Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-01-18
Ridiculous Stories Concerning It Be-
ing Gircuiated ,y the Press
OF s weden.
SWEDEN.
stockholm.

fright to carry any decorations OF Tor
Ieign orders The fact Of the matter
lis. however, that during his visit here
Bishop Won Scheele rendered the hon
Tor to DR.. Carl SWensson, president Of
Bethany college, and others. who all
Ibid not hesitate to receive the honor.
Bishop Scheele did never offer any
North Star Order to the president OF
THE Lutheran Augustana synod, the
Rev. DR.. Erie Norehus, and it IS
learned on good authority that the
gentleman in question never desired it.
| The many stories to the effect that
Bishop Scheele had offered to
serve as bishop of the Augustana syn
Cd are mere myths and have been pub
Gshed only for sensational effects.
The scandalous inadequacy Of the
accommodation provided for lunatics
| has been revealed by the recent in
quiry into the condition Of Swedish
asylums There is room for the recep-
ton of only 5000 in the state Xlums,
whereas there are more than 10000
lunatics in the country. Warehouses
have been used as asylums for this
surplus OF the insane, and as these es-.
Establishments were not intended for
that purpose, the lunatics receive inn
|proper treatment. The press denounces
the situation as "disgraceful," and APP
peals for the reorganization Of the
poor law system so that separate and
suitable treatment may be given to
poor children, lunatics, the deserving
aged, the sick and the vicious.
Replying to a deputation Of Good
Templars, Count Wachtmeister, minis
ter of finance, promised legislation for
carrying the Gothenburg system a step
further. For the first time the sup
porters of the great organized tenn
perance movement in Sweden approve
"a proposition Of this kind. They rec
ognize that the question of absolute
prohibition does not belong to the field
of practical politics and that In the
central local governments public opin-
ion is ripe for effective moderate
measures. Hitherto the prohibitionists
have refused to cooperate with sym
pathizlng outsiders, whom them
classed among drunkards.
DR.. Tom Won Hall, one Of Stock
holm's leading dentists, died very sud-
denly at his home in this city on the
evening Of Dee. 80. He was born
Aug. z, 1869, and was a son of Cap
tain v. 2. Won Hall. He was grad
uated from the Upsala university in
or toll, n ..+ ~
holm sin 1896. He was married and
leaves a wife and two sisters.
King Oscar has advised the s'kom-
merskollegium' that no foreign must !
clans or circus men will be allowed to
roam around the country Large num-
be of Russian and German pedd1ers
anu musicians have been swarming
in all parts of the country during the
past. year and determined effort will
now be made to cheek this obnoxious
class of foreigners.
Peat or turf has been tried as fuel
on the state railways and has given ex-
cellent results. The slow trains will
now be furlsfs he'd with peat instead of
coal until the railways have been con
verted into electric roads. The peat
fields of Sweden are so extensive that
hey could furnish fI1el for all the home i
industries for the next fifty years
The. gross income OF the. Swedish
state railways during the month Of
October last amounted to {. S93,376 /
crowns. The income during the same
period asst wear was s. $50 1913 crowns I