Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1883 — HOW DID HE KNOW [ARTICLE]

HOW DID HE KNOW

A Strange I® t'Y From MaM lALL Jewei.l/s aiaitH-t. « On Fiiday morning befoie his d t'hMr. J<-weli a'-.oke irnoi a »u. weep a u inquired wiiat was the mati< r at lb* re» - dence «»f the H m-;W Hmm K lA.d«e (hifi mghter’f father in-law, the famous Ne v Yotk Merchant.) Air. Jewell’s f»lui y h.d just received a telegram announcing i tie sudden .nd unlooked for death ot Air. bodge, but it w<u> not deemed best to let h'm know iii >t any sue . thi ig had hipjen -o and tie wa- iheifure lold that all wai we.l iu Mr Douge- family. • e said no, that it could rot i os>ioly be; ti.a' som-tU.ng teri us h d happened: t:» f.mtly were in great trouble if n o actually iu affluti-.; he knew it, in a way which, it not explicable. wa> tbt-les* as clear ana Jell in as it lie S»w it. ifsisiing upon ’his, and e ising to ace»pi nis faultily’a denials, he at length induced them l.» triegr pn to New York ,<> t-ee wiiat Was the it.uller. But Alia. JeAt-Ii so worded the te egrain as «o inbtruct thoie who nceive.i it to answer t.iat everything wa - ail right. When that ausW'r came lbsy told it to Mr Jewell, bo re Use.i io believe it, and at lust ask e<: them to let him t-ee the message it s.-ls. This request lielug granted, and having the c. ular proof b. tore.his e. es in the shape of au unmistakable western Uuiou fale.raph niess«ge, he dubmusfc remarked: “Well, it dm-s seem to.be so; but it is very st>ange; I ki ow there .8 something the matter—that . tneudug serious happened iu dr. Dodge’s house ill New Yolk ” And that impression lie reiaiue until, soon afterward be, ,00, ended ills eailhly lie he - survived Mr Dodge only about thirtv-eighi hours. His f-eling that “s< methln serio <s had happened’ was apparai.tly as clear and strouic ; I f would have been l ad he personally v. ,iuesse<i the death of his relative.—Hartford [Conn.] Times.