Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1908 — WARNER ESTATE DIVIDED [ARTICLE]

WARNER ESTATE DIVIDED

Pension Commissioner Gets $250,000 and Stepmother $500,000. Bloomington, 111., Dec. 25.—The formal order dividing the Warner estate, in conformity with the recent decision of the Illinois supreme court, ill faI vor of the widow, Mrs. Isabelle Warner, was entered by Master in Chancery Fred Booth in the DeWitt counl ty court. Her stepson, United States Pension Commissioner Vespasian Warner, opposed the demand of the widow for her third, alleging that she had negro blood in her veins. The widow, however won her case at every point, and btr the order of division will be given &00.000, instead of SIO,OOO, as left by the will. Colonel Warner and his ftiree sisters will each receive $250,000.