Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1903-03-14
Recenf Occurrences of Interest
in Sweden. Norway AMI
4 Denmark.
CHOP SHORTAGE IN FINLAND
a'Ebcial Eas''nai" fns the Wear 1902
Places a. AZ ;s:t Per a-nt.- gem
l.S- Very b'oor
SWEDEN.
Sass';R soIm.

THE crop ShortagG in Finland in
1sN,. has het,n estimated officially. says
Tbs. gems Nyhrler ockhoIIn), at 3:,
p-r cent, equal to $I0,00O,OOO. Near
ly all of this TOSS occurred In two or
lhTti, 0f tile. tmrthprII-fnoSt and least
:1treSsiiie provinces OF the country
with M aggregate population OF some
9gHSiHH, tRhabitnnts. Most OF these
is.otie are extremely poor even in pros
I'"r"r.s years Last year the farmers
haLA'.Strd nothing, and there is nothing
Io q" for w"rkingmen even at pit
ihhtr. nf 40 cents day, which appears
Ia I've the prevailing wage Several
we'll authenticated reports Of deaths
fsaHn Starvation have come from this
dt.~"late country and the famine suf-
funng is universal among them.
II" Gothcngurg city council, on
Match 4, received intiHlation that the
Swedish government approves it's de
ciSinn to raise. loan to acquire a
lajnrity nf shares fl one OF the big
E''st railways terminating in that city
LAadinS citizens. finding that the rail
way was not managed In the interests
81 fhr people. secretly bought up the
E4~'iority OF the stock and offered it at
CAST price to line council
Counsel e. + Broms has sold his
Ghat"& IN thu, tiellivare copper mines
10 sit' Grangesberg-O xelosund Mining
company for 100000 crowns. The so
1als,'d Norrland 'malInfalt," which are
no~ practically controlled by the
1frangesbergOve Mining COM
pany are valued at not less than $4,000
crowns They are said to be the rich
est are fields in ndinavia
Living expenses are higher in Stock
holm at the present time than they
have been for years, says the Stock
hOim Nyheter The prices at the res
&anrants are 10 per cent higher than
usual and a half liter OF 'punsch"
costs ID ores more than previously.
This is due - he strenuous conditions
generally in Sweden
Count Stenhock, Sweden and Nor
ways minister plenipotentiary at
e Onstantinope. has been summoned
by King Oscar to Stockholm. Count
affairs at Constantinople until sue
ceSsOr will be appointed.
The new riksdag's house will not be
until 1905 The interior
finishing will be exceedingly costly
and when finished the new ''riksdags-
hus'' will be one of the most i'm
posing architectural structures in
Bupore
The Swedenborgians of Stockholm
have purchased lot at number so
where they will |
erect new church at cost of 75,-
300 crowns Large contributions have
been received from England and Amer
lea.
The N0rdiska museum is now being
and all the valuable specimens
and collections will be transferred
30 the new building on Ledjonslatten
by March To- The new building will
not be completed until about July 1.
Notwithstanding the great appre-
hensiOn regarding Prince Eugen's
health, the artist prince is steadily
improving and now able to sit up sew
eral hours day. His mother, Queen
Sofia, is paying him daily visits.
The number of postal money orders
which arrived at the foreign post
money department in the month of
December was not less than 1884
to a sum of 1855, 562
crowns.
Madame Clara Scharp has donated
5000 crowns to the Stockholm high
school. Madame Scharp was the wife
OF the recent 'grosshandlare" Scharp,
who left fortune of 100000 crowns.
A Stockholm philanthropist who
0Oes not desire publicity has donated
$4,000 crowns to the Serafmer hospital
h Stockholm.