The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-25
GHOST IN A
SNOW STORM
sTRANGE TALE RELATED BY A
sUsauEHANNA LAWYER.
A Hallstead Pastor will Resign
Potatoes Are Being Shipped Into
susquehanna County--Miss Whit
ney's Narrow Escape-The Man
Who Jumped the Freight Train
Personal and other Topics Of In
terest,

special to the scranton tribune
Susauehanna, Nov. 23.-"Formerly I
was hardened skeptic in matters OF
psychic phenomena" said a prominent
Susquehanna county lawyer the other
day, "but was converted by an exper-
fence that has made me an ardent pe-
lever in things supernatural. one
night last winter / was OH my way 10
Towanda on horseback. While passing
along a stretch of woods. l suddenly
saw, just ahead of me. the figure OF
man. He seemed to be surrounded by
fierce fall of snow, which was appar-
emily hurled against him by terrific
gale of wind. AS the man struggled
along feebly against the storm my
horse stopped suddenly, and pricked up
it's ears, and paved the ground impa-
tiently. All around except in the small
space surrounding the figure of the
man, was clear and calm. I rubbed
my eyes and made up my mind that
the man was some drunken fellow on
his way home from the village, and
that the storm was an optical illusion.
I called out to him and no answer
came back. shouted again, and again,
louder each time, but the struggling
figure gave no response.
AT last the man fell as If exhausted,
and the fierce gale whirled the snow
around him. Knowing that If the fallen
man was drunk he would freeze to
death if I left him lying there. jumped
from my horse and ran to help him
up, intending to take him to the nearest
place Of shelter. AS reached the pros
trate figure l saw the face was turned
upward. 1 started back and almost
fell fainting in the snow. The face was
revealed in the darkness as clearly as
if it had been broad daylight, and it
was that of my brother, who lived in
Dakota. When / recovered from the
shock and turned again to the body, it
was gone. There was not even an inn
preston in the snow where it had lain.
Bewildered and much unstrung, final
ly mounted my horse and rode on.
II gradually recovered my compos-
ure, and at last convinced myself that
i had been the victim of Il strange and
unaccountable hallucination, but a
strange foreboding Of evil haunted me.
A few days later I received letter
from the town in Dakota where my
brother was, which informed me that
he had been caught in a blizzard while
on his way to his cabin and was frozen
to death.
of his death. 1t had occurred at the
very hour and night that the appar-
ition of the man struggling against the
storm appeared to me on the Towanda
road and I recognized my brothers
face as he lay dead in the snow"
In susquehanna Courts.
Rev. S. S. Jones, pastor Of the Hall
stead Methodist church, has resigned
on account of i'll health.
The Third District convention, of the
Susquehanna County Sunday School
association, was held on Friday even
ing and Saturday in the Lanesboro
Methodist church.
Late advices from jamaica are to
the effect that the health of w. D. d.
Ames, late of Montrose, is much i'm
proved.
They are still jabbing the earth
for oil at Steam Hollow.
Hallstead is growing once more.
The Montrose and Tunkhannock road
is being widened.
Thousands of bushels of potatoes are
being shipped into susquehanna coun-
ty from Chenango county, New York.
In a Paragraph.
After an illness of three weeks, Mrs.
Patrick Griffin, an old and respected
resident, died at her home on Euclid
avenue on Friday night. Several adult
children survive her. The funeral will
take place from st. Johns Catholic
church, on Monday morning, when re-
QUEEN high mass will be celebrated, and
the remains will be inferred in Laurel
Hill cemetery.
The prominent Erie railroad yards
are congested with freight and coal
trains.