Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-08-21
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: PRth0NTIONS OF DEATH :
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Fremonitons of death are often
secured at said a well-known WASH.
'hston newspaper man. ''but tbera a-e
occasionally authentic instances ar,s,
ing which raise doubts as TO whetbe,
'nere may not be. after all. some sort
OF indetinable spiritual phenomena in
the incidents.
IT may be recalled that n well.
hnoWn chief OF division in one of the
departments. in apparent perfect
neaith on the last day he appeared at
IN .ne once died recently of apoplexy on
'hat night. have since learned that
oA 'he evening in question. shortly be.
iore he retired, n large dog in his
household set up such prolonged and
uismal bowling in his yard that he
Went out with a revolver. under tine
supposltion that there might he In.
truders prowling about, although tho
uog howled and did not bark. The dog
refused to stop bowling upon the an.
pearance of his master. and followed
MIN IN the louse, whining and show.
ing evidences of distress. looking IN
INTO the officials face in such a pecn.
liar manner that the members of the
family at the time thought II exceed.
ing strange. The dog continued m
loilow his master about the house. net.
iug strangely in the manner have de-
ScrlDed. On the following morning the
oincial was found dead in his room.
The above incident is a curious fact
Us is also the following, and while not
OF startling ghostly interest is also
local 10 Washington, the parties being
members of my own family.
Some time ago my wife's mother
started on journey to California. Sey-
eral days after her departure an elder.
~ colored woman, who had heen n
slave In her family, having been raised
with my wife's mother, called at the
mouse. AS in similar instances in the
South there had been a warm attach.
ment existing between former mistress
ana slave, which had continued through
lie. She declared she had been warn
ed that my wifes mother had died ut
an early hour on that morning on the
train. When asked whether she had
received a telegram to that effect she
replied that she had not. but that at
the hour in question she had been
awakened by the ringing of the front
door bell In responding to the call
she had found no one on the steps in
each instance, the bell having been
pulled three successive times. Her
house, by the way, was on down
town street, and was recently razed
to make room for business structure.
AT about 10 o'clock on the morning
of the day when the former slave had
communicated the intelligence of my
wife's mothers death we received a
telegram from the officials of the rail-
road, dated from far Western State,
announcing her sudden death at about
Inc hour when the colored companion
of her early childhood had heard the
pulls at the bell. Had the bell been
rung during the ordinary hours of the
day we would have attached no impor-
tance to the former slaves positive as
sertion of spiritual visitation from
the deceased lady, but as it was at
about 3 o'clock in the morning the IN
cident has ever been one of more than
usual interest in our family. If the
pulls at the bell were not supernatural,
they were assuredly strange coincl-
uence. ."-Washington Star.