Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-04-13
PRESENTIMENTS.
A Couple of Curious Incidents-A
Wife Saves Her Husband-A Sis.
fer Drowned.

WIFE v Her HHSband-A Sis
ter Drowned.
Washington Correspondence of the Phila-
phia Times.
cit may not have been fifty years
ago." said a gentleman whose years did
seem to warrant the belief that he was
in active life much longer than fifty
years ago, land it may have been
longer, when DR.. Linn was the col
league of Col. Benton in the United
States senate. / was reminded by a
chance circumstance only a few days ago
of an incident in which he and Mrs.
Linn played a part. She, like her hus-
band, was a great favorite for many
years in Washington society, and de-
servedly so-not more on account of her
personal attractions than herintell!!ectual
qualities. On the occasion when the in
cured Senator and Mrs. Linn were 10
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
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 in leaving the doctor and that she
felt an inclination. if she could do so
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to her hotel. Mr.. Webster made some
obse rvation 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
panv. So strongly did the impulse to
go grow on her that soon after she made
it known to Mr.. Webster, and
SO urgent was she that he did
us she requested, and quietly made
known to the president her wishes. Mr..
Webster accompanied her to the CARR
age, and at her request returned to the
table. Her instruction. thedriver was
to proceed rapidly to her home, and
twice iii the way she enjolned him to
drive faster. Arriving at the spot, with
out waiting for the groom to open the
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 flames! A
moment more would have been too late
DR.. Linn was in a stupor, and in some
II which was never perfectly eX-
planned, the bed-clothes had taken fire.
| He wa i'll for a number of days. His
life was saved apparently through his
wife's presentment, which l 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"
lam reminded by this" said another
of the company" Of what the Hon. n. ?.
Talmadge, many years a senator from
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 he became a
| spiritualist of the school of Robert Dale
Owen. Zone morning." said the ex-
! senator, my daughter, with much az
i%tation, informed me that she had dur
| ing the night seer in her sleep a steam
er on Lake Michigan go to pieces in It
| gale, when a large number of persons
were drowned, and among them her sis
ter, whose return home from NewsIork
was expected about that time. All the
particulars were wildly impressed on
her mind, and were narrated with the
greatest minuteness. It was the season
Of gales. late in the fall. 1 wasH land am
now a believer in prescntiments. TAX
ing a hasty breakfast, my daughter
and myself started in a carriage for She
boygan, the port near which the vision
located the disaster. It was a drive of
several hours. On reaching. the place
we found the entire community out on
the lake shore, drawn thither by a
wreck. The propeller Phoener mad been
wrecked the night before in the fearful
gale. Between so and 100 lives were
lost. Among the lost was my daughter.
The particulars were in nearly every re-
spect as they had been previously re-
lated. The facts were substantially in
agreement with the vision, or "presenti-
ment." Mr.. Talmage was all the more
firm in his beliefin supernaturalism after
that, and with Mr.. Owen pursued his in
vestigations into it's mysteries, which the
latter related subsequently in his book
entitled "Footfalls on the Boundary OF
Another World"
TheNebraska legislature has just passed
a..bill providing that one of the two
assistant physicians Of the state asylum
for the insane shall be n woman. They
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