Lucius William Nieman established the Milwaukee Journal in 1882, made it Wisconsin's first 2¢ daily. Long a crusading editor-publisher, Mr. Nieman received a Pulitzer Prize for trying to stamp out the German language in Milwaukee in 1918. Last October Lucius Nieman died rich at 77, leaving in trust his $5,500,000 Journal holdings. Last February, four days after making a new will bequeathing her residuary estate to Harvard University to "further journalism," his widow, Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman, followed him. Last week three distant relatives popped up to contest the widow's will, claim this...
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