the Chinese capital
21The following
grant Admiral
nghborhood
Washington minister, Ting Fang commune
kilograms
Imperial
the 2nd this Corresponding to July 49,
irer were safe
fighting killing other
Ii Hung Chang proceeding nohward to
viceroy Nankn July
q It S follows
killed
punish guilty parties
being their
protection, d fortunately
of great officers China
@dstands rank the dp Chang.
teegraphed all the
all
moestation and under the
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Especial to The Herald from a staff Core

! Especial to The Herald from a Staff Core
spondent.)
| POcatello, July 21.-This is the fusion
| ticket of the Democrats and silver Re-
publicans as nominated here tonight:
For presidential electors, ]. W. Reid,
E. ]. Dockery. Sam j. Rich.
! For senator. Fred T. Dubois, silver
Republican.
For congressman. James Graham of
Kootenai.
For supreme court judge, c. o. Stock
For governor. Captain Frank w.
Hunt of Lemhi.
For lieutenant governor, Thomas P.
| Terrill Of Bannock
For secretary of state. c. ]. Bassett
of Bingham, silver Republican.
| For auditor, j. S. Barrett of Bear
Lake.
For state superintendent of public in
struction. Miss Permeal French of
| Blaine.
For attorney general Frank Martin
For treasurer, DR.. J. ]. Plumer of
! Owyhee
For state superintendent of mines, C.
| H. Harvey of Blaine.
Fusion of the three reform parties
of Idaho was made impossible by the
action of the POpulists this morning
when they demanded an almost un-
| equivOcal denunciation of Governor
Steunenberg's course in the Occur
| d'AIenes as the price of coalition. Dem
ocrats of all factions were against the
proposition, the vote in favor of re-
| iecting the resolution which the Popu-
lists gave out as an ultimatum being
unanimous.
However, the Populists are not miss
ed. for perfect fusion has been formed
with the silver Republicans who stood
| by their agreements from start to fin
ish Tonight all is serene in each Of
( the camps The ticket of the Demo-
Gratis and silver Republicans is one and
the same, with Fred r Dubois. the
yer Republican, as candidate of both
ties for the senatorship. 1t is stated
the PopulistS will also support
bois, although they nominated a
1arate state ticket with the exception
Miss French for superintendent of
.lblic instruction. 1t is further said
( that the national committees of both
POpulist and Democratic parties will
bring sufficient pressure to bear. to in
duee the withdrawal of the Populist
ticket named tonight and the endorse
ment of the fusionists.
Victory Is Assured.
Victory for the joint ticket seems al
ready assured if the statements made
by the recent factiOnal leaders are any
indication. Governor Steunenberg was
inclined to be displeased when asked
him if he would support the ticket.
Support it?' he replied. "of course
I'll support it. I'm no bolter l will
support the ticket from top to bottom
and will do all | can to insure its sue
cess. And believe it viii be success
full"
Senator Dubois was fpf course we'll
satisfied. with the result He was sor-
ry the Populists had not seen fit to re
cede from their last ultimatum. but
thought they would yet fall in line for
the fusion ticket.
Il haven't the least doubt in the
world about our carrying the state"
said Senator Dubois Senator Shoun
is already as good as defeated. for we
VIII win with our legislative and state
tickets by the biggest majorities ever
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Continued on page ~
THE HERALD BULLETIN.

PAGE ONE.
Effort to Save Majors Life.
PAGE TWO.
Bryan Promised Illinois.
PAGE THREE.
Boy Saw Goebel Shot.
PAGE FOUR.
Ninth Cavalry Going,
Sued For $4,000.
City Water Diverted in Parley's.
Narrow Escape From China.
PAGE FIVE.
Insanity Ground For Divorce.
Railroad News.
Catholics Big Day
PAGE SIX.
Mining News.
County Auditors Yearly Report.
PAGE SEVEN.
Bryan's Election Means Free Coin
age of Silver.
PAGE EIGHT.
King to Run For Congress.
PAGE NINE.
Sun as Fashion King
Reorganize National Guard.
Plot Found in Manila.
PAGE Ten.
Russia's Strength in War.
PAGE ELEVEN
Financial and Commercial.
Battle on Small Boats.
PAGE 7 WELVE.
Editorial.
PAGE THIRTEEN
Society.
PAGE FOURTEEN.
Fourteen Million Living Smiths.
PAGE FIFTEEN.
Wiheless Telegraph Problems.
PAGE SIXTEEN.
How Yankee Marines Whipped
China Years Ago.
PAGE SEE k,NTEssN
Chinese Soldiers and Generals.
Fabulous Sums for Apartments.
PAGE EIGHTEEN
Woman's Page.
PAGE NINETEEN.
Youths Page.
PAGE TWENTY.
The Lace House.
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intention TO rush the houses from
which the flank fire was coming and
thus get a position for thanking the
wall.
At 1870 o'clock the line had Just
reached the shore of the canal and
thirty yards separated them from the
houses, when the color bearer fell
Colonel Liscum picked up the colOrs
and stood looking around apparently
fo= q ford.
Better get down or they'll hit you, "
shouted Major Regain.
4 guess not" was Liscum's reply.
The next instant a sharpshooter's
bullet wecl through the colOners alb
domen.
I've got it, he said as he fell.
Get at them if you can" the dying
officer said, and added as his last
words: Don't retreat, boys; keep on
firing"
Regain was hit Immediately after
ward.
Allies in Bad Position.
All day long the allies line lay under
any cover the men could find, running
out of ammunition. The July sun was
beating down on them and they had
nothing to drink but the salty marsh
water.
Meanwhile the wounded came strug-
Cling and crawling through the gate
in the mud wall. There was no order
They were sent anywhere, without
men to carry the litters
The doctors were hit by the sharp
shooters while trying to attend the
wounded of the Ninth. They could not
attempt TO carry off the wounded from
the bloody field.
Major Regain, Captain Bookmiller
and Captain Noyes were all hit twice.
NOyes. who WIS adjutant, was hit in
the arm before going from the field
and then hit in the leg. He crawled
back through the ditch with the water
to his neck, TO report the situation to
General Dorward
At / o'clock General Fukushima re-
ported in writing to DOrward that
the Japanese were in the city. | could
see the loopholes blazing bullets and
lyddite shells. No infantry could
fCoptfur7ed m Page 81
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DETAILS OF BIG
BATTLE AT TIEN TSIN

New York, July 21-The Evening
World publishes the following from it's
Iien Tsin correspondent, under date
o. Che Foo July 10. via Shanghai, July
H. The attack on the native city of
TEL Tsin ON July l3 resulted in the
uarroNest escape from what seemed
up To- midnight would be a terrible
disaster for the allies.
The Russians swinging north and
.Ae other allies south at daybreak, the
russians We're TO take the forts near
me native city wall and the other al
lies the city itself.
EeL-laI Fukushima, the Japanese
commander promised that the japan
t>t engineers, after three hours she'll
--r from all guns, would cross the
bridge over the wall and blow up the
eirdL south gate and thus make a
breach for the infantry TO en- er.
Upon this depended everything. Gen
Ja. flkushima. had not secuted the
'.l-e and in twenty-fOur hours had
-', Secuted the ground over which the
'..-- Hn the bridge had to be made.
me chinese destroyed the bridge
anu .'.t-l the land around it. The
-N SH". fire in no wise subdued the
l...i'>n rifle fire from the loopholed
.".. which was thirty feet high, with
.N'a' twenty feet deep around it.
"t outer wall of mud made it i'm
possible 'or the infantry and marines
Gums "u the field to reply to the
".-.s '.e. They lost fifty men in
u. minutes. then rushed back from
".- H.' "aII. which they had reached.
.'....@. borWdrd the British COM
,.-..-.. fastened forward with a frag-
instead of an integral skirm-
.- American marines and the Welsh
together. under command Of
".'. "rre ON the extreme left Then
H'-1 marines and the -rench
with the japanese along the
ward he gate in the mud wall.
Liscum Misunderstands.
e..."..ts plan for the Americans to
. inc japanese was not made
r 'Ionel Liscum of the Ninth
States infantry.
i... ward lays the blame for the
f-- r. and sacrifice of life on Liscum,
2. .a'H $ chief OF staff was heard
.n"n LiSCum arrived:
cr...-.. - down the road anywhere,
r-. asrum hurrie1ly led his men
r.S.., NJ. gate in as open order as
r.- they We're Immediately un-
IN. He staff saw them pass over
,.- .-a leading To a field which be-
-ai he sac.
AM. Tine two battaIions of the
cvt.- ans numbering 40 men. could
Cd themselves, they were subject
i'm ~ t"S the fire from the Ioop-holes
emil. FORTS. to a fierce fire from the
hone. -.eS IN a line Of fortified mud
.r, On their flank.
tIr,.5' thousand rifles probably we're
~7f.. on them with an sccuracy
The mn mas amazed every officer among
,rd ,ne blue shirts of the American
ubsr.. made them distinct marks.
lies c .a5 the Khaki uniforms of the al
could not be seen.
Colonel Needless of Danger.
uaTt..94el Liscum. guiding his men
duatinnu up and down the line. not even
arour5S MS head while the bullets fell
aant americans charged into the
Over Nh, with PUSHES The ground
ana Ii hnlch they charged was marsby
Il med with bitches. - 90 90 ;
"aS evidently Colonel Liscum's
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-22

The instruments have been tested over
d circuit OF Cos miles of wire, belonging
10 the Central Union Telephone company
connecting Bloomington. Springfield and
Peoria
The feature OF the invention is that
while 1t receives and delivers messages
IN the ordinary alphabet il transmits
them by the use Of the Morse Geographic
alphabet of dots and dashes. The trans
mitter turns each letter, figure or pune
tuauOn point into dots and daSheS, and
the receiver, which contains an instrU-
ment called the ''SelectOr," turns the dots
and dashes back into the ordinary signs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-22
TELEGRAPH MESSAGES NOW
TRANSMITTED BY TYPEWRITER

Chicago, July 21.-The Times-Herald to-
morrow will say: Telegraphy by the use
OF t--9ewriters in place of the ordinary
clicking keys and saunders, familiar in
telegraph Offices, has been made possible
by two Chicago men, u. g. SholeS and n
q. Gilmore.
They have devised d mechanism by
which message written with ordinary
spelling on a machine that has a key
board exactly like the keyboard of the or
binary typewriter, will be printed if trans
mitted over a telegraph wire, by another
typewriter in the office TO which it is sent
hundreds of miles away
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-22

bipg skulls with horns twenty feet long
and measuring two feet across On near
" eery claim on the creek some parts
Of skeletons have been found
Passengers report over a hundred. If
not more cases of smallpox at Nome.
Captain Mcintyre heard a report al ST.
had been driven ashore on the Siberian
coast and is believed 20 be a wreck
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-22
CAREER OF MAJOR
f. A. MEACHAM

y Surgeon Major Frank A. Meach-
y am of the Ninth infantry, for
y whose safety there is some slight
= misgiving, is one of the Utah men
= who have served the country
y faithfully and we'll
At the outbreak of the war with
y Spain, Dr. Meacham, who was
y practlcing medicine in Salt Lake.
? was given commission as major.
= He went to Cuba, where he distin-
y guished himself in bringing about
= better sanitary conditions in the
= city OF Havana. Later ne was
Z sent to the Philippines, and re-
y ports from there have spoken
2 highly of the good work he has
= accomplished in the medical de-
= partment of the army in the ORR
= ent
y DR.. Meacham's father was an
= old army surgeon, and for years
= was stationed at Fort Douglas.
= The son went from here to an
= eastern college to study medicine.
y After his graduation and practic-
y ing in some Of the large hospitals.
= he returned to Salt Lake and soon
y became one of the foremost prac-
= titioners in the state He was
4 prominent in the National Guard
4 of Utah.
4 4 y
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Millions For Assay.

Washington, July PA letter has been
received by the director of the mint from
the United States assay Office at Seattle
reporting that during the first eleven days
of the present month gold arrivals there
from Alaska amounted TO s.. 20 600. Sew
eral millions are reported to be in transit
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FINDS AT TANANA.
Gold Discoveries Reported Near st.
Michaels.

Victoria. r. c., July 21.-The steamer
Bristol arrived from St. Michael today
after passage of nine and One-half days.
The passengers report new discoveries in
Tanana. On Ureak creek claims are Civ
ing from twenty-five to forty cents TO
the pan A stampede TO the diggings is
expected.
On Little Mi1oOk. what is thought to
be 4 good yard of mammalins has been
found Tusks weighing twenty pounds
and over ten feet long and teeth weighing
ten pounds have been found. Also what
are thought TO be the skulls OF AurOchS,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-22

z. S. Gen. Macarthur has just issued
an order appointing me president Of the
criminal branch of the supreme court.
the former chief having resigned.
There are five judges in this branch
when vacancies are filled.
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AND LEAD

.,,,.er. GlIsc per ounce;
copper : & r. Co. S price, s3.S71z; New
II, Lg@qb' brokers', $3.50.
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Forecast for Salt Lake Today Is.
Conditions favorable for light
showers, slight changes in tempera-
ture.
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Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-07-01
FOR vICE-PRESIDENT,
HENRY BREWER METCALF,
OF RHODE ISLAND.

Henry Brewer Metcalf was born in Bos-
ton in 1929. In 1885 he was elected to the
state senate from Pawtucket, R. l. and was
nominated for reelection, but was de-
feated by liquor men and their sympathiz-
ers, whom he had always vigorously op-
posed. Since 1872, he has given his atten-
tion to manufacturing enterprises. He Is
president Of the Providence County Savings
Bank, of Pawtucket. For twenty years he
has been a trustee Of Tufts College and for
several years vice-president Of the corpora
tion.
Mr. Metcalf has been a lifelong Univer-
salist, and, since 1891 president Of the ma
tional organization of that denomination.
For over thirty years he has been Sunday
school superintendent.
All his life Mr.. Metcalf has been tenn
perance man. He was one Of the leaders
in the Republican "anti-saloon movement" ;
also Of the Law Enforcement party OF
Rhode Island in 1889 and of the Union
party in 1890. For many years he was
president of the Rhode Island Temperance
Union.
A Whig up to 1860, he then became a
Republican. In 1888 he became an Inde-
pendent and in 1890 Joined the Prohibition
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-07-01

John Granville Woolley was born in Ohio
in 1850, graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan
University in 1871, and attended the law
school of the University of Michigan the
following year. He was admitted to the bar
in the supreme courts Of Illinois and Mime
sofa in 1873, and in the Supreme Court OF
the United States in 1886, made city attor-
ney. Of Paris, ILL.,, in 1S76-77, and was
states attorney at Minneapolis, from 1884
to 1886.
Mr.. Woolley, to use his own words be
came Christian and party Prohibitionist
at the same instant" Jan 81, 1888, in New
York City He Immediately launched out
into active Christian and Prohibition Party
work. Soon acquiring a reputation as
speaker of wonderful power, he was sought
upon all occasions in Prohibition and tenn
perance work. Since 1883 he has, on an
average, made one speech day. In the
fall of 1892 he went to England, as the
guest Of Lady Somerset, and spoke nearly
every day during seven months in the
cities Of England, Scotland and Wales. The
next year he was engaged by the Young
Peoples Society Of Christian Endeavor of
Illinois to lecture for 300 nights in sue
cession on "Inalienable Rights" OF his
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-07-01
FOR PRESIDENT,
JOHN GRANVILLE WOOLLEY,
OF ILLINOIS.

speech in Madison Square Garden at the
International Y. P. S. G. E. convention in
1892, Murat Halstead, editor Of the
Brooklyn Standard Union, said: "Now,
Bourke Cochran (the famous New York
Tammany speaker) is an orator, but he
never got off anything that spun the sun
shine into streaks Of golden fire like that"
Mr.. Woolley is married, and has three sons,
the two who are of age being active men,
bers of the Prohibition party
The National Republican and Democratic
conventions were held amid the usual scenes
of debauchery and vice. At Hotel Walton,
Philadelphia, where were the headquarters
of the National Committee, two bars ran
nigh. and day, and part Of the time the
rooters were lined UP six deep, waiting to
be served The California delegation took
a carload Of wine to the convention and on
Sunday, when the saloons were closed, dis
pensed it's hospitality with free hand At
one of the Kansas City hotels there were
forty eight extra barkeepers imported from
st. Louis and Chicago, while another had
an extra force Of 20 on duty.
Backbone costs only twenty-five cents q
year.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-07-01

Nebraska prohbtionists nominated their
ticket on the 18th inst, Connecticut Prohib
bitionists meet on the 9th inst, Pennsyl-
vania Aug. 8, and Texas Sept. IA.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-07-01


date of the Prohibition Party for Governor
Of Rhode Island.
When the Chicago banker, John Farson,
proposed to the Illinois State Epworth
League convention in Peoria, the other day
that, they send greetings to that loyal
Mckinley cries of No! No!'' came from
all parts Of the house. One delegate shout,
ed, President Mckinley is not a loyal
Methodist Y motion to lay the motion
of Mr.. Farson on the table was passed
unanimously with the exception of the one
vote of Mr. Farson.
The formal notification Of John G.
Woolley as nominee for the Presidency, was
given him on the evening of the Goth in the
presence Of an intensely enthusiastic audi
ence. The speech of notification was made
by Samuel Dickie Of Michigan. When Mr..
Woolley stepped forward he was received
with the Chatauqua salute and for several
minutes was unable to proceed on account
of the applause. Chairman Stewart, e. w.
Chain, Of wisconsin; DR.. j. G. Evans, of
Hedding college, and others also spoke.
Mr. Metcalf received, notification of his
nomination at Carnegie Music Hall, New
York City, on the 25th inst
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-07-01

Party. In 1898 and 1894 he was the candi-
date of the Prohibition Party for Governor
Of Rhode Island
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-07-01

Backbone costs only twenty-five cents a
year.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-04-13
NO NEWS FROM
SOUTH AFRICA
-e---
Good Friday Seems to Have
Been Peacefully 0hserv-
ed at the Seat OF War.
CENSORSHIP IS VERY STRICT
Beers are Reportedto Have Lost
Quite Heavily In the Fight
Inc at Wepener.
ALBUQUERQUE CONvENTion

.s
London, April 1S-Judging from the
lack OF news from the front, Good
Friday is being kept in South Africa
as religiously as it is in London Pre-
sumably the situation remains un-
changed. though word from Wepener
is awaited with interest and probably
before the dayis over a. dispatch will
be received from Lord Roberts. A
dispatch from Cape Town says Lady
Roberts proceeds to Bloemfontein in
few days and the Duke OF Westmin.
lister has already departed for the
Free State capital. Early this morn
ing Cape Town is as much in the dark
regarding the progress of the CAM
paign as London is.
Reddersburg, April 1S--The Third
division, commanded by Major Cen
eral Chermside. arrived here from
Bethany without. incident worth re-
cording. The Beers have been locat-
ed south of the Wepener and Smith
field districts Colonel Dalgety in
command of the colonial force sur
rounded at Wepener is holding out
gamely. Exciting developments are
probable in the near future. The
censorship is particularly strict
Aliwal North. April 1S-A' detach
ment of 200 Rouxville commando is
patrolling in this direction. The
Rouxville commando numbers. ZOO. A
large body of Basutos isscfosely watch
ing events from the border. The
weather is too cloudy to permit hello
graphing. 1t is reported that the
Beers lost heavily in the recent fight
ing at Wepener There is much weep
ing among women, and an urgent
message for assistance has been sent
to Rouxyille commando There was
fighting at De Wetsdorp today r'S.>-
Pretoria, April 11--United States
Consul Hay says the report that Cap
tain Reichman, u. S. military attache,
participated in the fight near sannas
Post is absolutely false. Reichman,
it is said, was occupied most of the
time in attending the wounded Dutch
military attache, Lieutenant Nix, who
has since died. Consul Hay has no
doubt that Reichman has been con
founded with the American, Lieut..
Loosberg of the Free State artillery,
who took very active part in the
fight.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-04-13
To Amend Commerce Law.

Washington, April 13-The senate
committee on interstate commerce
today continued the hearing on the
bill for the amendment OF the inter-
state commerce law Interstate COM
merce commissioner, Prouty, made
a plea for the grant of power to the
commission to inspect the books of
railroad companies and exercise GER
tain control over the rates. He said
under the existing law, it was almost
If not quite Impossible to prove dis
elimination on the part of road.