Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-10
A FAILURE, SURE.
Spicy Averments in Chicago
Divorce Suit.
wOFUI MATRIMONIAL INrELIOITY.

A Melancholy Husband Who Viii Here
after Heed the Cslebr ated Samuel We'll
Ier's Advice-A Fair Ex-widow's Reve-
lation of Masculine Cruelty-Two sto-
ries, the Morals of which Lie in Their
Appiication-Five Weeks of Joy 60
CHICAGO, Oct 10. DR. Addison ]. Sparks,
a druggist at Kensington, demanded Of Judge
Tuley yesterday an injunction restraining his
wife, Ida f. Sparks, from denying him ad-
mission to his own house. The judge set the
matter for a hear ing this morning. Dr. and
Mrs Sparks are in the divorce court, the
doctor having filed a bill charging Mrs.
Sparks with cruelty, and she having replied
with an answer denying his charges, and a
cross bill for separate maintenance, alleging
that she is living apart from him without her
fault DIR. Sparks owns the chief drug store
in Kensington, and is said by his wife to
have informed her that his recsipts were
$500 month, of which 30 per cent is clear
profit and that his fortune is $lG, 900.
A Short Season Of BIissC?D
The married life Of the couple was one
month and one day, and it had Gro wdsd
INTO IL u uecaue OF uOfleStlc iHnarmOnl9S.
The domestic troubles OF the Sparks fami v
are the talk OF all Remington and the So
cial sensation of that fragment of HYDE
Park. DIR. Parks married Mrs Ida e. Des-
preaux, widow, aged p, at Kankakee, July
8, and Aug. they had ceased living to-
gether, DIR. Sparks claiming that his wife
and sister-in-law had routed hin out Of the
house, and Mrs. Sparks insisting that the
doctor had tried to get her to leave, and,
when she would not 60, he left
The Much Abused Doctor.
The doctor says that his wife struck him
twice in the face with her fists, hit him in the
back of the head with looking glass, called
him names which would put a fishwife to
shame, and to cap the climax autographed
for her sister-in-law, and with her aid beat
the defenseless druggist with a cuspidor and
fire poker. When the doctor gathered his
wits and shattered nerves together he called
Justify for the police; the wife and sister in.
law were arrested, AMI Justice Quinn fined
them SIS and $40, respectively.
Other Side of the Story.
All of which Mrs. Sparks AYERS is totally
false, and she gives her side of the story
She says that Immediately after
the marriage DIR. Sparks, who was
a crusty old bachelor and believed
that women should be trained with
strait jackets and plaster casts, announced
calmly and dispassionately that he proposed
to break her in or break her neck. He
thought &. so was too much for making a
dress, and made her take back a whitefisb
for which she had paid IS cents, because il
was exorbitant He boosted of the ladies he
knew and correspondent with, and Mrs
Sparks alleges that he did everything to in
duce her to go away from him, and when
she wouldn't go he went and sent John c.
Trainor, his lawyer, to her, who offered her
$40 if she would get divorce, and promise &c
in such event to be her attorney
She Holds the Fort.
Mr. Sparks then came in and added hii
| entreaties to those of Trainor and tried tc
get her to sign some sort of an agreement
She ordered Trainor from her houss, and
when he refused TO go she picked up the Gus
pidor to enforce obedience of her command.
Whereupon DIR. Sparks yelled "polcep and
| Trainor demanded her arrest for murder
She was fined, but appealed, and this is hsI
version of DR.. Sparks melancholy story
| of the onslaught with poker and cuspidor
Mrs Sparks holds the fort in the d, ctor ),
mansion, and Judge Tuley will say to-day
| whether the doctor can be allowed to go in
| if it is only to change his linen.