The evening world. Newspaper, March 5, 1913, Page 4

~ TO BREAK WILL OF alded hie fgnt aS TREN om. ‘ ECKERT’S TWO SONS BITTER OPPONENTS IN WILL CONTEST. SON WINS CONTEST OLDGEN EKER | Document Set Aside Leaving Bulk of $1,650,000 Estate to Thomas T. Eckert Jr. BITTER FAMILY Jury Decides Aged Western Union President Was In- competent in Latter Days. | FIGHT. | | James Clendennin Eckert to-lay won hie fight to break the will of Sis mil- Nonatre father, the Inte Gen, Thomas T. Eokert, former president of the Western Union Telegraph Company. His tri- umph marks the end of one of the mort Mitterly fought will contesta in recent Years and the upsetting of the will in ‘one of the most Important in ® genera- ‘The case, which has been on trial before Supreme Court Juatice Green- baum and a jury for several weeks, went to the jury shortly before noon, In lees than an hour the jury rendered itm verdict. The effect Is aa if Gen. Wekert died intestate. Thomas T. Eck- ert jr, who under the will received the bulk of the $1,650,000 estate, must sharo the fortune with brother James, who under the will was to only $160,000. Mins Johanna Bok: daughter of James, was to ri $80,000 and a country home valued at $50,000, but with the upsetting of the ‘will this bequest is wiped out and the girl receives nothing. In spite of the fact that whe knew this might happen Miss Eckert was a witness for her | father, giving testimony that greatly | TWO CHILD WIVES OF THE SAME MAN APPEAR IN COURT Two little wives who seemed hardly out of high ol Ktuod before Justice Cohalan to-day and asked the Court to Straighten out a marital puzzle which Made both the spouses of Thomas Vin- it Bolts, One was Mrs, Mae Roche hie fight for a| Boltz, a chic, dark-eyed child actress, lurrogate's Court | gowned in a brown tallor sult’ which long trial, ending in Sur-| hardly reached to her shoe tops, The n'a Gecision that the will| other was Mrs. Jeay Bond Bolts, with blond hair and large blue eyes, fash- A court-house crowd haa followed the Eckert contest with keen interest, but there were only a few persons in court when the jury came in, its delth- erations having been so short. The members of both sides of tho family were on hand, however, and there was unrestrained joy on the James Eckert wide of the house. Miss Johanna leaped up and threw her arms about her father’s neck, kissing him to prove her Satisfaction. GENERAL MADE WILL NOT TWO MONTHS BEFORE Hi8 DEATH, Gen, Ecker led Oct. 20, 1010, exactly fifty days after executing his will, As spon ne it was the younger | Brother, Thomas T,*Rckert jr. had re: eived the gulk of the dead General’ Wealth, the older brother, James Clen: dennin Eckert, begs’ large was valid. Proceedings were immediately begun jfonably attired in xray, Neither is in the Supreme Court to prove that un- [nineteen years old yet, but both eloped, due influence had been e: {ts alleged, and wedded the fascinate Ing Thomas, whe is in the automobile business, eat oper, a Mra. Mae Holtz ix wife No. 1 d Grenory | mecried Ton th dune, 1%, Was sixteen, Bhe has a Moy nd tives with her mot Page, his wife and daughter. Arthur ©, Palmer of the law firm of Earle & Russell represented the contestants, while De Lancey Nicoll appeared for the respondents, who were Page and the | met Bolts other executors, Rockaway Jat summer and ¢ The wecond trial began Feb. a7 last, | him @nd aince then voluminous testimony has been submitted to prove Gen. Rekert, who was ninety-two years old when he died, was not of sound men- tality during the last weeks of his life. A motion to set aside today's verdict Uaul the os sult for @ aml Bolte ved in a BS Khtysbbord str the second wife was made by Mr. Nicoll but denied. An to the w and. The fatr Uttle appeal will doubtless be taken, ven un wequaint at Far Rocku- ten to ask him married, but took it for wranted that he wasn't when he pro her WALLSTREET Buying orders, coming from very! day Strong sources, advanced prices after | the first hour of business to-day in the| (5 than the Sock market, A fooling of satistaction : ee oe “a | alld, ul bold i ond vere " as evinced. jade pthish Lendon was larac buyer of Amal- ber te mMentloned and Min, Bolte, Justice gamated Copper, which stock was fol. | {und Vere a wile No, da decree lowed by the rest of the market in the|CoMMan awarde general ndvauce ‘The closing was inactive and dull. THE CLOSING PRICES. exclaimed idor, after and bring bard lant itwas SiatLa The Koslne Con ington, D.C. : if + 18 | a t “Mr. | ” eal, r. Inveterate Smoker ws 10% 7 ty [It is unnecessary to inform you that the excessive use a me 2 of TOBACCO leaves an unpleasant taste in the MOUTH, va ee particularly noticeable in the morning. at ae eae Eminent authorities tell us that the use of ies igs ig ee tobacco results in the transference of microbes Bs BS at $ to the interior of the mouth. HGR ee as SR If you MUST smoke TAKE PRECAUTIONS. | iB, RY IBS t 48 The daily use of “ODOL” as a MOUTH- 2 z* att $ WASH ia the SAFEGUARD wiih wil render Me BY ee + you practically immune from disease germs. aR Ry BR t & Pleasant to the taste and DELIGHTFULLY MS BS OBS Ay | REFRESHING, oy rt ah “ODOL” will also harden the gums and Optimtet. (From th irmingham Age-Herald.) “Pa, what is an optimist?” “An optimist, my son, Is @ twelve-dol- Yer-a-week clerke who can remain cheer- ful after reading in the newspapers that Frank Chance sg to receive $40,000 mig managing the New York Amer- NEW YORK r} which will have charge of filling | Republican places, ‘There was no o | keep the teeth in a healthy condition. Thereisnothing“JUSTASGOOD” as “ODOL.” At All Draggists and Department Stor GEO. BORGFELDT & CO. CHICAGO Rammer: eee KERN CHOSEN "IN CAUCUS AS SENATE LEADER No Opposition to Him and Harmony Prevails—House Members Also Meet. WASIIINGTON, March &—When the Democrats of the new Senate mot tn today to elect a chairman, there was no opposition to Senator John W, Kern of Indiana as tho new leader, Senator Martin of Virminia, re- tiring Democratic leader, declared a fow days ago he was iad to lay down the responsibilities of his office, | Tho retirement of Senator Martin and the candidacy of Senator Kern ends a long struggle for control of the Senate! of the Sixty-third Congress between the; to-cailed progrensive Democrate and tho| old conservatives. Jt was generally une tood there would he no move to, jury the old leaders in thelr com-| mittee assignments, Immediately after the caucus aasem- Died Mr. Kern was chosen by ac-| jamation, Joe T, Robingon, the new Democratic Senator from Arkansas, was the only member alment. He had not been able to get to Washington in time to take his oth of office. ‘The! caucus then took up the business of | committee assignments. Democratic mombers of the new Houne of Representatives—thn major- ity which will shape legislation on the tariff and other important measures— assembled here for the first time to- day, not in formal @easion ax part of the new Congress but in caucus to organize for the work of the coming | session. The meeting was held at the call of Tepresentative Burleson of ‘Texas, the caucus chairman, who be- comes master-General in Presl- dent Wilson's Cabinet. Mr. Burleson's successor as caucua| chairman {4 Representative A, Mitch- ell Palmer of Pennsylvania, who ts closely identified with the new Ad- ministration, and will be in a measure {te exponent in the lower branch of Congress, The caucus met to deal; he Dem- cratic membership of the new Ways and Means Committee, which undoubt- edly will be the same as that of tho last Congress with the exception of three retiring members, Among those prominently mentioned to mucceed them are Garner of Texas, Saunders of Virginla, Stanley of K 04 of Alabama, it is ontinue as chair 5 lands of Nevada was airman and Senator . One of the bers of the body, Senator > chosen — vic Saulsbury of newly elected was named am secretary of the caucus. Senator Tillman expressed a pre- ference for the chairmanship of the and Committee on Appropriations, wald he had requested the adv! President Wilwon as to th ship that he @hould choos the President had urged 4s chairman of the Committ propriations, President W said, was heartily for. economy, Speaker Clark has had no opposition aa Democratic Speuker of the House. Republican Senators also as their chairman and floor leader Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire. They authorized Senator Gallinger to select @ committee on committees, position to the seniority rule, Senator Kenyon of Towa was chosen secretary of the Republican caucus. Champ Clark waa renominated for Speaker amid a chorus of cheers and yells, The Democratic majority an- sures his election by the Ho Home Trea’ ment for Epilepsy or Fits Those who suffer from this nervous accompanied by tte m tucks of unconsciousness and stona, wlll be interested in kn: that we have authorised the aa Korine treatment for Epilepsy by Riker: Hexeman, Well known stores have our rell the Ko tr t on the fol . bottle of Kosin 0, re not will be refunded, | old, | ly old @welling and the children are| housed in pretty cottages and bunga-| | ; | Dara were both destroy held al caucus during the morning and selected FIREDRILL SAVES FALLS 5,000 FEET ~ SBD CHILDREN AT ~ ORPHANAGE BLAZE Little Ones March in Order from St. Christopher's Home on Hudson. ‘Three hundred and fifty children lv- ing at St. Christopher'a Home on the Hadi between Dobbs Ferry and Hastings, marched from their cottages on the «rounds of the Institution to the main building, while the burning laun- dry of the home lighted the way for them and cat a red @iare on the river for miles in either direction early to- day. The marshalling of the children was superintended by Mrs. J. M. Connelly, Wife of the home superintendent, and Was accomplished with almost military Precision and order, although many of the ohildren are only five or mlx years ‘They range from that age to youth. &t. Christopher's Home ts maintained @ Methodist church ‘The main building is a stat lows scattered over the grounds, How tho fire in tho laundry started has not been learned, ered by Peter Ci! THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAROH | WITH AEROPLANE TO HIS DEATH Geoffrey England, British Avi- ator, Hurled to Earth After | Flight of an Hour. | SALISBURY PLAIN, Bngland, March 5.—Geoffrey England, a Britis airman, | was killed to-day by fall from his monoplane while making @ flight on the army flying ground here. England was flyin Stonehenge at | when tis monoplane was seen to col-) lapse and fall like a stone, The aviator had been flying for an hour before the | accident occurred, | He was testing the machine with the view of selling it to tho British War Office. 1 directly over ht of 5,000 feet) as at the moving} orday, They've got jace and your new pleture of your farmhand at work. Second Farm ! 1 didn't know siow stings and Dobbs Ferry Fire ents, which have automobile eng! From both villages Gre fight- ing apparatus arrived in a very short unteer department of River- also turned out to fight the y estate and ther: ek nor vehicles in the barn. Connelly, as soon as she of the fire, despatched messages assistants to wake the children and as. main buildin, js ome distance from the laundry, Ti children re told that there was n danger and manifested only curiosity as they tramped or toddled across the grounds in orderly companies. children watched the firemen carefully cared for by thelr nurses, jot the children together quickly, but without excitement,” sald Mra, Con- nelly. “They were all dressed so as to) protect them from the chill of the night, | 1 do not anticip n colds from experien idly —w jet, docile and brave. Really, I'am very proud of them, { Neighbors who looked on while Mra. jy was assembling the little folks spoke in complimentary words of her situa- tor The home laundry and the McKenny The loss in bout $5,000 and the While many orphans why cannot afford to pay for U ke jored at th af home without by many others. 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