Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-03-07
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS.
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within u Week
or So just Past. r.


In the Old Countries About the y
North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.
The Prussian government, in giving
an account of the foreign representa-
tives at the 300th anniversary of the
establishment of the kingdom of Prus-
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 "this 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
impos ed by the application of the bill.
witho ut adding one cent to the ma
tional debt. Instead of our present
system, which is very defective and
very expensive, we shall have we'll
equipped army of 100000 men, and,
joined by our sister nation, which we
can trust implicitly in the hour of
danger, we shall be able to face COM
mon enemy with 700, 900 able warriors. 1"
The Swedish minister of foreign af-
fairs proposes to raise the contribu-
ton to the secret service fund from
$4,000 to $4,000. Norway has not con-
tributed a cent to this fund since 1897
because the king and the Swedish gov
eminent 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 $500
extra rather than to present the secret
service account to the Norwegian min
lister and receive that amount from
Norway.
The Petersburger Herold, German
paper published in St. Petersburg, re-
Gently contained a correct and sympa-
thetic account of the military reforms
inaug urated 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
suran ce business among the nations of
the N orth, 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 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. Waldenstrom, the apostle of
the Mission Friends, wrote contribu-
ton to Svenska Morgen bladet about
the red tape surrounding the use of
return tickets on the government rail.
ways of Sweden. He closed the arti-
Gle in way which would have been
regard ed as blasphemous if 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 faithful
trans ation of the closing sentences:
''When does the railway department
propose a reform, simplifcation of
these complicated rules? Just now l
opened the catechism to search for an
answe err to my question and found
the following: when shall this take
placer On the day of. Judgment,
when this world comes to an end,
which time is entirely unknown to u.s.
hour knoweth no one, not even the
angels of heaven, neither the Son, but
the = ather only"
Baron Klinckowstrom's health is far
from good, and his strength seems to
be 81 owly 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 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
ing the prohibitive tariff on Indian
corn, because it has completely ruined
the pork export trade.