Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-05-13
NEWS FROM SCANDINAVIA
INTERESTING ITEMS FROM SWEDEN
ra NORWAY AND DENMARK.
Great Meeting Of Temperance People
In 1893 Being Arrangsd-Ths Svsr.
drap Expeditioa-Nsw n story Of Nor.
way and Her Psopls-AgeA Danish
.Counselors Of State Dead.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm,

SWEDEN. -
Stockholm. -
Tho Baroness Stanislaus Barnekow
died at Upsala at the age Of 50 years.
Prince Henrik of Prussia will repre-.
sent Emperor William of Germany at
King Oscars jubilee. >M i.
The fund for King Oscars jubilee,
has reached 5000, 900 crowns. Not
less than 100000 crowns were con.
tributed from M&lmohus alone. uaas>
Lieutenant Alexis Kuylenstierna,
who is travelling in Turkey and Asia
Minor, has been Ill with typhoid fever
Mt Beirut in Syria. but is convalesoent.
Reports from Upsala state that Pro.
lessor Tn. N. Fries is re. elected rector
of the university and Professor o. Ham
marsten protector, both for a term of
two years.
A mass meeting arranged by the
FredsforeninRer (peace society was
held lately, at at which popular feeling
gave vent to vigorous protests against
the policy Of the powers ON the Eastern
question. -,.:~, .s,,s:g.s:ss..
The woods in the neighborhood Of
Stockholm will furnish fir foysthe OK.
position which measures III feet in
length, meter in diameter at the
stump and Is inches 1t 80 feet from
the ground. " q
Professor Oscar Montelius has left
for Helsingfors, where he will deliver
series of lectures on the subjects !:
''Crete," Life in the North ut tho
Time of Noses and Carnival of the
Swedes in Finland"
The committee on banking recon.
mends that 1900, 600 crowns of last
years income from the Bank of
Sweden be turned over to the govern
ment, and the remainder, 1,8l8,21l
crowns, be used by the bank.
The Sandwich railway is preparing
to adorn the roof Of its pavilion at the
exposition with steel spring having
the unheard OF length Of 700 feet. The
same company will also exhibit pro-
speller axle of giant dimensions. "
III The Nykterhetsarmen Temperance
:army), . society having an Organize
> ton similar to the Salvation army, has
already, although only about = year
old, 1900 members, branch corps exist
ing at Karlskrona, Karlshamn, Upsala,
Sodertelge and Vaxholm. Stockholm
possesses three corps and fourth one
is soon to be organized. '..> .''f
Comparative statistics for 1896 show
that Malmohuslan county stands first,
industrially considered, in the king
. dom; Goteborgslan and Bohnslan Sec
:ond, and the city of Stockholm third.
Manufactured articles to the value of
:91 ,000, 900 crowns were produced in the
first and to the value Of over IS. OOO, 100
crowns in the city Of, Stockholm.
Three fifths of the factories Of Sweden
sare located in the country. but the city
factories have larger total producing
capacity. -.
Gotsbosg.
"A monument is being erected to the
memory Of ions Rundback.
The city authorities have set aside
5000 crowns to aid laboring men to
visit the exposition.
A lighthouse tower Of iron for the
lharbor of Trelleborg 10 under construc.
tion.
There is considerable talk of build.
ing railway from Varto1ta to Tida-
holm. Fr.'' 's-- @+e's,@r a''ss*sse
Nils Gustaf Strombom, rogimental
chaplain, died recently 1t Husaby.
aged so years. He was an, outhor of
some repute. Il. ~
The contract for the erection. of the
hospital at Anggarden in this city has
been awarded 20 Herman Dahn for
99S, 600 crowns. 81 Ss1Fs5
) Good working horses were sold at
! the recent spring fairSat Falkoping for
! 800 to S50scrownss apiece and oxen for
( 4oo crowns e a par; ~ ssss.sgssysssss,,
T. Pal Johanson, at 6ardal q Halland,
I while digging in his field discovered :
] tin box containing. some 81 old coins
bearing : 18th century stamp. }
Professor ]. T. Lang has been elected
ri n,rcnocoo,, "a prnfousorRz 1,,nun orakod nc