Telegrams were received at Shanghai on Monday announcing the death at Hankow of Bishop Boone,, of the American Protestant Episcopal Church, while on his annual visitation to the river ports. Bishop Boone had been in bad health for some time, and it is understood that he caught cold' while watching the great fire which occurred at Hankow on the 26th ult., the gold_ultimavely developing into typhoid fever, which proved fatal. The Bishop was the second son of Bishop Boone, the first Missionary Bishop of the Anglican Church, who was consecrated in 1844 and was one of the earliest settlers in Shanghai, where he arrived before the present foreign. settlement existed. His son was born in the native city of Shanghai in 1846, was educated and graduated in America, sent
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