314 CiKKMAX EVANGELICAL SYNOD. 



ISKKMAXY. 



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esjgeialfrUying.. N 



iawritinir Ub mMg e. there can,, int.. my 

 imt Ul h* be aoconi>l a trial in ..... 

 mo< 



^* of * mob in 



fta.r 



pTwa 



odfe*. wkimt Ul h* be aoconi>l a tr 

 . wh^Wl fll from an angry 

 l<i to capture and hi..-h him. 



If ih nw^uiNM iiMvln *" httVtof 



Mdoote*wlthyour .n- 

 a*k that you deviM other*, and 





I mo* earnestly 

 enact them into law. 



I -unty elections were held in 



J.nua Mff in gains for the I 



who elected their candidates in tome con nties 



. . i, fu Populil !*tn ni^lioM*. 

 The IN>puliU gained in Washington County. 



iicans clectetl 



Plokras and Kan n in Counties. There will U> 

 no more county elections in January, the legis- 

 lature having passed an ad uniting them nh 

 :v harts* "."'i-. 



The new elect ion in the Teath OongreviofiaJ 

 District (see -Annual Cyclopedia " for 1894, 

 page IIS) result*! in ti,.- election of the D 

 eraUe candidate, Mr. Black, by a majority of 



n!v r.i.038 votes were cast, against 84,- 

 440 in Nov.; 1804 



The People's party held a convention at the 



capital. Dec. 18, and chose delegates to the Na- 



tional Convention <>f the party. It was decided 



Mnn.-n-l i. that on \e"nt ion the platform 



that includes these principles : 



Direct issue of all money by the Governmeni : 

 abolition of banks of issue; no more bond-; to 

 be issued except in refunding those of the Gov- 

 ernment now outstanding; silver and gold to 

 be coined upon e<|iial terms at a ratio of 16 to 1 ; 



the volume of currency to be increased to not 

 less than $50 per capi in ; 

 to be raised by a 



Government revenues 

 graduated tax u|on incomes 

 and by a tariff tax UJKJII luxuries of life, the 

 necessaries of life to be placed upon the free ij<t, 

 and the internal-revenue system to be abolished : 

 ip of railroads, canals, the 

 telegraph, and the telephone ; alien ownership 

 of land to be pr-.hil.it.-d : and Tnit.-d States 

 Senators to be elected by direct vote of the 



! MUM 



\N I \ \N,I IK \|. MNOI). This 



body returns for 1895889 ministers, 1,075 con- 

 gregations, 185.203 persons having received the 

 oonmnnkm, and 81/191 pupils in Sunday schools. 

 The year's profits of the pabUshing house are 

 reported as having been $25,000. M . .r. t han 80 

 congregations received aid from the I Ionic Mis- 

 sion fund. A foreign mission is sustaii 

 India, whi sonted as making steady 



m asylums, two of which are 

 with a home for old people, are sus- 

 at Detroit. .M,,|,.. Bonsonvill,-. 111., ami 

 Hoy lest on, lit The triennial <J m ml C<.nfT- 

 enoeof theChumh met in August. \\ prin ii.al 

 MU related to the a , 



of the Bociish Language HI ,,||ege; the 



ratiooof.bn , r . 



IdeiiPubl,. . i! , in m i. 



diUooal building for Klmhurrt Collepr . Illn.oj,: 

 and the jraMicalion of the weeklv journal 



the organ of the Sv: 



ttERXANY. an empire in central Kurope 

 gfar fdral Government The K 

 Prussia as German Emperor has supreme charge 



of politi.al ami military affairs, with po\\ 



into ititcrnuVionul t : 

 ; the empire ii attacked, but he mu-' 



' "f the federal le^i>lati\ e alii 1 



if the war i- ii"l |'iuvl\ def, HH\. . The |. 



tive bodies are the Bundesrath and 



tag. The al> H|.oli \\hieh tli- 



law on recci\iiiK r the a.-sen: 



being -.nnterM-ni-l l>y the ( 1 lian.-ell,,r ,,f i|,,. 



Kinpire. The Hmid. 



ben, appointed iy tin- governiiu-nts of th 

 eral states. dom of 1'ni^ia ha\in- i; 



n\ J. and \Viiv 



tin- (irand huehy of Baden :t. lles-^e :;. M, 



^trelij/.. and < >ldeiilm - I . aeh : tin- : 

 .f I'.ninvwiek 'J. and 



tenlni! 1'iirLr-IJotha.ainl . \nhall i 



and the priiieipalii i< 



-hwar/linrg - Klirlol-tadt. Waldeek. 



~ lilei/. Sehaiiii.' 



ami Lijipe. and the free cities of Ilamlmr. 

 men, and Liileek each 1. The Keieli-dand <T 

 . \l-ace-Lorraine i> not represented in th- 

 dosrath. lutt sends ir> memhers to th> 

 whieh has 397 members altogether, of \\h- 

 represent I'rn-sia, 48 Ba\ y. I? 



WQrtemberg, 14 Baden, 9 Hesne. > Meekl. 

 Schwerin, 8 Sax- Weimar. < Mileiilmr^, I'.runs- 

 \\ iek. anil Ilainlinri:. \uludt, 



and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. and a single n, 

 each of the other states. The Reichstag me:n- 

 bers are elected by universal male >uiTra-.- 

 by secret ballot for five years, tin- 

 being about 1 to 124,500 of population. The 

 L'eiehkanzler or Chancellor of the Kmpn 

 r the Bundesrath. 



The German Emperor is Wilhelm II. 

 Jan. 27, 1859, eldest son of IM iedri< h 111. 

 he succeeded on June 15, 1888. 



The If. !!, xkaii/.ler in 1895 was I'ri 

 lohe-Schillingsfurst, appointed (,- 



The imperial ministers \\ _rn Affairs, 



Preiherr A. Marsc-hall \.n r.i.-l.ej>i. in ; li 

 I>r. Karl Hein rich von I'.r.t'ieher: .Marine, Vice- 

 Admiral llollinann : Ju^tiee. A. N 



,rv. (Iraf A. voii I'o-adov-k\ \\ 

 Kailroads, Dr. Sehul/. : Post Ol 1 

 phan: Court of Accounts. I'rivv-( 'oiineil 

 Wolff; Invalid Fund. I>r. I 

 TiiiniMraiion. llerr Thielen : Imperial I'.a 

 l\o, h -. Del.i CoiiMni^ion. Privy-* 'onnril. 

 iiecke. Prince llohenloh. lent of the 



Pru->i in Council of Minister-. Dr. \ 

 was Vice-Pr-ideiit and Mini-' 

 llerr Thielen was Minister of Pnlilie V 

 The other Prii^-ian mini-ter^ \vei- : I 

 Ilerrvon Koller: \\ ar. <i.-n. Mronsart von 

 lemlorf : A-rieidtun- ai.<l Domain-, l-'ivih- 

 Elammerstein-Loxten : .1^ 



al Affairs. Ivlnmtion. and Pnlilie 

 Health. Dr. Juliu* I; 

 Johannes Mirjuel ; ( i.mmerr . 



P>erlep-c||. 



Area and Population. The ar.-a of tl 

 pin- i- now computed to be 208.670 square 

 The population at the taking of the last 

 on I) 



nual gain of -01 j r e-nt. >inci- 1^!tO. when the 

 population \vav p.i.j 

 2:50,832 males and - females. 



