Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-12
THE STRUGGLE IN DENMARK.
Three Men to Whom Recent Events
Have Drawn Wide attention.
New York Sun.

The following sketches of Premier
Estrup and Mr.. Berg, the leaders of
the two great political parties in Den
mark, and also of Theodore Rasmuss-
en-, the printer who attempted the as
sassination of Premier Estrup. His ex-
cellency Jacob Scavenius Estrup, the
premier and leader of the conserve
tive party in Denmark, was early
prominent among the great landed
proprietors or ''junkers. In thesum =
mer of 1875 he was summoned by the
king to form new cabinet, and the
composition of his ministry indicat>
ed at once his reactionary purposes
and his intention to give the people
little voice IN the government. He
has failed, however, to keep his party
predominant in the country. The op-
position party, which when he took
Office was an insignificant minority,
has gained all the seats in the folke-
thing except half a dozen, which are
still in the possession of Premier Est
rup's supporters. That he does not
resign, and that King Christian TX.
persistently refuses to call another
cabinet, is owing chiefly to the MIXERS
tied instincts of the wealthy and arts
tocratic class to which the premier be-
longs, and which looks with contempt
upon the peasantry and working
classes. Premier Estrup is noted for
his strong and stubborn will. It has
become the settled purpose of his life
never to surrender, if possible, and
through his determination he came
very near losing his life last Wednes-
day
Mr.. Berg, president of the tower
house, and the most prominent lead
er of the democratic party, is by edu-
cation a school teacher. and sprang
from the common people. When he
entered parliament, about twelve
years ago, his opponents looked up
on him as harmless. In the course OF
time, however, he attracted general
attention as an obstructionist and al
though the conservatives for a while
endeavored to neutralize his efforts
by ridicule, it soon became evident
that he possessed the qualities of q
formidable opponent. At present he
is the most popular man in Denmark,
and the maj GRITTY of the people desire
to see him appointed premier in place
of the. obnoxious Estrup. The govern
meut succeeded recently in passin e
a sentence of six months imprison-
ment upon him for pushing a police
official off the platform at political
meeting, and this extraordinary pun
ishment has naturally increased the
popular feeling in his behalf and aug
mented the detestation in which the
government is held.
Theodore Rasmussen, the young
Dane, who, stimulated by the wide
spread animosity toward the premier,
attempted to assassinate him, does
not possess much of a political record.
A printer by trade, he had an oppor-
tunity to become acquainted with the
socialistic agitation while working In
the printing Office of the leading sec
ialistic papers in Copenhagen. The
emotional feeling is very marked and
his nature, and political fanaticism
drove him forward as the would~be
avenger of an outraged nation.
People in some parts of Spain keep
locusts IN cages for the sake of their
music. Well trained insects bring as
| .1l1N1 cSS ~ SClbS LA AHCIlCdu cur
rency.
A new street has just been construct
ed in Bergen, Norway, out of the pro-
ceeds of liquor licenses. It has been
named Drammepsyel, which means
GrogWay.
In French adaptation of ''Twelfth
Night" now being played at theater
IN Paris, Sir Toby Belch and Sir An
drew Aguecheek actually are merged
into one character, Quinapulus by
name.
PHYSICIANS have 20 pay $50 for
good skeletons ana $50 for common
ones. The preparation of them is
growing to be quite business. The
most difficult part of the process is to
clean the bones without marring
them. Medical college janitors pretty
nearly nonopolize the trade. The
French excel in whitening the bones
and making them presentable.