Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1894 — LOST IN ARCTIC SEAS. [ARTICLE]

LOST IN ARCTIC SEAS.

A Relief Expedition Now In Order. A London cable. July 24, says: Carl Siewers writes to the Standard that ho is in receipt of advices from Norway that leave little doubt that Wellman and the members of his Arctic expedition are Jost. Experienced skippers who have just returned from the Spitzbergen seas express the same opinion. The Pall Mall Gazette is also in receipt of advices from Tromso confirming tho general belief as to the fate of the expedition. For every eight marriages in Laporte there is one divorce. Near Gessie, Vermillion county, on tho 25th, Jeff Clark ended a drunken spree by braining Henry Skinner, his stepfather, with a spade and chasing his mother with intent to kill. He went home and told his wife what he had done, and after sobering went back to his stepfather’s and washed and fixed the body. Returning to bis own home he washed and went to bed and was later arrested and taken to jail. Stark is an habitual drunkard. Skinner was a highly respected citizen. Albert Ward, of Champion, 0.. suffering from pleuro-pneumonia, dismissed his physicians and summoned faith cures who rubbed oil on his body and prayed over him. He died.'