Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-03-28

The Swedish sugar manufacturers
have agreed that the prices for sugar
beets the coming season shall be -
and 261a cents per hundred pounds for
fall and winter delivery, respectively.
The assets of the cathedral of Lund
amount to $4,000.
frost insurance company has been
organized in Stockholm. AS the name
indicates, the company insures crops
against frost, and it is said to be the
first attempt of its kind in the world.
The rates are based on the meteor
illogical reports for IS years in regard
to the early autumn frosts in different
parts of the country.
The great Gyllebo farm IN Jemmer-
stad, Skane, has been sold at public
auction to a syndicate. The land will
be divided up into small farms, many
of which will doubtless be sold to the
tenant farmers occupying the land.
Jonas Johnson, tailor at Eksjo,
who recently died at the age of 50,
proved what man may do in Sweden
by hard work and economy. The de-
ceased began the battle of life with
empty hands at the age of II, but
without embarking III any enterprise
that savored of speculation he made a
fortune of $4,000.
The crown prince of Denmark and
Prince Carl spent half an hour at the
peoples kitchen in Stockholm. They
also sampled the food and drink and
expressed their satisfaction with the
establishment. ,-.s
Prof. D. s. Hector put his hand into
a hornets nest when he wrote an elab-
crate magazine article to demonstrate
that peat is three times as expensive
as coal. His antagonists, however,
dispute his data and calculations only
by anonymous newspaper articles, and
one of their arguments is that he
should not discourage the home indus
tries by belittling the value of Swed-
ish peat as fuel. Prof. Hector answers
that he proposes to tell the truth inn
partially, one truth being his state
ment in regard to the relative values
of coal and peat.
At an executive meeting of the con-
gregation of Harja, Skane, the ques-
ton of abolishing the office of sexton
was discussed. But the discussion
gradually drifted into the question of
improving the military defenses of the
country. This is a leading question
just at present, and the gentlemen at
tending the meeting angrily voted
down every motion made.
The liquor problem, in spite of the
Gothenburg system. is far from set
tied. 1t is agitated so generally that
the distillers themselves are in favor
of throwing additional safeguards
around the retail liquor trade.
During the summer season the rail-
way and steamship connections will
be facilitated to such an extent that a
passenger may leave Stockholm at
1880 in the forenoon and arrive at Luz
zerne, Switzerland, at a. m. two days
later.
A Swedish soap trust was organized
few months ago. The baby is very
robust for its age, the average rise in
the price of soap being almost ~
cents pound. The price of soda has
also been raised a trife
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Stockholm that some m manufacturing
establishments have been forced to
close down. In one district Just half
the policemen were on the sick list at
one time. =
The Russian saw filers, who were
generally supposed to be spies, are
still haunting some of the members of
the riksdag, and a motion has been
made to pass rigorous laws against
spies. Count Douglas, ex-minister of
foreign affairs, and Baron Lagerheim,
the present minister, spoke against
the motion as measure that would
cause useless friction between Sweden
and her neighbors. The Swedish gov
eminent they claimed, is fully able to
handle the spy problem without new
laws. The motion was voted down in
a spirited manner, indicating thai an
overwhelming majority of the riksdag
has absolute confidence in the govern
ment.
FINLAND.
The governor general has discharged
j. S. Gardie, the chief of police of Hell