Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1912 — Inheritance of $50,000 Stops Laborer from Joining Army. [ARTICLE]

Inheritance of $50,000 Stops Laborer from Joining Army.

Driven by his love for adventure to kave a comfortable home in Switzerland and come to the United States, where, for the last year he has been working as a farm laborer, in Illinois and Indiana, Jacob August Huber, of Lafayette, applied for admission to the United States army. He was just signing the papers when he received word from Europe that he had fallen heir to $50,000. The news changed the young man’s plans and now he is preparing to return home and get his fortune. Huber is twenty years old. The news of his fortune came from his sister, who is livifig with an uncle at Huddersfield, England, and the letter also informed Huber that he would inherit a large share of the estate of Alfred Crowther, a wealthy manufacturer of Huddersfield Crowthem married Huber’s aunt, and has decided to make Huber and the sister his heirs. The sister sent a photograph of the Crowther estate, snowing a stone castle with spacious grounds. Crowther’s wealth is estimated at more than a million dollars. Young Huber say» that his fortune will not prevent him working for a living.