Show U Y tT oUR MINISTER IN CHINA f I IThe The Hon R 11 H Conger gr Very Vary wn Will Known In by BIrth Though g of Nw Englant Public I Career I WB Wile n I In Conger I J U I Id e slat t Jill July U 11 1 A AI r I d 1 many l letters have been receIved Pekin within the put few tew IS among amon them some that were tinted a d kite lule In May and early rl in ID June 1111 nearly all ot of these II leU leUthe letter d the fox B x r trouble is hi China like the letter d Itt al Oal OaIs t 8 Ill the hi uther othar day from the M wife t I r few or none nOlle of the rr r seems to 0 have the dalger at a ih time Ume ot of writing tuy ey el lOll speak ot of the tho Dozers IS as Do a Dor ar r wing tending toward gen genN genCA N CA aed rlou trouble rouble for tor nuDe of them IB such se statute ed luch IlL a lou ar r a w we hav have 11 led to be v U It kat ally j R AND HIS F IL t rover Cancer is II WIll wall known In al U as u 14 matter ot of COUts Who I with one onee il e Washington newspapers mar mara marR R a relative of Mr Thomas United r 1 to Sveden and anel Norway aad the of our LI to Cb hu two two sisters hire hen WU The Mop u ha U Conger Coner w washers born to In Ill n of New England stock which wu transplanted earl early to In Inthe the last lut century to central we tern New York and from there In the twenties or thirties to the middle west Like so 0 puny mADY other Americans American prominent nent In American late he be was 1181 hint born In ina a community and won hll hi col collee college I lee lege training in spite ot of UP He I was 1 In Lombard I graduating ther tto m In 1862 W We dd lh not Isar bIu much ot of that little nowadays but Ir Conr Congers suf ss In public bile lira JUt sad aAd U as a diploma I eks wIll at the I which t I n n urty 44 41 s years ago o to Ie II I n 11 nho i ho III it Il In I Irr rr f r tl tin tattle with Ith the au oJ J oJAI Almost AI mOl t immediately after leaving college C Conger enlisted all as a member ot of the One lire Hundred end and Sec Secand and ond Illinois Infantry in III the Union I army For three he served In inthe i the South lie He was with Sherman In Inthe the celebrated much to the sea and lit at atthe I the and nd ot of his hIli service WU was a volunteer I ea CI sup talar When the war var wu was over he hew w was maJor by President I ogle tn In recognition of gallant and conduct After that young OIn Conger studied law at the Alba Albany Law School t receiving hie hi degree lit Im 1816 President was 11 II a at atthe the same m law chool at that time Con Coner Conger ger er practiced at alter after beIng a to 0 th the bar and It warn at Oal that he be met mat td PIlE Pike who became wit and aId who Ita Itaw w went to te In a few moll MR In PUBLIC ho be h had prepared for foi the tb Edwin n II ilia not It vet very long year pr la In he be gip to Dallas la whither his hII f had bad Iota ne before him and there th h he devoted hie energies tit to farming ster t and n By be had bAd become prominent a JI f solid 11 rein and u a tatt factor r In the isle lite ot of the tn t t ru run for tor th the oma of county treasurer At Atter Atter ter two terms he be w was made State t This naturally led hI him to liP up his hili n at f Dee De the dill ApI tat tal of tb the After he Md had ered n two terms U ea State bt be was VII elected a m member ot of tilt the lower t of 01 from the Ih district noA no rp rep represented resented by br the Hon J A T Hull arid served ler d lilt eR yearn As AI a Mr fr Conger wu was nut not ag but hf he on the tb kin Icon of 1 a man with y ot of Bond rONI nl and 1 a lural nn nb r ot of his hi potty without WI heirs taint i with I a and During hl hi first term hI he wa was a I member of committee on tore tur among other things and It ft w whis was his which to the h lIt of lIth the h pure lal lard 1 hilt bill which added to his hili the farmers Durl During r see and term B Riled Reed was wa othen Sp r of the him materially CONGER A 8 A DIPLOMAT MAT t w Con Congers am a dip of 01 the United f States wee that ht ot of minister to Brasil In leg him In 1890 While this post JOt lir ir Conger negotiated an extremely important treaty with the big South Amerlean Republic by which the rile fly It hitherto enjoyed In by IAm r can fugitive from justice wit brought to III an end He also allo n i v ot of commercial om I iii Brazil nn and hi his reports repOrt thereon h hb hv b been en highly i ito to that country At Al the ration of Mr lies term u as lr Mr Coo e re oat r l li When Md became Ii i reappoint r Cat I er I tr itri was WIM In but In IP n ne I H would nOrm fi t he r un 1 r IA l a Bryan Bryn or nf i to I the hp j J poet t I Mr r n rr r was trans transferred from tu to where tie he wt went nt all as soon lIoon as ud and where hI he hu has b been n much difficult and nd arduous ar work ork ranger II has a 1 large t here III as well ell as 81 In inthe West Rn and hf her friends a at sincerely that she find and her husband may hate escaped death 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