Show SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT MAP HAP IN FAR OFF NORTHWEST ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME desurne of important events event in sweden Nr Nor denmark of Inte sterett nt erett reit to them the scandinavians in Amo america ilca NORWAY A large quantity of provisions which were arf norway last spring consigned to armour and morris although these chicago packers have no branch in norway still atu remain unclaimed the tha original consignment included 1000 boxes jbf pork barrels of lard and barr barrel alsoE sot oil it la is generally bell believed eved that tho the provisions were sent from the ignited states in the expectation that they would bo be taken care of by bi german agents and ro to ger germany niazi but the norwegian laws forbid this the govern ment has disposed of a portion ot of tho the provisions tor to moot the expenses expense 9 of storage e but tile the reander la is still waiting for the or r owner attempts to smuggle coni contraband material through norway continue hut they are completely corn c ly frustrated fr rated it la is declared by the vigilance of 0 the customs some borne days das ago a gernian bolgla fro lElit car walls wails was discovered by a station egadon agent near between tho the two walls of the car ww waft ajr crowded full of copper while tile the body of the CM car was 10 loaded with window sashes and had it not been for tho the inspection by the station agent tho the copper would have escaped to germany t deksnes Duks nes lopoten Lof oten la is the ho homoet me of a i ll 11 sherman named abel ellason Ellas cn cil whose uto life spanned the whole of 0 the nineteenth and ad could still spare fl a few years tor for the eighteenth nth and twentieth centuries lie ho was bo born ari at al in the year 1796 bocan still belll teh that in 1 1807 1809 ho he was herding i cattle for the parson ol 01 va kaagan 1 ajan lla lie remembers distinctly that towards tiro tire close of june tho the snow was deep deed on the fields tho the price pt p rye was 25 5 a bus bushel liel in 1812 hd be waa on a fishing smack that sailed to bergen with a cargo of fish on ilia hla way back th the a smack was chased by an english man mail of war but the owner 0 N r ner of the smack managed his vessel so 80 well that lie he escaped on shallow ground at brommund Drel Brol sund mund south of Aale sund the he man banot manot of war did not dare to follow but as ab a last farewell fired dred several shots which to toj 3 i the sail to diec pieces s allasen b has as been married three times tho the last time when ho he was ninety six years old ilia hla health is still good but for a d tow few years fawnie past he lias has used glasses when Toa reading dind tie he has lived under tha the rolin reign of ninel Aing seand and la supposed to be the oldest person living in scandinavia tobacco has been bals balard d on a small scale in sogn for 25 past pait LAI hut the present a administration does not mot look with favor upon this industry I 1 and a man who knows what 16 he is talking about says the tobacco odid did not nat rally after the frost and today the plow I 1 Is s c cutting u eting its wa way through the last w tobacco ba c co field at this pi place ace the ground la Is going to bo be put to green fodder this little industry Is d doomed med to die by the high taxes at t the he time and no ri reduction on acco of a failure of tho crop this does not work twenty etva fears of aerials t reals a and n d struggles have come to ri naught ought choso who were interested in the busine fw lloro the government tor for its hostility the great tunnel between klukan rjukan falls no I 1 and rjukan fallino falls fall sNo no 2 litts has just been finished tho the leng length 11 of it Is about feet the height of the kaukau falls Is so vast that the bamo water la Is used tor for running two different rower slat fona the tunnel Is to carry the water from froin ti thaola tha old or upper station atit sti lon tion to tho the new pr station no 2 it took men beti between veen two and three years til blast the tunnel the american steamer sirius irom from now york for narvik barvik norway carrying resin consigned to Petro petrograd grad is still detained by british authorities as they insist that the vessel must bo be taken direct to archangel unless the owners secure a guaranty from sweden that transshipment of bf the tha crr go will be Permit Lad the norwegian steamer artemis from rom baltimore tor for rothenburg with a cardd of coat has been detained rhonar the cormons mormons me are 0 s till still conducting a vigorous agitation lu in according to a recent report they distribute trib tite tracts from house to house and seok seek to induce immigration to their promised mad and in utah officers and crow of tho ilia norwegian steamer capto which camo came to new york from cardiff declared that tho the vessel was fired upon without waria lug by agerman submarine in tho the english channel on august 12 two shots allots were tired fired it ft as said the norwegian flag was then displayed and the submarine disappeared tho the capto la is 0 a freight steamer the first shot tired by the submarine exploded ou on tho the starboard side of the bridge and frag ments of tho the shell shall penetrated the bow of a lifeboat and tile the athani v the second shot did 16 damage |