Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-05-08

DALLAS. Tex, May 1.-Two hun
dred and eighty-hve delegates were
present at the Fourteenth General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church which opened here this morn
ing. Reports show that missions have
a million and half members.
Bishop Wilson of Baltimore opened
the exercises with prayer No great
question agitates the delegates but
several Important matters are to be
settled The Order of Deaconesses
will probably be created. according to
test vote this morning. The dispo.
sition of $500 900 paid the church for
damage done to the publishing house
at Nashville used by soldiers as mill
tary prison during the civil war, is
| likely to cause a heated discussion, as
many delegates have scruples regard
ing accepting the money, as it is al
| legged bribery was used in obtaining
the money from congress. The scru-
pies of tho latter will probably be
foverruled
Three bishops are to be elected and
| 'iiN must plolHlutnl tdltuludItS NTt
DR.. Alexander OF Louisville. DR.. Ii.
CERT, editor of the Methodist Review.
and Rev. Hoss of Nashville. Bust
ness starts this afternoon. The morn
ing was devoted almost wholly to
prayer. The conference will last sew
eral days.
NEW YORK, May THE remains
of Archbishop Corrigan were taken to
st. Patrick's cathedral this morning.
where they will lie in state until to-
| morrow. A solemn procession attend
ed the removal of the body, members
| of which clad in the full vestments of
of the church. placed the catafalque
| in full view of the long line of mourn.
ers, special guard of priests is on
duty.
NEW YORK, May IA most no.
table dinner will be given in honor of
Whitelaw Reid, special envoy to the
| coronation ceremonies in London, at
the Union League club on Wednesday.
May IA. by large number of mem
bers who are personal friends of Mr..
Reid. The affair Is in charge of a
| committee including the president of
| the club Cornelius N. Bliss, former
Postmaster General Thomas l.. James,
Charles Stewart Smith, Edward d.
Adams, Colonel Joel b. Ehrhardt,
John A. Sleicher, Herbert r. Brown
| and George S. Terry President
Roosevelt and the members of the
of the cabinet, including Charles EN-
ory Smith and former Attorney Gen
eral Griggs. have been invited. Be
yond these and Senators Platt and De
pew, Governor Odell and Melville T.
| Stone, few other guests will be pres
| ent because of the limited capacity
of the clubs accommodations. Mr.
Reid has just returned from his win
ters sojourn in California, and ex
poets to sail for London early in June
NEW YORK, May THE opening
sales on the Wall street stock market
today were very weak. Even coalers
were greatly depressed, although il
seems evident that the great strike
which has been expected in the an
thracite mines of Pennsylvania has
been averted. Sales among various
railway stocks this morning were un
usually small
| DENVER, Colo, May THE Den
yer Tramway has been sold to ID. II
| Moffatt and his new Denver and Salt
Lake railroad. The Tramway com
pany owned the entire street car sys
TEN of Denver. stock In which was
largely owned by Moffatt. and the new
deal was made largely to secure ter
mnal facilities for the projected Sail
Lake short line.
| SCRANTON, Pa, May THE ex
ecutive committee of the Miners
union is in session today to decide
whether the vast army OF coal diggers
| in Pennsylvania mines will strike II
an attempt to force operators to gran
the demands of the Shamokin conven
| tion for higher wages and shorter
hours. Dispatches from the cas-
quoting the operators as favorable tC
concessions give a silver lining to The
cloud. but President Mitchell says HI
has received no official notice of any
| concessions,
| THE HAGUE. May An oflicia
bulletin this morning says ALTHOUGH
Queen Wilhelmina's temperature ros'
slightly yesterday evening, she passet
a quiet night and awoke wholly fire.
from fever Her condition is salts
factory