The West Wisconsin Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church at its late session, made the following list of appointments for the Kilbourn City District. W. Hamilton was the Presiding Elder for the Kilbourn City District. Rev. E. Yocum, who ministered so acceptably to the brethren and citizens of Friendship has been assigned to Sparta, Monroe County. REMARKABLE ESCAPE: We copy the following from the Northwestern Christian Advocate of Sept. 9th: On the night of Aug. 19, during a thunderstorm, the Methodist Episcopal parsonage at Plainfield, Wis., was struck by lightning. The pastor of the church, Rev. T. Lawson, his family and several friends, making ten in all, were in the house, and though badly shocked and frightened, no one was seriously hurt. Bro. Lawson, describing the remarkable event, says: One current of the fluid passed under the chair on which the young man sat, knocking him off his chair into the entry, and striking everyone in the room unconscious for a time. Another strong current passed under the floor directly beneath where Mr. L and his oldest daughter sat, tearing everythign to pieces in its course, passed out through the sill, under the stove-shed floor, and down through the curbing into the well. Another passed through the buttery, bursting out the flour-chest and cupboard, tearing up the floor, and in its course struck the kerosene oil can, making a mark something like what a hot soldering iron would have made on tin, entered the can, passed through it and out in two different places, letting out the oil but not setting it on fire. Another current passed along the floor through the south bedroom, tearing up the floor, then jumped from the floor to the window, demolished the upper sash, and broke nearly every square in the window. Another current passed from the stove into the sitting room and set the carpet on fire in passing, the only place where fire caught from the fluid (lightning bolt). The house inside is almost a wreck.
Methodist Clergy Appointments in April 1874 Clergyman Location Assigned BELL J. W. Mauston BOOTH E. C. Big Springs BROWN S. O. Bloom Station CASE G. W. Portage City CLIFTON J. J. Poynette CONWAY W. E. Delton DUDLEY W. F. New Lisbon HAMILTON W. Kilbourn City District PE IRISH J. E. Baraboo JEFFERSON J. Westfield & Oxford LAWSON Thos. Friendship LEACH N. Reedsburg MODD J. Elroy Supply Ironton Supply Plainfield TENCH E. Kilbourn City WHITNEY J. H. Necedah
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