Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — Laborer Is Heir to Fortune. [ARTICLE]

Laborer Is Heir to Fortune.

Lafayette, July 26.—Driven by his love for adventure to leave 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 applied for admission to the United States army. He was just signing the papers when he received word from Europe ttiat 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 living with an uncle at Hudderfield, 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.