Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-05-31
Recent Occurrences Of Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
GREAT STRIKE OF WoRKINGMEN
Troops Were Held in Readiness to
Suppress Any Outbreak-An
Interesting Experiment.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.


Sweden. On or about. May Is all the
workmen in Sweden were ordered to
strike. and without an exception they
complied. The immediate result was
that work ceased everywhere. Troops
were held in readiness in barracks and
the garrison in all chief cities of the
country were reinforced in case an up
ever, a remarkable solution of the Suf-
frage crisis was reached by the vote
of the upper house in favor of univer-
sal franchise with proportional repre-
sentatiOn. This decision will probably
have a profound influence on the fu-
ture of Swedish political parties. The
extreme conservatives, one of whose
leaders, Bishop Billing, moved the res
Olution, have taken the lead from the
timid liberal party, this great demo-
cratic reform. The prestige of the lib
erals. who did not even dare to put
universal suffrage on their programme,
is now far below par. The liberals,
under the universal franchise, will
probably dwindle into an insignificant
faction, completely overshadowed by
the conservatives, the united reform
ers, the radicals and the moderate
specialists.
An interesting experiment has re-
Gently been made upon the lines of
the government telephone exchange in
Stockholm, the object being to indi-
cate to a subscriber whether or not
the operator at the central station is
listening to the conversation. The
description of the apparatus is as fol-
lows: A current director, whose mid
die point is earthed, is bridged across
the subscribers line and connected to
it by a double switch. The central
point OF the operators receiver is al
SO earthed. By the operation of
disk connected with the Indicator,
with black, red and white crosses
painted on it, red or white shows
when the operator is listening. In this
way when communication is through
two exchanges the connections can be
so arranged that a white cross shows
that one exchange operator is listen
ing and red cross indicates that the
other operator is the eavesdrOpper.
The apparatus is said to have been
worked successfully and to have be-
come very popular among subscribers.
From the annual official report of
the foreign department it is learned
that the efforts of the Scandinavian
prisoners of war on st. Helena to gain
their freedom through official medi-
ums have proven futile. The first eff
fort was made through the Swedish
Norwegian minister in London last
January. The British government de-
cIared, however, that no one would be
released except on account of serious
illness. Later on the Swedish-Nor-
Wegian minister received a petition
signed by twenty Swedish and four
Norwegian prisoners of war in st.
Helena, declaring that if set free they
would never again take up arms
against England The minister pre-
scented the petition favorably before
the British authorities, but was in
formed that nothing would be done
under any circumstances to release
the Scandinavian prisoners of war.
DR.. Sven Hedin, the well known
Swedish traveller and scientist, is now
on his way back from Central Asia.
He is expected to arrive in Stockholm
about midsummer. The distinguished
gentleman cOntemplates lecture tour
to America and may decide to start
his series of lectures in the United
States next fall
c.. F. Wennerstrum, official commits |
sioner Of the st. Louis exposition for
Sweden, Norway and Denmark, it at
present in Stockholm making arrange
ments with Swedish manufa cturers to
participate in the st. Louis exposition. |
The Gotta canal was opened for traf-
fc May 7. The steamers Juno and |
Venus made the first trips of the sea-
son. All the canal steamers have |
been overhauled and thoroughly re-
paired.
Dr. Ekstam is planning another eX- |
petition to Nova Zembla and may be
ready to start June /. He will be ac-
by. several prominent Swed-
ish scientists.
The cavalry field maneuvers began
May q at Ekebyholm and will con-
tinue until June /. ..