Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-09-21
Recent Occurrences of Interest
In Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
DELAY WITHOUT SIGNIFICANCE
Karlstad Meeting Was Understood TO
Mean a Series OF Preliminary
Sessions OF Commission.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

disagreement is without foundation.
When the commissioners met Aug. 81
IT was expressly agreed to hold a
series of preliminary sessions, then
adjourn 10 confer with the respective
governments at Stockholm and Christi
nnia, after which ii was expected the
conditions for the dissolution OF the
union could be drawn up without de
lay. The renewal of war talk during
the interval between Sept 9TH and
18th had no foundation I'm fact, as
doubtless the early conclusions OF the
commission viii show. Just previous
70 the meeting of the commissioners
the acting mayor Of KaFlstad issued
a proclamation advising against any
attempt to influence or disturb the ne
gotiations by means of public demon
STATIONS or expressions OF sentiment
DIR. John Hellner and Herr c. Berg
are the secretaries of the Swedish and
Professor Andreas Urbye of the Nor
wegian commission.
AT a campaign meeting In the city
OF Lund a heated discussion arose
over the question OF disunion between
Sweden and Norway. A speaker who
had suggested wariike measures,
should peaceful means fail, was taken
to task by Professor Wicksell, OF the
Lung university, who said: 81 am
surprised that any man VIII chase
such an ignis fatuus as the so-called
national honor" At this, Professor
Claes Lindskog, amid the applause Of
the crowd, gave his colleague a severe
reprimand, closing with these words:
IF the gentleman has just spoken
were a Norwegian and spoke in such
terms about Norway's national honor
he would be man without a coun-
try"
Or. Otto Nordenskjold, the cele-
brated Antarctic explorer, will make a
lecture tour In America during the
coming season. He will give an illus
trated lecture on Antarctic, or Two
Years Amongst the Ice OF the South
Pole" in thirty principal cities. Or.
Nordenskjold is professor Of geography
at the University Of Upsala. His ex-
plorations In the Antarctic regions have
won for him honorary membership In
the geographical societies Of Stock
holm, Christiania, Copenhagen, Lon
don, Amsterdam, Brussels, Madrid
Vienna, Budapest and Buenos Ayres.
He speaks English. German, French
and Spanish fluently. His lectures be
fore the geographical societies OF
Europe have met with pronounced
success.
1t is told of the wife Of the recently
appointed minister OF agriculture,
Peterson of Paboda, the first farmer
in the cabinet, that when she heard
OF the honor conferred upon her hus-
band, she fell to weeping, and they
were not tears OF joy but OF genuine
grief. She anticipated that his new
duties would call him away from
house and home, leaving all the cares
of husbandry to her. and that means
not little, for the new Cincinnatus
OF Paboda owns large farm that is
considered a model Of up-to-date meth
DDS in cultivation and management.
An electric light and power com.
pany is about TO build seven large
power houses on the river Lagan,
with a capacity of 1900 horse-pow-
er to be distributed among the cities
of Halmstad, Helsingborg. Lund, NAL
mo and other manufacturing centers
In southern Sweden.
A large fund for the support OF
missionaries and de-
serving students at the mission school
IL being raised by the National Evan
gelical society, to be completed at its
fftieth anniversary, which will be
celebrated next year.
Count o. Frolich is dead at Djurs-
holm at the age Of II. He began his
career as soldier and rose to the
rank Of major in 1877. He served as
military attache at Vienna and was
appointed chamberlain to King Oscar
I IN 1869.
Edward Wavrinsky will remain in
SWedSn. Ills uulleS as tne mead or
the Grand Lodge of the World of the
order Of Good Templars
do not necessitate removal to more
centrally located European city.
Count o. Won Brands, who repre-
sents Austria-Hungary at the Swedish
court, has been transferred to The
Hague. He will be succeeded at
by M. Eperjesy, the Aus
trian ambassador at Lisbon.
The ST. Andrews English church in
Goteborg has just had visit from the
Anglican bishop of northern and
central Europe, who confirmed a large
number OF new communicates.
Major G. III. Ohnell proposes to dig
q canal from the north end OF the
Fryken lakes through the Nors river
to Lake venern, ut an estimated cost
Of $4,000 kr.
The first lodge in Sweden of the
American order Of Knights Of Labor
has Just been organized at Stockholm,
with August Sksrin as its head.
Brita stina Syenson, Of Gnpenberg.
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