AL ASSOCIATION. 



EVENTS OF 1897. 



just below the sixth cataract. At Omdurman they 

 constructed a large intrvnched ramp. Th.-y held 

 the port t.f :. ilu- dfM-rt. hut all the d 



tribe* wen* friendly t.i tin- Kg\ptian-. " ll " "l'l' lu>tj 

 with anii-. nnd. in addition (<> the (iakdiil 



5. Delaware: Meeting of the Legi>lature. 



I nnecticut. 



Illinoi-.. Main.. N w llamp>hirr. 



nnei-t icut : liiaugu- 



of i u <io\i-mor. Baltimore: 



held by Jaalin tribesmen. there were p< 

 .Hies established to screen flu- f, . nlied slat i..ns 

 on the river, extending entirel) KJIWI the Bayuda 

 desert. 'I In- KgynUans estabh-h.-d armed posts 

 alone i -Mi. Kor 



1 Berber. At tin- mouth of ti 



tiara a gunboat was |*-rin:incntly stationed. Lieut. - 



DOff >f Miakin. Masso- 



wah. and thence with an Italian oP issala 



tin- reooeapttioii of that 

 place, which th. I :alians were ready to restore to 



Egypt at anv lime. 



I \ \\,l IK M \ssm I VI ION. 

 tiral r.-|-rt> o( this Church ; ..it l.ni:. 



itinerant ;, re, 115,465 m< 



!AV Schools, With 23,^ and teach- 



ers an-1 IM.'JUJ pupils. H55 cateehctical classes, 

 with 10,038 eatrrlium.ii- topis*! Al- 



-. with a-J.'.ill members. l.TS-J churches. nnd 

 889 parsonage*, hunng the -.! by the 



1.VJ4 adults and 6,706 infants had DMO btt> 

 < >f tlx- year's collections only those for mis- 

 sions and the aggregate amount were completely 

 5iimmariy< nary contributions footed 



up to $146.645. of which $15.000 had l> n ...iitril.- 

 uted in tin- form of I- :,d s|>rrial ^'ift-. Tli- 



total amount of collection- u .1- -iven as $871.:51 1. 

 showing the average contribution per member to be 

 $7. this being 40 cents less than in 1896. 



|iuhli*hing department returned a net in- 

 crease of profits durini; tjlt> y'r of nearly $34,000, 

 or $400 larger than the increase of the j.reeedini: 

 year. After deducting $24,070 to be applied to 

 annual appropriations and t>enevolences, $9,398 



added to the assets. More than -joo.ooo , 

 of books had been published. The branch publish- 

 ing house in (iermany was represented as being in 

 a i.nisjieroux condition. 



The total receipts of the Missionary Society for 

 the joar had 1 !<i. and the expend 



'b"). ^ The )>erinancnt fund amounted to $78,- 

 003; the annuity fund to $M.."ifl ; and real estate 

 U-longingtotheVurrent fund was valued at $12,000. 



:'-iit of the MM-iety was being gradually n- 



i. The home missions com I >ri- .tions, 



of which W were new ones, with Wl mi>-i. : 

 and 42.437 members. Six missions had ben. me 



ipporting churches. The foreign missions re- 



turn- n> (of \\hir-h 2 were new statin-i 



120muaton*rie5.and \:\:*:\:\ members. Thechurrh.- 



orted a net gain of 417 and a total 



'119 members, and those of Switzerland .YP.i'i 

 metnliers. The 1'.' -tations in Japan were ma; 



7 missionaries, who had the .-harge <f about 

 50 preaching places, and returned HI? m ,.|< 

 while 67 perrons had united with the rhurch. The 



:butiofiH of the Woman's Mi-ion.-,! 

 am'.iint^l to $4.07<i. or $288 more than those of the 



n year, and averaged $1.7:2 p r memb. r. 

 KVKMs o| isi7. Jannarj 1. New- York: 

 Frank S. HIa-k inaugurated (i- Michigan : 



inaugurated (iov.-rnor. 



Philippine IsUnds: Alleged victory of the 

 Spam th- iiiHirg.-nt forces. Germany: 



A new bill presented to the Reichstag prop 

 an addition ..f 177.000,000 marks to the mi 



8. Fran' fice a large propor- 



atora 64 Republicans, 21 Kadicals. and 

 12 Reactionaries chosen. 



: Inauguration of Major Edward 

 Scofield as Governor. 



Launch of tu|-| . n( ipeiiing 



of the Ilimetall. Lincoln. 



7. Inaugural;' rnora in Maine. M 



nd New llamp- 

 lal lii-j'ui 



:nplaint a lil I'.nlain. deinaluli! 



indemnit \ "iio for the .lam 



among t he >t riking min. 

 Rutland. Soul h Carolina : Simon < 

 murderer, luiched in Sumicr ('..iinly. 1-iiiLrlaml : 

 [nstallation of Ki. l-'nd. n<-k T-mple as An-hi 



Dtertmrj, 



. <'f the lead. -I- of the 

 :ial hclli. ' :i. >imo|l H. I'llckl, 



Keniiicky. chairman. Kn>ia: I'rof. Simon 



comb, of the I'liiled S 1 . 



elect. 'd an honorary m< inl.er of the Ku--ian . 



l.omlon : The Koyal A-troiiom- 

 ird> a gold meilal i .ward 



-..n liarnard. of tlie Verkes <)!.-, r\a 

 10. I'alotine: llioting in .Ieru>aleli; 

 Koman Catholio and members of the On: 

 . Church. 



1 1. Meeting of 1 1;. Iff ill 1 lie 



several St at e> to cast formal bni M and 



Vii-e-l're>iileiit. \Va>hington : Signing of th- 

 cral Anglo-American arbitration treat vat th< 



'tment b\ \-of-State Olney and Sir 



.Julian 1'auncefote, the British ambassador. 

 ernors inaugurated in Illinoi-. Kan-a-. Indian 

 Mi--ouri. Smth America: Massacre of a |>eace- 

 able British expcdiiioii reported in upper <u;. 



12. Indianapolis : Meeting of the National Mone- 

 tary Conference. California: rkins 



re-elected I'nited State> Senator. C<.|orado; 



Adam> Inaugurated Governor. Af; 



the ma--aere of a British expedition in the v 

 Coast Protectorate, all but :{ of the whit.- and 

 nearly 250 natr. killed. 



lo. Indianapolis: Adjournment of the National 

 Monetary Conference after adopt ing a plan f"r cur- 

 rency reform. Washington (State) : Inauguration 

 of -lohn R. Rogers a- ' 



1 1. N. -A Fo: Klcctioi, of Thomas C. pl.v 

 I'nited St tor. Arn-t of (M-II. ci 



liolofT. Secretary of War of the Cuban Republic, on 

 a charge of aiding filibu-t-r-. 



15. Canada: Klection of Hugh .John McKoiiald 

 to the House of Commons declared void b. 



he hired vehicles to take voters to the poles. 



16. Unit. Ma.-hias ord.-red to 

 Siam to >upport a demand for the punishment of 

 the assailant^ of the vice eonsiil general. 



17. Canada: Bi.-hop Begin issues a mandamcnt 



hool (juest io?l. 



ion by the Supreme Court that the 



South Carolina di-pcnsary law i- in part uncon- 



stitutional. Cuba: Sinking of a Spanish gun- 



boat in the Canton river by JUM,- -outh 



M ; A BritMi ynd 



of a million acres of gold lands in hutch 

 na. 



1!. Delaware: Installation ..f C..v. Tunnell. 

 Washington: Meeting of the National Marine Kn- 

 gineers' Association, the American Association <-f 

 hiMiitors and Marmfaeturers. and the Ameri-an 

 'iety. Installation of the Rev. Dr. 

 Thon f y as reeior of the Roman Catholic 



t'niver-itv : The Imperial Government in- 



forms the nations of the world that for tip 



;n her history Hii ia i- taking a census. Lon- 

 don: Opening of the British Parliament, tin; 



