Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-04
orpER LANDS THAN Ours.


of Swedish and Norwegian members. Ac-
cording to this protocol the king declared in
the State Council that he regretted the reso-
luton OF the Norwegian Storthing to intro
duce an absolutely Norwegian flag, as the
emblem OF union in the flag implied equal
rights for both nations AS, however, added
his majesty, the resolution had thrice been
passed by the Storthng, he would not refuse
to sanction the promulgation OF the new flag
law in accordance with the constitution.
Immediately upon tho reception OF the
above news in Christiania. the Norwegian
capital the party OF the left published its
platform for the forthcoming elections. The
program includes:
81. Norways independence, to be brought
about by means OF a separate Norwegian
ministry for foreign affairs and a separate
Norwegian consular system; a resolution
concerning the consular system to be drawn
up in the course of the election period.
"2. To labor to establish a court of arbi-
tration and neutrality.
3. system of insurance against in
capacity to earn a livelihood, to apply to
the whole Norwegian people"
The capitalists interested In the goldnelds
OF Rhodesia are about to make an organized
efort--they will wait probably, until quiet
has been restored again in the Transvaal--
to restock that vast and fertile district with
cattle. II they are successful, and there
seems to be no good reason why they should
not be, an enormous trade will be developed
in the near future. The whole country is
admirably adapted for grazing purposes In
Lobengula's time 1t teemed with cattle. After
the war many thousands were disposed OF as
loot, fine young COWS and oxen fetching as
q hnn,
ridiculously low price compared to their
present value from s35 to $40. The value
OF the land for grazing purposes had only
just been recognized when the dreaded rind
erpest arrived and, practically swept the
country clean. From this blow the country
has never recovered but now, as has been
said, an organized attempt is to be made
to populate the limitess grazing lands, now
lying falow and waste, with herds OF cattle,
as In the olden time
Reports still come from Russia OF the
wholesale expulsions of suspected persons
upon the slightest pretext The Arbeiter
zeitung OF Vienna telle how bock q fairy
tales was the cause of the expulsion and
consequent ruin OF 175 persons at Poltova.
pupil at enc of the state schools the
was caught in the act of readi1g thi,
volume, which had been prohibited b. thA
censor on the ground that certain Of the
tales might be applied to Ru; sian condt ons
and Russian politics. This boy explained
that the caretaker of the school building
had lent him the book. The principal OF the
school reported the caretaker to the police,
and on this denunciation the offender was
sent to Siberia. The officials of the in
stitution, together with several parents OF
pupils were so indignant at the conduct OF
the principal that they drew up protest
describing it as mean and despicable. The
result was that the officials los. their posts
and, together with the residents who hal
signed the protest. were expelled from the
province Of Poltova for three years. Tie
order Of expulsion was extended to all the
relations CT all the offenders, so that It's
persons were sentenced to this severe
punishment on account of a book Of fairy
tales which in other countries Is given to
every child to read. A student named
Lieven was arrested in Moscow for propagat-
ing revolutionary views, but afterwards re-
leased again, owing to lack OF evidence. A
day or two later he was again arrested and
kept in solitary confinement for five months
without trial and without any kind of
judicial examination. In the end he went
mad and committed suicide by setting fire to
his clothes with a match.
Extensive insurance frauds are now under
investigation at Eskistuna, city we'll
known for it's cutlery, and sometimes called
the Sheffield OF Sweden. The frauds seem
to have been committed by a league of
several persons, a prominent member being
the city physician, Dr. E. ". Palm, who is
now under arrest and has partly acknowl-
edged his guilt. Eleven other persons have
also been arrested, and it is expected that
others will follow. The cheating has been
done in different ways. DR.. Palm, it is al
legged, has either furnished health certificates
to persons known by him TO be sick
or has allowed metal grinders, who by in
surance people are regarded as bad risks, to
get high insurance at low rates. 1t is also
said that the swinders have borrowed"
healthy persons, who, in the names of sick
folk, have obtained health certificates and
ultimately life insurance policies. The per-
sons interested in the imposition have then
held the policies as security for alleged
loans, and have even tried to lead the in
sured persons to irregular lives. that they
might die the sooner. When the invest ga
ticn began twenty nine insurance policies
were fUuHu IN the pOsSeSSlOH Oh q common
workman and DR.. Palip had sixteen policies
issued to different persons. Such frauds
are uncommon in Sweden, and this case has
caused a great sensation.
Ricciotti Garibaldi, son of the late liberator
OF Italy, Is now in Buenos Ayres. He has
publicly declared that there was no truth in
the report that he was conspiring to estab-
lish a papal democracy in Italy. He has
| come to Argentina, he says, with the purpose
| of proposing a great scheme of Italian i'm
migration to populate Patagonia. He asks
that the government Of the South American
, republic should grant him all the available
public land in this territory and leave to the
directors of the colonization movement the
internal administration of the settlements.
Garibaldi proposes to bring out no less
than 10000 Italian families and settle them
in Patagonia, selling them land at nominal
prices. The general opinion In Buenos Ayres
is that Garibaldi Is not sufficiently infu-
ential man in his own country to insure the
success of the experiment, even If the Ar
gentine government granted to him all the
concessions he seeks. The administration
has not yet officially replied to his pro-
posals. 1t Is deemed extremely unlikely