Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-11-29
SCANDINAVIAN \ NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FAIHERLAyD,
Principal Events That Have Occurred
in the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
or So Just Past.
SWEDEN.

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or So just Past.
SWEDEN.
The public school teachers of manv
OF the large cities have had their sala-
RES increased this fall.
There are about dozen 'Scandina-
Wan" societies in Sweden.
An attempt is being made to organ-
1ze all the telephone and telegraph
operators in the country into a ma
tional organization.
Six young persons at Stodssio went
to dance at Loo one evening. Their
boat capsized. and when assistance arr
rived five Of them were drowned.
The Swedish missionaries in China
have been criticized because they fed
from their congregations at the open
ing OF the Chinese rebellion. Aug.
Berg, one OF those missionaries, dis
cussed this question at public meet
ing IN Malmo. The missionaries, he
said, fled only after they had been or
dered to do so bv the Chinese authors.
Ties, by the consuls and by the super
1ntendents of the missions. Even the
native Christians had advised the mis-
slonaries to leave, because the stay of
the latter would only embarrass the
former. Finally, the missionaries
themselves thought it would be wiser
to save their lives by flight and return
to work later on than to stay and be
killed. -,.~ e..s.-t ,S@ ! s- L
The Plethora numbering firm, which
started numbering business on very
large scale in northern Russia, as
been doing business at loss of $50, 900
in one year. Financial disaster NAV
overtake the concern unless it is able
to borrow a few hundred thousand
The next riksdag may impose spe-
cial tax upon those young men who
are unfit for military service Many
European countries have such tax,
and it was proposed in Sweden some
nine nears ago. e. 20 ~
1t is not often that the employers
urge their employees to join labor or
carnations. This, however,'is exactly
what happened at Ekman's carpenter
shop in Stockholm. A London firm
ordered a quantity of woodenworlx for
doors and windows from said shop.
provided all the employees at the shop
belonged to some labor union of good
standing. The proprietors, being de-
sirous Of filing the order, made IN
quiries among their. men and found
that numb Der of them belonged to no
labor union. In order to get the job
they made. these laggards join the
union, whereupon they Immediately
notified the English firm that all the
requirements of the order had been
complied with. 1t was the English
labor unions that compelled the Eng
lish firm to make this stipulation.
+. A dozen of the lady studen is in Lund
have organized a students society for
their own sex exclusively. <5t
Sofelund is the name of village
adjoining the city of Malmo, or to be
more exact, entering the latter almost
like a wedge For various reasons the
city fathers of Malmo are strongly in
favor of incorporating Sofelund into
the city. but the proprietors of the
latter ask a price of 1925, 900. Sofe-
lund covers 800 acres and has 3, 500 in
habitants. ILL H., .@s,.z i
At fire in small house in 'sthe old
city," near Kalmar. no less than four
persons were burned to death. One of
the victims was an SO-year-old man,
and the others were a woman and two
Of her children. She saved one Of her
children, but persisted herself in doing
so. -.' 81 rs.
The Scandinavian Cattle Insurance
company is ten years old 1t has paid
over $500, 900 in losses, and is by far
the greatest insurance company of its
kind in the world.
The offer Of $2,7oo made by the pat
ent Office for a thoroughly satisfactory
.contrivance for joining railway rails
has set a large number of ingenious
brains to work, the patent office re-
ceiving from Is to 20 letters every day,
all of which lay claim to the solution
of the problem. ,.
Ola Hanson, the noted author who
caused mild sensation some time ago
by joining the Catholic church, has
again withdrawn from that church.
s The liver 1uke has attacked many
shep in the country around Simris-
hamn, and some Of them have already
died. The worms first consume the
liver and the lungs and finally work
their way into the bfain Of the sheep,
in which case the sheep will walk
around and around until it falls, never
to rise again.