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Show MRS. COREY, WIFE OF THE STEEL KING, FILES SUIT FOR DIVORCE IN NEVADA of an independent fortune. The attorneys attor-neys declined to discuss this phase of the matter. RENO, Nev., June 12. Mrs. William Ellis Corey, wife of the president of the United States Steel corporation, this morning filed a petition in the Second District court of Nevada, at this place, for an absolute decree of divorce. The petition of Mrs. Corey is brief, reciting that she was married to Corey on December 1, 1883, and that he aban-doned aban-doned her about May 1, 1905. She asks I for a decree upon the ground of de- sertlon and also reouests that the custody cus-tody of their minor son be given to her. It is currently reported that negotiations negotia-tions are in progress which will result in Corey giving his consent to the di-vorce di-vorce and his settlement upon hla wife |