Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-02
SAVED BY HIS WIFE.
Sn Incident Of Life I'm Warrington
which Dates Back 10 Webster's Time
"A AIrRnve PrAaenIimAnI

An Incident Of Life I'm Warrington
which Dates Back 20 websier's Time
A Strange Preaeniiment-
A letter from Washington in the
Philadelphia Times, says: "Let there
be truce to the present and the recent
past" exclaimed one OF q small com
pany lately assembled in one of the old
mansions Of Washington. "Who of US
can go back fifty years." The sugges.
ton was agreed to, more, however, by
the turn which the question gave to the
conversation than by formal vote.
at may not have been fifty years
ago" said gentleman whose years did
not seem to warrant the belief that he
was in active life much longer than fifty
years ago, land 10 may have been
longer, when DR.. Linn was the coll
league of Col. Benton in the United
states Senate. / was reminded by q
chance circumstance only a few days
ago Of an incident in which he and
Mrs. Linn played part. She, like her
husband, was great favOrite for many
years in Washington society, and de-
servedly s0-nO more on account of her
personal attractions than herintellectual
qualities. On the occasion when the
incident to which i have referred oc-
CURED, Senator and Mrs. Linn We're to
be the guests at 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 in her
carriage to the White House. The
company had not been long seated at
the table when Mrs. Linn remarked to
Mr.. Webster, by whose side she was
seated, that she feared she had not done
right ina leaving the Doctor, and that
she felt an inclination, if she could do
so without marring the occasion, to re-
turn to her hotel. Mr.. Webster made
some observation 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
/ company.
40 strongly did the impulse to go
grow OH her that soon after she made it
known to Mr. Webster, so urgent was
she that he did a she requested and
quietly made known to the president
her wishes. Mr.. Webster accompanied
her To the carriage and at her request
returned to the table. Her instruction
to the driver was 70 proceed rapidly to
her home. and twice on the way she Ell
Joined him 20 drive faster. Arriving at
the spot, without waiting for the groom
10 omen the carriage door she III the
quickest manner opened il herself and
sprang To the room where she had left
her husband. As she entered she be-
held her husband on the bed and the
clothing IN flames. y moment more
would have been too late. DIR. Linn
was in StupOr, and in some man.
ner, which was never perfectly eX-
plaiued, the bed-ClOtheS had taken fire,
He was i'll for a number of days. His
life was saved apparently through his
wifr'S preSentimeut, which | think was
as remarkable a any on record. Mrs.
Linn related the facts 10 Mr.. Webster,
/ i'm rny presence, on his calling the next
! morning. His observations after Mrs.
Linn had finished the narration Of her
first impulse to leave the President 5
: table, her struggle to repress it, the
growth of the presentiment till 1t over
maste red her, the ride hOmeward, her
anxiety lOl greater itoSNCf AiVA
into the room, her husbands danger
ana resrue-tO which Mr.. Webster lis
tened with absorbing attentiOn-were
characteristic of the man-Solemn and
impressive beyond my ability to re-
peat
ofthe company, "Of what the Hon. y.
l.. Talmadge, many years Senator
s,,l ff,r .An-itlAra hln
time the colleague of Senator Wright,
tod me several years after he retired
from public life. lie had moved to
Fond de Lac, Wis, where he became a
spiritualist, of the school of Robert
! dale Owen. 'One morning. said the
ex-senator, my daughter, with much
agitation, informed me that she had
during the night seen in her sleep a
steamer on Lake Michigan go to pieces
in a gale, when large number of per-
sons were drowned, and among them
hersister, whose return home from New
York was expected about that time.
All the particulars were wildly ln-
pressed on her mind, and were narrated
with the greatest minuteAesS. 1t was
the season Of gales, late in the fall. |
was and am now believer in PRESENT.
ments. Taking hasty breakfast, my
daughter and myself started IN a
carriage for Sheboygan, the point 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 a wreck. The pro-
peller PhOner had been wrecked the
night before in fearful gale. Between
fifty and hundred lives We're lost.
Among the lost was my daughter. The
particulars were in nearly every respect
IS they had been previously related.
The facts were substantially in agree.
ment with the vision Of presentment.
Mr.. Talmadge was all the more tirm in
his belief in experimentation after that,
and with Mr.. owen pursued his inves-
LEGATIONS into its mysteries, which the
latter related subsequently in his book,
entitled Footprints on the Boundaries
of Another World