Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-01
None but the Brave
Deserve the Fair, and He Gen.
orally Gets Her.
CUPID PROVIDES A PRETTY ITEM.

Love Laughs at Locksmiths When a Rope
Ladder or IA Fevs Bed Sheet, Are Handy
How Washington Maiden Joined
ner hest Young Man via the Second
story window, and in Spite of Her
| WatchfuI Aunt.
| WASHINGTON CITY, March 30.-Washing-
ton has another social sensation William
1uyton, prosperous young business man,
ieii IN love with Miss Annie James Darling,
an heiress, and the pretty niece of Charles
spencer OF 1902 y street. She recprocated,
permitted him to slip an engagement ring on
her finger, and thsn blushingly told her aunt
what she had doIe. Mrs. Spencer was very
angry threw the ring into the fire and forbade
| the young lovers 70 meet again But they
did meet, and until they got caught Then
pretty Miss Annie was locked in her bed
room. She bribed servant girl to take
note to MIR. Guyton's store, begging her
lover TO come and release her This was
last Wednesday. That night Mr.. Guyton
crept stealthily INTO the yard and waited
until he saw an upper window raised. Iu an
instant a pair of sheets, tightly knotted to-
gether, were lowered, and then the plucky
little miss swung herself down into his out
stretched arms. A hug, kiss and hurried
visit to the house ot friendly parson, and
they were linked together for life All day
Thursday the Washington police sought in
VAIN for the missing girl Yesterday morn
ing she went back TO her uncle's house for her
clothing, and on telling her aunt that she
was married she was again locked in her
room But 1t happened that her husband
was waiting on the doorstep outside and
when he heard his bride scream he forced
his way into the house and rescued her.
They have secured flat on Twelfth street
and will soon be comfortably settled in their
own home
MIR. Guyton formerly lived in Chicago.
He is good looking young man, but has
only one thumb For the missing one he got
s5,9OO, besides column after column of praise
In the newspapers 1t WAS III 1882 that Mr.
Guyton lost his thumb He was a brakeman
on a freight train running from Evansville,
Ind, to Chicago. One morning he was in
the caboose at the end of the train and the
engineer whstled down brakes" in the
startling way that indicates to every railroad
man that danger is brewing Brakeman
Guyton ran to the front platform of the
caboose and began twisting at the brake for
all he was worth. Then the collision came.
Brakeman Guyton was CT ushed between the
caboose and the freight car Just ahead of
him. Every ons of the men on the
freight train was killed or injured
Two of Guytons ribs were broken
and his right thumb crusned The collision
occurred just where the track made sharp
turn around the base of the hill and the
wreck piled up on the track could not be seen
100 yards either wav
Then Brakeman (Iuvton rerollectad that a
passenger train was following five or ten
miles behind his train and that unless it was
tagged it would da 4h around the curve and
be wrecked too. He looked for flag, but
the caboose was SO badly wrecked that he
could not find one. Beside the wreck was
the body of another brakeman, who had been
killed instantly. The dead man had ON a red
flannel shirt. Putting his mangled right
hand inside his vest, so that it would not be
In the way Brakeman Guyton tore off the
dead mans shirt ard started back around
the curve to flag the passenger train He
fell once, but struggled to his feet and got
around the curve and on the straight line of
the track. He sat down on one side of the
track, too weak to stand, and waited for the
passenger train; and that is all Brakeman
Guyton remembered
The engineer of the passenger train saw
the bloody figure lying there beside the
track with the red flannel shirt in his hand
and stopped the train. The brakeman had
tainted from loss of blood, but he had tagged
the passenger train aud averted another and
more serious accident. He had lost thumb
and i'll return got 81, 500 and the thanks of
many for his courage and bravery. And
this is the man who won pretty Annie Oar.
lingls heart.