The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-03-01
CLARK'S CALAMITY.
The Wife of q Former Sedalia
Plasterer Has Gone
Wong.
She Has Parted From Her Hus-
band and 10 now . Bar
keoper'G Mistress.

oOO - uOW O0E
keepers Mistress.
The name Of /. n. Clark 10 Q familiar
poe 70 many Sedalians, end especially % to
ths members Of tie police fierce. lie sas .
plastersr, and resided vl'h his family 10
East 6sdslis, where, on many oCcssioss,
The polico we're called to auell = row 10.
tween him and his better half. Clark VS.
. 6rs,-cis-s whisky eussl~r. and while un.
der the in6uepce of the ardsns made every
thing lively for his family end nrishbore.
He he's been an
INNATE OF RE cooler
90 many occaai0ns, and after oeing iIber-
aasd would swear ID and join the Good
Templsse. For time be would brsee mp,
bat eventually his sppstite for liquor
would overcome him and b. w0uid again
fall 10 the ditch.
While drinking be wss qusrrelsOme. end
scarcely ever vent home without ahueine
his wife. After his last spree in Sedsiis,
some four months ago, he concluded that
ho would seek pastures new, a. he Wse
resting under cloud here. He according
y babe his vile and children farewell snd
left for Kansas City. promising to send ior
them At DO distant day.
% bic arrival there be secured employ.
ment at his trade. but had worked only
shos. time when hs
FELL FRON 4 cAFHSLD
end crippled himself badly, and Tor time
wse ussols to do anything. In The mean.
time bic wife. Who still ren,ained 10 Sc
dalia, bad formed the scquaintance Of Q
cradle talk wns created BY the way the two
carried on-MN. Clark seming to forget
that che We . wife and mother.
Somstime sso. however, she received
word from her lieEe lord, askine her 10
iois him 10 Ksnsas CITY and to bring the
children With her. She st once made pre-
parstions for 40 doing. and when al the
arrangements he'd been conaummaied she
Informed her railrcsd friend Of her in
tention. He would not Be q ungalIsnt -
to 80 her travel alone, and proposed 70 &C.
company her portion Of the distance. N
counse
no OBJECTIONS wAs OFFERED.
and together they journeysd toward Kan.
60 City.
The distance 10 only nin..,-six n,les,
bat they probably thought :hs trip 700
lengthy to travel without stepping to rss,.
20 1t . email station they left the train end
remained over night, ssssminG their
journey the next morning. On reaching
Kansas City the railroad man left Mrs. G.
add che hunted up her "hubs.,' AMI they
wers soon engaged in housekeeping. F"rs
time il vss smooth sailing, hnt err many
days hsd passed . cloud overepread the
hoaashold and one of the old time Sc
dslia rows vas the onssquence. winding
up BY CLARK going on . protraeted spree.
The dif6cdlty We finally sstiisd. bat
not until Clark had
HAD RD sUePIc!oHs ARousED
that bic wife was not above suspicion. Some
two mopths ego he was confirmed in his
surmiaes By happening in At his home when
Do vas unlocked for, and there found bis
vile in the company of the Ssda!is railroad
0an. A etorEy acene followed, Clark nc
cusing his vile Of having written letter To
the railrosder asking him 10 call, other.
wise be would not have known where they
resided. She, of course. denied the accuse
ton and allowed that the fellow must have
.potted Clark while on his say h"ne and
thus found out their place Of residence
This difficulty was also bsidyed over. and
until Sunday lest they lived in compare.
tive peace.
Mrs. Clark. Il il sid, hsd been
ePENDING CONSIDERABLE MoSEY,
and the head Of the house could not under.
stand from what scurcs ehe received il; 20.
lest Sunday morniog, while Mr.. c. vas
sleeping. hs arose and commenced eearch,
iLg through her pocket book. end msde
discovery that be bad little looked for.
Iastesd Of any great amount of wealth h.
found tWo notes. from two gentlemen #
Kasaae City, both Of which we're addressed
10 bis wife. and filed With sentiments tina;
should e,me from none other than hue.
band.
This wasn't the straw that broke the cam.
lie back, bot il was the one that broke
Clark 81! ap. hs made tbings howl. While
Mn. c.
REMAINED IN HEx corcH.
10 STACKED her ard accused her of in6del.
ity with divers persons. and informed her
that hence forth their paths would lead ia
opposite directions Ehe hesrd him
through but offered no objections. She
aenied having been crimiDsIly in:imste
With either OF the gentlemen from whom
The notes were received, and said che could
no, help It If people wrote to her.
The spshot Of the mstier VS. they con.
cluded 10 separate, Clark TO hustle for
himself. while Mrs. e. was 70 take the chill
1ren and do likewise. Tits wss done on
Wednesday lat, end Me-. Clark and
hied themselves to the boarding
house of theatrical man oamed Clarke,
.hers she l. now holding forth, end, il 10
aiieesd,
70 BEING PROVIDED FOR
y yonnc man Who il employed o night
Dor keeper at the Coliseum theatre.
The shove facts are learned from . gen
lsman Who csne down from Ksnsas City
Friday evening, to whom they we're related
y Clark. Mr.. C. IL rather preposseaaing
,omsn, and formerly bore good repuia-
ion in thi. community. Clark 10 too cell
tnown in Sedslis to Be spoken If At length.
lie wss always . DRUNKEN. worthless dog,
nd any woman would b better Of without
lin than With him.