Philadelphia, Aug. 10.
An estate of nearly $200,000 to} be used to found a missionary train. ing. school for Chinese women has been bequeathed to the Foreign and Domestic Missionary Society in the United States of America by the Rev. John G. Bawn, retired missi ary and episcopal clergyman of this city.
Mr. Bawn died last August and the bequest became known to-day when an inventory of his estate was filed with the Register of Wills, the ventory showed personalty valued at $155,873.
The will directs that interest from the estate be allowed to accumulate until the ipal_ has reached $200,000. The school is to be estabished in some suitable locality in China with the object of giving] native girls and young women training in Bible study and instruction and domestic duties
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