Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-05-12
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENiNes IN FAR OFF
NORTHWEST.
ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME
Resume Of the Most Important Events
In Sweden, Norway and Denmark
OF Interest 70 the seandinayIans
N 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 benehciaries are: /. Gun
hid Borgstrom of Trollhattan, fourteen
years old, who saved a four-year-old
boy from drowning July 2. 1914. Her
prize was a silver watch with an In
scription. 2. Hedvig Erlandsen OF
Gefe, fifteen years old, who saved
two-year-old girl from being run over
by train June 13 1913. She rtc eived
a gold watch with an inscription and
S400 In cash for taking a course at
business college 3. Per Olof Skog-
lund Of Fritsla, 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.
4. 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 &c. 1914.
DR.. John Reenstjerna has given an
account of medical discovery which
be has made. 1t is serum for combat
ting gonorrhea, one of the most trou
blesome and most disgusting of dis
eases. lie tested his remedy at the
hospitals OF Stockholm before bring
ing IL 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 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 if the remedy is
as effective as its inventor AYERS. it
will prove great boon to suffering
humanity.
0AptANES VI war III anu
Russia send letters, money orders,
and packages between the two coun-
tries by way of Sweden. There is a
most striking disproportion between
the number of money orders passing
each way. Russia sends about 1900
postal money orders day to Russian
eaptiyes in Germany, while the num-
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 SaIa was fixing the
hinges ON trapdoor in the roof of
q 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 it was foHmd necessary
to amputate the finger at the root
The receipts of the cooperative
packing house at Tomeiilla for the
year 1914, were about $75O.OO0. 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 a pound for
dressed hogs and nine and half cents
for live weight.
Articles Of incorporation have been
completed for the so-called Swedish
J Rassian-Asiatic company. the aim Of
which is to carry on trade between the
countries indicated by the name. The.
| capital stock shall be somewhere be-
( tween ss0.a00 and $4,000, and the
amount of each share is to be $3.50.
The headquarters of the company viii
/ 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
company of Stockholm for the year
1914 was almost 100000. and the
stockholders received dividend Of
IL per cent.
Malmo is practically sure of having
an airship station.
The Malmo Office of the national as
| soctotfoy, for chackinO enafqration Was