River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-04-12
PREsENTIMENTs.
A Couple OF Curious Incidents-A
Wife Saves Her Husband-A Sis

A Couple OF Curious Incidents-A
Wife Saves Her Husband-A Sis
ter Drowned.
Washington Correspondence of the Phila-
phia Times.
at may not have been fifty years
ago." said gentleman whose years did
seem to warrant the belief that he was
in active life much longer than fifty
wears ago, and it may have been
longer, when DIR. Linn was the coll
league of Col. Benton in the United
States senate. / was reminded by a
chance circumstance only few days ago
of an incident in which he and Mrs,
Linn played part. She, like her hus"
band, was q great favorlte for many
years in Washington society, and de-
servedly so-not more ON account OF her
personal attractions than herintellectual
qualities. On the occasion when the in
cident to which | have referred oc-
Cured Senator and Mrs. Linn were TO
be the guests at the formal dinner by
the president at the white house.
Early in the evening DR.. Linn, feeling
somewhat i'll, concluded to remain in his
lodgings Mr.. Webster calling at the
moment, he was requested to escort Mrs
Linn and convey to the president his
regrets at not being able to be one OF his
guests At the proper hour Mrs. Linn.
escorted by Mr.. Webster, was conveyed
i'm her carriage TO the white house:
The company had not been long seated
al the table when Mrs. Linn remarked
to Mr.. Webster, by whose side she was
seated, thai she feared she had not done
right in leaving the doctor aud that she
felt an inclination, If she could do so
without marring the occasion, TO return
to her hotel Mr.. Webster made some
bservation designed to dissuade her
from departing then, saying that If she
felt so disposed she could leave at an
earlier hour than the rest Of the, COM
pany. So strongly did the impulse to
20 grow on her that soon after she made
It known to Mr.. Webster, and
so urgent was she that he did
as she requested, and quietly made
known to the president her wishes. Mr..
Webster accompanied her To the carrl-
age, and at her request returned TO the
table. Her instruction TO the driver was
to proceed rapidly to her home, and
twice on the way she enjolned him to
drive faster. Arriving at the spot, with
out waiting for the groom to open the
carriage door, she in the quickest man
ner opened it herself and hurried to the
room where she had left her husband.
On entering she beheld her husband on
the bed and the clothes in fiamesl A
moment more would have been too late.
Dr. Linn was in a stupor, and in some
manner which was never perfectly ex-
planned, the bed clothes had taken fire.
He was i'll for number of days. His
life was saved apparently through his
wife's presentment, which think was
as remarkable as any on record. Mrs.
Linn related the facts to Mr. Webster,
in my presence, on his calling the next
morning"
liam reminded by this said another
Of the company" of what the Hon. N. =.
Talmadge, many years a senator from
New York, and for considerable time
the colleague Of Senator Wright, told
me several years after he had retired
from public life. He had moved to
Fond du Lac, Wis. where lie became a
spiritualist of the school OF Robert Dale
Owen. "One morning. said the ex-
senator, 'my daughter, with much ag-
itation, informed me that she bad dur
ing the night seen in her sleep a steam
er ON Lake Michigan 60 to pieces in
gale, when large number OF persons
we're drowned, and among them her Sis
ter, whose return home from NewsYork
was expected about that time. All the
particulars were wildly impressed on
her mind, and were narrated with the
greatest minuteness. 1t was the season
of gales, late in the fall. I was3and am
now a believer in presentiments. TAX
ing q hasty breakfast, my daughter
and myself started in carriage for She
boygan, the port near which the vision
located the disaster. It was drive of
several hours. On reaching the place
we found the entire community out on
the lake shore, drawn thither by
wreck. The propeller Phoener mad been
wrecked the night before in the fearful
gale. Between 30 and 100 lives were
lost. Among the lost was roy daughter.
The particulars were in nearly every re-
speei as they had been previously re-
lated The facts were substantially in
agreement with the vision, or present.
mentp Mr.. Talmage was all the more
firm in his oeiiefin supernaturalism after
that, and with Mr.. Owen pursued his in
vestigations into its mysteries, which the
latter related subsequently, in his book
entitled "FootfaIls on the Boundary OF
Another World"