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DISASTERS IN 1893. 



DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. 



November 1. Open drawbridge, Portland, Ore., elec- 

 tric car fulls, 20 lives lost. 



2. Boiler explosion, New York city, 5 killed. Fire 

 at sea: steamer City of Alexandria 'burned, about 35 

 lives lost. Fire at Dixou, Ohio, sawmill burned, 

 estimated loss, $200,000. Fire at Zanesville, Ohio, 

 planing mill burned, loss, $100,000. 



4. Boat sinks in New York harbor, 10 drowned. 

 Fire : Galena, 111., factory burned, loss, $100,000. Ex- 

 plosion : cargo of dynamite at Santauder, Spain, 165 

 killed and several hundred people hurt. 



7. Fire : Danvers, 111., business houses burned. 

 Explosion : Barcelona, Spain, dynamite bomb thrown 

 by an anarchist, 30 killed, 80 injured. 



8. Trains in collision near Chicago, 5 killed, 10 hurt. 

 Fire: Memphis, Tenn., theater and other buildings 

 burned, loss, $360,000. 



9. Fire : Chicago, cable-road buddings burned, loss, 

 $100,000. 



11. Explosion of ether in Poland, 21 killed, several 

 houses destroyed. 



15. Fire : Fergus Falls, Minn., wheat and flouring 

 mills burned, estimated loss, $100,000. 



17. Fire: Madison, Wis., Seminary of the Domini- 

 can Sisters burned, loss, $75,000. Gale on the English 

 coast, many vessels wrecked, about 500 lives lost. 



18. Boiler bursts at Czernowitz, 16 killed, 20 hurt. . 



21. Earthquake in Persia, about 12.000 lives lost. 



22. Fire : Springfield, Mass., 7 blocks burned, loss, 

 $450,000. 



23. Fire : Detroit, Mich., buildings burned, 7 lives 

 lost, estimated damage, $800,000. 



24. Fire : Pottendorf, Austria, great cotton mill 

 burned. 



27. Earthquake shock felt in Massachusetts, Ver- 

 mont, New York, and Canada. 



29. Train wrecked near Milan, Italy, 40 killed. 



Summary of train accidents in November: 92 colli- 

 sions, 101 derailments, 7 miscellaneous ; total, 200. 

 Killed; 43 employees, 14 passengers, 14 trespassers; 

 total, 71. Hurt : 108 employees, 84 passengers, 3 tres- 

 passers; total, 195. 



December 1. Many wrecks and mishaps on the Le- 

 high Valley Kailroad, result of a strike, several lives 

 lost. 



2. Fire : New York city, Cornell Building burned, 

 damage, $250,000. 



4. Violent gales along the coast of Nova Scotia. A 

 falling embankment buries 14 men at Homestead, Pa. 



15. Bridge breaks at Louisville, Ky., 20 workmen 

 killed. Trestle breaks near Dunkirk, N. Y., 5 killed, 

 several hurt. Freshet at Buffalo, N. Y., 2,500 people 

 homeless, $100,000 damage. 



16. Severe storms in the north Atlantic ; steamer 

 Rhynland ships a heavy sea, and about 30 of her crew 

 are disabled. 



20. Severe storm on the southern coast of Great 

 Britain, many maritime disasters. 



22. Two tires in Boston, Mass., 1 killed, loss, $200,- 

 000. 



25. Explosion : torpedoes at Columbus, Ga., 4 people 

 hurt. 



26. Fire : steamship Seneca burned at Havana. 



28. Very severe weather at sea. 



29. Dense fog at Amsterdam, Holland, 15 persons 

 drowned by falling into the canals. Chicago, explo- 

 sion of natural gas, 8 killed. 



30. Ice breaks under a crowd on the Volga at Nijni 

 Novogorod, 28 drowned. 



31. Collision at sea : British steamer Cythrenes 

 sunk by La Flandre. Fire : Omaha, Neb., 4 lives lost. 



Summary of train accidents in December : 84 colli- 

 sions, 77 derailments, 5 miscellaneous; total. 166. 

 Killed : 24 employees, 5 passengers. 2 trespassers ; 

 total, 31. Hurt: 89 employees, 116 passengers, 4 

 trespassers ; total, 209. 



Summary of train accidents in the United States in 

 1893: 996 collisions, 1,212 derailments, 99 miscellane- 

 ous ; total, 2,307. Killed : 424 employees, 178 passen- 

 gers, 89 trespassers ; total, 691. Hurt : 682 employees, 

 517 passengers, 43 trespassers ; total, 1,242. 



DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. The General 

 Missionary Convention met in Chicago, 111., in 

 September. The Christian Woman's Board of 

 Missions, the first of the societies to hold its ses- 

 sion, reported that though not enough had been 

 raised to make good its pledges, its receipts were 

 in advance of those of the previous year. Re- 

 ports were made of missionary work in Utah, 

 Colorado, and Montana ; of the school at Hazel 

 Green, Ky., in connection with the mountain 

 mission work ; of the " Bible Chairs " at Ann 

 Arbor, Mich. ; of the Chinese work at Portland, 

 Ore. ; of the foreign mission in India, which was 

 to be enlarged by establishing a new station 

 at Jamalpur, among English and Eurasians, 

 with three missionaries ; and of the mission in 

 Jamaica. 



The net income of the Foreign Christian Mis- 

 sionary Society for eleven months had been $58,- 

 355, against $54,535 in the previous year. The 

 expenditures amounted to $61,794. The Sun- 

 day schools had contributed $18,671, and the 

 Endeavor societies $1,717. From the missions 

 in Japan, China, India, Scandinavia, and Eng- 

 land were returned 646 additions. The policy 

 had been adopted, in view of the many pressing 

 calls from the heathen fields, of reducing the ap- 

 propriations in England year by year until the 

 mission-churches became self-supporting. The 

 Board of Missions therefore advised that each 

 English church be expected to raise a definite 

 sum for the support of the evangelists, the 

 amount to be named each year by the board in 

 the United States, after corresponding with the 

 English churches and ascertaining their numer- 

 ical and financial strength. An annual decrease 

 of 10 per cent, in the appropriations was recom- 

 mended, under which all the English churches 

 might be expected to become self-supporting in 

 nine years. Pledges for $12,000 in support of 

 the foreign missionary work were made during 

 the meeting of the society. 



A deficiency of funds was reported in the 

 domestic missions department of the General 

 Convention, in view of which the sum of $12,- 

 000 was subscribed in the meeting. 



The sum of $35,000 had been pledged among 

 the churches during the year for church exten- 

 sion, to which were added $1,500 pledged in the 

 convention. 



For colored evangelization and education 

 more than $7,000 had been collected, besides 

 contributions for the Southern Christian Insti- 

 tute, in addition to which $3,600 were raised at 

 the meeting. 



DOMINION OF CANADA. Government. 

 The third session of the seventh Parliament 

 of the Dominion opened on Jan. 26, and closed 

 on April 1. In consequence of the retiring of 

 Sir John J. C. Abbott, through illness, Sir John 

 S. D. Thompson succeeded him as leader of the 

 Government, with the following reconstituted 

 Cabinet : Minister of Trade and Commerce. Hon. 

 Mackenzie Borwell ; Postmaster-General, Sir 

 A. P. Caron ; without portfolio, Sir John Carl ing ; 

 Secretary of State, Hon. John Costigan ; without 

 portfolio, Hon. Frank Smith; Minister of Jus- 

 tice (Premier), Sir J. S. D. Thompson ; Minister 

 of Finance, Hon. G. E. Foster; Minister of 

 Marine and Fisheries, Hon. C. H. Tupper; Min- 

 ister of Public Works, Hon. J. A. Ouirnet; Min- 



