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Show METHODIST BISHOPS MEET. Semi-Annual Conference at Now Haven Ha-ven Has Ended. NEW ILVVEN, Nov. 2 -The Methodist bishops, who have ended their semi-annual conference hero, havo selected as the commission on unification of the different Methodist churches In Japan, Bishop Cranston, Rev. A. B. Leonard, who la tho missionary secretary; Rev. C. W. Smith. Pittsburg; Lemuel Skldmoro, New York, and C. Z. Lincoln, Troy, N. V. Thu bishops have before them for lur-ther lur-ther consideration the matter of alleged restriction of religious liberty In Bolivia. Bishop Walden announced the appointment appoint-ment of the following commissions: Unification Uni-fication of book concerns, R It Bsggs, Denver, and R. A. Booth. Eugeno, Or., being members; consolidation of benevolent benevo-lent soclotles, D. F. Board. California, and G I. Cockran, Los Angeles, being members. Assignments of bishops to tho spring conferences wero made as follows: Bishop Warren Lincoln, at Colorado Springs, Colo.. March 2. The conferences In Europe wero assigned to Bishop Burl; those In Mexico to Bishop Wilson, and those In South America, to Bishop Neeley. |