Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-01-04
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN The FATHERLAND.

Principal Events That Have Occurred
in b Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
OF So just Past.
SWEDEN.
The public school teachers Of many
Of the large cities have had their sala-
ries increased this fall.
There are about a dozen "Scandina-
Wan" societies in Sweden.
An attempt is being made to organ
ize all the telephone and telegraph
operators in the country into a ma
tional organization.
Six young persons at Stodssjo went
to a dance at Loo one evening. Their
boat capsized. and when assistance ar
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 a public meet
ing in Malmo. The missionaries, he
said. fed only after they had been or
dered to do so bv the Chinese authori-
ties, by the consuls and by the super
intendents of the missions. Even the
native Christians had advised the mis-
sionaries 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 fight and return
to work later on than to stay and be
killed.
The Plethora numbering firm, which
started a numbering business on a very
large scale in northern Russia, has
been doing business at a loss of $50, 900
in n year. Financial disaster may
overtake the concern unless it is able
to borrow a few hundred thousand
dollars.
The next riksdag may impose a spe-
cial tax upon those young men who
are unfit for military service. Many
European countries have such a tax,
and 1t was proposed in Sweden some
nine nears ago..
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 w~oodenwork 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 a number 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. It was the English
labor unions that compelled the Eng
lish firm to make this stipulation.
A dozen of the lady students in Lund
have organized a students society for
their own sex exclusively.
Sofelund is the name of a village
adjoining the city of Malmo, or to be
o exact, entering the latter almost
like a wedge. For various reasons the
city fathers of Malmo are strongly in
favor of Incorporating Soielund into
the city, but the proprietors of the
latter ask a price of 1925, 600. Soie-
lund cover 800 acres and has $500 in
habitants.
At a fire in a small house in 1.-The old
city," near Kalmar. no less than four
persons were burned to death. One of
the victims was al s~0-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
80.
The Scandinavian Cattle Insurance
company is ten years old. 1t has paid
over $500, 600 in losses, and is by far
the greatest insurance company of its
kind in the world.
The offer of 50, 700 made by the pat
ent Office for a thoroughly satisfactory
continuance for joining railway rails
has set a large number of ingenious
brains to work, the patent office re-
ceiving from Is to 30 letters every day,
all of which lay claim t. the solution
of the problem.
Ola Hanson, the noted author who
Oau6oO q milo sensation some time ago
by joining the Catholic church, has
again withdrawn from that church.
The liver nuks 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 brain of the sheep,
In which case the sheep will walk
around and around until it falls, never
to rise again.
The grain was poorly stacked in the
vicinity of Abo,a and the protracted
rain has done great damage to tho
grain. as well as to the straw In
some cases the grain has sprouted 30
that the stacks are green.
NORWAY.
A woman's suffrage association has
been organized in Vardo with a mem
bership Of SO.
A law which was passed a few years
ago abolished private rights to pews
In the Rtafa church Rut %hio 1ov