Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-22


A mission in Congo. Africa ,lat is
under the supsrintendency OF A. E.
Fredriokson, has enrolled 700 con-.
yerted heathens.
Experiments are being made in
Sweden to fire locomotives with peat.
Several preparations OF this fuel are
being manufactured
Counting tourists and emigrants,
2,24o persons have departed from
Trondhjem during the first six moths
of TIE year, against 2,217 last year.
The king of Norway and Sweden
will visit the fortress at Tonsperg
and, as the occasion is fitting he ex-
poets to take the baths of Sandefjord.
The Oldest woman in Stockholm.
Sweden. is Beata Kristina Funck, 101
years of age. The Oldest man is a
printer, Axel Cedargren, 81 years Of
age
The heat and drouth is the noun
famous districts of the northern parts
of Norway is becoming serious this
season. Several places are devising
plans TO replenish the supply Of water
Forest fires are raging Ia Jemtland,
Sweden, and are endangering life and
j Destroying property to an untold ex-
,srt Three thousand soldiers have
been despatched to ala the FIRE
fighters.
The car has wiped out OF existence
all Finnish military EXAMINATIONS ex-
cept two regiments, the Guards and
Dragons. The Finnish army is to De
.reorganized by 1908, and no Finn viii
be an officer unless he speaks the
/ Russian tongue fluently.
StOckholm's Commune has sent a
commission to other countries to visit
the practical trade schools They
seek information relating to organiza-
ton and utility. The commission is
composed Of the following members:
Rector, v. Adler; engineer, c. A.
Randstrom, and DR. II. It. Elmquist.
at present they are in Budapest.
A newspaper in Copenhagen offered
prize of a hog to the family which
could show the largest number of
children. 1t fell to a laborer aud his
wife, Sc and So years of age, re-
spectively They have had twenty
FIVE children, twenty-five of whom are
alive, the eldest being 30 years of
age and the youngest 2.
Gyttorp guppowder factor. short
distance north of Nora. Sweden, ex-
ploded, wrecking seven buildings.
Strange to state only four persons out
Of nine working IN the factory were
killed while the others escaped with
wounds. The explosion set fire to the
forest in which the mill was located
Christina Nilsson is still cherished
by the little girls. While iourneying
to Ronnehy, Sweden, the train made a
long stop at Tingsryd The station
was decorated as If for a festival. and
score of little girls. dressed in white
and with waving flags, greeted the
countess When the train departed.
the girls showered the object of their
alteration with flowers.
The Danish army Is being supplied
with new uniforms. Three colors are
being tried. gray, dark blue and dark
! green. Metal and horn buttons are
being used The coat collar is fes-
tooned with large buckle There
are two breast pockets in the coat,
but 90 shoulder straps of any kid.
The soldier furnishes his own under
clothing as be chooses. The caps are
higher and roomier, and have the
regimont figures N dark color.
The Hagerup expedition returned TO
Tromso, July Is, having wirtered ON
Spit2bergen. The members report a
severe winter. az times the mercury
being frozen in the glass. The ex-
pedition remained two or three weeks
frozen in the ice. but after the New
Year moved to land. II was made
richer by the CAPTURE OF sixteen. bears,
fifty foxes (of which eight were
"bluesN. one walrus and quantity OF
eggs. Hagerup relates that nine
vessels from the west coast wintered