Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-27
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean. <AS.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAgD.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
\ North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
The appropriation proceedings to pro-
cure ground for a new railway line near
Malrno reveals the enormous value of the
best farm land in Southern Sweden. In
some localities the judges have awarded
the owners of the land $721.46 per acre,
and the average for the whole line is q
trifie over $4S7 per acre.
A. Hemming, a bright journalist, is
serving a term of six months at Lang
holmen, for having published a severe
criticism of the methods of judge. He
is devoting his time to the study of law,
and those who know something about his
energy assert that he will not discontinue
his studies until he is admitted to the
bar -la# l@"...
i King Oscar has instructed the mission
department of the Church Of Sweden to
keep a. permanent mission pastor in CO.
penhagen. ' "- - s.r..
+ During the stay Of Prince Regent Gus
tat in Norway. the government of Swe-
den was conducted by Councillors WIKI
blad, Claeson, Crusebj0rn and Husberg.
AS much9as 81 a piece has been paid for
:six-weeks old pigs in Southern Sweden
this season, while the usual price this
time of the year is about $3.50. ~
J. p. Holmberg, a member of the
board of aldermen of Stockholm, has do
mated $1,000 to the city for the erection Of
a suitable statute in the center of the
new fountain at Adolf Frederick's Mar
ket.
The railway stations at Hessleholm,
Es1of and Markaryd are to be lighted by
.acetylene gas.
Baroness Won Mecklenburg, the proprie-
tor of the Lung property. in Ostergot-
land ~ ~
The government waterfalls committee
recommends that the waterfalls of Saari-
koski and Sahkokoski, near Gellivare be
rented out to private parties for fifty
years at q rate of $500 a year, which Is
about SETS per horse power.
Large quantities of apples were pur-
chased for the North Standby whiskey
vdistillery. But the liquor produced was
of such a decidedly bad quality that
those who sampled it took sick. The pro-
prietors lost considerable sums of money
on this experiment.
BY appointing a regular successor to
Captain Andree in the patent bureau,
King Oscar has definitely signifed his
conviction that the Arctic aeronaut no
longer is alive.
A disease supposed to be splenic fever
has broken out in Skog parish, Norrland.
B The minister of foreign affairs has in
,structed the Swedish minister to Germany
to notify the German government that
Baroness Helena Won Mecklenburg, the
owner of the Lung etate in Ostergot-.
land, causes the Swedish authorities great
annoyance by inducing German laborers
20 foy. he,
and by treating them in such way that
they leave her service after brief stay,
often compelling the Swedish authorities
to- ship them back to Germany as va
grants. Again and again the lady has
been scored by the papers for her reck-
lessness, but the nuisance only seems to
be getting the more annoying.
It pays. company of shipowners in
Helsinborg bought a freight steamer
three or four years ago, and last year it
paid the last cent of it's cost. But last
summer it did even better. paying divi-
.dend of fifty per cent since April last.
The pastorate of the parishes of Yes
rations has been hereditary within the
Kjerrulf family, will henceforth be filled
in the usual manner.
the Kungsholmen public school, Stock
holm, is two-thirds of an English mile.
The postmaster general proposes the
erection of new post office building in
Malmo at a cost not to exceed 5000, 900.
The site is the Aegir property. ~
A Persian prince has arrived at Stock
holm for the purpose of handing the
prince regent of Sweden a portrait of the
Shad of Persia The portrait is set in a
frame composed largely of diamonds.
The proposition to abolish the office of
sexton in the state church of Sweden re-
calls an historic decree from the year
1717 At that time King Charles XII had
been drafting so hard that soldiers were
becoming a scarce commodity. But the
great war king was bound to keep on
fighting, and as a means of raising a few
Thousand recruits he decreed that the Of
flee of sexton should be abolished SUBJ
jecting the sections to the regulations for
drafting men for the army.
The Malmo sugar refining company has
produced 1888 tons of graduated sugar
during the past year.
King Charles XII Essided in the old
cathedral school, 81. Adelsgatan, Lund,
during the years 1716-1S, In memory Of
this fact a slab Of black marble has just
been put up at said school. 1t bears the
following inscription: king Karl XII
had his headquarters here in 1716-1S ["
The monument was donated to the school
by Major Rob. Sodermark. ID
The names and titles of those whom
King Oscar decorated with orders Of hon
or on the occasion of his recent birthday
would fill two of these columns.
The estimated expenses Of the post Of
flee department. for the year 1901 are
ss,o29,3OO, those of the year 1902, $685.
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2&Gs Is -. NORWAY.
Two children were burnt to death in a
house near Bodo. and their mother was so
badly burnt that she succumbed q few
hours later.
Aalesund, Nov. 6.-The herring catch