Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1899 — CONFIRMS DEATH OF ANDREE. [ARTICLE]

CONFIRMS DEATH OF ANDREE.

Letter from the Explorer Is Washed Ashore on Norway’* Coast. H. J. Baron, formerly an Eastern newspaper man, has written the following from Wrangel, Alaska: “Information received here confirms the story that Andree, the arctic explorer, is dead. A Norwegian, who was a passenger on the Rosalie, a Seattle boat bound for Skaguay, showed a letter supposed to have been written by Andree. The letter, in a sealed bottle, had been washed ashore off the Norwegian coast. The latitude was given as 74 north and the balloon was somewhere to the westward of .Iceland. ‘I am leaving balloon and provisions.—Andree,’ were the words written.”