Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-07-02
81 up eY aHosrlY ElNoens.


1ypesettct'a story Of News Gettins
That Neat the Telegraph.
I'm the summer Of $751;" said n com
| positor, u was running q paper 10 little
/ hackwoods town In Pennsylvania. The
/ paper was not 30 metropolitan In It's make.
/ up but that ! was able to do alt the work
/ myself with the exception u the printing
Publication days called in tho services Of
a half witied fellow, who. under my in.
struotion, bad developed into an cxpert
roller was the only man within radius
Of twenty miles who knew how 10 set type.
and u had fallen sick the paper would
not have come out until WINS well again
| Naturally am not q supcntitiuus man.
but an incident occurred while had charge
Of that paper which cannot explain, and
until Il Is explained shall believe that
anything i possible IN the way Of ghost.
Hpu0ks, wrsiths, etc.
lt was the morning of June 20. fhad
locked up my forms che night before 30
that | could begin printing carly In the
morning. | was pulling tho oil lever
promptly NJ :, and nc the local list was IN
the p1stolllcc Soon after the delivery had
begun one Of the merchants u the hamlet
a very intimate fricnd-came into the
Office.
How did you como 10 hearuf the death
Of your brother 10 solnH said he. tTbers
was no telegraph station withln fifteen
niilcsl
what do you mcanr said I.
MEAN said be- You ought 90 know
what Is IN your own paper Have YOU Tor.
gotten that you heard this morning that
your brother b. Grnif Have you forgotten
tina, you set up notice Of Il an hour or
two aguF
"'Arc you crnzvr sad T. Tswcar that
] do not know what yU1 arc drlyueht'
AT thIs iun-turu he opcuri thu damn
sheet that I bad 90 tcoontly printed aud
folded, anl pointed me to the following
Item ~ the bottom Of the tblri column of
the local plgt
"'John Joncf. brother " William Jones.
was Killed 90 Peoria, llis.. az o'clock this
morning
"My breath was fairly taken away from
me. Tho merchant WIS right There was
tho notice " nay brothers death 10 my
own paper, aud bal not 1T IL up nor
heail ut H.
"'You ar right saii I. hut thisa the
nrt that have known of IT, lfthcrocycf
Wa mystery this islt'
II went over 60 tlg form There was
WV NN'Na AlWf NNNNNa . wv NlNlUf NJ I SAW
The typr ! was more amazed than ever. ID
was the type settling VI my bruthur, who.
Ike me. had heUn hrd 10 tho printers
trade I could tell his work from tlat ~
a thousand. lie was mar,rlously even
tpacor. ind be- carried hiH taste 30 far that
Do always put less splro after q comma
"iut how we're thH lines uut Into tho
locked iufm' No Item haI lrcn taken out
l examined the forg closely. Ycs. thenp
WIS some moro II my brothers work. TO
gain the space. lends had been taken from
here and there Just ne BE- usci 10 take
them. lie was graat Hticklcr Tor ruol
looks IN pagc, anil was worry fasiiilous a.
10 where 80 pulled bis loals Il struck mo
right away that the notice of the death
would not have been 90 short, would have
gone Into details morc. but Tor tho fact
That my brother did not wish to rtmnyu
any of my matter NOT any lead which
could not bo spared A. vel ~ not.
Though utterly skcpiloil about super.
natural vlsiihtlons, frlm that moment /
believed that my brothers ditcmhadlod
soul bad made ~ way hundreds u miles.
bad entered my urlce in tho early dawn.
bad set up the notice " bis death aud put
II In the 'form'
late that afternoon dispatch came &C.
the effect that william Jones was klllo,l al
Peoria, lks,, ~ . O'Clock that mornln., -
Cleveland woTli