The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, August 20, 1884, Image 4

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    HE CENTRE REPORTER.
FRED KURTZ, . . . Editor.
Cextre Hav, Pa, Aug. 20, '84
Awful Story of Greely’s Camp al Cape
Sabine.
Washington, August 12,—The shock-
ing stories of cannibalism on the part of
the members of the Greely Artic Expe-
dition, as they appeared somewhat in de-
tail in the New York Times to-day, cres
ated a great sensation in Washington.
One of the dead sergeants, Cross, was
buried in the Congressional cemetery,
and it is remembered as a suspicious cir-
cumstance, calculated to strengthen bes
lief in the horrible disclosures, that the
New York authorities telegraphed to the
friends of the deceased not to open the
casket containing the remains under any
circumstances. It is also regarded as
suspicious that the frozen corpses should
have been encased in iron coffins weigh-
ing seven hundred pounds or more and
bolted together with fifty-six bolts, al-
most beyond the possibility of opening.
The suflferings and privations of the
men in their canvas hut during the long
bitter winter of ‘84 have not hall been
told. It has been published that after
the game gave out early in Febroary
they lived principally on sealskinea,
lichens and shrimps. As a matter of fact,
they were kept alive on human flesh.
When the rescuing party found the half-
starved survivors their first duty was to
look to the two men who were ingensible
from cold and privation, even to the
point of death. One of them, a German,
was wild in his delirium.
“Oh,” he shrieked as the sailors took
hold of him to lift him tenderly, “don’t
let them shoot me as they did poor Hens
ry. Must I be killed and eaten as Hen-
ry was? Don't let them do it. Don't,”
The sailors were horrified, but at once
reported the man’s words to Commander
Schley. After a brief investigation be
felt satisfied that thie poor fellow was
speaking the truth, and that some of the
men who perished had been stripped of
heir flesh to keep the surviving com-
rades alive. Mr. Schley proposed
make thorough work of it. When the
horrible reality was brought before an
investigating committee he did not pro-
pose to have it rest solely on his oral tes-
timony. He iostructed two or three
{to
the Surgeon of the Bear, to make a care-
fal examination, and put their conclusion
in writing.
ports are now in the hands of the
\
ly adverse to having the bodies of
buried dead distarved.
wise, as they bad been buried so long, to
let them remain
Commander Schley did not a agree with
gaves in the little hill jost back of the
camp established in October, 1883. Most
of
i
heaps of white bones, many
picked clean. The remains couid
identified only by the marks on
blankets, By inquiries
Behley discovered that many of the sev-
enteen mean who are said to bave perish
ed from starvation had been eaten by
their famishing comrades, It was t
one last resort,
ie
t
ti
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hope if life would hold out for even a
few weeks,
or four who died of scurvy.
tated limbs of men who afterward per-
ished were eagerly devoured as food.
HENRY'S TRAGIC DEATH.
Charles B, Henry's death was particu~
larly tragic. He was a young German,
without any relatives in this country,
and joined Company E, Eighth Cavalry,
in Cincinnati, His friends tried to dis-
suade him from going with the expedis
tion, but his spirit of adventure was
aroused by tales of artic exploits, and bh
determined to go. Driven to despair by
his frightful hunger Henry saw an op-
portunity to steal a little wore than his
share of rations, and he made the at.
tempt. He was found out and shot for
his crime. In the published official re-
port the death of this man is set down an
having occurred un June 6th, When the
body was found his hands and face,
though shrunken, were intact and recog-
nizgable ; but nearly everywhere else the
ekin had been uiripped from him and the
flesh picked from the bones. Even his
heart and lungs were eaten by his com-
rades, Ope rnb was found shattered by s
bullet, and to another small fragments of
lead were attached. A bullet bole was
found in the skin.
a ——
COWBOYS KILL NINE MEN.
Helena, Montana,’ August 10.—Meager
particulars are received of another
slaughter of horse-thieves in the Muscle-
shell region, 150 miles northeast of here,
by cowboys. While in pursuit of stolen
horses, a log-house was discovered in the
timber on the mountain side, It was se-
cretly watched a day or two, daring
which time several small parties of men
came and went, some by day, others by
night, baying in possession horses, evi:
dently stolen. It becomingevident that
it was a horse-thieves’ rendezvous, cow-
boys congregated, and last Monday night
crawled up close to the house and at-
tacked fourteen horse-thieves, about the
premises at the time. Nine were killed
and five escaped. The cabin was set fire
to and burned. There never was a peri-
od in the history of this or any other Ter-
ritory when so much De vane was
going on. Citizens have determined to
effectively stop it. Fully fifty thieves
have been havged or shot.in the past
month.
TWENTY PERSONS DROWNED,
Pesth, Angust 11.~Later reports re-
garding the great storm of yesterday
show that it was more savere than at
first anticipated. In addition to the
damage reported in previous dispatches
comes tho intelligence that the villages
of Zebegony, fod Oroszy have been par-
tially demolished by the storm, and that
twenty persons were drowned by the
rapidly rising waters of the Danube,
while a number of barns and onthonses,
cattle, horses and other live stock were
swept away.
Ci
Don’t fill thelsystem with quinine in
the effort to prevent or cure fever and
agve, Ayer's Ague Cure ie a far morn
potent preventive and remedy, with the
advantage of leaving in the body no
poisons to produce dizziness, deafness,
headache, and other disorders. The pro.
prietors warrant it,
POACHING IN ENGLAND,
There is no parish in England without |
its poacher, and in some two, three, or jy
wore, may be found. I do not speak of
occasional transgressors of the game
laws, as idle fellows out upon Sundays or
holidays, who spend them in the capture
of game partly for the pot, but as much
by the way of pastime. These
poachers, punishable and punished all |
the same ; but they are not accounted in |
[t
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aro |
ST, KLMO HOTEL,
317 & 819 Arch Street, Philadelphia,
Roduced rates to $2.00 per day, The
raveling public will still find at this Hoe
al the same provision for their)
It is located in the immediate |
isiness and
lihoral
antres of hn
nt and
jring ol amuse
different railroad Jopots
, a8 well
of the city, are easily accessib i
Street Cars con tly puasing Lid
It offers specisl inducements |
slantiy
8 Of
Hy soicitad
it, Proprietor.
often styled, * professional” poacher. |
True, he does not style himself so, only |
by his deeds having earned the designa-
tion ; instead he generally pretends to
have some trade or other industry, and
ostensibly practices it during the day.
Vhen night comes on, down go his trade
tools, and in their place arming himself
with nets, wire-snares, gins and gun, he
is off to the game preserves. Dut there
is also the poacher pur sang, who disdains
all such subterfuge, regardless of reputa-
tion as of law, who for his livelihood de-
pends solely on the sale of the game he
may capture. Not such a poor depend-
ence is it, either ; considering that hares
sell for over a dollar each, pheasants ihe
same, partridges a d«
bruce, and woodcocks two
couple. True, these are the retail prices;
but the licensed game dealer himself
must
sllar and a hall a
dollars a
ho
has to give figure
close np to them, whether he purchases
be licensed 3
fiom the owners of preserves or other
wise, He is not supposed to negotiate
with the poacher at all, though he of
undoubtedly does; and as the trafllc is
illegal, with as much danger to the
buyer as the the i
price is not so great as might be su
posed.
tan
seller, reduc
P-
In any case, the poacher receives
a fair remuneration ; and the more when
his dealings are direct with the consumer,
as they generally are. He can almost
aiways dispose of hare or pheasant, to
thie semi-gentility residing in villas, and
the shop-keepers of the towns; beside,
is
there never wanting in any neigh-
+1
borhood a publican who makes surrep
i
]
and receiver,
yus game-dealing a speciality, and is
ady to act as his * fence"
be seen that he has no dif-
ioulty in finding a market for his com.
rodities ;
ily a single hare or pheasant
night, greater are his ga
will thus
and, supposing him to
thie poor laborer who foils all
From an
poaching, however, there will freques
accrue many heads of game ; hence
emit te essai
ENDURANCE IN THE WATER.
als are able to
Man and anim
themselves for
sustain
to
distances in o
ong
ta t
to the for.
not incapacitated, in regard
mer at lemd, by sheer terror, ns well as
complete ig norance of their real powers.
Webb's wonderful endurance will
But
less
never
there are other in.
Some
only remarkable
1
ip fall
It was blowing fresh; the fim
was night, and the place some miles ont
on the stormy German ocean. The hardy
fellow, nevertheless, managed to gain the
English coast. Brock, 8
other pilots, was plying for fares by
Yarmouth ; and as the main sheet was
balayed, a sudden puff of wind upset the
boat, when presently all perished ex.
cept Brock himself, who from four in
the afternoon of an Oectober evoning to
one the next morning, swam
niles before he was able to hail a vessel
a! anchor in the offing. Animals them-
solves are capable of swimming immense
distances, although unable to rest by the
way. A dog recently swam thirteen
miles in America to rejoin his matter,
A mule and a dog, washed overboard in
tse Bay of Biscay, have been known fo
make their way to shore, A dog swam
ashore at the Cape of Good Hope with a
lpter in his mouth. The crew of the
sub to which the dog belonged all per-
ir which they need not have done
had only ventured to tread water as
the did. As a ofrisin ship was
Isboriig hesvily in the trough of the
gon, it was found needful in order to
lightsn the vessel, to throw some troop
horses overboard. The jpoor things, my
informant, a staf-surgeon told me, when |
they found themselves abandoned, faced
round and swam for miles after the
vessel.
0n
with dozen
thirteen
——————— AI
RELIGIOUS DOGS,
Samm
The famous St. Bernard dogs are very |
carefully trained. A traveller who visited |
some of the monasteries of the monks of |
St. Bernard, a few years ago, found the |
monks teaching their dogs from the
earliest stages of puppyhood. Not only
is physical and mental training included
in this teaching, but spiritual culture is
by no means neglected. At mealtime |
the dogs sit in a row, each with a tin dish |
before him containing his repast. Grace |
is said by one of the monks, the dogs
sitting motionless with bowed heads.
Not one of them stirs until the ‘amen ”
is spoken. If a frisky puppy attempt to
sample his meal before grace is over one |
of the older dogs growls and gently tugs |
his ear. The intelligence displayed by
thess animals in rescuing unfortunate
travellers among the mountafos is ab.
solutely wonderfid. Many a men who
lays down to sleep in a snowlrift owes
Lis life to the sagneity of the St. Bernard
dog.
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2000 yards of best ealicoes ; all styles —
Garmanes,
Macrana in all shades Garmans,
A HOME DRUGGIST
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it is a safe, sure, and
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call your attention to our stock
Cooks & Ranges:
Heating Btoves the
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with Groceries, Dry-
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goods embrace fd in den-
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lower prices than ever
of] red before in Centre
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sell jor Cash. and there-
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A a valuable farm, situated in Gregg
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taining 146 ACRES, of which 110 acres are cleared,
balance good timber land ; farm is in a good con-
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tor, a large BANK BARN, and running water in
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all others ten to ane,
Jot of £50 the first day.
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al ever of
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worker,
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