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

DENMARK.
Rev. Ifversen, the Copenhagen in
ner mission preacher who declined to
marry man that had been separated
from his former wife, has been fined
$50, which amount may be committed
to 20 days imprisonment. The fine
was put SO low because Rev. Ifversen
evidently acted in good faith.
The assistant pharmacists associa-
ton. of Denmark has petitioned for
the establishment of 81 new drug
stores. Their petition is based on
list of statistics There are only
2O4 drug stores in the country, while
the population is 2,45O,OOO, or $4,000
for each drug store. The association
| holds that there should be one drug
store for every 10000 people.
The number OF persons emigrating
| from Denmark in 1902 was 1O,4OS.
The Folketning has resolved to APP
point a committee to report on the
advisability of introducing a public
accident and old age insurance sys-
tenn in Denmark.
The royal Danish yacht club has
opened it's new club house in Copen-
hagen. The city erected the bu1,uing
especially for the yacht club. The
cost of it is about $4,000. The club
house has a splendid location at the
entrance to the harhor, giving a mag
nifcent view of the sounu. Prince
Valdcmar participated in the dedica-
tory ceremonies. .sE
NORWAY.
The Buksnes church has been total
ly destroyed by fire. It was one of
the largest church buildings in Nord-
land, having a seating capacity of
about $50. It was built in 1884. A
vein Of bad luck seems to be running
through the fate of this property. In
1898 the parsonage was devoured by
the fames and on that occasion three
OF the children of the pastor, Rev.
Arctander, lost their lives. Twenty
years ago a storm tore the steeple off
the old church building, turned it up
side down and ran the point of it deep
into the ground some distance from
the church. 1t was chiefly on ac-
count of this damage that new
church had to be built. The value of
the new church building was $4,000.
large number of agents are ira
Yelling through the country selling
tickets for foreign lotteries.
The storthlng has voted $4,000 to be
used for combating the seals in Fin
marllen.
Verdens Gang proposes that the
Nobel peace prize of this year be
divided equally between F. Bajer, a
Dane, and X. P. Arnoldson,s.a Swede.
Both of those men began to champion
the cause of peace and arbitration
thirty years ago, and they have never
ceased agitating the question.
A Is year old man was burned to
death in Skin, the fire having been
started through his own carelessness.
The city council of Kristiania voted
i $4,000 for blasting away rocks in the
streets. This WORK was started at an
unfavorable season in order to supply
a few idle men with work for a few
weeks.
1t is feared that the increased tariff
on stone in Germany will prove dis
astrous to the stone quarrying and
stone dressing industry in the coun-
try around Fredrikshald. Norway
does not export much stone to Ger
many. But the tariff may shut out
Sweden, and the latter country may
appear on the English market as the
competitor of Norway. So far Nor
way has had a practical monopoly of
the English market.
SWEDEN
The central bureau of statistics has
just published an elaborate report on
| the census of Dec. 81, 1900, and the
following data, though far from fresh,
was taken from that report. On the
above date there were 5,136,441 per-
sons in Sweden, 2,63O,OO5 of them be-
ing women and 2 5O6,436 men. The
i cities contained 1,103,951 persons, the
rest of the country 4,032, 400. The in
! crease for the year was 39,039. The
t number of couples married was 3D.
ATS. The number of marriages in
I creased steadily from 1894 to 1899.
/ During the year 1853 married men
and II, 204 married women died, there
! by reducing the number Of married
families by 25,717. The whole num-
Der of children born was 141,717, of
whom 13S,139 were alive. The in
crease in the number Of births of liv-
/ ing children was 4,257. The whole
number of deaths was S6,146, de-
crease of 3,532 in one year.
The custom house receipts for the
i year 1902 were $15,os2, 1887. This is
j an increase Of $1,667,211 as COM
pared with the receipts for the preM-
Gus year.
. The time for introducing new bills
in the riksdag expired jan. 81. BY
i that time ~ bills had been introduced
4 in the first chamber and 1913 bills in
Il the second chamber. 81
4 The London Standard recently con-
tanned an eulogistic account of the
/ life of King Oscar on the occasion Of
his failing health. and the temporary