Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-01-30
HER GAME FOILED.
Experience Of a Plucky Rail.
road Conductor.
LURED ITO HER APARTMENTS.

LURED MTO HER APARTMENTS.
Net b . Third Patty Who Demands Money
Uadsr . Threat Of Boduy l.ja~y . e the
Iickes Pancher Covers sim VITA . &c
yoiver end B.cks Out safety.
A conductor on the Rock Island
road running bet ~een here and Chi
Icsgo had quite q thrilling experience.
in this city the other day. he is q
man who gets around considerably
He was promenadiDg up and dow
one Of DAeenport's prominent thor
oughfares gazing in at the windoa
displays when woman. neatly
dressed, brushed against his arm
He gave no heed TO her, satisfying
himself that it was simply an acct
dent on her part. He thought NO
more Of the affair until he was given
another jolt on the arm by the same
woman.
1T 10 not necessary for . brick
house to fall on me before l take q
tumb e." the conductor said TO b
friend to whom he repeated his ex-
perience; $50 I concluded that l
would keeps an eye on her. She walked
| q block and waited for q bridge
line Car, which she boarded. 1 also
got On. We naturally got to con-
versipg with one another. l found
her to be to all appearances . lady.
When We reached Twenty-second
street in Rock Island, we alighted.
she explaining that she lived up that
way. I accompanied her to her
home, and she asked me in. I went
l first became suspicious when she
walked me around to the back of the
house. We entered the kitchen aud
continued on into the sitting room
1 had not placed my last foot on the
other side Of the threshold before q
big burly fellow jumped out of an.
other room with q chsir appraised in
his hands, with which he threatened
to lay me out unless l handed over q
few greenbacks. l had little time for
thought. 1t was very plain to me
that the fellow meant business. ]
looked a pleasant as possible under
the circumstances. although I could
feel my hair creeping, and taking q
step backward, unbuttoned my over
coat with the purpose, it undoubt.
eddy appeared to him, of getting my
wallet. Instead I whipped out my
old convincer. Well, sir; il you ever
saw q coward he was one; so was the
woman. l held the W at bay and
backed out the way 1 entered. Aud
they never touched me-"
II have heard of people being held
up in this way in the big cities. but
l never expected it here"
Heard Around the Depots.
The Rock Island road 10 having it,
ice houses in this city filed.
George Strahle, night foreman q,
the Rock Island's rouod house, is
nursing q mashed finger.
G L. Elwell will return to the
key at the Burlington operator.
Office MONDAY after q tussle with ILL
ness.
Beginning Monday the mail car,
which has been heretofore side.
tracked at Rock Island by passenger
train 2 at 1880 in the morning, an
taken on to Chirago on % in the
afternoon, will run through on 2
The combination mail and baggage
car on train 1, which is now trans
ferred at Bureau for Peoria, will
come to this city and will return east
the following day on %.
1t is claimed. according to a story
going the rounds, that Christmas
day John Oberg. q conductor on the
&C., b. & O., was just on
the point Of pulling out OF
Kirkwood when q fair passenger
rushed to the door Of the coach and
motioned him to stop. She made
known her wants at once. with blu.b.
ing countenance. and was compelled
to confess that in the hurry of get.
ting ready to leave she had left
her teeth at home in the tea cup, q
favorite habit, 1t is said, with those
who use such implements. VIVA,
made it worse was the fact that she
was going to . turkey dinner party,
and without those teeth her menu
would be restricted to . plum pud-
ding and coffee This was more
than she could bear, and while the
train waited she ran home and found
the missing set.
Although . very busy man. Dr.. B,
v. Pierce, Of Buffalo. N. Y. has
found time in which to write . great
book Of over q thousand pages en-
titled. 1.-The Peoples Common Sense
Medical Adviser, in Plain English. OF
Medicine Simplifed." Few books
printed in the English language have
reached so great . sale a. has this
popular work. v e $50. 600 copies
having been sold at 81. SO each. The
profits on this enormous sale having
repaid its author for the great
amount of labor and money OK.
pended on its production he has now
decided to give away. absolutely
l fron S00 n0n Non{oa ~ tkso vs1u~hlr