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

WASHINGTON.

Gen. Hazen was interviewed at Washington concerning the stories of cannibalism in connection with the Greely expedition. Although the repo#* were somewhat exaggerated, he said, there was no doubt that there is considerable foundation for them. He said that it is not true that Capt. Schley told himself and Secretary Chandler that the survivors had eaten the bodies of their associates; he refused, however, to say that the stories already puli|hed were not true. He had heard rumors at Portsmouth that Private Henry had been killed and that the survivors had eaten his body, but declined to give such facts in the case as came within his knowledge. The 6tories find credence among the army and navy officers, and some of the latter, and even Gen. Hazen, think that cannibalism was almost unavoidable under the circumstances. There is no doubt that there will be a Congressional Investigation. Mr. Hiram Price has tendered his resignation as Indian Commissioner. He does not care to live at Washington, where he would be separated from his family.