Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1903 — 30,000 ARE STARVING. [ARTICLE]

30,000 ARE STARVING.

People of Northern Sweden Are Rating Pine Hurk and Iceland'Moos. Telegrams from Stockholm confirm the distressing accounts of famine in northern Sweden. About 30,000 people are affected by this famine, which extends from the 61st to the OTth degree north latitude and from the Gulf of Bothnia and the Russian border far into the interior. The starving people are eating pine bark, which is dried, ground to powder, mixed with stewed Iceland moss, and made into a kind of famine broad. Coincident with the failure of the crop is the extreme scarcity of fish. It is estimated that the expenditure of about ,0,800.000 will be necessary to save the population from decimation. Thus far about ,200.000 has been subscribed, of which sum over ,12.500 was sent by Swedes in the United States. This amount does not Include the money necessary to eave the breed of cattle, which alone can live through an Arctic winter, or supply seed for tho spring sowings. Tho peasants are making pathetic sacrifices to avert the extermiuih tlon of tho hardy northern cattle. Gold discovered twenty miles from Anniston, Ala.