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S NEW E YORK YORK Missionary Missionary societies that are phasing their books report that this has hns not been heen an over fruitful year in the matter matte of gifts Itts For the tho first time In the in America all nil of ot its mJE- mJE history of 01 Congregationalism thin fall Th The Tho will meet et together organizations m j or where al also o the tho national na na- na Cleveland CI which meet at soci societies tto bod will sit this year ar arf council a triennial body them arc are abl able to re report report re- re of and some ome accounts their clo closing ln organization urn are Tho three principal port conditions American Missionary association ia- ia board hoard tiLe the the American Missionary society rime Tho American n the tho Homo Home and tion board has ha not completed It its fl figures lIres hut but for eleven cloven r it Il showed a a. loss of ot Income compared months month of the year eat of interest Jn- Jn the small ono one say paw accounts with the tho In lat t year on all i terest im income jui WASHINGTON A A drydock In the neighborhood f f proportionate width for th the tho lon long and und of ot a 1000 feet of the tile thena This Is what the officials Puget et Sound navy yard ar and will construct if congress congress con on onre na navy department are arc planning 9 v. v Ill furnish h tho the money re gress up-I up th tho Th The decision to recommend nil fin Increase of ap appropriation ap- ap Bremerton to an amount for fOl tho the new dock at nt th ha length this to construct a doc dock of ot great groat sufficient been reached nl recently since the department failed to pot get Jt suitable bids for tho the one already planned The Tho recommendation for tor the thc increase has hns already awaits the the- approval of or Secre Secretary b been en prepared and antI only Included in the estimates to bf hc sn sent tary Metcalf to be to in conre S 8 been en incorporated in- in The OSHKOSH The Ontonagon Northern has hns d and anti 19 is to bo he the tho Michigan n end o ot of tho Y Wisconsin WIsconsin Wis WIs- Northern which Is to extend from Oshkosh U Win IH to Ontonagon Lake Lako Superior rho Tho projector of the line is tho the company compan It IH IS and well timbered for tho purpose of ot serving a large o territory in the the- northern portion of or Wisconsin ln mid and the northern and western portion of the upper tipper peninsula The Tho Wisconsin Iscom ln Northern has now about 50 GO miles of track lal laid north from Appleton to Its junction with tho the Soo Sno line and is already fl doing business s. s It Its surveyors tho state line in Iron county and anel already crossed have for the Ontonagon on Southern the survey have 1 begun c INDIANAPOLIS Statistics are arc being compiler compiled b by byroads byroads is understood Indiana and amI Ohio to be he used it roads ds In ro constitutionality of or the law establishing the tho in a n test of oC That rate of or two cents a n. mile a maximum has ha pas passenger been in effect since March HOG 1006 so that of Ohio has elapsed in which to obtain tho data tinta re re- re amplo ample time In Indiana the rate of or two cents has prevailed pre for only four months that in both states lates it will be he possible It is believed that the time arrives es for going into court to show when in which ca- ca cao Ge o it is confidently con con- the low rate is the thc law will be he declared null and expected void success in the court of common The Pennsylvania's tho the disposition to make mako tho the proposed pleas encourages and Ohio and will be he further strengthened strengthened strength strength- light tight in Indiana the thc Supreme court of Pennsylvania ene ened affirms l In the the decision event that of ot the lower tribunal been made that advantage adran- adran suggestion has ha I LONDON The LONDON The tho the sittings of The rho IIa Hague ue conference conference conference con con- of taken tage tag should be he International regulations with re- re ference to formulate but this is not a l in war garlS to the use o of airships I pressing question the tho airship is an unknown quantity quantity quan quan- In the first place machine that will navigate tit and the invention In of enc a ii It would be a practical contingency the air is a remote explosive to be dropped from froma fromI for Cor an nn impossibility almost object To hit an I a war balloon upon would any particular have to take with him heavy Y aeronaut object the balloon could lift projectiles such as no officers has b been ln WASHINGTON A A board of ot artillery V examine Into andI andreport and andreport Wis Vis to Sparta appointed to meet at nt Infantry and field artillery for suitability or report on tho the and one land near Sparta of of a tract I target practice Wisconsin now used a as an encampment encampment en en- nf n near Camp Douglas the time organized militia of oC Wisconsin b by f ground advisability ad ot of continuing the lease the and to determine of or the latter tract In the the tho purchase of tho the former the or board reports favorably upon the tho Sparta event that recommendations as to the tho location loc it will submit tract and boundaries of the tract which should l be bc leased extent most desirable periods 1 of use each year car and the tile tho the privileges liege which should be bo accorded the United l States under the tho lease |