The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1898-01-27
TALES OF THE TOWN.
LATE STORIES PICKED UP BY THE
REPORTERS.
AN ELoP1Na COUPLE CHECKED
Young Married Couple From Rockford
Have a Midnight Concert-Young
Lady Meets Disaster by Los
ing Her Keys.

The snow storm Saturday night was
no respecter of persons and the havoc
that it wrought was not entirely cen
tered in the destruction of the traffic
on the electric and steam railways, but
it entered thu field of romance and
nipped in the bud what might have
been a very happy wedding
On Saturday afternoon a young
couple came to this city from Rockford,
I'll with the evident purpose of getting
married. They evidently from after
events did not have the entire approval
of the young lady's parents. They
came up from Chicago on the 6:l8
train, and thinking that they had Gov
cred their tracks so that the parents
could never find them, they decided to
visit friend Of the young lady and
have the wedding occur on Sunday
morning in time for them to return to
their home in Rockford Sunday night.
But, alas for their conclusions!
Hemmed in by the storm, they did not
know that the parents were acquainted
with their actions and the first train
from Chicago Sunday morning brought
the young lady's mother to this city
This soon reached the young peoples
ears and when the mother arrived
there was tragic scene; but the
young couple were not so easily caught.
They went out the back way and OBJ
tanning buggy started to go to Racine
by way of the electric cars and we're
SO greatly disappointed when they
found that the cars were not running
that they gave up in disgust and re-
turned to Rockford this morning in
company with the mother.
-
Sunday night with the snow drifted
high about the windows and doors was
weird in itself, but young man and
his wife have reason Co consider it the
most weird night of their existence.
After enjoying the comforts of home
for several hours the young people re-
tired to their boudoir and started to
spend the night in a dreamless sleep.
About midnight the young man was
awakened by hearing strain of music,
which he thought without any doubt
came from his own piano in the draw
ing room. Amused and yet COMPOUNDED
| by the weirdness of the thing he lay
and listened as one entranced. He
| knew that there was no one in the
house except he and his wife and she
was sleeping soundly beside him.
| Fearing that she might be startled by
| the unearthly music, he awakened her
and the two in silence listened to the
nocturnal concert, while the young
man reflected in his mind the story of
the specter bridegroom and the fam
tastes of Scott which had been made
dear in the earlier years when the ro-
mantle side of life was interesting to
him. At last the chord changed and
The bass and treble sounded together
as in the strains of a mighty funeral
march. The young man could stand it
no longer and leaping from bed began
an investigation. He found the parlOr
empty and no trace of the midnight
musician. Going oyer the house, he
finally came upon large black cat
that had formerly been in the posses
sion of neighbor. Romance and
spirit music were thrown to the winds
and the young man seized the feline by
its rear appendage and hurled it with
all his strength into the middle of the
road in front of the house and returned
to his wife to explain the mystery of
their midnight music. The cat in
question, however, was quite an artist
and had learned it's lessons on the
piano after years of careful training.
Y"
A we'll known young society lady
had the scare of her life this morning.
She was coming down the street to
work and was accompanied by one of
her young gentleman friends. When
she reached her place of business the
young gentleman said something that
the young lady didn't exactly like and
she playfully threw her keys at him
As usual, when a woman throws, the
keys failed to hit the mark and instead
dropped into drift, where the snow
was aboht three feet deep. The
young lady was in sad condition and
with the chance of wasting several
hours before the keys could be found,
she started search. A friend finally
came along and with the kind assist
ance of a rake succe ded in finding the
key ring. The young lady was over
come with gratitude and took royal
oath never to sport with her friends on
a snowy day AGAIN