The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-16


William Osborne and Edward Norman. two
hardware clerks, eloped with the wife of
N. B. Heartwel Gin which connection may
be mentioned her child and household
Igoods) and Miss Dana At Port Wash
ingtou, L. l., In March, two sisters-in law,
living in the same house, Mrs. Edward
Schenck and Mrs. George Fleet eloped to-
gether with the men of their choice. At
Cleburne, Tex, in June, four young peo-
pie, all in their teens, eloped to the Indian
Nation, together with Miss Lulu
Meredith, who went in the capa-
city of Chaperone." At Topeka, Kansas,
Charles Chambers. aged eighteen, and Lu-
cy Prescott, aged thirteen, eloped and got
married, but were separated after honey
moon of two days. Louis Badgely and
Josephine Howard. aged respectively fiji
teen and fourteen, ran away last spring
from Mallory, Oswego county, and found
preacher, one Rev. Mr. Owen, who was
willing to marry them. The boy BRIDE
groom rendered as fee a punched trade
dollar. The preacher, who had ridden six
miles on a cold night. thought this not
enough and said So and further sum of
so cents was given him which had
been raised by subscription among the
sympathizlng spectators. Sadder was the
lot of Ben Wyman and Lizzie Karde, of
Temperancetown, Mich, aged twelve, who
after going in vain from justice to clergy
man had to return home at night unmar-
ried, to be received with open hands. Miss
Bourne, of Whitehall N Y, eloped with
her lover, making the condition that inn
mediately after the marriage ceremony she
should be allowed to go back home and
tell her mother Her idea was that the
maternal objection to the young man could
u hxyc Oh o
was his wife. But the plan miscarried.
The mother had so much the best of the
discussion that the bride was convinced,
instead of convincing. and when the bride
groom came for her the next day she
informed him that she desired never to set
eyes on him again. She even put on boys
clothes and escaped while he was watch
ing the house, so thorough was her change
of purpose. Mr.. William f. Watkins, a
Baltimore policeman, eloped with Miss
Mary Catherine Fowner, and when her
irate father undertook to create a dis
turbance arrested him for disorderly con
duct. The daughter of Governor w. T.
Hamilton. of Maryland, eloped with Mr..
John B. Stanhope, and was married to him
on the summit of a mountain $500 feet
high; subsequently she sued fora divorce.
In Delaware county, n Y, two weeks ago
the first time at sociable and fell in love
at first sight There was betrothal, and
that same night the girl went home, enter
ed the house at one of the windows and
unknown to her parents secured her bridal
costume in anticipation of her mar
riage to another man-aId walked to
distant town with her new lover, and they
were married before morning at his home.
Miss Grace Daniels, of Lockport, n. Y,
heir to valuable estate, first fixed her at
tentions on a sewing machine canvasser,
and when he was arrested for theft, fell in
love with Mr.. Henry H Somers, and eloped
with him, making her escape through a
cellar window Miss Venie Clokey. of |
Washington, Pa. and possessed of some |
means, eloped with John Miller, colored |
waiter, aged twenty. Her fondness for |
him had long been known, and she had |
been adjudged a lunatic. Her love eff |
flowers proved fatal to the possible happi
BILE happiness of an Atlanta woman. She
eloped from her husband and no trace was
obtained for two months although detec-
tives were sent in all directions. 1t hap
pened that the wife had been cultivating
water lily, and when she left she carried
it with her. A few days ago an officer, who
had been employed in the case, in passing
a house in Atlanta saw a water lily in the
window. When he entered the house he
was not greatly surprised to discover that
it's owner was the missing wife, who had
never been absent from Atlanta. While
her husband was searching elsewhere fer
ler she remained quiet under his very eyes.
Lieutenant Frank Turner, of the Twenty
fifth Regiment, ran away from Berwick
with Mrs. Robert Weddell, and her hus-
band, a canny Scotch lawyer, had him ar
rested for stealing the trunk and portman-
eau in which the lady carried off her
but the grand jury refused to
ind true bill. Mr.. Joseph Markowitz
came to New York from Russian Pc
and only year ago with no capital but
his powers of facination and philosoph-
cal wild. They are alleged to have en-
gagged in the elopement industry on a large
cale, the husband selecting eligible wo-
men and running away with them, while
70 soon as the guilty pair had settled down
20 housekeeping and the woman had in
rusted him with her savings, his wife
would happen along, raise tremendous
ow and carry off the ransomed sinner
With. of course, the savings. The clipping,
IT those about to elope, should GO by way
# Maysville H., as there is d conductor
IN the railroad there so obliging as to stop
he train long enough to allow the village
clergyman to perform the marriage cere-
nony when he has pair of runaway low
rs on board.
Mrs. Jones was reading in paper the