Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1884 — Drunkenness and Laziness on the Jeannette. [ARTICLE]

Drunkenness and Laziness on the Jeannette.

In the Jeannette investigation aS Washington. Fireman Bartlett testified that he had frequently seen Lients. Danerihower and Chlpp, Engineer Melville, and Dr. Ambler intoxicated on board the shfpand during the retreat. They drank a Russian drink called “quash."' He saw Melville drunk probably a half-dozen times. The survivors, be said, were within six days’journey of where De Long and Melville were found, but remained Inactive three months before organising a relief expedition to search for the missing pnes. ‘ ; \ Ed Exons, who killed Jim Fisk, will run the Rockaway Bdach Hotel this season.