Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. £AST£RII. The remains of Lient Kislingbury, of the Greely exhibition, were disinterred at Rochester by friends and physicians, and it was found that the body had been mutilated. The surmise Is that the missing portions had been devoured by the starving explorers. Lieut Greely was officially welcomed to his old home, Newburyport, Mass., by a procession and reception. At the grand stand Mayor Johnson welcomed Greely, the latter replying in a fitting manner. Gov. Robinson welcomed the explorer on behalf of Massachusetts, and the exercises closed by the band playing “Home Again” and “Hall to the Chief.” Dr. Claybome states that all the survivors will soon be in perfect health, but under strict orders from Secretary Chandler no interviews are allowed. New York telegram: “Third Officer Kelly, of the steamer Bear, says the reports of eating the flesh of Lieut. Kislingbury and Private Henry were true, as the survivors, when brought on board, were all but delirious, and admitted that they had to eat the dead bodies to preserve their own lives. The cook of the Bear said that all the survivors said that they had to eat the flesh of the dead, as all tbelr food, except a little leather or eealslcin, had given out. All the men on board the Bear knew that the bodies had been eaten, but were told not to speak about it when they got into port.” In attempting to lower their records at Belmont Park, Philadelphia, Jay-Eye-See made the mile in 2:lo}i and Phailas in 2:14*4. The Rev. Dr. John Brown, the oldest Episcopal minister of New York State, died last week at Newbnrg. He delivered an address of welcome to Lafayette in 1824. A lightning and rain storm visited Pittsburgh and Allegheny City, cellrrs being flooded and buildings blown down or wrecked by lightning. Water in some places was two feet deep in the streets, and the -damage will be heavy.