New York, Sept. 24.
Dr. Frank Dunlap Gamowell has beet appointed acting associate secretary of the Board of Foreign 'Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church to have direct charge of the missionary work in China, it was announced by the Board' to-day. He succeeds Mr. Ralph H. Ward, who has held the office for the past five yours. Dr. Gamewell has been engaged in missionary work China since 1881.—Reuter's Ameri-lean Service, for any great time, for Shanghai mails got through to-day, and the report is that the road will soon bbe in complete repair again,
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