The Wheeling Daily Register

First Come First Served, the Bride's
Theory—Pistols, etc.
Holt County, Mo., Sentinel.

An uncommon wedding scene was enacted in
Holt County, last Tuesday, not far from Oregon.

Miss Alice Carson, a young lady, it
seems, divided her attentions between two young men, a Mr. Kretzer, of
Holt, and a Mr. Wheeler of Atchison
County. Both Kretzer and Wheeler
were fatally enamored, and asked for the
hand of Miss Alice. Both were accepted
and the wedding day set for each on the
same day, though neither knew of the
other's standing.

Wheeler engaged a Methodist local
minister, Mr. Cullen, to tie the knot, and
Kretzer procured the service of the more
dignified Rev. Mr. Elmond. Wheeler
and Cullen arrived first, and the hot water,
Miss Alice becoming Mrs. Wheeler. The ceremony was hardly
well over when Kretzer and Elmond
drove up. Imagine their astonishment
when they learned that Alice was already
married to Wheeler. An explanation
was demanded by Kretzer. Wheeler
couldn't see the necessity of his bride
making explanations to any former lover,
and put his foot down very determinedly.
Wheeler immediately flew off the handle—high words ensued, pistols
were brandished, and there was apparently some danger of a duel, bridegroom
grac ing the occasion, in which event we
have no doubt the virgin widow would
have promptly accepted the surviving lover.
But no blood was spilled, the parties
separating without any spiteful understanding upon social affairs.