Show TELEGRAPH TIDINGS the union pacific company gets ft a new general mann er tho tile french feel jubilant over their successes in china bv by al press to the I herald ferald 11 the prohibition party washington INGTON aug 28 alie A american in party an anti secret society and temperance organization having for presidential candidates pomeroy and conant has its headquarters in in this city cit to a reporter E ll 11 D bailey the secretary of tile committee thus th outlined the purposes of party ilia the proposition is is to substitute st john and anti daniel for Por pomeroy neroy and conant tina this proposition reflects in no may on mr pomeroy itis it la simply a question of policy atour at our contention convention in chicago st johns name was mentioned and it is is like likely he lie would have been nominated elc thatis that it was pretty yvell 51 ell understood that lio lie was to be nominated 1 by the tile prohibition party of course as wo we were the weaker of tho the two parties the prohibitionists would not like to take their nomination second liand hand aromus from us our convention however showed its il desire to work in harmony with the by appointing inga a fraternal committee to visit them at pittsburg Pit our committee visited pittsburg and intimated our 11 preference reference for st john whether that had any influence or hot not I 1 dont know but st john was nominated alow ow our convention authorized its fill national committee to fill any vacancies that might occur pomeroy and conant will present letters to the committee recommending recommending thattie that the party up port st john an and daniel and expressing their own willingness to withdraw this p proposition ro will undoubtedly meet with opposition from the radical members of bf the party when willmour will your National yat ional committee meet jn in about two weeks either here or in in chicago chit ago do not the principles of the par ties differ considerably naked asked tho the reporter ottov are united in sentiments upon air bev the ie tern berance question said arr bailey yo and upon the que questions stion s of tariff and finance both parties favor civil service reform but the do not adopt the NIa sonic features of the american party atut wo wilt support the men and not then their party Is st john regarded as an all anti arason he lias has been a free firce mason ba baid id mr B hailey tiley bat but has not as I 1 am ain in informed attended a lodge meeting for seventeen years he ile is I 1 am told practically with us in sentiment though lio lie has bas never made an issue of the matter if the proposition pre pro vail mid mr bailey balley we will have a prohibition headquarters here as Rs well as our own A new general manager YORK aug 23 28 at a meeting of the executive committee of th the union pacific Com company pirly today to iday S B gallaway gallawa recently of the grand trunk and president of the chicago A western indiana road was appointed general manager in place of gen len dark clark who re plans for funding or liquidating the loafing floating debt were discussed but no action talen taken A director is authority for the tile statement that the tile company lias has received an offer for lie the purchase of first mortgage bonds of the st joseph A western railroad that the company owns ons provided that bonds under the plan of reorganization can be made a lien upon the entire line of that company the proceeds from the sale of these bonds together with those from 20 collate collateral ial trust bonds will ay the floating debt which is in ili roun round figures Pre president silent adams E said rid no part of the floating debt was pressing and anti that there was reason why w hy it should not bo be paid from the surplus the war in china Los iov aus aug 28 the time times foo chow dispatch dated last night eaf since the french descended desi ended the river river the Chi chinese looted and burned the in in hie the city much ilia dissatisfaction I 1 is expressed at the acs ac tion of the tile trench french ili in bombarding the city willi vv without out landi landing 1 1 t troops I 1 oops for th the a pr protection tion r s it is reported that germany has protested against this action T I 1 e chinese e complain lain that english pilots guided the tile drench french fleets during the engagements thus committing a breach of the neutrality I 1 laap law twenty five hundred troops have been placed in in readiness to proceed to tonking tong if required A amiral leyrow spyron minister of Sl marine arine has telegraphed admiral courbet that supplies for the french forces can be obtained at the arsenal at saigon cochin china operations against laim lam son sort are suspended on account of the intense heat general degrier W will ill retire lo 10 dac bac nanh it is is stated the delta is in hi no danger general ja millet telegraphs from tong kins kintz lie lo loit effin men while repulsing pirates and black flags who pillaged tl the e villages along lied red river and massacred um mat sacred the inhabitants the french garrisons at son tay and hong iloa with the tile aid of th alie guts gunboats gun boats Millo says succeeded in driving them into the tile mountains tito papers doubt the tile report that the french have landed at ke lung and captured the forts in reference to the report li la liberge says davs the landing of tile ho force of five hundred it men ien was not available for the capture of ke lung admiral courbetis Cour bets official report up ill evening uns follows min river p in ang 28 8 the principal batteries on kin pai pal channel have been destroyed and find ho lie hoped to 10 destroy all the tile the other forts this livening evening tile line of torpedoes barring rill 11 entrance to ilia lie river as is being fial fis IF cd d up and anti the explosives ives are being ing secured the rise gunboats gun boata boats are aro able the river rive r by another channel the tile was w as d dispatched is arched to guard the telegraph cable ey i |