Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-10-10
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
DENMARK.

Copenhagen, Sept. 26,-The donations
Tor benevolent purposes Of the Jacobsen
family of brewers have hitherto been un-
eaualled in Denmark. The late ]. c, ia
cobsen presented to the state nearly 20.
100000 kroner (s5,4Oo,OOo} to be spent for
scientific and philanthropic purposes. He
also created the Carlsberg fund which
now amounts to 1850, 900 kroner. His son
Carl Jacobsen has just given to this fund
his own brewery which Is valued at TO-
100000 kroner. Carl Jacobsen two years
ago gave to Copenhagen the largest col
lection of sculpture in the world. It Is
valued at 100000 kroner.
Copenhagen. Sept 26-The new Danish
ministry has resumed negotiations with
Minister Swensen for the sale of the DAN
iish West Indies to the United States. The
ministry favors the sale and is anxious to
be in a position to give the rigsdag def
mite informal ton when it meets
The private library of Frederik j. Hey
man. rich brewer. comprising ll.OOO
numbers, was sold at public auction
Oct. l.
Handbook on the History of the North
Slesvig Question" is the title of a monu.
mental work published by the co-opera-
tive societies Of South Upland. The book
shows that for 900 years the Danes of
the disputed territory have been strug-
Cling against the Germans. It also shows
that the Danes down there are as much
Danes now as they were before the in
corporation Of the territory into Ger
many th1rty-seven years ago.
The Copenhagen Society for procuring
footwear for poor children distributed
5000 pair of shoes to poor school children
during the past year. and $1,000 pairs
: have been given away during the u years
existence of the society.
SWEDEN.
1t seems strange that so little capital
Is spent on the development of coal mines
in southern Sweden, while the country is
importing foreign coal at the rate of
about sl6.O 900 a year.
The temperance people of st. Tuna
made special preparations for a temper
ance meeting at Romahed on a Sunday
afternoon, four lecturers having been Sc
cured to address the soldiers stationed at
that place. But just as the meeting was
to begin the commanding officer demon
strated his hostility by ordering the regi-
ment out drill.
The reservoir containing acetylene gas
for the Hoppet restaurant, in Engelholm,
exploded with such force that the build
ing in which it was located was demol-
ished. The windows Of the neighboring
houses were smashed. Some chickens
and pigeons were killed and horse was
injured, but no human being was reached
by the effects Of the explosion.
The receipts Of the national treasury
for the first eight months of this year
from the customs, beet sugar. whisky dis
tilleries and railways were s12, 725,3 1925,
which is s2,ss0,oco less than the CORE
spending amount for last year.
Application has been made to the gov
eminent for permission to build east
coast railway from Cafe to Hernosand.
Nordenskiod's South Pole expedition is
expected to leave Gothenborg Oct. g.
A mass meeting of Gothenborg work.
.ingmen passed a. resolution endorsing the
proposition of resorting to a national
strike as q means of enforcing general
suffrage.
At Vassanda-Naglum. Vestergotland.
lives a man who is 1O2 years old. He is
quite vigorous for his age. Many people
call on him in order to see a man who
has lived in three centuries. He has an
aeighty-year-oId son, and he always calls
him 1.-The boy
The whisky distillers of Sweden will
make an attempt. Oct. 10. to organize
themselves into national trust for tho
purpose of regulating the output and the
prices Of their goods. L. O. Smith is the
soul of the movement.
A. O. Stenkula, the superintendent Of
schools of Malmo, completed his sixtieth
year Sept. II. AS he had asked to be ex-
>cused from visits. his friends only sent
him a large number of kilograms and
rich floral tributes. The school teachers
, had raised s115. with which they had in
tended to buy a present. But as the old
gentleman had given them a tip that
he would be happier without such a pres
ent, they turned the money into fund for
poor school childrens summer colonies
NORWAY.
The National Theater of Kristiania has
accepted a new drama by Peter Egge
and another by Wilhelm Krag.
Sweden and Denmark exported 60, 900
pounds of founders to Kristiania in one
month.
The Rural Young Peoples Society of
Kristiania has dedicated its new coffee
hail. The refreshments served on the
occasion were cream pudding, dried her
ring and lefse, or thin. soft waters that
look almost like sheep skin. Rev. Chr.
Brunn made the dedicatory address.
Among the guests were Wexelsen, min
lister Of ecclesiastical affairs, and Prof.
Hagstad.
The representatives Of the foreign pow
ers who witnessed the field maneuvers in
the vicinity Of Levanger, spoke very
highly of the efforts of the 1900 men
who took part in the movements Much
of their praise must Of course be looked
upon as mere tokens of courtesy; but
there are good reasons for believing that
many of them were sincere in their eu-
logistic remarks. =
There will be six distinct parties at the
coming municipal elections in Kristiania,
namely, the Rightists, the Leftists. the
Social Democrats, the Temperance party,
the Democratic labor party and an ''un-
political party which the women have
proposed to start. It will be next to i'm