GENERAL CABLES.

Waikato Times, Issue 12185, 21 September 1911, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

FAMOUS AUTHOR SEEKS DIVORCE. (By Mail.) NEW YORK, Aug. 28. Upton Sinclair, the American au- : thor who earned fame by his sensational no\el "The Jungle," purposes ! bringing it divorce suit; against his i wife, naming a young Western poet ; who recently visited bis - summer resi- ; dence as co-respondent. Upton Sinclair was married in ; 1900. ! WONDERFUL MOTOR TRIP. PARIS, Aug. 28. ! Andre Jaegers Schmidt's autoimo- : bile pulled up at the Daily Excelsior j office in the Champs Elysee at nine o'clock this morning after having i encircled the world in 39 days, 19 i hours, 7 minutes,f thus beating chef : record of Steigler, who covered the same route for "Le Matin " ini 63 | flays. I Schrridt stayed at Cherbourg for a midnight supper tendered by journal- ; ists, hei would have arrived in Paris two hours, sooner. The route covered by the adventurous motorist was via -Moscow, 1 Yokohama, Vancouver and New York. THREATENED WITH LYNCHING. BOONEVILLE, Aug. 28. William Lee, charged with having i murdered his father, mother and ' brother, is threatened with lynching by the populace. Stripped in the cell his body r&- , vealed many bruises. These he i Baid, were caused by having fallen : from a 'buggy when visiting his fiance, whom he married only yesterday. At the inquest the: evidence showed Jjhaft Lee's family objected to the match, that he had demanded money from ihia father. Hisi young wife* is hysterical, and strenuously asserts her belief in his innocence.