Foreign News: Subject of New York

His Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, Chief and Sovereign of the Supreme Order of the Annunziata, Hon. Colonel in the Spanish and Hon. General in the Swedish Army, Hon. Doctor of Laws (University of Philadelphia), sought last week through representatives before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York to prove that he is the heir of one Antonio Comincio, a Manhattan peddler who died in 1925 leaving an estate of $1,000.

Naturally it was not a question of money. It was a question of principle. The...

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