Continent. More than 30 lives lost and thousands of cattle perish in Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Mining accident, Plymouth, Pa., 13 lives lost. Iron works in Bath, Me., burned, loss, $150,000. An anarchist explodes a bomb in Paris, 20 hurt.

14. Fatally severe cold in western Kansas. More of the World's Fair buildings burned in Chicago. At Newark, N. J., warehouses and mills burned, loss $200,000.

15. Normal school, Oneonta, N. Y., burned, loss, $200,000.

16. Train derailed near Roscoe, Cal.; an attack by robbers follows, in which 2 men are killed and 2 wounded, and the train is plundered. College buildings in Knoxville, Tenn., burned, loss, $45,000. Boiler explodes on German man-of-war Brandenburg, 41 killed, many hurt.

17. Train wrecked near Valley Junction, Iowa, 1 killed, 3 hurt.

18. Oil mill burned, Warren, Ohio, loes, $150,000. Another incendiary fire in the World's Fair buildings. Stables burned, Ottawa, Ontario, many horses lost, value, $300,000.

20. Snow blockade, Central Pacific Railroad, the worst in years. Anarchist bomb explodes in a Paris hotel, 3 hurt. Trains wrecked near Huntingdon, Pa., 1 killed, 2 hurt, and near Martin's Falls, Ohio, 2 killed.

Summary of train accidents in February: 37 collisions, 65 derailments, 3 others; total, 105.~ Killed, 14employees, 1 passenger; total, 15. Hurt, 45 employees, 12 passengers, 1 other; total, 58.

March 5. Fire in Deadwood, S. Dak., loss, $150,000. 6. Trains wrecked near Houston, Texas, 8 hurt. 8. Train wrecked near Oil City, Pa., oil cars broken up, river covered with fire; trainmen escape by swimming, 1 drowned.

10. Trains wrecked near Limon, Col., 2 killed, 2 hurt.

12. Train wrecked near Montpelier, Vt., 1 killed, 2 hurt.

15. Reservoir bursts near Indian Creek, Ida., ranches and villages devastated. Fire: Pickwick Club in New Orleans, loss, $170,000.

17. Fire: Union Station in Denver, Col., loss, $300,000.

20. Storm in Texas and on the lower Mississippi, 20 lives lost.

22. Destructive blizzard in the West and Northwest. Bomb explodes in a church at Grenoble, France, 20 hurt. Dynamite explodes on a Spanish steamer at Santander, 30 killed.

23. Dynamite explodes near Pittsburg, Pa., 5 killed. Fire in girls' schoolhouse in Laon, France, 6 lives lost. 24. Violent blizzard in the Northwestern States. 25. A rotary snowplow and 2 engines run away in the Rocky mountains and wreck a passenger train, 6 hurt. Hotel burned in Hot Springs, Ark., loss, $50,000.

30. Many buildings burned in Barry, Ill., loss, $200,000. Snowslides in Idaho, blockading railroads and destroying many lives.

Summary of train accidents in March: 4 collisions, 68 derailments, 4 others; total, 112. Killed: 17 employees, 5 others; total, 22. Hurt: 63 employees, 17 passengers, 6 others; total, 86.

April 1. Explosion of natural gas, Alexandria, Ind., 4 killed, 3 hurt.

7. Explosion in fireworks factory, Petersburg, Va., 10 killed, many hurt. Explosion of giant powder and dynamite in Brinton, Pa., 3 killed, 12 hurt.

8. A house falls in Memphis, Pa., several killed. 9. Train wrecked near Tyner City, Ind., 1 killed, 2 hurt. Theater burned in Milwaukee, Wis., 8 firemen killed, 8 badly hurt, loss, $200,000. Destructive blizzard on the north Atlantic coast.

10. Train wrecked near Hartford City, Ind., 2 killed, 3 hurt. Stable burned in Baltimore, with many horses and carriages, loss, $400,000.

12. Glucose works burned in Buffalo, N. Y., loss more than $1,000,000, 22 lives lost.

15. Train wrecked near Silver Brook, Pa., 14 hurt. 20. Oil works burned, St. Louis, Mo., loss, $400,000. Train wrecked near Vassar, Mich., 3 killed.

21. Destructive earthquake in Greece, 227 persons said to have perished.

26. Fire in Butte, Mont., mining property burned, valued at $100,000.

28. Two considerable towns destroyed by earthquakes in Venezuela, several thousand lives lost.

29. Fire in St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, loss, $500,000.

30. Fire in library building, Ashland, Wis., loss, $120,000.

Summary of train accidents in April: 37 collisions, 62 derailments, 5 others; total, 104. Killed: 17 employees, 3 passengers, 8 others; total, 28. Hurt: 59 employees, 20 passengers, 9 others; total, 88.

May 1. Train wrecked near Tipton, Pa., 1 killed, 1 hurt.

2. Mill burned in Albany, N. Y., loss, $200,000. In Mourillon, France, large sawmills burned, loss, $1,250,000. Earthquake shocks continue throughout Greece. 6. Destructive hailstorms in many parts of the country. Fire in Muncie, Ind., loss, $245,000.

10. Trains in collision near Menomonee Junction, Wis., 2 killed, 3 hurt. Town of Norway, Me., burned, loss, $239,006.

12. Varnish works burned in Akron, Ohio, loss, $100,000.

13. Brooklyn, N. Y., Tabernacle and adjoining buildings burned, loss. $1,000,000.

15. Fire: 137 buildings burned in Boston, loss, $1,000,000.

16. Coal and lumber yards burned in Pawtucket, R. I., loss, $500,000.

17. Violent storm in the northern Central States, estimated damage at least $1,000,000. Many lives lost on the Great Lakes. College buildings burned in Hillsborough, Ohio, loss, $50,000.

20. Heavy rains and disastrous floods in Pennsylvania.

23. Terrible devastation by flood along the Yangtse-Kiang river in China, several hundred lives lost. 27. Train wrecked near Pinegrove, Pa., wreck takes fire, 2 killed, 1 hurt. Destructive storm in the English Channel, at least 2 vessels wrecked.

30. Train wrecked near Holtz, Ga., 25 hurt. Landslide at St. Alban, near Quebec, 4 lives lost, damage, $500,000, course of Ste. Anne river changed. 31. Train wrecked near Sharon Heights, Mass., 6 hurt.

Summary of train accidents in May: 42 collisions, 54 derailments, 4 others; total, 100. Killed: 30 employees, 2 passengers, 2 others; total, 34. Hurt:70 employees, 37 passengers, 4 others; total, 111.

June 1. Floods along Fraser river, British Columbia, damage estimated at $3,000,000.

3. Fire in Ottumwa, Iowa, damage, $225,000. Car works at Laconia, N. H., burned, damage, $100,000. Train wrecked near Alton, Ill., 1 killed, 7 hurt.

8. Train wrecked near Nickajack, Ga., 3 killed, 2 hurt; also near Belmar, Iowa, 1 killed. Eight "Coxeyites" drowned in the Platte river, Colorado. 9. Fire in Dubuque, Iowa, loss, $600,000.

10. Boats upset at Brewster, N. Y., and Vermillion, Ohio, 7 drowned.

13. Fire in Panama, damage, $1,000,000.

14. Boat upsets near Castle Bar, Ireland, 35 drowned.

15. Mine explosions in, Austria, about 200 killed. 17. Stockyards and buildings in Jersey City burned, 6,000 sheep destroyed, loss, $1,500,000. 18. Train wrecked near Batesville, Ind., 2 killed, 2 hurt.

19. Train wrecked near Wild Creek, Ind., 2 killed. Ferryboat sinks on river Tek, Russia, 45 lives lost. 20. Earthquakes in Yokohama, Japan, many houses wrecked.

23. Firedamp explosion in Albion colliery, Wales, 251 lives lost. Earthquakes continue in various parts of the East.

24. Steam tug sinks off New York city, 20 lives lost. Boat capsizes near Brooklyn, 5 drowned.

28. Wind storms in Minnesota and South Dakota, 10 killed, 30 hurt, much property destroyed.

Summary of train accidents in June: 39 collisions, 67 derailments, 4 others; total, 110. Killed: 22 employees, 14 others; total, 36. Hurt: 74 employees, 14 passengers, 6 others; total, 94.

July 1. Train wrecked near Lewisville, Ark., 2 killed, 1 hurt.

2. Train wrecked near Moosehead, Me., 5 killed, 8 burt; another on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 5 killed.

3. Marble mill burned in Procter, Vt., loss, 100,000. 4. Fire in Hudson, Mass., loss, $350,000.

5. Six more World's Fair buildings burned in Chicago. Lord Dunraven's yacht Valkyrie sinks in col

lision with the Satanita.

6. Train wrecked near Sedalia, Mo., 3 killed. 8. Hong-Kong, China, deaths from the plague estimated at nearly 25,000.

11. Train wrecked near Sacramento, Cal., probably by the malice of strikers, 4 soldiers killed, 4 hurt. Train wrecked near Griffith, Ohio, 3 killed, 10 hurt. Severe earthquake shocks in and near Constantinople.

12. Trains in collision near Chicago, 2 killed, 3 hurt. Train wrecked near Fontanet, Ind., probably through malice, 2 killed, 2 hurt. Fire in fertilizer works, Rahway, N. J., loss, $500,000.

13. Train wrecked near Grays, Col., 1 killed, 3 hurt; also near Pounds Pond, Oklahoma Teritory, dynamite exploded, probably by malicious intent, 3 killed, several hurt.

14. Train wrecked near MacElheney, Mo., 2 killed. 16. Explosion of an artillery caisson in Chicago, 4 soldiers killed, 8 hurt. Train wrecked near Battle Creek, Mich., 1 killed, 9 hurt. Destructive cyclone in Bavaria, 200 houses ruined.

18. Train wrecked by a water spout near Glen Rock, Wyo., engine fire extinguished and train damaged.

19. Most of the business portion of El Paso, Ill., burned, loss, $250,000.

20. Central Market Block, Minneapolis, burned, loss, $500,000. Fire destroys 200 mail sacks of papers and 20 pouches of letters near Timpus, Col. Property burned in Birmingham, Ala., loss, $500,000. Train wrecked near Copley, Pa., 3 hurt.

23. Destructive storms and floods in western India. 25. Warehouses and stables burned in Washington, estimated loss, $700,000. Great damage by forest fires in northern Wisconsin.

27. Train wrecked near Weir, Ind., 2 killed.

28. Town of Phillips, Wis., destroyed by forest fire, 3.000 people houseless, estimated loss more than $1,000,000; many lives lost. Trains wrecked near South Prairie, Wash., and Columbus, Neb., 3 killed. Fire in Belleplain, Iowa, loss, $450,000.

30. Fire in Minneapolis, 25,000,000 feet of lumber destroyed, loss, $300,000. College buildings in Cooper, Texas, burned, loss, $1,000,000. Earthquake in the vicinity of Los Angeles, Cal.

31. Severe earthquake shocks in Constantinople. Train accidents in July: 61 collisions, 75 derailments, 12 others; total, 148. Killed: 43 employees, 7 passengers, 14 others; total, 64. Hurt: 95 employees, 42 passengers, 13 others; total, 150.

August 1. Lumber burned in Chicago, estimated loss, $2,000,000. Warehouse in Hamburg burned, loss, 1,000,000 marks.

3. Train wrecked near Bucyrus, Ohio, 5 killed, accident caused by tramps. Fire in Lamore, N. Dak., loss, $200,000; also in Lakeview, Mich., loss, $100,000.

6. Train wrecked near Peru, Iowa, 1 killed, 5 hurt. 9. Train wrecked near Lincoln, Neb., 10 killed, 10 hurt, malice suspected.

10. Train wrecked near Woodland, Ill., 1 killed, 1 hurt; also near McMullen, Wash., 2 killed. Earthquake near Memphis, Tenn.

11. Train wrecked near Herdland, Mo., 2 killed, several hurt.

12. Train wrecked near Whitehouse, Pa., 1 killed. Mining accident in Poland, explosion of gas, several hundred lives lost.

13. Cyclone in Spain, more than 100 killed, and great damage to property.

14. Warehouses burned in Fiume, Austria, loss, $1,500,000.

18. Train wrecked near Buffalo, N. Y., naphtha tank explodes, 20 cars burned. Mills burned in Port Jervis, N. Y., loss, $500,000.

19. Train wrecked near Jonesboro, Mo., 4 killed, 8 hurt. also in

20. Fire in Memphis, Tenn., loss, $400,000; Cincinnati, loss, $285,000, mainly parlor cars. 24. Mine explosion near Ashland, Pa., 2 killed, 11 Mine fire near Creede, Col., 4 killed.

hurt.

25. Tornado on the Sea of Azof, villages destroyed, vessels wrecked, nearly a thousand lives lost.

27. Hurricane in Belgium and Germany, much destruction of property.

31. Fire among houseboats moored in Canton river, China, several hundred lives lost.

Summary of train accidents in August: 52 collisions, 88 derailments, 9 others; total, 150. Killed: 25 employees, 10 passengers, others, 15; total, 50. Hurt: 94 employees, 23 passengers, 19 others; total, 136.

September 1. Train wrecked near Hinckley, Minn., by forest fires, several lives lost.

2. Several towns in northern Minnesota and Michigan destroyed by forest fires; hundreds of lives and a vast amount of property lost; navigation and travel by land obstructed by dense smoke. Floods in southwestern Texas, many lives lost. Train wrecked near Camden, N. J., 2 killed, 2 hurt.

3. Pottery works in Trenton, N. J., burned. 5. Forest fires still raging in the Northwest.

8. Train wrecked in the Hoosac Tunnel, 2 killed, 8 hurt; another at Lock Haven, Pa., 2 killed, 2 hurt. Forest fires in Wisconsin and Michigan checked by heavy rains.

9. Train wrecked near Barrington, Ill., 1 killed, 6 hurt; also near Florisant, La., 2 killed, several hurt. 10. Train wrecked near Springfield, Ohio, 1 killed. 12. Flood in the neighborhood of Lucknow, India, the highest on record; a large part of the city submerged.

13. Train wrecked by a tornado in Missouri, 2 killed.

15. Fire in Scranton, Pa., loss, $250,000. Train wrecked near Hammond, Wis., oil takes fire, 14 hurt; another, near Mineola, Texas, 1 killed, 5 hurt.

17. Factory burned in Washington, D. C., several lives lost.

19. Extensive prairie fires in northern Minnesota. 22. Tornado in central Iowa and southern Minnesota, 75 killed, many hurt, great destruction of property.

23. College buildings burned in Oakland, Cal., loss, $200,000.

26, 27. Destructive hurricane sweeps the whole Atlantic coast of the United States, causing much damage on land and sea.

30. Train wrecked near Woodstock, Ill., 5 boys killed while stealing a ride, 2 hurt; also at Maumee, Ohio, 2 killed, 2 hurt.

Estimated loss of life by forest-fires during September in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota about 1,000.

Summary of train accidents in September: 47 collisions, 91 derailments, 8 others; total, 146. Killed: 80 employees, 5 passengers, 15 others; total, 50. Hurt: 34 employees, 32 passengers, 10 others; total, 126. October 1. Train wrecked near Sunbury, Pa., 10 hurt; also at Mansfield, Ohio, 1 hurt.

2. Trains wrecked near Geneva, Pa., 3 killed; and Oakland, 2 killed, 16 hurt.

3. Convict train wrecked near Harriman, Tenn., 33 hurt. Train wrecked by a tornado near Little Rock, Ark., 4 killed, many hurt.

4. Train wrecked near Smithfield, Mo., 4 killed, 2 hurt.

5. Fire in Detroit, 6 killed, 12 hurt.

7. Train wrecked by malice in Tennessee, 1 killed, 10 hurt.

9. Train wrecked near Sedalia, S. C., 3 killed, 1 hurt. Fire near Shamokin, Pa., 5 lives lost.

10. Fall of a building in New York city, 9 killed, 14 hurt.

11. Explosion of boilers at Shamokin, Pa., 5 killed. 16. Fire in Houston, Texas, St. Joseph's Infirmary

and business houses burned, loss, $500,000.

21. Train wrecked near Rutland, Ill., 2 killed, 1

hurt.

22. Trains wrecked near Scott Haven, Pa., and Atchison, Kan., the latter derailed by wind.

23. Train wrecked near Walker, Tenn., 2 killed, 4 hurt.

25. Extensive prairie fires in Nebraska. Earthquakes in Japan, several hundred lives lost, thousands of houses destroyed.

27. Fire in Seattle, Wash., 16 lives lost.

28. Train wrecked near Croydon, Pa., 2 killed, 22 hurt.

29. Train wrecked near Peale, Pa., 3 killed. Fire in East St. Louis, Ill., loss, $400,000.

31. Train wrecked near Foster, Pa., 3 killed. Summary of train accidents in October: 92 collisions, 81 derailments, 9 others; total, 182. Killed: 35 employees, 4 passengers, 15 others; total, 44. Hurt: 107 employees, 95 passengers, 7 others; total. 209.

November 1. Steamer Wairarata wrecked on the coast of New Zealand, 79 lives lost.

3. Medical College and Scottish Rite building, Indianapolis, burned, loss, $175,000. Severe earthquake in the city of Mexico, many killed and hurt. Mill burned in Lachute, Quebec, loss, $250,000.

4. Fire in San Francisco, loss, $300,000. 7. Fire in St. Louis, loss, $250,000. Train wrecked near Pittsburg, Pa., 6 killed. Forest fires in western Tennessee, eastern Arkansas, and northern Mississippi, much property destroyed, and the smoke impeded navigation on the Mississippi.

14. Cotton burned in New Orleans, loss, $750,000.

16. Forest fires near Boulder, Col. Destructive earthquakes in Sicily.

18. Fire in the lace-making district of Nottingham, England, loss, $150,000.

19. Destructive floods in England.

20. Phosphate works in Macon, Ga., burned, loss, $125,000.

24. Very destructive storm on the coast of Newfoundland.

28. Slight earthquake in Quebec. Summary of train accidents in November: 59 collisions, 84 derailments, 3 others; total, 146. Killed: 17 employees, 0 passengers, 5 others; total, 22. Hurt: 47 employees, 14 passengers, 5 others; total, 66.

December 2. Train wrecked near Locksport, Pa., 3 killed. Earthquakes in Ecuador several days. 7. Prairie fires in Texas, 25,000 square miles of grass lands burned over.

9. Molten metal spilled in Carnegie Works, Pittsburg, Pa., 8 badly burned.

13. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in the New Hebrides Islands, many lives lost, and houses thrown down

22. Western Europe and the British Isles swept by a violent storm, hundreds of lives lost, 79 shipwrecks. 23. Train wrecked near Chelmsford, England, 15 killed.

25. Trains wrecked near Waxahachie, Texas, 2 killed, 15 hurt.

27. Excessive cold in the Southern United States; the Florida fruit crop almost totally destroyed. 30. Fire: grain elevator burned in Toledo, Ohio, loss, $525,000.

31. Fire: the Delavan House Hotel burned in Al

bany, N. Y., 16 lives lost, damage, $250,000. Violent storms of several days' duration in western Europe. Earthquakes in Italy.

Summary of train accidents in December: 66 collisions, 69 derailments, 7 others; total, 142. Killed: 24 employees, 2 passengers, 3 others; total, 29. Hurt: 58 employees, 30 passengers, 2 others; total, 90.

Summary of train accidents in 1894: 613 collisions, 873 derailments, 74 others; total, 1,560. Killed: 410 employees, 58 passengers; total, 468. Hurt: 845 employees, 410 passengers; total, 1,255.

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. The meetings of the missionary and other societies of the Disciples of Christ, comprised under the title of the General Christian Convention, were held in Richmond, Va., Oct. 18 to 25. The year had been one of general prosperity. Increase of resources and advance in work was reported in the aggregate not only of the national societies, but also of the several State associations. Among the new measures adopted were the appointment of a general board of education and the institution of a general Sunday-school superintendent and of a committee to promote organization in Sunday-school work. A committee was appointed to consider means of systematically enlisting business men in the support of the work of the convention. Provision was made for the dispatch of a representative of the convention around the world to visit the missionary stations.

The Board of Managers of the General Christian Missionary Convention reported that their receipts had been $21,639, divided as follow: For the Evangelizing fund, $19,363; for the Salt Lake City Church Building fund, $1,839: for the Boston debt fund, $432; for the destitute in South Dakota, $5. Fifty missionaries had been in service, who reported 14 new churches organized, 57 new points visited and helped, 1,777 baptisms, 2,854 additions in all, and $66,956 raised for salaries, building and repairs, and other purposes. Reports were made of evangelistic work in 19 States, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Indian, and Utah Territories, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Ontario, and of the work of 6 general evangelists. A committee appointed at the previous convention to study the subject of city evangelization and report upon it, represented that it had called a conference at St. Louis, Mo., in February.

Blanks intended to elicit information concerning the condition of city work of the Disciples had been sent to suitable persons in all cities having more than 2 churches; from the answers to which it appeared that in 12 cities, having an aggregate population of 2,638,000, there were 80 congregations having 20.325 members, 42 church houses, and church property valued at $1,193,000. There had been an aggregate increase in ten years of 37 church houses and $455,000 in value. Seven church houses had been built during the year. The year was represented to have been the most fruitful in conversions of any in the history of the society. It was also remarkable for the number of points which had become self-sustaining. Besides the work of the general convention a still larger one is done by the State conventions severally.

The Board of Negro Evangelization and Educollections. cation reported an increase of $1,200 in cash Its work had been enlarged. It had 5 teachers at the Southern Christian Institute. An assistant teacher had been employed in the Louisville Bible School. Appropriations for evangelization had been made in 3 States.

The Church Extension Society had received, from October, 1893, to October, 1894, $21,903, showing an increase of $4.974 over the receipts of the previous year, and of $142 over those of 1892, which had been the largest up to that time returned. Loans had been paid back during the year amounting to $6.375, and interest had been paid to the amount of $2.926, making a total of returned loans and interest of $9,301. The total amount of returned loans and payments of interest since the fund began operations was $35.003. Thirty-seven churches had been aided during the year with loans amounting in the aggregate to $20,845, and grants had been made, yet to be paid, to 47 churches, of $26,225. In pursuance of a plan adopted two years previously for purchasing lots at special centers for church buildings, the money to be secured and returned as other loans, with 4 per cent. interest, aid had been given at Everett, Mass., Salt Lake City, Utah, and Topeka, Kan. Under a policy adopted in 1888 of permitting persons subscribing $5,000 to the church-extension funds to name their subscriptions as special funds, four "named loan funds " had been established.

The income of the Foreign Christian Mission

EAST AFRICA, a region extending from the Zambesi to the Juba river, and inland to the great lakes, the Congo Free State, and the Nile, embracing British East Africa, German East Africa, and Portuguese East Africa, formerly the colony of Mozambique.

British East Africa. The strip of coast, 10 miles broad, extending from the Umbe river, the northern limit of German East Africa, to the Ozi river, was leased in 1888 by the Sultan of Zanzibar for fifty years to the Imperial British East Africa Company, and in the following year a cession was made of the ports farther north. In 1891 the Sultan made a complete cession of the whole territory in perpetuity, the company agreeing to pay $80,000 a year to the Sultan and his heirs. The ports north of Kismayu were in that year given up to Italy, and the British sphere of influence was limited to the territory south of the Juba. By the agreement of 1890 the German Government ceded to Great Britain Witu and the territory adjoining on the north, as well as the islands of Patta and Manda, and established as the boundary between the British and German spheres the Umbe river and a line going round northward of Mount Kilimanjaro and extended to the point where the first parallel of north latitude cuts Victoria Nyanza, and then following that parallel to the boundary of the Congo Free State. Everything north of that line, including the basin of the Nile, was recognized as the British sphere of influence. The Anglo-Italian agreement of March 24. 1891, defines the boundary between the Italian sphere in Abyssinia and Somaliland the Juba river up to 6° of north latitude, then that parallel as far as 35° of east longitude, and then that meridian north to the Blue Nile.

The British East Africa Company was chartered Sept. 3, 1888. It occupied the Hinterland

ary Society had been $73,258, being the largest in the history of the society. A large gain was reported in the number of contributing churches and Sunday schools. The expenditures had been $73,173. The Christian Endeavor Societies had contributed $5,287. Seven small bequests were spoken of in the report. Reports were received from the mission fields in India -16 missionaries, 14 native helpers, 6 stations; Japan-9 missionaries, 16 native helpers, 4 stations; China-23 missionaries, 25 native helpers, 8 stations. These three missions returned 1,291 pupils in Sunday schools, 660 in day schools, and 28 in boarding schools (China): Turkey, 12 stations, 604 members, 508 in Sunday schools, 393 in day schools; Scandinavia, 941 members, 320 in Sunday schools, 5 church buildings in Norway; England, stations in London, Hornsey, Southampton, Tarro Tabernacle, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Liverpool, and Birkenhead-1,531 members, 1,265 in Sunday schools. Bible and training schools had been opened in India, China, and Japan. An asylum for lepers had been built in Hurda, India.

DOMINION OF CANADA. See CANADA.
DUNKERS. See BRETHREN.

between the coast and Victoria Nyanza, and afterward Uganda, withdrawing from the latter country by arrangement with the British Government in March, 1893. The capital of the company was £2,000,000, of which £1,000,000 was offered to the public. The Sultan of Zanzibar on June 30, 1892, at the instance of the British Government, placed all his territories in the free zone of the Berlin general act of the Congo, thereby cutting off the customs revenue of the company except 5 per cent. import duties allowed by the Brussels antislavery act.

Mwanga, the chief of Uganda, accepted the overtures of the company in 1889, but in February, 1890, he signed a treaty with the agents of Germany. By the Anglo-German arrangement the Germans conceded this country to Great Britain, and in December of the same year Capt. Lugard, commander of a military force of the British East Africa Company that occupied Mwanga's capital, forced him to sign a treaty placing his dominion under the protection of the company.

The protectorate of Uganda has been placed under an administrator, who is charged with the further duty of looking after the chiefs of the surrounding countries to which the protectorate does not extend, of making arrangements with them to insure the peace of the country, and exercising such supervision as will prevent them from making war on rival chiefs, or encouraging slavery or allowing the slave trade to be carried on, or hindering commerce within their territories. A 10-mile strip between Uganda and the coast forming the road to Uganda is placed under the administration of a subcommissioner, who reports to the consul-general at Zanzibar. The latter official, acting under the Foreign Office in London, has control also over the acts of the Imperial British East Africa

Company, as well as over those of the Zanzibar Government. The East Africa Company was left to administer the coast ceded to it by the Sultan of Zanzibar and the Hinterland as far as Victoria Nyanza; but meanwhile negotiations were opened regarding the retrocession of the coast to the Zanzibar Government, and the Imperial Government took under consideration the question of the revocation of the company's charter.

Zanzibar. The dominion of the Sultan of Zanzibar is now limited to the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. The area of Zanzibar is 625 square miles, and the population 150,000. Pemba has an area of 360 square miles and 50,000 inhabitants. There are about 50 Englishmen, 50 Germans, some Americans, Frenchmen, Greeks, and Roumanians, and about 7,000 British Indians, mostly engaged in trade, in the town of Zanzibar, which has a population of 30,000, and elsewhere on the islands. The Sultan or Seyyid, Hamed bin Thwain bin Said, who was placed on the throne by the British on the death of Seyyid Ali, in March, 1893, has little to say about the Government, which is carried on by a staff of officials selected by the British Government and controlled by the British agent and consul-general. The revenue is mainly derived from customs and a tax on cloves. The value of the imports in 1892 was £1,185,330, of which £726,169 came from foreign countries, £233,883 from German East Africa, £184,035 from the Sultan's dominions, and £41,243 from the territory of the British East Africa Company. The exports were valued at £908,035. The chief exports were ivory, £148,108; cloves, £118,432; copra, £60,476; rubber, £29,010; gums, £19,597; hides, £16,182; chillies, £8,422. Labor on the islands and on the mainland protectorate is performed by slaves, although their importation has been illegal since 1873. The slave trade nevertheless goes on in spite of the patrol of the coasts by British cruisers. The right of slaves to purchase their freedom was formerly allowed, as it is by a recent decree in the German territories, but this right was revoked by a decree of Aug. 20, 1890, which further directs slave-owners to punish their slaves when they run away. The porters in the British expeditions to Uganda and all caravans of the East Africa Company have been hired directly, but have paid over to their owners three fourths of the pay, enabling the latter to purchase two new slaves for every one sent out. The Uganda Protectorate.-Sir Gerald Portal, as special commissioner of the Imperial Government, took over the administration of Uganda from the East Africa Company's officers in March, 1893, pending the decision of the British Government on the question of retaining or evacuating the country to be based on his report. This report was sent on Nov. 1, 1893, from Zanzibar, after his return from the interior. He found a fertile soil, a temperate climate, and a race of people of much higher intellectual development and civilization than any other Central or East African tribe, ruled by a monarch, nominally absolute, but of weak moral character, and practically shorn of his authority since his restoration to the throne by the British, though still reverenced by the peasantry. The people were divided into three mutually hostile

political and religious parties: the Waingraza (that is, the English or Protestant party), the Wafranza or French party (that is, the Catholics), and the Mohammedans. A considerable number of European missionaries, Catholic and Protestant, exercised both religious and political influence. While Christianity had taken a firm hold on the country, it was menaced by Mohammedanism on the north among the Mahdists, and on the south among the Arabs, Manyuema, etc. On the one frontier was Unyoro, of almost equal power with Uganda, rich in ivory, with a king hostile to European influence, said to have recently been joined by Soudanese troops who had revolted from Emin Pasha. There were 500 partly trained armed Soudanese soldiers in Uganda, with 6,000 women, children, and followers, who had been brought from Kavalli by the company's officers. These soldiers, by deeds of cruelty practiced on native men and women, inspired hatred and terror. The British East Africa Company, which had publicly acknowledged the failure of its attempt to administer the country, had neglected to improve the road to the coast, and transport was still dependent on human porterage, costing £300 a ton. There were no products that were likely to be profitable articles of export excepting ivory and perhaps coffee. The people were eager to possess books, opera glasses, and other European commodities, but all save the lowest classes have a great antipathy to any sort of work. The company's officers had made many pledges and treaties with the king, chiefs, and people, conveying the impression that these engagements were of the same value as though they had been made by the Imperial Government. On May 29, 1893, Sir Gerald Portal concluded a treaty between Mwanga and the British Government, one provisional and temporary in its terms. Sir Gerald Portal recommended that an English commissioner be appointed for Uganda and its dependencies and neighboring countries as far as the eastern border of Kavirondo, with a staff of 13 English officers and 500 Soudanese soldiers: also the appointment of a road commandant to control the transport service from Kikuyu to the lake, and of a commissioner at Kikuyu with a staff of 4 Europeans, with 60 Zanzibar soldiers and 239 porters. The expense of the various establishments he proposed should be defrayed as far as possible from customs duties and surplus revenues of Zanzibar, the Government of Zanzibar to be placed once more in possession of its ports on the coast, and the British East Africa Company to be deprived of its political and administrative powers and converted into a commercial, agricultural, or transport company. A railroad was considered the only means of developing the prosperity of the country and checking the slave trade. The execution of the whole scheme, including the railroad, was expected to cost the British Government about £50,000 a year. After Sir Gerald Portal's return from Uganda Col. Colvile went out to take over the administration. The British Government announced in April the intention of establishing a protectorate and administration confined to Uganda. Parliament voted £50,000 for the purpose. The railroad project and the question of the future status of the company