The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-01-13
WILL 1T HOLD GOOD?
This is the Question Everybody in
tho City is Asking
ABOUT MICHAEL REILLYS WILL
Tho Provisions Of Which are unprc-
ecdcntcd...Ail tho Estate Except a
Bare Living for the Heirs Tied Up
in Trust Till Every Living Person
Now Having a Claim Upon 1t is
Dead.

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The last will and testamontof Michael
Reilly, deceased, was yesterday. offered
for probate in Clerk Hooks office. The
hearing OF the motion. 10 admit 1t to
probate was sot for January Tho
document bears date in last June, and
is in tho handwriting Of Henry NJ.
Russell, Esq, who, with Hon, Daniel
Lamb, witness its signature. The pro-
visions OF tho will had been discussed
with great interest, and there were a
number oil rumors ailoat, none OF which,
however, prove to DO strictly correct.
When it was known that the will had
been filed there WINS great deal OF curl
osity to know what 1t contained. Tho
general tenor OF II was soon widely
known, and it caused more comment
than anything that has happened for II
long time. 1t was generally taken for
granted that there would be contest,
and the general guess was that the will
would be set aside, although the COM
mon reason for surprising so'was mere
ly that II was OF such nm unusual char
acterin its provisions.
Tic full text Of tho will is rs follows:
!, Michael Reilly, OF the city Of
Wheeling and state OF West Virginia,
do make and orduin this to be my last
will and testament. ll
/. lappoint Rt. Rev. John j. Kahn
and Rev. John 7. Sullivan, both OF
Wheeling, to DO the executors OF this,
my will, and request that no security
be required Of either as such executors
or MS trustees under tho subsequent
provisions hereof. J. direct that my
funeral expenses. the expenses OF ad-
ministering my estate, and MI my just
debts be paid, and that the article Of
agreement bearing date the Sd day OF
November in the year 1855, between
myself and my present wife, then Nir-
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effect according to the intent and mean
iug thereof, with the modification here
matter made.
2. | devise and bequest to the said
John J. Kahn and John I. Sullivan, rs
trustees. all OF my property, real and
personal, wherever situated, to be held
by them upon the trusts hereinafter set
forth. The said trustees shall have
power to hold, control sell, cucumber
and otherwise dispose OF the said
property as fully us now have, and to
take, receive and receipt for the rents.
issues, profits, income and proceeds
thereof, and their receipt for the same
shall be sufficient, and no purchaser
from them shall be required to look to
the application OF the purchase money.
They may invest the revenue from the
property, or the proceeds OF such OF the
property rs may be sold, in such man
ner as in their discretion may seem
best, and may DISPOSE OF any invest
ments they may make in like manner
us they are authorized to dispose OF the
property hereby given them. Provided,
however. that they shall not at any
time invest any part OF til. estate in any
church property. or in the property OF
any educational or benevolent institu-
tons connected with the church. The
said trustees may in their. discretion
carry on the wholesale grocery business
in which have been for many years
engaged, giving employment to such OF
my children End grandchildren us they
deem proper and conducting the bust
ness through competent manager,
but with power to the. said trustees to
discontinue and wind up the business
whenever they deem it proper or ex-
pedient to do so.
Each Of the said trustees may by his
will appoint his own successor in the
trust, and in default OF such appoint
ment, the survivor may by deed appoint
q successor in the trust to either OF the
said trustees who may die without
having appointed his own successor.
And all the dcvises, requests and pow
ers herein made and given, including
the power TO appoint successors, shall
belong to such successors in the same
manner as to the trustees herein ap-
pointed.
8. The said trustees and their sue
cessors shall hold the said property
herein, devised and bequcathed, and the
revenues and income therefrom, and
the property in which they. shall invest
such revenues and income, or the. pro-
ceeds OF any sales they may make, ex-
cept as herein provided, until the death
OF that one OF my now living children or
grandchildren who shall live the long
est. During the continuance OF the
trust they shall from time to time, rs in
their discretion shall seem best, paw
out OF the revenues and income OF the
property such sums as they in their
discretion shall seem proper to my son
George V. Reilly for his maintenance
and for the maintenance and
support OF his family, to my son
John ]. Reilly Tor the maintenance
and support OF himself and any family
he may have, to the wife Of my son
James V. Reilly for. the maintenance
and support of the said James and his
family, and to my daughter Helen NJ.
Jamison for tho maintenance and sup
port OF herself and family, and to the
widow OF my son Thomas NJ. Reilly for
the maintenance and support OF herself
and family. Should either OF my said
children or my said daushter-in-law
die during the continuance OF the
trust, the said trustees, or their. success
sors, shall continue TO appropriate such
sums as they shall deem proper to the
maintenance and support OF the said
families. 1t is not intended that the
sums to be paid as aforesaid shall be
equal, unless the trustees so determine,
but that they shall vary according to
circumstances, in the discretion OF the
trustees. ~
1. The said trustees shall pay to nv
son Michael the sum Of $40 and no
more. | do not think him entitled to
moro than this sum in addition to what
he has already received from me.
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