Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-12
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

Cousins, of Indianapolis, fell from the
chimney of the sewing manufactOry, q
distance of ninety feet, breaking bis
neck, legs and arms and MASKING his
body 10 jelly.
Fred b. Mead, of Lansing. Mich,
while changing saw belt, the other af-
| ternoon, was caught in the sleeve by a
nut and whirled around q center shaft
several times with great rapidity before
he could be rescued. He was seriously
| injured.
"A locomotive lately standing unat-
| tended on the Northwestern Railroad
track in Chicago suddenly developed a
disposition to move while its attendants
were taking breakfast Before an at
tempt could be made to secure 1t, 1t had
leaped into the river.
A fve-year-old son of Jacob Lighter,
of Dayton, Ohio, was killed the other
afternoon by falling from a wagon. The
lad was at the barn with his father, and
when he attempted to get on the vehicle
the horses started and the boy was
thrown backward and broke his neck
Michael Thompson, a young Toledo
Ohio carpenter, recently fell from the
tower on the Methodist Church at Tiffin,
la distance of seventy feet, to the
ground. Wonderful to say, his only in
juries were broken leg and bruised
back. A few weeks ago a man named
Jack fell from the same tower and was
killed. sbis
The other day fiye-year-old son OF
a widow lady named Azelt, living in Sag
NAV City, Mich, was burned to death.
Two of the children were playing with
matches, during the absence of their
mother, and set some hay in small barn
on fire. In attempting to put out the
fire the little boy was suffocated and con-
stunned, together with the barn. His
body was burned to crisp.
"A few days ago, at jackson, Mich,
two convicts named Charles Van Dorm
and Frank Parish, engaged in the cigar
shop, attempted to effect their escape by
slowing themselves In large box for
shipping cigars and were carried to the
depot. They were missed a short time
after they left the prison and the agent
drove to the depot and brought back the
box and the men, the latter much crest
fallen at their non-success.
Religious and Educational.
The Baptists are making progress in
Denmark and Sweden. In the latter
country they have nearly 10000 mem
bers and 10000 Sunday-school scholars,
In Denmark there are 1895 Baptists,
while in Norway there are only $50.
10 The ALJawds5 of Constantinople,
states that an Imperial decree has been
promulgated requiring all Moslems to
perform the obligatory prayers five
times day, and that the police have
received instructions to enforce the de-
cree. stE
During the past decade there has
been wonderful progress in church
building in California. 1t is estimated
that the increase of church sittings for
this period has been greater, according
to population, than in any other State in
the Union.
The following Sabbath-school Stats
tics were presented at the recent session
of the State Baptist Association of Indi-
ana; Schools in full operation, 512; num-
Der of teachers, $500; number of pupils,
GO, 900; number of Sunday-school papers
distributed during the year, 10000; num-
Der of books in libraries, $4,000; total
amount expended, $4,000
An ex-Methodist minister named
Norman is said to have arrived in this
COuubIy dS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES lulSSlOudIy.
He processes to think that If Moham-
mechanism were only understood in Chris
tian countries it would make converts
rapidly. Mr.. Norman avows his inten-
tion of visiting the West and operating
somewhere in the Chicago region, believ-
ing that they are more progressive in
that section of the country than nearer
the Atlantic ~ l
n,xA Of 40, {l.1 oh a.
lin had sung without distinctly pronOunc-
| to the choir as follows 80 Lord, we
have sung an anthem to Thy praise.
Thou knowest the words, but we do not
We do pray Thee that those who led us
may open their mouths that we may know
what they say, that we may join in Thy
praise. May they not sing to be heard
of men. May they not mock Thee and
offend Thy people, or the house of God
| by making a display of themselves"
"a Universalist Church in Philadel
phia has adopted a novel method of dis
seminating knowledge Of Universalism.
Thirty-two selections, averaging about
fifty lines each, have been made from
g Thayer's Theology of Universalism,
and these will be inserted in "daily
paper which has circulation of $4,000
copies" and paid for as advertisements.
1t Is estimated that these selections thus
used will be equivalent to the distribu-
ton of "over 100000 of tracts" In
addition to this the pastor will circulate
articles of his own by this method. The
cost of the publication of the selections
is only $3.50. Several Universalist
churches announce their intention of
trying the plan. a4
The union of the various Presby-
terian bodies in Canada will make
church with 606 ministers, 1908 congre.
cations and So, 226 commnnicants. Each
of these churches has q fund for the bene-
fit of ministers widows and orphans.
The first on the schedule has for this
purpose capital of $77,089, and an an
nual revenue OF $16,234. The second
has a capital Of $73, l53, and revenue of
$9,018. The third has $4,000 invested,
and the fourth has just commenced to
form a fund. In all, the aggregate cap
ital for this purpose is $162,921 Ac-
cording to the census of 1871 the popu-
lation connected with these churchesis
100000, or nearly one-sixth of the popu-
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