Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-04
UNCOMFORTABLE CUPID.
Romantic Marriage or a Couple in
Rock Island From mp the Road.
Tram Incidents.

Romantic Marriage OF Couple In
Rock Island From up the Road.
Tram Incidents.
On Capt. Tom Fuller's train on the c..
NJ. d st. p. which arrived at 11:15 yes.
terday morning, was a handsome young
man and a very pretty but modest ap,
pearing young lady. and the manners OF
the twain denoted at once that little
god. whose irresistible presence has been
the cause of much mischief as well as
joy, had their fate in his hands. 1t was
subsequently learned that the young man
had boarded the train at Savanna with a
ticket for Rock Island, and that at
Thompson three ladies had become pas
sengers, one of the three being the
pretty young woman who is the heroine
of this narrative. The aforementioned
young man was TO all appearances asleep
when the three ladies entered and re
NAMED so until the brakeman cried,
Fulton" The three ladies then got up
to leave the train. but the pretty one
only went to the door and then start
ed back. "Why-are you not going to get
off hereY' spoke one of the others with
some surprise. ooh, no." was the re-
ply; am going down to the crossing, and
will get off there" SO sayi ng, she bid
her friends goodbye, and as the train
resumed its way, the pretty girl tripped
her way up to the seat where the young
man was asleep" and sat down in front
of him. 1t was not long, however. be-
fore some infuence-supernatnra or
otherwise-aroused him, and by degrees
a conversation between the young man
and the young woman sprang up. When
Conductor Fuller came around he
was surprised to receive from the young
mana ticket on behalf of the young lady,
who had given him ticket to Fulton
only. ticket from Savanna to Rock Is
land.
A number of travelling men aud the
brskemen who had been observing pro
ceedings for some time and whose sus-
picions had been aroused by the myster,
ious sleep OF the young man. and the
failure of the girl to recognize him until
she had got rid of her friends, made up
their minds that there was romance
there. and they determined to have some
fun out of it. Finally bogus tele.
gram was prepared, and after the train
pulled out Of q certain station, it was
presented by the brakeman to the
young man. 1t read:
Arrest runaway couple from Thomp-
son when train arrives at Rock Island
and hold until you hear from me-
The young man read the notice with
an expression of surprise and then in
quired.
us this genuine?"
well l propose to get married any
way" he exclaimed excitedlv as he re-
ceived an affirmative answer, land they
can't stop me in no such way as this.
They can't scare me ont. l am going
to get married as soon as l reach Rock
Island"
The scheme of the travelling men and
the brskemen had worked admirably. as
the prospective groom had unbusomed
himself without the least hesitancy and
the commercial tourists and trainmen set.
tied down to enjoy the fr3its of their
strstegy-snd they enjoyed it all the way
to Rock Island
In the afternoon marriage license was
issued at the county clerk office TO Mar.
TN Sheppard, Jr.. of Savanna, and Evs
A. Edgerly. OF Thompson. Later in the
day there was wedding at the rectory
of Trinity parish and Mr.. and Mrs. Shep,
hard spent the first night of tn cir honey.
moon at the Harper, and lie # for Thomp
son this morning.