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Show WM. ASTOR IS DEAD! The Father of the Woman in the Case in the Bono we-Fox-Mil bank Scandal. HE WAS WORRIED INTO HIS CRAVE. A Heart-Broken Father Hides the Shame Caused by His Daughter's Disgrace in the Silent Tomb. New York, April 26. A special to the Ewning World from Paris states that William Astor died last night at the Hotel Liverpool. The cause was heart failure. Mr. Astor was the father of Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton, and was greatly worried over the Borrowe-Fox-Milbank scandal in which she was involved. Next to his nephew, William Waldorf Astor and -probably Jay Gould, William Astor was the richest cP zen of America. His wealth was recently estimated esti-mated at between $50,000,000 and $00,000,000, the greater part of which is invested in New York real estate. |