Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-05-13
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENiNGS IN FAR OFF
NORTHWEST.
ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME
Resume Of the Most Important Events
IN Sweden, Norway and Denmark
OF Interest to the scandInavIans
IN America.
SWEDEN.

! The managers Of the Carnegie hero
fund have awarded four prizes this
year to persons who have distin-
guished themselves by saving human
lives. The beneficiaries are: !. Gun
hid Borgstrom of Trollhattan, fourteen
years old, who saved four-year-old
boy from drowning July 2, 1914. Her
prize was silver watch with an in
scription. 2. Hedvig Erlandsen of
Gefie, fifteen years old, who saved
two-year-old girl from being run over
by train June Is, 1918. She received
q gold watch with an inscription and
$500 in cash for takingia course at a
business college. 8. Per Olof Skog-
lund of Frits!a, thirteen years old,
who had performed deed of the same
kind as the last mentioned, November
4, 1914. His prize was silver watch
with an inscription and $500 in cash
to enable him to make thorough prep
aration for the carpenters trade.
a. Johanna Kristina Bjork of Hagen,
Gasinge parish. a fifty-year-old widow.
who had saved the life Of another
woman who had fallen through the ice
November 26. 1914.
+ DIR. John Reenstjerna has given an
account of a medical discovery which
he has made. 1t is serum for combat
ting gonorrhea, one of the most trou-
blesome and most disgusting of dis
eases. He tested his remedy at the
hospitals of Stockholm before bring
ing it before the members of his pro-
fession. The serum is obtained from
goats. In most cases it effected a
complete cure. But in some instances
there was a relapse after the patient
had improved somewhat. The inven-
tor had also tried his remedy with
success on children suffering from
gonorrhea of the eyes at the time
of birth. The medical authorities Of
the country claim that II the remedy is
as effective as its inventor AYERS, 1t
will prove great boon to suffering
humanity.
Captives of war in Germany and
Russia send letters. money orders.
and packages between the two coun.
tries by way of Sweden. There is
most striking disproportion between
the number of money orders passing
each way. Russia sends about 1900
postal money orders day to Russian
"a mr. In MI, he
Der of orders of the same kind pass
ing from Germany to German cap
tives in Russia is only about 100
day.
While miner at Sala was fixing the
hinges on a trapdoor in the roof of
house the ladder on which he was
standing slipped, and as he struck out
with his hand to support himself his
wedding ring caught on nail. and
the mans finger was pulled off at the
middle joint. He was taken to the
hospital, and 1t was found necessary
to amputate the finger at the root.
The receipts of the cooperative
packing house at Tomelilla for the
year 1914, were about $75O.000. The
members of the company brought 81
OILS hogs weighing 2,479 tons. The
business Of the company was injured
by the war. The members of the COM
pany received IA cents pound for
dressed hogs and nine and half cents
for live weight.
Articles of incorporation have been |
completed for the socalled Swedish.
company, the aim of |
which is to carry on trade between the |
indicated by the name. The |
capital stock shall be somewhere be- |
tween $4,000 and $4,000, and the
of each share is to be 1880. |
The headquarters of the company will
be in Stockholm.
Nine cases Of epidemic Inflammation
of the brain have occurred at the bar
racks OF the Halland regiment at Hahn
stad. Three of the patients are al
ready dead. All public gatherings
have been prohibited by the authori-
ties.
The net profit of the new street car
Of Stockholm for the year
1914 was almost 100000. and the
received dividend of
IL per cent.
Malmo is practically sure OF having
an airship station.