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Show CLAIM TWO HUNDRED MILLIONS. Heir, of a Kevoluttnuarr Soldier Organize to Capture a Huge l'rre. FltANKKoitr, Ky., March 27. About thirty heirs to tin; Hubert Edwards estate es-tate of New York City assembled at the court house here and organized a Hubert Hub-ert Edwards family association. They elected Colonel Thomas B. Ford of this city chairman and John Marshall secretary. secre-tary. A committee of ten was appointed appoint-ed to investigate the heirship and title to the property iu question and to report re-port in Louisville on or before May 1. The estate is said to ba worth $.'0!l,-000,0'JO $.'0!l,-000,0'JO and consists of real property in the heart of New York City, most ot it on Broadway. Kobert FMwards came from Wales before the revolution and bought eighty acres of land on Manhattan Man-hattan Island. He leasud the property to tho colouial government for ninety-nine ninety-nine years, and when the war broke out he went into the army and was never heard of afterward. |