| Show ons were killed the attitude of the roman catholic church toward the public school tern of the united states furnished a subject of a sensational debate in the methodist general conference at los angeles monday while there was A strong disposition on the part of tain delegates to have the conference adopt resolutions committing it to ex utterances upon the subject there was an overwhelming sentiment as it developed against any such ac tion and the entire matter was finally disposed of by referring it to a corn cittee from which it is unlikely ever to be reported the correspondent at st peters burg of the echo de paris says gen eral kuropatkin has dered a general retreat and no doubt intends to avoid a battle until he has sufficient forces he actually has at his disposal not more than not exclusive of the garrison at port arthur which consists of ani the garrison at new chuang of 15 |