Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-03-08
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FA1HERLAND.

HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events THAI Have ccurr
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
OF So Just Past.
The Prussian government, in giving
an account of the foreign represents
tivesla at the 2ooth anniversary Of the
establishment of the kingdom of Pruis-
STA, did not mention Norway at all.
But the following account is found:
''Sweden-Count Douglas, Swedish ex-
minister of foreign affairs, accompa-
MED by Rustad, lieutenant colonel in
the Norwegian army and the kings
adjutant." Many Norwegians think
the Norwegian government ought to
ask for an explanation of 'sthis new
denial of the position of Norway in
| the union"
Captain Bagge lectured at Filipstad,
Sweden, on the Swedish army reform
bill, saying in part; ''The financial
provisions of the bill show that the
Swedish people can carry the burdens
imposed by the application of the bill,
without adding one cent to the ma
tional debt. Instead of our present
system, which is very defective and
very expensive, we shall have a we'll
equipped army of 500, 600 men. and,
Joined by our sister nation, which we
can trust implicitly in the hour of
danger, we shall be able to face a COM
mon enemy with 700, 600 able warriors"
The Swedish minister of foreign af-
fairs proposes to raise the contribu.
ton to the secret service fund from
6S, 500 to SIS. 200. Norway has not con-
tributed a cent to this fund since 1897
because the king and the Swedish gov
ernment have persistently refused to
let the Norwegian minister know how
the money is spent. Baron Lagerheim,
the new Swedish minister of foreign
affairs, adheres to the same policy,
prefering to have Sweden pay 81, 500
extra rather than to present the secret
service account to the Norwegian min,
lister and receive that AMOUNT from
Norway.
The P~etersburger Herold, a German
paper published in St. Petersburg, re-
Gently contained a correct and sympa-
thetic account Of the military reforms
inaugurated in Norway and the army
reform bill introduced in the Swedish
riksdag. The Scandinavian union, the
paper holds, must henceforth be reck-
oned with as a very important power
in European politics.
A bill has been drafted by a Joint
committee of four members from each
of the leading Scandinavian countries
for the purpose of facilitating the in
surance business among the nations of
the North, and copies of the bill have
been forwarded to the different gov
ernments for further action.
A Norwegian Danish fish preserving
company has been organized at Hauge-
sund. The company proposes to buy
four large steamers and two sailing
vessels, all of which are to operate
chiefly along the coast of Iceland.
SWEDEN.
Count Ehrensvard, ex-minister of
foreign affairs, died a few days after
completing his soth year. His strength
had been failing for some time. and
the immediate cause of his death was
bronchial catarrh.
P. P. W~aldenstrom, the apostle of
the Mission Friends, wrote a contribu.
ton to Svenska Morgenb ladet about
the red tape surrounding the use of
return tickets on the government rail.
ways of Sweden. He closed the arti-
Gle in a way which would have been
regarded as blasphemous if a common
man had been the author of the con-
tribution, but which is looked upon as
a bold stroke of genius in Walden
strom. The following is a faithful
translation of the closing sentences:
"When does the railway department
propose a reform, a simplifcation of
these complicated rules2 Just now I
opened the catechism to search for an
answer to my question and found
the following: When shall this take
placer On the day of Judgment,
when this world to an end,
which time is entirely unknown to u.s.
'Math. xiv. SO: But of that day and
hour knoweth no one, not even the
angels of heaven, neither the Son, but
the Father only"
Baron Klinckowstrom's health is far
from good, and his strength seems to
be slowly ebbing away. The most
alarming feature of his condition is
poor appetite and sleeplessness.
A generator of acetylene gas exc
ploded in a variety theater at Norr-
koping, leaving the building in utter
darkness and creating a panic, but no
one was seriously injured.
About a hundred citizens of Malmo
have organized themselves into a So
ciety for the prevention of cruelty to
animals.
Not only the workingmen who have
to buy every bite of bread eaten by
them and their families, but even the
small farmers are in favor of abolish
'ng the prohibitive tariff on Indian
:orn, because it has completely ruined
the pork export trade.