Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1898 — The Death Duties Act. [ARTICLE]

The Death Duties Act.

Attempts to evade the death duties act axe causing queer complications In England. An old" man transferred all his property by deed of gift to his young wife, not expecting that he would survive her. She made a will leaving-it to a former-beau of hers, and then Was. killed on the hunting field. The husband was thus: left: dependent on the hover’s generosity.—New York Sun. - ; --j