Morris tribune., 1906-09-08
Recent Occurrences of Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
REAL ESTATE BUSINESS GOOD
Values in Stockholm Have Nearly
DOubled-SuburbsF Fill Up
Rapidly.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

las Deeu very active uullllS Tie A''0'
year and the way i'll which the sub
urbs are filling up is good indica'
ton of steady increase in pOpula'
ton. Among conservative business
men it is believed that the boom, es'
pecially in the Ostermalm section, has
reached it's height and a reaction is
looked for. Real estate values have
risen since 1904 from 667 millions to
1922 millions in 1906. Thus during
the past eleven years real estate
values have increased by 605 million
crowns or very nearly doubled in
value.
The largest gathering of laborine
men was held in Stockholm Aug. .,
when the different labor unions gath
cred for their annual meeting There
were 500 delegates present and thou
sands of visiting workingmen from
different parts of the country. The
chairman Of the convention was Hugo
LindQuist, who delivered the address
of welcome. Then followed the speak
er of the day, Branting, the celebrated
Swedish socialistic leader This Or
ganization has over 100000 members
and is divided into lodges, numbering
thirty in all.
The commission appointed to super
wise the destruction Of the fOrtreSSeS
on the Norwegian frontier in ac-
cordance With the karlstad treaty has
presented its report to the Swedish
and Norwegian governments, an
noumcing that all the measures agreed
upon have been executed and that the
stipulations of the Karlstad conven-
ton regarding the frontier foruesses
have been carried out.
CroWnprincp GuStaf and Crown
princess Victoria will celebrated their
twenty fifth silver wedding ami
veTsary at Karlstad. Sept. 20. The
festivities Will occur at the latter
place, as it was on German soil that
the Swedish croWnprince was mar
ried. On this occasion members Of
the German, Swedish and Danish
royal families will be present.
The National Theater Managers as
ISOLATION held its annual congress in
Stockholm not long ago and discussed
matters Of Importance to the best in
terest of those who handle talent. The
following will constitute board Of
directors for the coming season
Messrs. Lundberg, Ronnbad. StrOn-
berg, Engdahl and Nine Julia Ha-
HANSON.
Director Eugen CAM has been
given an audience by King Oscar III
MarStrand. The director is seeing
the rulers Of Europe and presenting
protest against Russian atrocities
against the Jews. King Oscar re
Piled that he was not in Il position to
do anything, but promised to submit
the protest to the riksdag.
Hundreds Of Swedish-Americans
who have been spending the summer
months in Sweden are now returning
to their respective homes in the states
and many of them are bringing friends
and relatives with them, who come to
~ b1ISIl IOI tune III TIE lev OlIu'
G. A. Lindberg. the Swedish arcli-
tect, who was seriously wounded dur
ing the recent Disturbances in Hell
singf0rs, died in the hospital of THAI
city about two weeks. He was born
in Stockholm in 1863 and had gained
quite a reputation as an architect
King Oscar likes Marstrand better
than any other resort and will remain
there until Sept ?. Not for many
years has the venerable monarch made
such a long stay at ALarstrand as this
season. His health has been consid-
erably improved Of late
The new Dramatic theater will be
completed, SO far as its exterior is
concerned, during the latter part Of
September The interior will not be
completed until later on and it will
not be opened to the public before
Jan. l.
Rev. Hjalmar Henriksson, who not
long ago came from America to &C
cept a pastoral charge at Logdo, has
resigned from his church and will re-
turn to America as soon as possible.
He does not feel at home in Sweden.
Bank Director P. r. Rabe. of Stock
holm. has resigned from the first
chamber in the riSsdag, as has also
Governor Husberg of Gothenburg. The
latter has served in the riksdag dur
ing the past seventeen years.
Aluminium post cards are new
thing in Sweden. They can be
washed and used time and again. More
than $4,000 samples have been sent
from the Norrkoping fair, where they
We're first introduced
Ockero church was formally de-
Dictated about two weeks ago by Bish-
op Rohde. assisted by ten clerygmen
of that diocese. The new church has
just been completed at a cost of 10000
crowns.
The Good Templar Building associ-
alton of Stockholm has purchased
property at No. 10 Tunnel street for
100000 crowns. They will erect a
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