Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS. [ARTICLE]

FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS.

Receipts of American Board Reached a Total of $642,781. The annual report of the American Board of Foreign Missions shown total receipts from all sources of $642,781, of which New England contributed $386,484; Illinois, $38,915; Wisconsin, $9,249; Michigan, $15,735; lowa, $13,136, and Indiana, $1,351. The report deals at length with Turkish massacres and says that while many Christians were killed or fled, the number of professing Christians exceeds that previous to the outrages. The wounds left by massacres have been slowly healing, though in several places the suffering has been quite as great as in the previous year. The demand for indemnity for losses incurred at Harpoot and Marash, amounting in all to SIOO,OOO, have been pressed, as yet without result. The changed conditions at Constantinople and the arrival of Dr. Angell, the new United States minister, may reasonably be expected to secure early and satisfactory action in regard to this claim and all other material questions at issue between the United States Government and Turkey. Mrs. J. A. Wilkins, 23 years old, committed suicide in the Oriental Hotel at New York City. She was despondent because of the inability of her husband to secure work. The latter attempted to commit suicide when he learned of his wife’s death, but was unsuccessful. The coroner’s jury, which has been inquiring into the Garrisons (N. Y.) train wreck on the New York Central, in which, nineteen persons lost their lives, has rendered a verdict to the effect that the cause of the accident is unknown.