Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — Seeks Death in the Lake. [ARTICLE]

Seeks Death in the Lake.

J. P. Tillotson, a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, committed suicideWednesdfly afternoon by throwing himself into Lake Michigan at the foot of 22d street. Financial losses, the result of an unsuccessful speculation in wheat,, are said to be the cause of his self-de-struction. Policemen from the CottageGrove avenue station recovered the body within a short time and tried to restorelife, but were unable to do so. Mr. Tillotson was 45 years old and leaves a. widow’, to whom he was married only six months ago. Miss Elizabeth Houston Wickes, a society girl, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Chambers Wickes, and niece of Judge P. L, Wickes, of the Supreme bench of Baltimore city, will make her debut at the Academy of Music, Baltimore, with the Digby Bell Opera panyThe marriage of Gen. Justus MeKinstry, aged 81. wno was the iron provost: marshal of St Louis during the war, stvl' Miss Adelaide J. Dickinson, aged 3s. and wealthy, took,place at the Church of thq> Holy Communion in that city.