Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-24
MARKED BY THE DEATH ANGEL
Mon Who Wear the Sign OF APP
preaching Dissolution.
NEBRASKA CITY psYcARoMETsR
a Little Girls Peculiar Powers
Footsteps OF a S~pirit-Dcath OF
Faith Cure Doctor-Drcam
Of n Dog.
Things We Can't Explain.
here are moro things in heaven and earth,

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Miss Annie Stidham, Of Baltimore, scarcely
sixteen, has developed into a wonderful
spiritualist medium. She lives with her par
cnts at No. 1923 North Carey street. Three
years ago she began to so into frances, which
have continued at intervals ever since, The
most remarkable thing about the frances is
that in each ono she assumes the features OF
her grandmother, who died ten years ago.
just as soon as she enters q trance her rosy
checks are replaced by a pinched and bag
gard appearance and her voice Changes to
that of an old woman. While in this condi.
tion she convcrscs freely with those about
her. Her strength is something wonderful.
In the presence of "A reporter she successfully
resisted the united efforts of three strong
men TO pull her out of u chair, Physicians
and psychologists are deeply Interested in
her case. q,
A well known citizen of Nebraska City re.
| Gently said to a reporter for the Press 1--WE
| got IL girl fourteen years old now, whom wo
| have never understood, She has powers, IL
you like to call them so. different in every
way from those of others. Let me illustrate
"A friend of nine was at the house ono
| day and had with him just to show me | sup.
| pose, II bowio-knifc,o of u kind YOU seldom see,
| but often read about. Ella picked 1t up be-
fore its story had been told to anyone and
| Immediately became almost frantic with
| horror. She said, as nearly as | can give it.
| can see blood, n great deal of Il, 1t is on
| the ground and there are men lighting and
killing one another. AS it came out tho
owner had brought the knife from Texas
| where it had been used AZ Ell Paso in the
| blOodiost kind Of a row, letting the life out
| of at least two men.
Another time l put in her hand an old
fashioned brooch that my mother used to
to wear. She did not know that il had been
mothers, but although she never saw her
aud there is no picture in existence, the girl
almost at once described her grandmother
just AS | remember her, speaking of peCul-
iaritics of appearance that | had myself for
gotten and that | am suro had never been
mentioned in the house. Queer, isn't it! We
never talk about her ways outside, and |
wouldn't have dared to mention it if it hadn't
been for this article filed with the accounts
of similar cases. | suppose the glrl is but u
living psy~chrOmeter.N
1t is a most singular fact, says a writer in
the Argosy, that under certain combined
condition of fatigue, discomfort and malaria
whole bodies of en-such as companies Of
of soldiers-have been seized by the same
terrific dream, and have awakened stimuli
taneOusly shrioking with terror. Such an
instance is related by Laurent, whcn, after u
forced march, 500 French soldiers were
packed in a ruined Calahrial monastery
which could i'll half that num-
Der. AT midnight frightful cries issued from
every corner of the building as frightened
men rushed from it, each declaring that it
was the abode of the evil onc-that they had
seen him III the form of a big black dog, who
threw himself upon their breasts for an in
slant and then disappeared. The men were
persuaded 10 return TO the same shelter on
next night, their officers promising TO keep
watch beside them. Shortly after midnight
the same scene was re-enactcd-the same
cries, the same flight, as the soldiers rushed
forth in Il body to escape the sutfocating en-
brace of the black dog. The wakeful officers
had seen nothing.
A small number of men carry the unmis-
taxable mark Of the near approach Of death
awaiting them, says General De Gropriand
in his army "reminiscences" They are
not themselves conscious of it, and the num-
Der of those who read these mysterious
signs is very limited. Sometimes in camp L
have tried to describe the mark to officers
around me. | do not remember ever hav.
ing convinced anyone of the truth of my
theory.
One rainy day ] was convcrsing in my
tent with Captain Wilson, assistant ~adiutant
general of my brigade. We were then
marching on Frederick burg. Lieutenant
Colonel Giluly, commanding the Fifth Mich
igan, entered. He came simply on some de-
tail of service, which was arranged in five
minutes. When he had gone out-"Now,"
said to my incredulous captain, 'tere's "a
chance TO make a trial of my UIcOry-COlonel
Giluly is marked"
The captain evidently thought nothing of
it. But in the first battle Colonel Giluly was
killed near Fredericksburg, while brayely
leading his regiment in a charge.
OF all those on whom | nave recognized
the MARYLAND there are ~many-onc only
may have escaped death.
If you ask me in what consists this mark L
would find it difficult to reply. This fatal
seal is imprinted rather on the general man
ncr than on the features. 1t appears some
times in the looks, at the bottom Of which
one divines the trembling OF the soul soon
about to depart; sometimes in "a smile, in
which appear the fleeing shadows of cloud
which does not belong to the earth: some
times in certain movements, as if worn out;
III CERTAIN Ianguld acts, in which is betrayed
the symptoms OF a task which reaches its
end. Sometimes, on the contrary, the finger
Of death is shown by Il feverish energy with
out reason, forced laughter, ICrky move
mcnts.
The old courthouse at Washington, Tenn.
is to be torn down on account Of the removal
of the county seat. For thirty years the old
temple of justice has had the reputation of
being haunted, and it is almost impossible
to get men to work upon it. The testi-
mOny Of ex-oflicers whose nerve is unques-
toned agrees that during all these
years in a vacant room upstairs foot.
steps have been heard at night
The only OCCupant Of the room has been a
skeleton called locally Jimmy Loncsome,n
left there bya young doctor, and local ira
dition is divided as to whether the ghost is
Jimmy Lonesome or that of a man muir
dered near by. Every man in the little
hamlet and the countryside around devoutly
believes that the court house is haunted, and
that the ghost can only he laid by demolition
of the old pioneer landmark.
DIR. j. w. Cowdrcy, a christian scientist of
Hartford, was stricken with apology at
west Haven, on Thursday evening ana died
on Sunday evening, He was in the act Of
delivering a parlOr lecture on the faith euro
to a number Of persons gathered at the resi-
dcnce Of Nath an Hale. Mr.. Hale had in
vited quite a number of West Haven people
to meet DIR. COwdrcy at his home and listen
to a lecture on "Christian Scicnce.n Quite q
number Of persons responded to the invita-
tons and there were both believers and
sKeptics in the audience which greeted DR..
Cowdrey. He began his lecture. and in read
ing from his manuscript had just made the
statement, "Christian science can defy
death, > when he was suddenly seized with
what his auditors believed TO be a f~ainting
spell. IL was proposed that he should lie
down on the sofa, but he retired TO a room
directly above, where he fell unconscious TO
the 1oor, No physician was summoned until
II o'clock the next day, when, all faith rene
dies failing. DIR, Shepard was called in, but
was unable TO do anything for the patient.
Dr.COWdrey was eighty four years old. and
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