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DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. 



DOMINION OF CANADA. 



13. Fire: business house burned, Cincinnati, loss, 

 $30,000. Renewed storms in Great Britain. 



14. Fires : business section of Oaks, N. Dak., 1 

 life lost ; 7 oil tanks, Bridgeton, N. J., 1 life lost ; 8 

 buildings, Centralia, Pa., several persons injured in 

 a rush. Shipwreck : ship Enterkm lost off English 

 coast, 30 drowned. 



16. Train wrecked near Pittsburg, 4 killed, many 

 hurt. By other train accidents, 3 killed, 5 hurt. 

 Fires : mill burned, Kiverside, N. J., loss, $60,000 ; 

 factories burned, Lebanon, Mo., loss, $50,000 ^ busi- 

 ness houses, Vermilion, Ohio, loss, $25,000. Ship- 

 wreck : steamer Prince Soltykoff sunk off Brest, 1 

 survivor. 



17. Fires: mill, Burrillville, K. I., loss, $85,000 ; 

 store, La Crosse, W is., loss, $40,000 factory, Aurora, 

 111., loss, $30,000 ; tin factory, Laurel Hill, N. Y., loss, 

 $75,000. 



18. Earthquake: violent shocks in Sicily. Fire: 

 steamer Abyssinia burned at sea, all hands rescued by 

 German steamer Spree. 



19. Fires : buildings burned, Croton Landing, N. Y., 

 loss, $50,000 ; hotel, Needham, Mass., loss, $50,000. 



20. Fires : nearly half of Truckee, Cal., burned, 

 loss, $50,000. Famine officially recognized in 12 

 provinces in Russia. 



22. Shipwrecks : steamer wrecked at Punta Arena, 

 Cal., 9 drowned. Snow storm in Italy, 15 lives lost. 

 Fire : business block, Hutchinson, Kan., loss, $140,- 

 000. 



23. Fires : scale factory, New York city, loss, $115,- 

 000 ; potteries, Trenton, IS. J., loss, $100,000 ; mills, 

 Detroit, Mich., loss, $150,000 (insured $30,000) ; 

 warehouse, Sacramento, Cal., loss, $90,000 ; dye house, 

 Providence, R. I., loss, $50,000 ; hotel, Quincy, 111., 

 loss, $100,000; total for the day, $605,000. Explo- 

 sion : dynamite on board a French lugger at Ant- 

 werp, 2 killed. 



24. Train wrecked, near Hastings, N, Y., 15 killed, 

 7 hurt. 



22-25. Dense fog in England, traffic generally sus- 

 pended. 



26. Fires : insane asvlum, Pontiac, Mich., inmates 

 saved: Chattanooga, T"enn., loss, $500,000. 



27. Panic caused by alarm of fire in a theatre in 

 Gateshead, England, 10 killed, many hurt. Shoe 

 houses, Boston, ourned, loss, $450,000. 



28. Fires : cotton in ears, St. Louis, loss, $50,000 ; 

 factory, Maspeth, L. I., loss, $40,000. 



Summary of train accidents in December : 125 col- 

 lisions, 101 derailments, 8 miscellaneous ; total, 232. 

 Killed : 62 employe's, 17 passengers, 6 trespassers ; 

 total, 172. Hurt : 157 employe's, 8' passengers, 2 tres- 

 passers ; total, 331. 



Summary of train accidents for 1891 : 1,137 collisions, 

 1,206 derailments, 103 miscellaneous ; total, 2,446. 

 Killed : 550 employes, 177 passengers, 63 trespassers ; 

 total, 790. Hurt : 1,447 employes, 1,183 passengers, 

 56 trespassers ; total, 2,686. 



DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. The meetings in 

 connection with the General Christian Missionary 

 Convention were held at Allegheny City, Pa., 

 Oct. 17 to 21. The receipts for the year 

 for home-mission work Had been $37,413. 

 Sixty-one missionaries had been employed, 

 under whose labors 82 new places had been 

 visited, 26 new churches organized, and 1,287 

 conversions reported. The reports of the work 

 of the State organizations, which is additional 

 to that of the General Convention but co-opera- 

 tive with it, had not yet been made up for the 

 year; but the summaries for the year ending 

 Dec. 1, 1890, showed that it included in that 

 year $147,142 contributed by State and district 

 boards and mission stations, $140,193 of pledges 

 for local and future work, and the whole or part 

 time labors of 309 evangelists, by whom 255 new 

 and unorganized places were visited, 142 churches 



and 206 Sunday schools were organized, and 

 8,907 conversions were reported. The receipts 

 for Church extension had been $18,289, or $2,097 

 more than in 1890. A fund of $105,413 had 

 been accumulated for this work. Reports were 

 made of the progress of negro evangelization, 

 from which it appeared that there were now 

 25,000 negro members among the disciples. The 

 Foreign Christian Missionary Society had re- 

 ceived $62,619 and expended $67.555, drawing 

 upon the surplus from the previous year to 

 make up for the deficiency in receipts. From 

 the mission fields were returned 41 members in 

 China, 245 in Japan, 51 in India, and 659 in 

 Turkey; with, in all these fields together, 1,541 

 pupils in Sunday schools and 822 in day schools ; 

 22 native helpers in India and 8 in Turkey ; and 

 a dispensary, orphanage, and book shop in con- 

 nection with the Indian mission. In Denmark 

 there were 141 members, with 120 pupils in Sun- 

 day schools ; and in England, at Southampton, 

 Fulham, Cheltenham, and Birkenhead, 589 mem- 

 bers and 772 in Sunday schools. The Chrislmn 

 Women's Board of Missions had received during 

 the year $43,134. This board had in seventeen 

 years contributed $243,000 for missions. 



DOMINION OF CANADA. The historical 

 events of Canada in 1891 were somewhat mo- 

 mentous. 



The Census of the Dominion, taken in com- 

 mon with that of the rest of the British Empire, 

 simultaneously, in 1891. presented some peculiar 

 incidents, owing to the extent and character of 

 the country. Under the de jure system adopted, 

 the staff of enumerators numbered only about 

 4,300 persons, who had to traverse the immense 

 area of Canada by every imaginable mode of 

 locomotion. A steamer with enumerators on 

 board went in and out the deep indents of the 

 Pacific coast-line as far as Alaska, and thence to 

 Queen Charlotte Islands, to enumerate the peo- 

 ple. Pack-horses were required in the mount- 

 ain regions of British Columbia to carry the 

 enumerators and their portfolios through the 

 valleys among the " sea of mountains." Dog 

 trains were a necessity in the Saskatchewan 

 country. To obtain the population on the 

 northern slope of the " Height of Land " in 

 Ontario and Quebec, a canoe expedition set out 

 from the head waters of the Lievre river, to go 

 by lake and river portages to Albany river, at 

 James's Bay. Camping outfits and canoes were 

 requisite to enable the enumerators to take the 

 population in the Nipissing district, just beyond 

 the " Height of Land." The enumerators in 

 Manitoba had now to foot it, now to go by 

 buck-board, and now by boat ; and, in one 

 intance, the man, losing himself, could only 

 save his own life by killing and eating his 

 horse. Many townships in Algoma had to be 

 taken by slow and toilsome pedestrianism. 

 For the "north shore of the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence a schooner was chartered, the enumerators 

 put on board, and dropped at different points 

 until the Straits of Belle Isle were reached, 

 from which point the schooner was directed to 

 the Isle of Anticosti, the census of which having 

 been taken, she returned to the straits and sailed 

 along the coast of Labrador, picking up the 

 enumerators and returning to the mouth of the 

 Saguenay. 



