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Show IRE OVERALLS Steals Girl and Hastens to Parson's Par-son's in His Working Clothes. HAD JUST DISPOSED OF BIG COAL MINE Fished Out of Clothes Drafts i'or Large Sum to Pay Minister. II. G. Phillips, 26 years old, and Miss Emma Xiilly, a protty mouutain girl, 17 3'cars old, eloped to Bristol from Shady Springs, West Va., and were married mar-ried by Rev. A. II. Burroughs. The bridegroom was in his working clothes and Mr. Buroughs had a suspicion that ho might not bo able to pay a reasonable reason-able marriage fee, but tho stranger paid promptly and before he left with his bride Mr. Burroughs learned that he had just received $.'2,000 in cash from tho sale of a fractional part of coal lands owned b3 him. The young man excused his unpretentious appearance appear-ance by saying that ho was forced by circumstances to steal his girl in a hurry hur-ry and had not time to change his overalls. over-alls. , I |