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Show TIIE ViNDEUBILT WILL. It Agnlu Comes Up ia the Court Ch targes Aumlufit Wm. M. Vunderuilt. New York, 3. A petition was filed to-day in aurrogate court by Cornelius j. Vanderhilt, in wmcn compiainta I were made against William. H. Van-jderbilt Van-jderbilt and other executors of the Vanderbilt will, lhe petition prays the court to issuo a citation requiring the executors to show cause why they should not be superceded and that they may bo enjoined from further acting in the premisea until the matter mat-ter in the controversy Bhall be disposed dis-posed of, A hearing in the matter has been set for Monday next. The petition charges, among othor thiugs, that William H, Vanderbilt ia speculative specu-lative in stocks on a gigantic scale and to a greater extent than has ever been known, and that to carry on such speculations he has used and ia using tbe assets of such estato to a very large extent, ast coilileralg on loans or otherwise, other-wise, and has borrowed and is owing over the sum of $18,000,000 for speculating purpoaee; that ho haa ' lest, iu such speculations, several millions of dollar?; that he is of ex- j citable and reckless temperament, I aad is endeavoring to sustain the will I by expeDdiug largo and unnecessary I sums of money to procure and in-1 timidato witnesses, and has declared ' that tOBu-tain the will he wculu spend ' tho whole estate in litigation; that ho ! is not only wild and reckless 'in' Iii3 financial operations, but is cu- ! larging his railroad intercuts hy paying more than the inlcreeta! purchased aro worth anil ia using llioj uiisela of such estate for this purpose, greatly to its hazard; that he is con I trading a largo debt to railroad nor-j poratiooe, of which ho ia president,' by withdrawing for his cwn benefit' large sums of money from them, to! which their creditors or stockholder are entitled; that such money is withheld with-held by him and appropriated to hia own use by various controversies; that the aggrfgito sum thus divcrhd is very largo, ahd ia reck-1 leesly invested and does not increase the value ol the es-1 tato, while subjecting him to! large liabilities, which may be en-, forced against him at auy time, and ' that bis habits, associations, tpecuU-j tiono acd expenses are such as to create the belief that tbe property he' controls will ultimately be wasted. 1 |