Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-03-08

car made of bronze and equipped with
drag-ropes, sand-bags and other para
pherEalia belonging to : modern ball.
loon. The car rests ON a marble slab.
on which are the following words Inc
scribed in German: ITO the Hussar
regiment of the crown prince of Swe-
den. Berson, Hildebrandt. Balloon
journey from Berlin, Jan. 10, 1907
Fourteen thousand two hundred per-
sons emigrated from Sweden in 1900.
But this number does not include the.
Swedes who emigrated via Norwegian
or Danish harbors.
The annual meeting of the Swedish
Farmers alliance was held at Stock
holm. One resolution was passed in.
favor of having the military training
given in the spring rather than in the
fall OF h year, and another recom-
mending that the expenses Of the
army and navy be placed. as far as
possible, on imported Injuries, such
as beer, wine and tobacco.
Prot. 6. A. Nordlund, Of Upsala,N
while attending a great ski tourna-
ment at Holmenkollen, Norway. rose
at the banquet to respond to a toast to
the Swedes, but vas suddenly struck
by an apoplectic fit and died within
five minutes.
Over one hundred competitive essays
have beer received by the medical
section of the Nobel committee of
awards. Only a few of the competi-
tors in this department are Swedes.
and they represent over a dozen of the
leading countries of the world.
The king has authorized the man
ayers OF the industrial exposition at
GeHe to run an industrial lottery to
cover the running expenses.
Very many laborers in the rural dis.
tricts of southern Sweden are idle this.
winter. chiefly because the weather is-
too severe for work in the open air,
The wages of all sawmill hands in.
the Pitea district have been reduced
Is per cent. and in some mills the men
have quit work.
The Dalesland railway company has.
established baths for the benefit of it's.
employees at Ed. Those who are in ac-
tual service are admitted free of charge
but the other members of their fami-
lies pay q nominal rate of S cents q.
bath for grown persons and 2M cents
for children. Both the employees and
their families living along the line,
ride on free passes when they 90 to.
Ed to take a bath.
The railway depa rtment has ordered
II, 500 tons of steel rails from England.
and Belgium.
NORWAY.
Prot. Olaf Brach has been appointed.
professor of Russian at the military
high school.
A laborer at the East Totem WOODEN
mills fell into a vat of boiling water.
He was pulled out at once, but when
his clothes were removed his skin &C.
tually slipped off. No remedy could.
save the unfortunate man and he died
after one days terrible suffering.
A workingmen's national convention.
at Drammen resolved to erect a monu.-
ment to Marcus Thrane. the great.
labor leader. who died in Eau Claire,
Wis.,. a few years ago.
Thorvald Egers, though dead, is not
wholly spared by the press. The ex.
ceptional treatment accorded him is
1ue to the fact that he did not donate
a dollar to any charitable or other
public concern, though he was worth.
two million at his death.
The whole number of logs RATED on
the Glommen IN 1900 was 6, 1922, 900, the
largest number on record.
A young boy at Holmestrand was.
30 stirred up at a Salvation army
gathering that he voluntarily went to-
the police station and confessed that.
he was guilty of burglary. He was.
punished according to the letter of
the law. but good people have assisted.
him and given him a good start in life.
A. Peterson, an ~so-year-old lawyer
from lnderoen. slipped on the gang.
plank as he was about to board q.
steamer at Trondhjem, fell down be.
tween the steamer and the pier and.
was drowned.
The streets of Arendal are now
lighted with electricity.
DR.. Benueche. of Eoje, has written.
an open letter to Bishop Hench about
the old custom of passing the same
cup from one person to another at the
celebration of the sacrament of the
altar. The doctor objects to this GUS
tom as wholesale poisoning in the
name of Christ" his theory being that
tuberculosis is propagated at the.
Lords supper. DR.. Benuche claims.
that this religious rite is the only We
hicle of c%ontagion to which the pres
ent laws against the propagation of
tuberculosis does not apply.
A newspaper correspondent claims
to have found the author of the rumor
that certain public men in Norway
were bribed by Russia a few years ago.
The author of the ''ruble stories" it is
said. is a Russian officer who owned
property in Smaaland, Sweden, and
who tried to make himself a~,persona.
grata in Sweden by telling ugly sto-
ries about Russia. Finally he wanted
an appointment on the general staff
in Sweden. But this was too much
for the Swedes, who began to suspect.
his integrity, and he vamoosed both.
his Smaland property and the king
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