Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — YACHT IS RUN DOWN. [ARTICLE]

YACHT IS RUN DOWN.

NARROW ESCAPE FROM A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. • . -*ir- ■ .. ...«•:. .. . ,>... , - Bnicide of a War Department Clerk— Probably Fatal Shooting of a Chicago Board of Trade Man —Thief Borrows Labor’s Livery. - : Steamer Sinks a Pleaeore Yacht. The sloop yacht Adelaide, owned by Robert W. Inman Jr., the cotton broker, while cruising off Norton’s Point Mon-, day night was run into by the iron steamboat Perseus. Eight persons, ineludlng: the Crew, were drowned. Of these two were rescued by the steamer’s crew; three who went into the water are said to have been picked up by an unknown schoonee, and the others are supposed to be aboard the yacht. Besides the fact of the collision itself it showed a shocking state of affairs regarding the steamer, as it was necessary to cut the lifeboats from their fastennigs before they could be lowered into the water. The yacht had the right of way. There was no need of tl collision between it and the steamer, and no excuse for one. Capt. Hulse, of the steamer Perseus saw the danger, but it was too late to avoid collision. He liad the engines reversed and the steamer was under but little headway when her sharp nose Btruck the Adelaide just forward of amidships.

Thief’s Clever Dodge. A dastardly attempt to pervert the Chicago Civic Federation’s street-cleaning brigade into a machine for the protection of crime was made Monday. It was Joe Mason, sneak thief and pickpocket, who had the brazen effrontery. lie had tried and Adams streets, and for some unaccountable reason a policeman was there. Detective Sergeant O’Neil chased Mason to Clark and Madison streets, where the hardened erimiual, dodging around a corner, bribed a street sweeper to give him his broom and began sweeping the street. O’Neil on coming up was mystified for a moment by the complete disappearance of his man, but discovered and arrested him in a moment. Mason had made the mistake ~of working fastand "hard, and his diligence gave him away; He was fined $lO and costs by Justice Richardson. W. W. Kittell Kills Himself. W. W. Kittell, an attache of the war department at Washington, shot and killed hfttiself in his room at the Hotel Willey in Pittsburg Monday morning. A note to the proprietor said nobody would claim his remains. The only other writing found on the body was a scrap of paper on which was written in a feminine hand: “I hereby prdmise that I will never nsk you to take me anywhere. Q. A. Wylie.” An express money order receipt -for SIOO, the order being payable to G. W. Kittell, at Bartone, Fla., furnished the.only definite dew to the whereabouts of the suicide's friends. Kittell was about thirty years of age and well dressed. Kittell was appointed clerk in the record and pension devision of the war department from Nebraska in 1891. He was on a week’s leave of absence. It was understood that he was soon to be married. C. H. Blackman Shot. Members of the Chicago Board of Trade and a host of old friends and acquaintances were shocked Monday by the news that Carlos H. Blackman had been accidentally and probably fatully shot at Block Island, R. L Mr. Blackman was one of the oldest traders on the board. The shooting was done Saturday evening by Charllie Bascom, of St. Louis, 17 years old. Young Bascom fired at a target and the bullet struck Mr. Blackman in the abdomen. The steamer Ocean View was dispatched to the mainland and soon returned with Drs. Bull and Brewer, of New York. They did all that was possible for the sufferer, but expressed the fear that the wound would prove fatal. The bullet was located in the lives'. '