Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-01-18
DEVILS LAKE INTER- OCEAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10. 1901

Workingmen belonging to the differ
mt church organizations of Stock
holm recently held a convention to dis
cuss the question: What shall Chris
tian workingmen do in regard to the
labor agitation of the socialists2 A
resolution was passed by a unanimous
vote to the effect that Christian work.
ingmen should o join socialistic la
Dor unions of the common type.
The new and very expensive water
works of Malmo will be completed by
March /. The water is to be furnished
by a series of wells at B%ulltofta.
A new kind of chocolate tablets,
snugly wrapped in bright copper or
tinfoil look so much like gold and sill
yer coins that the, authorities at Stock
holm are afraid that the tablets may
actually be taken for money, and the
manufacturer has been compelled to
withdraw his goods from the Stock
holm market.
Stockholm has no practical manual
training schools.
Until about n year ago no car
fridge shells for large bore rapid fir
ing guns were made in Sweden, and
that article had to be imported at
great cost. Attempts to make such
shells have been made in Skultuna.
and they have just been tested at the
Karlskrona naval station. The result
was most aattering. The imported
shells are guaranteed to stand only
four rounds, but some of the Swedish
shells were reloaded and fred over
twenty times before they were dam
aged to the extent of being useless.
The extra teachers in the public
schools of Sweden have announced
that they will hold a national conven-
ton next summer at Gothenburg.
The Adolf Fredrik congregation of
Stockholm is going to put up a new
church building for about 5000, 600.
Two public servants in Malmo re-
ported that their hours of work are
twentv-four per day, and one of them
added that he has to hire extra help to
do the work devolving upon his Office.
The minister of foreign affairs has
been unable to attend to his duties for
a few days on account of an attack of
the grip.
A resident of Orebro has invented a
hat holder to be attached to church
pews.
For a week or two before Christmas
about one hundred Scandinavians came
from foreign countries every day by
the Sassnltz and Trelleborg route to
spend the Christmas holidays at home.
A lot of pheasants and hares have
been imported from Austria and. dis
tributed among several parks in
southern Sweden. Next spring a num-
Der of quails are to be imported from
California for the same purpose.
A railway conductor was blown off
from his train as he was passing be-
tween two cars neal Kviinge. No one
noticed the accident at the time. The
mar was but slightly hurt and walked
to the next station.
The king and the queen contrary to
old customs. were to remove to Vrott-
ningholm just before the close of the
old year.
Three boys, the only children Of AL.
Ulu OduSSOus VI lOlIu0udl PARISH, near
Karlstad. were drowned at the same
time in a little lake.
Sverre. a freight vessel owned by
parties in Malmo. was crushed against
the shore at Gallo. Only one man out
of a crew of ten was saved.
At Bromma, Skane, the thermometer
registered 43 degrees above zero just
before Christmas. and TWO thunder.
claps. were heard.
A workingman at the Ortof.a sugar
factory mysteriously disappeared. His
remains, completely boiled and partly
dissolved. were found in a huge vat.
into which it is supposed he had acct.
dentally fallen.
FINLAND.
General Bobrikoff, governor general
of Finland. will demand in the Fin
land senate a more stringent censor
law to prevent criticism of the govern
ment. Private correspondence from
Finland says Governor Bobrikoh is
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