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the conference. The third summer assembly of 

 the Jewish Chautauqua began on July 14 at At- 

 lantic City, and a varied programme of lectures 

 and debates was followed. Synagogues were dedi- 

 cated in New York, Chicago, Brooklyn, El Paso 

 and Dallas, Texas, Peoria, Huntsville, Ala., At- 

 lantic City, Newark, and New Brunswick, N. J., 

 Denver, and Cleveland. 



Among new books issued were Israel Abraham's 

 Jewish Literature, Dembitz's Jewish Services in 

 Synagogue and Home, Rev. Dr. B. Drachman's 

 translation of S. R. Hirsch's Letters of Ben Uziel, 

 Mr. ZangwilPs They that Walk in Darkness, and 

 Mrs. A. Cohnfeldt Lust's A Tent of Grace. 



In Philadelphia work was begun on the new 

 building of the Young Women's Union and the 

 Lucien Moss Home for Incurables. In New York 

 ground was broken for the new Young Men's He- 

 brew Association building, the new Mount Sinai 

 Hospital, the Beth-Israel Hospital, and the 

 Emanu-El Sisterhood Home, while the new Baron 

 De Hirsch Trade School and the Clara de Hirsch 

 Working Girls' Home were opened, the Hebrew In- 

 fant Asylum entered new quarters, and the Newark 

 (N. J.) Hebrew Orphan Asylum opened its new 

 edifice. The National Farm School, at Doyles- 

 town, Pa., added appreciably to its accommoda- 

 tions.' The Agricultural School, at Woodbine, 

 N. J., under the auspices of the Baron De Hirsch 

 Trust, made rapid advance. Agricultural work 

 is being steadily promoted, and neat homes are 

 being erected in East Orange, N. J., with a view 

 of settling families from the New York ghetto. 

 At the same time a beginning has been made in 

 building improved tenements in the upper part 

 of New York city. The beneficent work of the 

 Hirsch Trust is thus developing every year. 



An organization of Hebrew veterans of the 

 Spanish war w r as formed in New York, and about 

 150 attended the initial meeting. 



The receipts of the Educational Alliance of New 

 York were $34,961.19; expenses, $39,320.16. Dur- 

 ing the year the aggregate attendance was 

 1,602,104. 



The statistics furnished by the United Hebrew 

 Charities of New York, whose twenty-fifth anni- 



versary was celebrated in November, throw full 

 light on Jewish immigration since the Russian 

 exodus began, as well as the work of the largest 

 organization of its kind in the United States. 

 During the year ending Oct. 1 the sum of $130,332 

 was disbursed and $149,859.53 received; 29,088 im- 

 migrants were registered, making a total of 430,- 

 470 since the records were begun in 1885. Out 

 of 5,515 applicants for work, 5,183 found employ- 

 ment. According to the annual report of the 

 Commissioner General of Immigration for the 

 year ending June 30, 1899, 37,415 Jewish immi- 

 grants arrived, only 519 being excluded under the 

 law. Russia and Austria-Hungary furnished 

 nearly all of the number admitted. Of these, 

 12,276 were skilled workmen, 197 were profes- 

 sional men, while 5,253 were of various occupa- 

 tions (laborers, farmers, servants, etc.) ; 5,637 

 could neither read nor write not a very large 

 proportion considering that 8,987 were under four- 

 teen years of age. 



In December Prof. Schechter, of Cambridge, 

 England, signified his acceptance of the call to 

 be director of the Jewish Theological Seminary 

 of New York. 



At the eighth annual meeting of the American 

 Jewish Historical Society, held in New York on 

 Dec. 26, among the papers presented were Dr. 

 Cyrus Adler's, on Further Documents relating to 

 the Inquisition in Mexico; Prof. Hollander's, Ad- 

 ditional Information respecting Haym Solomon; 

 Prof. Gottheil's, Early Settlement of the Jews in 

 the Island of Barbadoes ; Leon Hiihner's, The Jews 

 of South Carolina prior to 1800, A Prominent 

 Jewish Patriot of Revolutionary Times, and Notes 

 on American Jewish History; Max J. Kohler's, 

 The German-Jewish Migration to America, The 

 Jews and the American Antislavery Movement, 

 II; Miss Annette Kohn's, Jewish Topography of 

 New York; Rev. George A. Kohut's, New Docu- 

 mentary Materials for the History of the Mar- 

 ranos in Mexico; Rev. Dr. H. P. Mendes's, Notes 

 on the Early Newport Jews; Some Early Jewish 

 Printers in America, and A Frankist Petition ad- 

 dressed to Archbishop Lubinski in 1759, published 

 in Mexico. 



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KANSAS, a Western State, admitted to the 

 Union Jan. 29, 1861; area, 82,080 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial cen- 

 sus, was 107,206 in 1860; 364,399 in 1870; 996,096 

 in 1880; and 1,427,096 in 1890. By the State 

 census of 1895 it was 1,334,688; in 1899 it was 

 estimated at 1,425,112. Capital, Topeka. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1899: Governor, William E. Stanley; 

 Lieutenant Governor, Harry E. Richter ; Secretary 

 of State, George A. Clark; Treasurer, Frank 

 Grimes; Auditor, George E. Cole; Attorney-Gen- 

 eral, A. A. Godard; Superintendent of Education, 

 Frank Nelson; Commissioner of Agriculture, F. 

 D. Coburn; Adjutant General, Hiram Allen, suc- 

 ceeded on Feb. 23 by S. M. Fox; Superintendent 

 of Insurance, Webb McNall, succeeded on March 

 17 by W. V. Church; Oil Inspector, E. V. Whar- 

 ton, succeeded on April 1 by S. O. Spencer; Grain 

 Inspector, W. W. Culver, succeeded on April 1 

 by A. E. McKenzie; State Printer, W. Y. Mor- 

 gan; Board of Charities, P. H. Dolan, G. W. 

 Kanavel, Reuben Vincent, Grant Hornaday, Ed- 

 win Snyder; Bank Commissioner, J. W. Breiden- 

 thal; Labor Commissioner, W. L. A. Johnson. 



All the elected officers are Republicans. Chief 

 Justice of the Supreme Court, Frank Doster, 

 Populist; Associate Justices, W. A. Johnston and 

 W. R. Smith, Republicans. 



Population. The compilations from returns 

 of assessors and county clerks show that in 1899 

 the State had 109 cities and towns with 1,000 

 or more inhabitants, while in 1898 it had but 

 103. The whole gain in population was 35,335. 

 The largest gain among cities was in Topeka, 

 which increased 2,714. There are 1,682 Indians 

 in the State, of whom 736 are not on reserva- 

 tions, are self-supporting and taxed. Four small 

 tribes live on Government reservations. 



Finances. The following, from the statement 

 of the chairman of the House Ways and Means 

 Committee, shows the estimated income and ex- 

 penses of the current biennial period: 



" The total amount appropriated by the Legis- 

 lature was $3,873,090. Of this sum $444,000 was 

 for deficiencies which should have been met by 

 the Legislature of 1897. This brings the appro- 

 priation for the two fiscal years beginning June 

 1 down to $3,429,090. The receipts from the vari- 

 ous departments, exclusive of taxes, for the two 



