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Show FINANCIER DISOWNED SISTER Displeased Over Her Marriage, He Gave Her No Share in His Fortune. Baltimore. By the will of John Black, aged retired financier, probated recently, 9275,000 is left to a number of Episcopal institutions and the Johns Hopkins university, which also became residuary legatees. The estate is estimated esti-mated at $1,000,000. Provision was made for one of the financier's two sisters. She, however, died a few weeks ago. Mr. Black had another sister, Harriet, Har-riet, whom he disowned about forty years ago because she married a Doctor Doc-tor Adler. a Jew. Mrs. Adler also is dead, but there are two or three sons surviving, one of whom is said to be a rabbi, who are now believed to be in New York or Philadelphia. The estrangement had bee.i complete com-plete between Mr. Black and his sister sis-ter Harriet, although Elizabvth, the other sister, is said to have forgiven her sister, and had her picture hanging hang-ing in her bedroom. Mr. Black never married, and his nearest relatives in Baltimore are said to be second cousins. |