Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-08-19

A mission in Congo, Africa, that is
under the superintendency of A. q.
Fredrickson, has enrolled 700 con-
verified heathens.
Experiments are being made in
Sweden to fire locomotives with peat.
Several preparations of this fuel are
being manufactured.
Counting tourists and emigrants.
2,245 persons have departed from
Trondhjem during the first six months
of the year, against 2,217 last year.
The king of Norway and Sweden
will visit the fortress at Tonsberg
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 in Jemtland,
Sweden, and are endangering life and
destroying property to an untold ex-
tent. Three thousand soldiers have
been despatched to aid 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 be
reorganized by 1908, and no Finn will
be an officer unless he speaks the
Russian tongue fuently.
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, G. A.
Randstrom, and DR.. H. E. Elmquist
At present they are in Budapest.
A newspaper in Copenhagen offered
a prize of hog to the family which
could show the largest number of
children. It fell to a laborer and his
wife, Sc and 50 years of age, re-
spectively. They have had twenty
five children, twenty-five of whom are
alive, the eldest being 80 years of
age and the youngest 2.
Gyttorp gunpoWder factory, a short
distance north of Nora. Sweden, ex-
ploded, wrecling 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 journeying
to Ronneby, Sweden, the train made
long stop at Tingsryd. The station
was decorated as if for a festival. and
a score of little girls. dressed in white
and with waving flags, greeted the
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-
TONED with a large buckle. There
are two breast pockets in the coat,
but no shoulder straps of any kind.
The soldier furnishes his own under
as he chooses. The caps are
higher and roomier, and have the
regiment figures in dark color
The Hagerup expedition returned to
Tromso, July Is. having wintered On
Spitzbergen The members report
severe winter. at times the mercury
beine frozen in the glass. The ex-
petition remained two or three weeks
frozen in the ice, but after the New
Year moved to land. It was made
richer by the capture of sixteen bears,
fifty foxes (of which eight were
'blues'). one wa1rus and quantity of
eggs. Hagerup relates that nine
vessels from the west coast wintered
n the ice.