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COLOMBIA. 







malarial. 



of Kanmh. The 

 _ .. .^-/orcemrnt* and war 

 the rebels had capered 11 cities 



ru~ng*ndang was dispatched, at the head 

 of S^OOO troops, to Unchow-Ku, the capital of 

 the province, war which | .dieted sev. 



rral defeats on the rebels. These, however, were 

 paining fresh adherents, while his 

 EErZJSSd [partly of Mohammedans, who 

 * .--, 



. . .^ . . . .. ,.,.,.,. 

 BnddliisU joined the Dungan*, <. 



and ibeir forces Increased until there were .v 

 under arms. They had the encouragement of 

 the Turkoman* of the neighboring Russian pro v- 

 fame and of the secret eodetiee of cent ml t '). i tm. 

 After an indecisive engagement with <,,. Ma. 

 the leader of the rebellion, li-n. Tun*. who lout 

 1.000 killed in the battle and 5,000 more that 

 deeerted to the enemv, reached Lanchow-Fu. mul 

 wa there closely besieged. The other garrisons 

 of the province, in which there were only 60,000 

 HiiiMeii tronpn. wrrr ilin inrnntH Th.-.-ruriti,- 

 practiced on both sides were as revolting as in 

 the former Mohammedan rebellion, 1862 



Kr;n,r...||iin Trratt.-Th- re** of 

 French intervention to save Chinese territory 

 from Japan was a convention settling the north- 

 ern boundaries of the conterminous French pos- 

 sessions in Tonquin and Annam and regulating 

 the oommerrial relations betwivn Fn-nrh Indo- 

 Chin.i ami Yunnan. By this agreement 



uto were ceded to France. This cession 

 is not reoogniied as valid by Great Britain, be- 

 it was held that these districts formed part 



of the provinces on the upper Mekong that Great 

 Britain conceded to China, so that they might 

 form a buffer state or neutral zone between 

 French Indo-China and Burma h. The conven- 

 tion also sanctions the extension of the Tonquin 

 railroads and telegraphs into Chinese territory. 

 The instrument was signed at Pekin on .lune -jii. 

 < IIIMsN \\ I MM IVOR, \n\ M. I'lo 

 I'l I N XIM || Ills n|. The International 

 Contention of the Young People's Societies of 

 Christian Endeavor met in Boston, Mass., July 

 11. About 70,000 delegates we r .'lance. 



The statistical report showed that 7.750 new 

 societies had been added .luring the year, and 

 that the whole number of societies was nou ; l 

 W, and the whole number of members was 

 about tSOQjOOO. Of the societies, 88,412 were in 

 the United States, as against 28,606 in 1894; 

 8,105 in Canada and Newfoundland, an increase 

 .'l from the previous year; 2,645 in the 

 ' ".. \ .-r.-ilia.Win. \fru-a, 



ranee, 117 in India. 

 Japan. U3 in Madagascar. ,'*. in M 

 Turkey. 63 in theWesI Ir.-lui Mandn. The so- 

 deties in the United States included 18 senior 



. .;_ -;:/. r:; , : - 



Christian Endeavor - 7 societies in the army and 

 IMIVT of the- Tntted States; societies amo: 

 policemen and patmlmen; companies among the 

 Indiana of the North and West; comrades en- 

 listed in work among the life-saving crews, light- 

 : the Traveler*' Union of 



houses, and lightships; 

 Christian Endeavor ; 158 



societies 



and 8,850 junior societies. Then \\-nv also 880 



iutii.'i . ' 't in i.tln-r 



lands, making i all iM'J'J junior s< t -i. li.-s. \\ith 

 840.000 m.-mlH-r-. Th.- ' rj K.-11 of 



ll..n,,r" U.rr tin- nainm of 5,551 soci-ii. 

 <>f Inch h:i'l iriven not less than $10 to one of 

 Iti danoininaaoiial boards of mJ \vin-le 



amount <.f surh gifts having been $140.71!). 

 Adding other gifts for religious ami ln-nrvcilt-nt 



La of $11M),HH4, the aggregate of th 

 triluitioiis of the societies in th<- t'liiti-il Statrs 

 was f840,603, and of the Unit.-l >t ; ,irs and 

 Canada $425,000. The denominations in the 

 United States were represented l>y tin immU-r 

 of societies organised \\nhin them in afflliatkn 



with the convention in tin- following order: 

 Presbyterians. Congregationalists, hi-<-i| 

 Chim and Christians, . M-tiiodi>t Kpi^- 



copal chun-h. M.-th.Mii-i Protestants. Luth.-r- 

 antp Cnmborland Preabyteriani, and others. The 

 --of tin- ooDTanuon w-re devoted to ad- 

 dresses and religious cxer 



( Ul.OMIU A. a rej.ul.lir in Soutli A - 



-nate has *J7 ni-nio.-rs, :{ from <-ach de- 

 partment, elected by indirect sulTr.i^e ! 

 years. The House of Representatives has 68 

 inemlx i-ry 50,000of population, elected 



for four years by direct \<.te. Kverv elector 

 must be twenty-one years of age and eit her know 

 how to read and write, or be a property own. r. . r 

 have an income of 500 pesos. The President is 

 elected for six years by an electoral college. 

 The ministers are responsible to the Congress. 

 Miguel A. Car., became President in 1*!M. The 

 following ministers were in office in the begin- 

 ning of 1W.V. Interior. M. A. San del 

 Foreign Affairs, M. 1 : .luMice. A. M. 



Rueda; Commerce and Communications. |;. 

 Bravo ; War, J. D. Ospina ; Instruction, L: Zer- 



i nance, Abadia Mendez; Publi 

 de Brigard. The area of the republic has been 

 recently estimated at 404,400 sauare miles. The 

 I MII, ulation \\a- estimated at 3,^78,600 in 1881. 



Finances. The budget for the biennial period 

 1895-'96 makes the revenue 26,203,966 pa^r 

 pesos (the value of the peso in exchange is 50 

 cente), and expenditures 83,801,888 pesos. The 

 customs receipts in 1893 were 9.160,175 pesos. 



The foreign debt, contracted in England, 

 amounted on June 30, 1894, to 3,279,828 ster- 

 ling, including l'l.:'.(U.::-js ,f unpaid ii 

 The internal funded debt amon: 

 pesos, and other liabilities to 3,946,164 pesos, ex- 

 clusive of 26,135,606 pesos of paper money. 



Commerce and Production. The value of 

 the imports in 1893 was 13,403,299 pesos; of the 

 exports, 14,630,332 pesos. Manufactured cotton 

 is the most important article of import. It 

 comes from Great Britain, as do woolen and lin- 

 en manufactures ;,jirl j ro n wares. Alim- 

 sulwtir .ported from the United 



and other American countries. The imports 

 from Great Britain, excluding the Panama dis- 

 trict, in 1MJ>2 were 4^89.276 pesos (1 peso = !7 

 cents); from France. 2.244,459 pesos; from the 

 'es, 1,861,263 pesos; from Germany, 

 1.315,430 pesos; from other countries, 2,298,118 

 pesos. The exports to Great P.rit a in were 5,966,- 

 911 pesos; to the Uni ."i.467 pesos; 



to France, 1,520,905 pesos; to Germany, l.r.O.- 

 908 pesos; to other countries, 2,079,615 pesos. 



