Morris tribune., 1903-07-18
Eecent Occurrences of Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
GREAT LOCKOUT IS PROBABLE
Quarrel Between 10000 Iron Work
ers and Their Employers May
Result Seriously.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

Twenty thousand irOnworkers are
+brea tened with a lockout as the re-
suit of quarrel between masters anu
men. Temporarily, the trouble Is coal.
The masters, however, have warned
+he locked out workers here that TN
less they capitulate within speclned
time the lockout will be extended 10
the whole country. Masters ana men
are both strongly organized, but the
reduced employment of the last TWO
years has so depleted the funds OF the
Iaborels that it is doubtful If they can
stand prolonged struggle.
Gustaye Erickson, the Swedish lum-
Der merchant, arrested on the ARRIVAL
of the Umbria in New York rev
DAYS ago and arraigned before United
States Commissioner Shields at the
instance of the Swedish consul, who
charged him with having foi ged
number of drafts in Sweden was CIV
en- a second hearing July l, when ne
announced that he had decided not to
oppose extradition proceedings Erik
son said he would return if desired
on the next steamer sailing.
The Zorn Gustaf Vasa monument
has now been completed and has been
sent to Mora, where it will be erect
ed and unveiled in the near future.
The monument weighed 100 Kilograms
and has been made by Meyer Il GO.
in Stockholm. Zorn has put in great
deal of work Oh this beautiful monu-
ment and has superintended the least
detail in it's construction. Art critics
state that this is the most finished and
artistic monument in all Sweden.
The wrestling match between HAL
mer Lundin and Beck Olsen has been
indefinitely postponed and will not oc-
cur in the Idrotts park, as formerly
announced. The bout will most likely
take place in Gothenburg some time
during the latter part of this month.
The Swedish state railways had a
gross income during the month of
March amounting to 4,325,546 clowns.
There is a steady increase every
month and the state railways are fast
becoming one of the most stable OF
government institutions.
To the so-called Frihetsfor Bundet a
Stockholm atheist society, has been
donated 10000 crowns by the recent
Stockholm dentist-Dr. Hugo Ivan En-
vail. The society was organized Oct.
90 1899. and has at the present time
eighty members.
DIR. Karlfeldt has refused the offer
rendered him to succeed the recent
Carl Snoilsky in the Svenska Akade-
mein. He laconically states that
there are others who should have the
preference"
Prince Gustaf Adolf is at present
recuperating at Kneippbaden at Moor
koping. His health is not in the very
best condition and his physicians have
ordered him to remain there until
Aug. 1.
The Martin Ekeberg Co. has sold
it's patent for manufacturing -four out
of milk to an American syndicate for
$250,OOO. The company holds patent
rights in Russia, Fiance and Finland.
An old woman-Nora Bengtsson-
has presented a Enthusiastically shaped
myrtle tree to King Oscar. His maj
esty wrote her a kind letter and in
closed 80 crowns.
DR.. n. G. w. Lagerstedt has been
chosen secretary of the Swedish St.
Louis exposition. Mr.. Lagerstedt will
be one of the fist officials to leave for
st. Louis.
Bank Director H. r. Tornebladh has
been appointed successor to Governor
G. J. Wall as inspector for Sober
Mains high school.
Telephone connections between Ber-
lin and Helsingborg will be complet-
ed Aug. 1. The toll will be crowns
and Is ore.
Selma Lagerlof, Sweden's foremost
woman writer, has an income of 30O,-
600 crowns a year from royalties on
her novels.
There a. e 49,50O social democrats in
Sweden. The party is divided in
eighty-seven kommuner.