Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-03-18
Items Of General Interest from
the Old World and
the New.
MINISTER THOMAS TO RETIRE
President Has Appointed Charles e.
Graves, a Minnesota Man, to
Succeed Him.

has not been reappointed. A few
days ago President Roosevelt ap
pointed as his successor Mr.. Charles
E. Graves, of Minnesota. He is resi-
dent of Duluth and president of the
Ora YES Marley insurance agency and
also of the Duluth Telephone company
He is a new man in the diplomatic
service, but one in whom the president
reposes implicit confidence. Mr.. Thorn
as, the retiring minister, has held the
/ post at Stockholm since 1880, with the
exception of the three years from 1884
to 1897, making twenty-one years of
diplomatic service in the same coun-
try, a record seldom attained. He
enjoys great popularity among the
| Swedish people on both sides of the
| Atlantic. is an ardent admirer Of the
! Northland, close student Of the
| Swedish people and their literature.
| The chief literary results of his So
! journ there are a translation of Ryd-
berg's great novel, THE Last Athen-
ian," and a voluminous original work
! entitled Sweden and the SWedes'
Mr.. Thomas wife is native Stock
holman, and he himself is now al
most fully acclimated Swede. Only
few weeks ago. it is remembered.
Mr.. Thomas won additional gratitude
from Swedish-Americans by purchas-
ing the Swedish building at the ST.
I nd TO no
Bethany college, an institution main
tanned by them at Lindsberg, Kan.
A press dispatch of few days be,
fore, predicting the event, mentioned
F'ridtjOf hansen as the most likely
man in Norway to be entrusted with
the delicate task of forming a cabine1
capable of withstanding the present
strain. Nansen is pronounced Leftist
He has taken up the cudgels for Nor
wegian independence in a number of
articles recently published in Verdpns
Gang and other prominent Journals.
The immediate reason for the retire
ment of the Hagerup ministry is
sought in a personal message sent by
the crown prince regent to the stortn-
ing committee without submitting it t.
the cabinet The message read as fol.
lows: ''In these critical times l feet
it my duty to exhort your committee
carefully to safeguard the national in
terests of Norway whatever acton
you may take. That is, in my opinion
the safest basis Of the union between
Sweden, and I therefore earnestly pray
you not to advise any policy tending
to bring on a rupture between the
brother nations The Norwegian gov
eminent seems to have strongly re.
sented this pronunciamento, whether
or not it precipitated the crisis. 1t is
pointed out as a breach of political
traditions, there being only one known
instance where the ruler of the United
Kingdoms, has transmitted an official
document concerning Norway without
first obtaining the sanction of the Nor
wegian ministry. The committee in
question consists of nineteen members
of the storthing, is entrusted with the
task Of formulating new consular
policy. The latest dispatch states thar
it has decided, by a vote of Is to 3, to
recommend a separate consular sys
tenn for Norway to go into effect in
April. 1906.
Prince Gustaf Adolph, eldest son of
the crown prince and regent, whose
betrothal to Princess Victoria Patricia
Of Connaught has just been announced. |
is the first of the Swedish princes to |
choose for his spouse a daughter of |
England and thereby effecting a bond |
of union between the reigning families |
Of Sweden, Norway and Great Brit |
ain, the princess being a niece of King |
Edward VII. 1t might be of interest |
to know that the young Swedish prince
he is now % years Of age-had no |
less formidable rival then Alphonso
XIII, s'the boy king" of Spain, who
has, now attained manhood That
royal suitor seems to have taken his
defeat philosophically, for we are told |
that he is already trying his fortune
with the Archduchess Gabrielle. of 7
Austria.
The attention of the humane society
IF GOthenburg has been directed to
revolving form Of cruelty to animals
1racticed quite generally on the west
coast. 1t appears that many natives.
N carrying live sheep by boat from
pasture to market, are in the habit OF
breaking the legs of the animals in or
Ter to prevent them from jumping out
II boats Or otherwise making trouble
or the shippers. This brutal prac-.
ice. which is said to attain along tho
Norwegian coast as well. will have thesE
lose attentionsOf the Humane society
Turing the coming season. and every
uch crime discovered will receive de
served punishment
The cabinet crisis expected as re
ult of the failure of the consular ne
,OtiatiOns month ago, matured last
week, when first the Leftist ministers
Achelsen and Schionning resigned, on
tuesday, and the remainder of the cab
net the following day. 1t is stated
hat Premier Hagerup. in submitting
he designations of himself and col
neo,leS has SuppaSfed that Michel