Morris tribune., 1903-09-12
Fecent Occurrences Of interest
in .weden. Norway and
Denmark.
KoHLsAAT NOW IN STOCKHOLM
Commissioner for the st. Louis Ex
position Is Enthusiastic over
the Gotta Canal.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

Stockholm.
Charles w. Kohlsaat, Enited States
commits sioner for Sweden, Norway ana
Denmark COR the st. Louis exposition
arrived at Stockholm from GothenDurS
Aug. Is. He was enthusiastic about
the beautiful Gotta canal and stated 10
a newspaper representative that 1t was
the most beautiful waterway he nau
ever seen. Mr.. Kohlsaat stated FUR
Their that he had been most generously
received in Scandinavian and belleVes
that all three countries will be wei!
represented at the worlds fair IN st:
Louis.
The Canada oats, which has been
imported in Sweden in large quantities
for seeding purposes has given COM
plete satisfaction in all sections where
it has been tried and seems even hard-
Ter than native oats. In spite OF the
long drought in some sections OF the
country, the Canada oats has been
growing eXcellently
vaudeville theater has been leased by
Nine. Sigrid Sandberg from Oct. 1,
1903, to April 80 1904, for 2l,C0o
crowns. This is one of the largest
sums a playhouse was ever leased for
in Sweden. Nine Sandberg formerly
conducted the Lorensberg theater In
Gothenburg.
Nearly every boat that arrives from
the east carries Finnish emigrants and
fugitives who have left the almost in
tolerable condition in distressed Fin
land behind The complete Russifica-
ton of Finland is now inevitable and
hundreds of people continue to emf
crate for foreign parts every week.
The Swedish state railways have es-
tablished their own laundry out OH
Liljeholmen. The institution is mod
ern in every respect and has been
erected at cost of $4,000 crowns. The
government calculates a saving of 30
GOO crowns a year through the erection
of this institution.
A church bell weighing 300 kilo-
grams has recently been shipped via
London to Dundee, S. A. The bell car
ries the following inscription: ITO the
glory of God. st. James church, Dun
dee. July. 1903. Cast by John A. Beck
man & Co., Stockholm, Sweden"
NJ Soderhjem, the project of police
of Viborg; NJ. Akerson, the former
project of police of the same place,
and Lieutenant Colonel Aminoff have
all been expelled from Finland, says
dispatch from Helsingfors, dated
Sept. 2.
r. A. Wawrinsky and Professor e.
B. Almquist will be Sweden's repre-
sentatives at the eleventh annual con-
gress of the international medical con-
gress, which will be held in Brussels
during the latter part Of, this month;
Lieutenant Nils Vogel of the royal
life guards has received commission,
in the Congo army and departed for
South Africa Sept. I. Lieutenant VoT
gel has leave Of absence for one year.
Among thore who are applying for
the position of rector for the Hvet-
landa eIementar school is the exiled
Finn, Uno Stadius, formerly editor of.
The Wasa Nyheter at Wasa, Finland.
Albert Ranft, Stockholm's theatrical
director, has now become the proprie-
tor of the Olympia theater also. The
Olympia will furnish exclusively pop
ular folk plays.
Professor Arrhenius has been given,
the honorary doctors title by the Held
elberg university. De- Arrhenius is.
one of Sweden's most prominent schol-
ars.
The youngest pastor in Sweden is
the Rev. A. J. Holmback of Traneded,
Skara diocese. Holmback was born
in 1870 and ordained a minister in
1897.
Friherre G. G. Akerhelm died at his
home in Gothenburg Aug. 10, after a
few days illness. Mr.. Akerhielm was
born in 1858
bill for increasing the pension of
the Swedish bishops to 5000 crowns
annually will be placed before the
next riksdag.
Among those who will accompany
King Oscar on his rabbit hunt at Hven
are Prince Fredrik and Waldemar of
Copenhagen.
The last Lapland express for the
season departed from Stockholm Aug.
IA and carried fifteen passengers.
The Gothenburg public schools
opened Aug. 10. The enrolment is
the largest in the city's history.