Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-21
Recent Occurrences of interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
COUNT Won VEGEsACK IS DEAD
Swedish General Who Distinguished
Himself in the American Civil
War Passes Away.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

Count Won yegesack, the Swedish
general who distinguished himself IN
the American civil war, is dead. Ernst
Won Yegesack, descendant Of a German
family which in 1904 became intro
dueed and recognized In the Swedish
nobility, was born July is, 1920, in
Gotland. His father was Captain
Emil Won Vegesack. Young Vegesack
received a careful military training
and in 1912 he became second Heuten-
ant Of the Enlargement, the following
year lieutenant and in 1857 captain OF
the same regiment In 1868 he was
chosen major Of the HeIsinge regiment,
and in 1874 he was appointed military
governor OF Gotland. In 1S79-1SS7 he
was q member of the first chamber
of the riksdag and in 1884 he was chos-
en- general OF the fifth military dis
trict of Sweden. At the outbreak of
the civil war he came to America and
offered his services to the Union army.
He held the rank OF brigadier general
and participated in all the big battles
Of the war; At Antietam he particu-
larry distinguished himself. On his
return to Sweden he was highly hon
ored by the government and since that
time he held numerous important POI
sitions in King Oscars army. In 1900
General Won Negesack sent a letter of
sympathy and co,nradeship to the
meet Of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie in Chicago.
Official report Of distress in Norrland
reveals desperate conditions. The
commissioners sent out at the expense
OF the state made a careful inves-
tigation and their reports more than
confirm the gloomy accounts received
through private channels. The COM
missioners state that not less than ST.
100000 viii be necessary to save the
population from grievous reductions
through starvation Thus far 100000
In cash has been donated, one-twelfth
of which came from Swedes in the
United States. The $T000,000 men
toned does not include the amount
necessary to keep cattle through the
winter and TO provide seed grain for
the spring sowing. The people are
eating the innermost bark of pine
trees and other material unfit for food.
Ordinarily good fodder is obtainable
by mixing reindeer moss with aspen
bark, but in many places neither is to
be found this year The famine-stick-
en- sufferers are now Substituting fine
" chopped twigs of birch, willow and
mountain ash. This mixture is boiled
and fed to the cattle warm. Unfort-
unately, there is also a great scarcity
Of game and fish, and where's former
ly the tables of the peasants have usu-'
ally been filed to overlooking with
food of this kind, they are now bare.
Everything Is being done through ma
tional channels to abate the distress.
Sixteen hundred carloads of provisions
have been shipped north, valued at
s155,000
Among prominent artists represent
ed &C The International Art exhibition
in Berlin at present are Anders Zorn,
Prince Eugen, Carl LARSON, and It.
Erreuger. Tie paintings of Zorn and
Prince Eugen have been much praised
IN the Berliner Tageblatt, which adds
that the artist prince may now be con-
sidered one OF the leading painters Of
Europe.
Aryid Odman, the prominent opera
singer of Stockholm, has been en-
gagged by the Swedish-American Sing
ers' union for their concerts at Min
neapolis, MINI, next July. Mr.. OG-
man is considered one OF the greatest
opera singers 90 ) Ecden and has ap
peared in royal .pera at Paris anu
Berlin on sevc1ai occasions.
All churches and societies in the
city are now doing their utmost TO
raise funds for the famine sufferers.
The Stockholm women are specially
active and al who are able are con-
tributing their share to relieve the
distress.
King Oscar has rendered the great
cross of the North Star order to the
Egyptian minister of foreign affairs,
BoutroS Pascha Ghalf.