The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-14
IN rHE FOREIGN MISSION FIELD
Interestind Reports From Armenia, I0di
AID the Ends Of the Earth.

0Ostou, M2SS-, Lee. l5--11e Alues1-
can board of foreign missions made pub
lie today its eighty-seyenth annual re-
port.
The receipts from the New England
states amounted to a total Of ssSs. .4s<.12.
The receipts from other states and ter
ritories were as follows:
New York s54.oS6.e3: New Jersey ST.
1905; Pennsylvania ss.s25.22; Maryland
s697.59; Delaware SO; Virginia s5os5:
West Virginia s27s.14; District OF Colum-
.bia s3.22S-s5: North Carolina s1s6.32;
South Carolina so; Georgia $14s.H:
Florida s4s279: Alabama s44.ss: Missis-
sippi $14.70; Louisiana $55.01: Tennessee
s24s.7S: Arkansas s12-5o; Texas $3.50: In
diana si,s5l.64; Kentucky s56.33: Mis-
souri, s3,1Ss.5o; Ohio 1S,ssS.09; Illinois
s3s.s15.41; Michigan S1S,7S5.4S: Wiscon-
sin s9,42s.sS: Iowa s12,13S73: Minnesota
ss.45s.13; Kansas s2.1s4.s4; Nebraska 81
5S0.31; California s10,3sS.76: Washington
sS95.so; North Dakota s42s.2s; South Da-
kota s1.sS7.5s; Montana s7s.s2; Idaho
ss7.12: Wyoming s122.s1: Utah. sI410:
Arizona s204s4; New Mexico seo.55: Ok
lahoma $3.50.
The receipts from Canada were $4.-
5s5.S5. TIE total receipts from all
sources were s64e.7sL07.
THE BLOOD OF MARTYRS.
The report deals at length with Turk
ish massacres and says that while many
Christians were killed or fed, the num-
be, Of professed Christians exceeds that
previous to the outTages The report
continues:
The wounds left by massacres and
robbery have been slowly healing.
though in several places the suffering
mas been quite as great as in the previ-
Gus year. The generou. gifts that have
come well nigh from every European
state for the sufferers by massacre and
for rhe care OF orphans are gratefully
acknowledged and have revealed the
essential unity Of the civilized world in
a most impressive way.
"The demand for indemnity for losses
incurred at Harpool and Marasch,
amounting In all to 100000 was prees-
ed as yet without result. The changed
conditions at Constantinople and the
arrival Of DR.. Angel, the new United
States minister TO the porte, may rea-
sonably be expected 10 secure early and
sa risfactory action In regard to this
claim and all other material questions
at issue between our government and
Turkey. The distribution OF funds from
all countries for the relief OF suffering
and the care OF orphans, involving this
year the handling OF $s51.29s.
"The massacres in which at least
), 900 Arrnenians were slaughtered in
Constantinople were the result. ostensi-
bly,, Of an attack on the Ottoman bank
of the city by band OF revolutionists.
but, in reality, of the same fanaticism
and race hatred which deluged the
whole empire with blood the previous
year When the sovereigns spoke the
word on the third day bloodshed ceased
throughout the whole country.
Criminals have received little or no pun
ishment but the Armelians were sys-
tematicslly imprisoned, employment de-
nied them and threats held over them
until more than 80. 900 OF their number
within few days fed from the city.
FAMINE AND PLAGUE.
'Tn India during the famine food
prices rose to enormous prices. AS a
large number of the poor India-nearly
one-third of all her people-live con-
stantly upon the verge OF starvation
when prices are normal, II is easy to
imagine the result OF such times as
these Grain riots occurred in many
places, starvation stared millions in the
face and almost at once became an aw-
ful reality.
The plague. or bubonic fever, first
came to public notice in Bombay. A
panic seized the 500. 900 inhabitants.
Trains and steamers from the city be-
came crowded with people fleeing 10 the
country. The mortality rose from 800
4 week to 1000.
"The Christians in the city have been
preserved. Among them
only a few cases have occurred. No
death from plague has taken place in
Bombay church. DR.. Won Allen is build
Ing one OF the finest hospital, in south
srn India.
Native women have less and less
fear OF attending an European dispen-
sary and are almost as well represented
as men.
CHINESE MISSIONS.
This has been by far the most fruit
'ul year In the history OF the South