Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-02-26

lation. The natural increase by births
being ~ per cent, it will be seen that
two-thirds of the natural increase is
carried away by emigration.
DENMARK.
The typographers of Copenhagen
have established sanatarium for
consumptives at Fredensborg, and a
number of cures effected have made
the institution quite popular. 49,
1t is not yet settled whether Den
mark is going to be represented at the
St. Louis exposition.
Mayor Borup of Copenhagen died
suddenly at the age of &c years. He
served his city as mayor for twenty
years.
The Copenhagen city hospital for
the insane is overcrowded, and extern
sions must be added. The proposed
improvements will cost 100000, and
when the plans are completed the in
stitution will accommodate 1,425 pa
~ients.
The imports of Denmark for the
year 1902 were about S1Os, 100000, and
the exports about $7S,S5O,0O0. The
difference, therefore, is about 500 ,OOO,-
900, and it runs against Denmark.
Great fire in Iceland. The big ware
house and stores of Drum and Wulff
were destroyed by fire. The entire
loss amounting to $4,000 will be COW
cred by an English insurance COM
pany.
The names of the new steamers of
the Scandinavian American steam
ship company will be the United
States and ST. Olaf. Both of them will
be of the same size and shape as the
Oscar II, which is NO longer strang-
er on the Atlantic.
At Segalt, not far from Aarhus, the
family of butcher named Andersen
are down with smallpox. The pest is
supposed to have been brought to
Denmark by Danish dairyman in
Siberia who paid visit to his old
Danish home.
SWEDEN.
Miss Beatrice Dickson of Gothen-
burg has established a home for fac
tory girls at Garda, just outside the
city of Gothenburg. The aim of the
institution is to counteract, on a small
scale, the demoralizing lodging sys-
TEN.
1t has been suggested that the
"wild," or independent, members of
the riksdag organize themselves into
a new party. P. P. Waldenstrom, the
great religious reformer, is one of the
most active advocates of this move
No peace for the army canteen.
About 1000 rural congregations have
expressed themselves against the sale
of intoxicants at the barracks and
drill grounds of the government and
at the camps. Only one congregation
was in favor of such sale, the argu-
ment offered being that the boys
ought to have something to brace
them up after a severe march,
The Norrby estate, which is located
near Ortofta railway station, Skane,
and which embraces about 325 acres,
has been sold by it's former proprie-
tors, Mr.. L. Hoist and Miss Marie
Hoist, to Mr.. Storm gard of Trolie-
berg, for 1000.
DR.. T. Rubin of Upsala has been en-
gagged to conduct the geodetic survey
between Lake Tanganyika and the
Zambezi River, Central Asia, and he
has already left for Cape Town. Dr..
Rubin will have chance to try all
sorts of climate. Last year he was
in Spitzbergen, doing exactly the
same kind of work.
According to statement made at
the executive session of the central
committee of the ORGANISMS and pre-
centors' union, the organs used in the
churches of Sweden represent value
of $4,750,OOO.
NORWAY.
The Aim, a new steamer of $500
tons, was launched Jan. II at the N.Y.
dalen shipyards, Kristiania. 1t is the
property of a local firm.
A Miss Myhre, a Norwegian girl,
who passed medical examinations at
the university of Glasgow, has been
authorized to practice medicine in
Norway. .-
The famous tourist hotel at Stall
helm, near Bergen, which has been
destroyed by fire twice, will not be
rebuilt next summer. Ninety thou
sand dollars of the loss from the sec
ond fire was covered by insurance.
An old peoples home has been dedi-
Gated at Langesund. It is to be gift
to the public from Jens Skougaard of
New York. The guild will also fur
nish means for operating the institu-
ton
The art and industrial museum of
Bergen was visited by 1906 persons
in 1902.
Ringkjobing, Denmark, Feb. ITO
day the report was received here that
the whole crew of the Norwegian
steamer Avena, numbering "a men,
from New Orleans, lost their lives,
the steamer being wrecked at Lem
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