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Show NEWTON ESTATE TQ BE DISTRIBUTED Judge James A. Howell has issued a decree which provides for the distribution dis-tribution of the estate of Amelia Newton, the final hearing respecting I the matter to be held February 2'-. , The distribution will be made to the children of a brother of Mrs. Newton, New-ton, John George Goodman, as provided provid-ed for in a will discovered after the estate of Mrs Newton had practically been settled and was ready for distribution dis-tribution to alleged heirs. Mrs Newton will be remembered as the "fortune teller" on Twenty-sec ond street She owned real estate on Quincy avenue and Twenty second street, upon which she erected two houses. She lived in one of the houses a number of years and was intimately known to only a few, as she was a woman of marked eccen tricities. Before her death she became be-came incompetent and a guardian was appointed to take charge of her ai-falrs. ai-falrs. In her last stages of debility, she was sent to Detroit. Mich., to relatives rela-tives who cared for her until she died in October, 1913. No will was found at the tme of her death, and her estate was probated intestate, but, just before the closing of the estate, ;i will was found In one of her trunks. It wa6 written In 1895 at Omaha, the terms of which bequeathed her small fortune to the children of her brother The entire estate has been converted into cash in the sum of $2074.05. |