Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-03-22
Recent Occurrences of Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
LoUBET rs TO VISIT SWEDEN
French President 10 Be Given e
Hearty welcome Excitement
in Gothenburg.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

It is reported from Paris on good
authority that President Loubet Of
France will pay a visit to Sweden dur
ing the latter part of June. During
the early part Of June the president
will visit St Petersburg and on his re
turn from there he will pay a visit to
the Swedish capital, whittier he comes
to make return visit to King Oscar,
who was the guest of President Loubet
during the recent worlds fair in Paris.
IF President Loubet comes to Stock
holm in june" says The Aftonbladet,
The will receive as hearty reception
as any monarch in Europe paying the
country visit. The contemplated Wis
it of President Loubet to Stockholm
may change King Oscars programme
and delay his trip to Biarritz until lat
er in the season.
According to Swedish newspapers
Count Tolstoi was glad the Nobel prize
was not awarded to him. Replying to
letter from Professor O.. Levertin,
the count writes: 81 am well salts
fed to know that the Nobel prize was
not awarded to me. In the first place,
I should not really have known how to
use the funds-for money, according
to my belief, causes nothing but harm
and in the second place I have re
ceived many sympathetic letters from
friends whom have never seen, who
urged me to do just exactly what I
had intended and what 1 did do"
Intense feeling, threatening riotous
climax, prevails in Gothenberg over
the importation of Germans by the
master bakers association to take the
places of native bakers locked out on
the question of shorter hours. It has
developed that there exists an agree
ment between German and Swedish
employers to provide non-unionists
for the purpose of crushing the trades
unions. The Swedish bakers through
out the country will strike unless the
Germans are deported. s
The Swedish Tourist society has
now 28,061 members. These are not
all Swedes by any means, but are peo-
pie living in nearly every quarter of
the globe who pay the annual dues
and who, when they travel in Sweden,
enjoy the regular tourist rate in rail
way and steamship lines.
Theodore Bjornsten, the well-known
Swedish-American tenor singer of New
York, gave one Of his song recitals at
the Academy Of Sciences on the even
ing of Feb. %. Mr.. Bjornsten was
listened to by number of musical
critics, who all unite in predicting a
brilliant career for him.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. case has at
last come to a close. The jury, how
ever, gave both parties very mild
sentence. Major Bjornstjerna was SEN
fenced to two weeks Imprisonment
and Captain Berling was let off with
six days. Each party was fined 100
crowns.
Queen Sophia has recently been
quite i'll with influenza and is still con-
fined to her apartments in the royal
palace. AS soon as the weather per-
mits, however, she will start for Hon
nef, on the Rhine, where she will
spend the spring months.
There will be a large number of peo-
pie emigrating from Medelpad and vi
cinity to Canada this spring. During
the last week in February $50 per-
sons, mostly farmers, started for Cana
da. They were all from Medelpad.
Professor J. M. Lang, professor of
chemistry at Lund's university, died |
at his home few days ago from heart !
disease. He was born in 1888 and had |
been connected with the university |
since 1865.
During the year of 1901 there was
an attendance of $4,000 students in the
different high schools of the country.
The high schools of Sweden are equiv
alent to colleges in America.
The tax valuation of Sweden's So
called Fasta Egendom amounts to s.
143 100000 crowns. The increase in
valuation amounts to not less than 7O7,-
100000 crowns. .a .. --.