MRS. ASTOR'S LEGACY.
K MILLION WITH CONDITIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyriuht. (Bee. May 8, 11 p.m.) New York, May 8. Colonel J. J. Astor, who was one of tho victims of the Titanic wreck, left his wii'o a million sterling conditionally on her remaining single. Jic Icl't his son JiU,ooO,oflO.
Mrs. Astor is a beautiful nineteen-year-old woman. The marriage was the subject of much comment in America, and took place secretly after at least one clergyman of the Episcopal Church heel declined lo perform the ceremony because, the bridegroom had been divorced by his first wife. Some idea of the fortune of the late Colonel Astor may be obtained from the fact that he paid (ax on real estate ill New York valued at «C5,250,00f1. The late Colouel Astor was born in July, 18'Jl.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1435, 9 May 1912, Page 5
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134MRS. ASTOR'S LEGACY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1435, 9 May 1912, Page 5
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