Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-07-18

Again and again the executive COM
mittee of the associated labor unions
has been challenged to produce the
exact figures, but the committee
haughtily answers that it is against
the rules of the committee to publish
such figures. The burden of the
charge is, that there was not a bona
fide majority in favor of the strike.
The feeling against the labor leaders
is very bitter in certain circles, and
some aggressive outsiders are endeav-
oring to induce the government to
take a hand In the matter.
A young Swedish sculptor named
Miles has attracted some attention as
the author Of q striking sketch for the
Stem Sture monument at Upsala.
Lieutenant Ahnstrom won the first
Prizes for riding and leaping at q
Berlin horse race.
Prof. Hans Won Petersen, the pres
ident of the Munich Art association,
sent the following address, through
the Swedish minister Of foreign at
fairs, to the artists Of Sweden: IT
cannot but inform your excellency
that the artists Of Bavaria and all
Germany are infinitely thankful be-
cause Sweden and the Swedish artists
sent their art collection to the Munich
exposition. Without jealousy and
without dissent, the press and the
artists of all nations acknowledged
that Swedish art ranks among the
very highest in the whole civilized
world, and, accordingly, Sweden may
justly be proud Of her artists"
A political club of the liberal brand
has been organized at Sundsvall, the
membership being IS at the very
start.
Large masses Of ice were drifting
about in the northern part Of the
Baltic sea as late as the LIST of June.
Big steamers were compelled to sail
around the fakes. At one place q
floating mass Of ice rose seven feet
above the water.
Stockholm, June 3.-The prophet
ors of ten machine shops have an
nounced in the dailies that they will
close their establishments June 16 if
the strike at the Separator is not
raised by that time. The aim Of the
manufacturers is to prove that they
are at liberty to employ whomsoever
they please and to close their shops
ut any time. The ten firms employ
1000 men, and the idle men at the
Separator will swell the number of
men involved in the conflict to 5000.
Meanwhile the proprietors Of the Sep
arator are endeavoring to induce their
men to return to work. !.
A ruby weighing over four ounces
was taken by the Swedes at Prague,
Bohemia, in the Thirty Years War,
and Queen Christina pawned it at q
shop owned by a Jew in Amsterdam
In the year 1895 Charles XII. redeemed
it, paying $1,000 for it. A very re
liable newspaper claims that the
precious jewel has disappeared from
the treasury, and that no one knows
where it has gone.
The number of copies of newspapers
sent through the mails of Sweden in
1901 was 160,000,000. The. number fol
the year 1898 was $4,000, 900:
In a number of German newspapers
the great political strike in Sweden is
characterized as a political blunder.
The queen returned to Sweden June
II.
Fosterlandska Forbundet (The Pa
triotic League, through its executive
committee, has issued a circular let
ter to its ~adherents, urging them tt
vote for candidates for the riksdaf
who are in favor of solving the suf
frage problem by extending the vot
ing franchise to all those who de
serve it.
The stork is disappearing from
southern Sweden. In many village
where their nests were numerou
twenty years ago they have entirel.
disappeared. This is supposed to b
due partly to the draining of swamp
and partly to the removal of tn
matched roofs of which this bird is s.
fond. s@a
"A man left Wextorp and a batch Q
unpaid bills some sixteen years age
and those holding the document
cursed his memory. He went t
America, of course A few days ag
he returned and paid his bills, Whic.
. amounted to about $500.
Rev. Johan Nylander Of Ullanger
dead. He was known all over tn
, country as the socialist minister b.
cause he was an aggressive advocat
of the doctrines of the social demo
} Gratis. He is said to have been the onl
clergyman who c~o-operated and asst
: ciated with August Palm, the note
socialist lecturer.
Three hundred men quit work 8
0 the Batskarsnas sawmill, Norrlan,
because their employers ordered the,
!. to withdraw from their labor union.
The city council of Stockholm, b
a vote of Al to "a, memorialized til
government to draw up a bill for tt
. purpose of preventing strikes.
Mrs. M. F. Wallin, Stockholm, hs
willed 500, 450 to different charitab'
institutions, ts56,70o to private partis
and the balance Of her fortune to
permanent fund. the interest 9
which is to be distributed by the Gil
council nc %hiS hodv NAV see fit