Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1895-10-17
people vote for statehood the Mormons

people vote for statehood the Mormoni
will control the principal offices, includ.
ing that Of Governor, and civiliza.
ton will be set back five Or ten years
Rev. Thos. G.. Lansdale of South Dakota
brought the greet ngs of that state and
gave report of the work there. The
council acted on the church university
question by adopting the following resol-
utIOns: Il. That committee on Christ
ian unity be appointed at the session and
that they be instructed 10 inform all the
national bodies that are in fellowship with
us that they are authorized to represent
this council in calling an international
congress whenever any considerable num-
ber of our sister churches shall have sgni-
fed their Creadiness to cooperate
in the call, and also to as
sure them thaHiwe hope for great
good from such congress, especially in
the increase of mutual love and the multi
plcatiOn of opportunities for mutual fell
lowship. 2. That we commend our
brethren who have sought to promote COM
ity by interdenominational organizations
in the several states and request our COM
mittee to encourage similar movements in
all parts of our land. 8. That we ought
to show that we are unsectarian, not by
undertaking our principles, but by culti-
vatIng and expressing the spirit OF brother
hood toward all the followers of Christ"
CINCINNATI special: Early Wednesday
morning an alarm of fire called the fire
department to the fve-story brick tene-
ment at 621 West Sixth street, in which
were sleeping forty tenants. The flames
were in the third, four. and fifth stories.
Women and children were screaming
piteously at the windows. All the police
patrol wagons were quickly On the scene
and The work of rescue began. Thomas
OFlaheriy, deaf man, more dead than
alive with suffocation, jumped from a
fourth story window into a net held by
the police without further injury. One
body was taken from the fourth story by
the firemen on their ladders, it proving to
be Mrs. Mary Holmes, aged so. Her
daughter, Miss E. J. Pendery, and all
actress known as May Edwards of New
York, were taken from the fifth floor in
an unconscious condition.
GRAND JUNCTION, Mich, special.
"The Saints of God" from all parts of the
state congregated at this place in great
numbers and packed the big Pavilion to
listen to the address by D. S. Wamar, edi-
tor of the Gospel Trumpet, on ''Prophecy
and Revelation" Mr.. Wamar diagramed
his sermon on a blackboard and pictured
out to his followers that 1896 would bring
in new epoch in the church and lead on
to the millennium. He traced in his own
way year by year epochs which he said
would mark the end of the world, and de-
clared that in 1941 time would be no more
and the world would be wiped out. The
followers of the church seemed to take his
sermon as gospel truth and declare the
prophecy will be fulfilled. There was a
day of fasting and prayer to restore the
sight of one of their preachers in Wash
ington state.
WASHINGTON special: Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage, the well known divine, is now
member of the presbytery of Washington
city, and has formally accepted call as
co-pastor of the First Presbyterian church
ALI this was done at a meeting of the
pgesbytery, which was held at Kensing-
ton, Md. There at the formal meeting OF
the presbytery the letter was presented OF
Rev. DR.. Talmage's dismissal from Brook
lyn to Washington, and after its consider
alton he was dec ared to be a member OF
the Washington presbytery. Rev. DR..
Talmage and his daughters have been
busy house hunting, as they expect to re-
turn to Washington permanently within
the next few weeks. They expect to con-
tinue their search and Rev. DR.. Talmage
said he hoped this question would soon
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