Morris tribune., 1902-05-03
Recent Occurrences Of Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
OSCARS WELCOME TO HANOVER
Presented with Flowers by Swedish
and Norwegian Women Dressed
in Pure White.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

Stockholm.
King Oscar on his way south was
welcomed by a party Of ninety Scan
dinavians at Hanover, April 4. Two
ish lady and the other a Norwegian,
presented the king with yellow roses
and blue violets. A short speech of
welcome was delivered by a Norwe-
gian, Mr.. Herman Knoph, after which
the entire party rendered the "King's
Song" A Swedish lady Quartette was
also present and rendered the beauti-
full "Till Osterland will Jag Fara" C"To
the Eastland Will Journey'D. Their
appearance in the DalecarIlan cos
tunes and their beautiful singing
seemed to please the good old king i'm
mensely, and when the Norwegian
national al, Eyes, We Love This
Land" was rendered he heartily joined
in with the singers.
The Finnish male chorus I'M. M"
which departed for Helsingfors April
4, after having given three concerts
and farewell matinee, were most en-
Enthusiastically received by the Stock
holmians. AS a proof Of their kindly
estimation of the Films the Stockholm
press club had arranged a most elab-
crate banquet and ball in their honor
at Grand hotel on the evening Of April
3. More than 300 guests were pres
ent and it was by all odds the most
elaborte affair Of the season. When
c3r Hoo Nd I'D +ho ctr
'Bore H. or their return trip there
were more than 10000 people gathered
to bid the singers farewell.
During King Oscars visit in Franch
Crown Prince Gustaf will spend half
his time in Sweden and the other half
in Norway. By doing this he will estab-
fish precedent, and it is expected that
If he lives to become king Of Sweden
and Norway some day, that he will adj
here to this practice The precedent
will be hailed with much delight in
Norway as the Scandinavian regents
thus far have spent a comparative
ly small portion Of their time in that
country.
Mass-meetings in favor of universal
suffrage were held April 20 in all towns
of Sweden. In Stockholm the meet
ing was attended with considerable
disorder. The demonstrators tried to
march to the palace Of King Oscar
They were charged by the police and
several of them wounded. Others were
arrested. The approache to the pal
ace are now guarded by troops The
mnQf1nT of Ma1n0n oG INV
$4,000 persons.
The Swedish Women's National as
ISOLATION held their regular annual
meeting in this city April 2. From
the presidents report it was learned
that there are fifteen women's soc1e.
ties which belong to the Swedish
WOmen's National association. The
Red Cross "Damkomite'' is the last
organization which has united with the
national association. The next meet
Of the association will be held in Goth.
enburg.
DR.. Carl Sundbeck, who has been
sent by the Swedish government to
study the condition of SWedes in
America, has been spending the past
three weeks in Chicago and will now
visit Augustana college at Rock ISL
and, Ills, and Gustavus Adolphus col
lege at st. Peter, MINI. During his
travels in this country DR.. Sundbeck
is writing series Of letters on Amer
lea for a syndicate of Swedish papers.
The Swedish invention of portable
telegraph and telephone apparatus fo1
0rti1lprU 0n6 lr,u no
cepted by the French military commits
sion and will be submitted to a test
in the near future. Captain A. Fock, |
the inventor, has departed for Eng
land, where he will try and induce |
that government to give his new in
yention a trial and eventually accept it |
for military use
A government bill has been intro
duced into parliament to amend the
patent law. The most important
change is that a foreign inventor,
who has got patent rights in Sweden,
but does not actually make use of
them, can be compelled to sell IL
cense to any one desiring to exploit
, the invention.
The stock company "Gellivare Malm-
eTaGh' will make the Swedish govern
meat .S'n offer in the near future to pur-
chase y the Gellivare mines. 1t is
thought hat the deal will soon be con-
thus putting an end to all
domestic anA international specula-
ton regarding h1ese mines.
The population Nof Stockholm at tn.
time is 3O1, 795. During the
past year the popuIatian was increased
by ! 100 persons. y
There are more than IS, 600 persons
in Stockholm who hail from the prov
ince of Snaland.