The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-01-16
HUSBAND AGREES
TO PLAN OF WIFE
EARL OF WEsTMoRELAND Will.
LING TO PERMIT WIFE TO
MARRY ASTOR.
SOON AS GETS DIVORCE
Mo Hint uf Scandal Attaches to Pro.
posed Seoaration-~She is Pre-.
sented WiMth Jewels BY Ex
patriated Millionaire

! New York. Jan. l5-W william Wa
dorf Aslor is to marry the beauiifu
4 Countess of Westmorelaad as oon a
she gets a divorce from her husban,
from whom she has been estranged 70
several years. This Is the substance
OF dispatches received today from Lon
don.
| Although it l. understood that the
Earl will consent TO his wife becom
ing the bride Of the expatriated Amer
can, still there IS no hint of scandal
I and Il Is asserted that the details OF
4 the separation have already been ar
Ire ged, Should any obstacles arise
In Ia course of the negotiations. the
unlimited wealth ci the descendant of
the Astors Is relied on 10 remove the
obs motions.
Tbs VIII be a union of July and
December, the Countess being thirty
five years Of age while Astor Is at
the sixty mark.
The Countess, like Mr.. Astor. has
two children Both Of Mr.. Astors
children recently married against hia
wishes his daughter, Paulile, mar
ryine Captain SpenderClay and his
SON Waldorf marrying Ms Shaw, cne
OF the famous Langhorne family,
known as the or ginal Gibson girls.
J"weIs Cause Clash.
While the Earl AMI his wife had
been estanged for several years. they
had kept up an appearance OF frie dli.
ne s for the sake Of their two children.
An accident Of last summer, however.
completed the rupture. and FASTENED
the arrangements for her marriage
to Mr. Astor This Countess appeared
al fashionable event in London
wearing diamonds and other iewcle
that did not cost a cent less than n
million and a quarter Of dollars.
The earl was white with wrath. for
very one in sciety was well aware
he could not afford to buy such ex
lensiVe ornaments for his wife ana |
here was Immediate inentics aud /
pee@lation as To whef the Jewels
ame from
II was soOa whispered tkat Mr. As
or was the donor of The 2ift end that
his was but the precursor Of n formal
eparation between the Earl and ,he
ountess and the marriage Of Mr.. As
)r and III Copntesr
Gets C0stIr Gifts,
AnC thor inciGeT, that SGT Tongues :
, wagging was the receipt by the :
onntess at Christmas of a magnid :
anr automobile, in which she now
lakes her calls Tc futs abe wears ]
re at once the envy and q spair Of t
u the women H. London. Lord West g
oreland, who is about ten years the {
'nior Of The Counters. keeps in re- s
remCst and refuses TO discuss tho c
after L
This s NOT nc first time that Astor
no has been a Widowcf for several
'ars, has been coupled in a mari
onial report with the name of "a
led Englishwoman. but this s"ams
be the fir time that tine -ep1r
rs such an excellent Foundation Of
nth.
one result Of his marriage TO the
)un.ess would make Mr. Aslor a
other-lt-law of Anna Robinson
rm rly a chorus girl On the stage in
is city. who is the wife of the Earl
RosIyn, q brother Of the Countess ri
Westmoreland, who under the name 4
John Er fine filed an engagemen,
an actor in this city a few years j,
The Coun ess is sister Of the s
untess Of Warwick the Duchess OF
theIland and Lady a gela Forbes.
g is brilliant a splendid horsewoman
d rather advanced in her ideas. She
iir.ed Lord Westmoreland I'm 1902
Earl is Poor.
-0rf We,tmor land has a longer and
're distinguished ancestry than W
ilam Waldo.f As'or. but he has no
ney comparatively speaking When
married the combined incomes n
nself and his wife did not amount JC
over $4,000 q year He was com
.Ed To sell his ancestral estate
oTre Hall. 70 get money TO live on
William Waldorf Astor was born in
W York City e. 1S4S. He is the IN
est son of John Jacob As.or III ric
d great grandson of the founder all
he Astor family on this side OF tho ha
autc. re-
Is voung man he took a great de
D nf interest in p.li'ics. In 1877 "c
was elected to the Assembly. and in
9 To tn Senate. He made two ia
smpts 10 he elected 10 Congress D."
wa defeated both times. II 1855 no
sident Arthur appointed him min an
p TO Italy Mr. Astor. emb.ttsred pIa
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