Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-10-04
NEWS OF SCANDINAVIA
Recent Occurrences Of Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
SWE3ES IN URUGUAY SUFFER
Have No Church and Never Hear the
Word of God Spoken-TrOubles
Laid to BraZilians.
swE3Es IN URUGUAY SUFFER
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

The following letter, pitiaDle in the
extreme, dated June 80, 1902, was re-
Gently published in the Smalands AL
lehanda. 1--WE Swedes in Uruguay are
the unhappiest people under the sun.
We have no church and never hear a
word Of God spoken; we have no Gem
etery. When one of US die, he or she
is buried in any place whatsoever
without any ceremony. We have no
minister and when child is born it is
not baptized and here exist no mar
riage ceremonies. We are compelled
to live together but we are denied the
rights of civilization. We have no
schools for our children, who grow up
in the EXTREMIST ignorance and learn
neither Swedish nor the Brazilian Ian
guage Into this misery we have been
led by mercenary and heartless land
spectators. We can never pay our
lands and no foreigner stands any
show with these Brazilians. We are
slaves, pure and simple, and whatever
we earn the BraZilians take away from
u.s."
A letter from Sir Clements Mark
ham. president of the Royal Geographic
cal society Of England, is published in
Jne of the Stockholm Gailies, QeClar
ing that Captain Otto 81 erdrup>S eA-
petition was the most successful yet
undertaken FOR the exploration OF
Greenland. SURPRISING all that had
been accomplished by Kane, Hayes,
Hall, Greedy and Baldwin combined.
He believes it will be productive of
the most valuable results since the
time Of Sir John Franklin, as the eXpe-
dition covered 1900 miles Of land Of
which 1000 was newly discovered
land.
Captain Eric Unge of the engineer
corps and Ragnar Wikander, civil
engineer, had a narrow escape from
being killed by the fall of balloon
which assembled Sept. 10 in the pres
ence Of King Oscar in an attempt to
beat the long distance record. 1t had
travelled four miles and reached a
height Of two miles when it exploded.
The car dropped at terrific speed,
but when nearing the ground the
acting as parachute and the aero
nauts landed safely.
The crowds at the different elemen-
tary schools is this year unexpectedly
large. Large numbers of students
here are to ne turned away, as there
is not accommodation for them. Al
though a new high school building has
been erected on KungshOlmen, there
is not near enough room for the stu
dents and many cannot be taken care
of. The fact is that the schools of
Stockholm are OVercrOWded and the
school board is up against it so far as
the fall season is concerned.
The titles of August Strindberg's
new dramas are bet Blodiga Brodet"
C'The Bloody Bread') and "L'Arme.'
The title of the first piece which will
depict period from the French revo-
luton. will include the sensational
screams of the women during the
march to Versailles. The title of the
second drama refers to the time of
Napoleon | and the last words of the
emperor in his death chamber.
LanShofding Spare has declined to
represent the Jamtland district in the
first chamber of the next riksdag. This
is also the case with Justice ?. j. En-
renheim, who declines to represent the
Cpsala district, and also q. de Laval,
the inventor of the De Laval separa-
tors, who was slated to represent the
kOpparberg district.
DR.. Ekstums Nova Semlja expedi.
ton has. owing to the inClement ice
conditions in east arctic waters, Deen
postponed until next year. The doc
tor has personally, however. made an
expedition to the hitherto uneXplOred
island Of Waigatsch, which lies south
of Nova Zembla.
Walter Odman, Youngest son of the
well known opera singer, Arvid Cd
man, committed suicide Sept by
shooting himself in the back of the
head with a revolver. Illness is said
to be the cause Of the rash deed
A dispatch dated Sept. p states that
King Oscars yacht, with the Crown
Princess on board, has run on the
rocks near kalmar in the Baltic. YES
els were sent to the yachts assist
ance
The Dratselnamnd has declined to
consider Mr.. Francket's motion for
considering the proposition of granting
425,O0O crowns for building cottages
to be rented to the city'S labOrers.