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Show - ' I 1 VJ Wife xf D:c:!:Iyn Lcycr Lays Claim to Part of the Sutherland Estate ia Scotland. t . - - 1 .NEW TOREFeb. Oaiming descent de-scent from the. puke of Sutherland of I three generations ago, Mrs. Edmund G. i Hennessey, wife of a lawyer living in ! Brooklyn, is planning a fight for a part of the estates of the Dukedom of Sutherland Suth-erland in Scotland. In Investigating her claims, Mrs. Hennessey wrote letters to tire Duchee of Sutherland. Embassador Cboate and Andrew Carnegie. The latter, lat-ter, she un-derstande, ha purchased, a part of the estate. Neither Mr. Carnegie nor Mr.- Cboate replied to the letters, but the. Duchess of Sutherland sent a note In which she regretted that she could furnish no Intonation to Mrs. Hennessey. "My great-grandmother was Mary Sutherland, grandtciaughter of Lord Rothsay DufTus, and a niece of the then Duke of Sutherland," says Mrs. Hen-nfessey. Hen-nfessey. "She married Michael Geoghan, and Irish physician, with whom she came to New Tork to live. Later the family went west." iiss! EOEBLnro pakoits 1-7 BZUDO- BUILDING, IS TRENTON, N. J.. Feb. ii. Mrs. Washington A. Roebllng. famous for the part she took in directing the con- struction of the Brooklyn bridge after her husband had been incapacitated by caisson fever, is in a critical condition at her home in this city. She is suffering suffer-ing from cancer, and her physicians entertain en-tertain little hope for her recovery. Mrs. Roebllng"e only son, Washington, Washing-ton, who Uvea at AshevUle, N. C, was summoned and is at his mother's bedside. bed-side. Mrs. Roebllng Is a sister of Gen. Warren, and is widely known for her work among women's clubs. WRU, LOSILLAED KIP, WELL ZHOWS IN NEW . 7 - T0B, PASSES AWAT. 1 NEW TORK, Feb. 24. Mrs. Eva Lo-rlUard Lo-rlUard Kip is dead at her apartments In this city. She was the daughter. of the late Peter Lorlllard, and the sister of the late Pierre LorlUard. Her husband. hus-band. Col. Lorlllard Kip, died some time ago. After the death of. her husband and her son, Lorlllard Kip. Jr., she sold her residence at Fifth avenue and- Fortieth For-tieth street. For three years Mrs. Kip had been in broken health. Her daughter, daugh-ter, Mrs. Richard McCreery who lives atPau. came to this city In the. autumn in order to be near her mother. Mr. McCreery arrived last Friday on the Cedric. Henry Barber and Mra. James P. Keraochan are sisters of Mrs. Kip. |