The Princeton union., 1907-10-24
Recent Occurrences of Interest
! in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark, .....
YACHT CLUB MEN FEEL HURT
Inquiry as to Contest for the Americas
Cup Answered in Slight.
ing Manner.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm,

Stockholm.
The Royal Swedish Yacht club met
oct. IL to discuss the reply of the
New York Yacht club to it's inquiry
as to the conditions under (which q
challenge for the Americas cup would
be considered. After a long debate
in which it was emphasized that the
New York club had not given a clea1
reply to the questions whether the
length of the competing vessels could
be fixed at seventy feet, it was agreed
to await settlement of this point
William Olson, one of the prime NOV.
ers in the movement to challenge fo1
the cup, said: II and all other mem.
bers of the Royal Swedish Yacht club
are greatly surprised and hurt at the
sighting manner in which the New
York club replied to our communica.
ton and the failure of that club to an
sWer in plain language Sweden's civil
inquiry as to whether it was willing
to race with seventy foot boats. We
mean business and we are not trihing
we hope that the two millions Of
Swedes in America will back us up in
our enterprise" After the meeting of
the club, Rear Admiral Haigg, com.
modore of the organization, said.
"Perhaps we did not put the question
plainly to the New York Yacht club,
but we are anxious to know whether
challenger for the cup should be a
seventy foot, or if defender be ninety
feet long, or whether the New York
Yacht club would allow handicap
corresponding with this difference
From the deed of gift and the resolu-
tons referred to We would infer that
no handicap will be allowed, but we
must have a positive and unequivocal
reply on this point before we can 20
further. We mean business, but we
must know definitely the size of the
boat in order to get the required sum
guaranteed before making the formal
challenge."
The following dispatch from Monte
Carlo throws some light on the murder
of Emma Levin in Monte Carlo: We're
st. Leger Goold, whose father was an
Irish magistrate and who lived for
some time in Montreal, has written to
the local judge, confessing that he and
his wife, Viola, murdered Emma Le-
vim, the Swedish woman whose dis.
membered body was found in the bag.
gage of the Goods on their arrival
Aug. 6 at Marseilles from Monte Car
10. Goold says the crime was planned
by himself and his wife. Being at
the end Of their resources they re,
solved to rob the woman, intendinJ
only to knock her into insensibility
and take her money and jewels, but
the woman screamed, whereupon she
was killed.
Prince Gustaf Adolf will repre-.
sent Sweden at the dedication of the
chapel erected by the Swedes on the
battlefield of LutZen, Nov. 6. The
services in the chapel will be con-
Quoted by Archbishop Ekman and the
bishop Of Magdeburg. Nine. Ekman,
Of Gothenburg, who has donated so
liberally to the building of the chapel
on the historic battlefield, will also be
present.
A few delegates to the Worlds
Peace congress at The Hague, among
them Sir Thomas Barclay, the we'll
known authority on international
law, have sent King Oscar a long let
ter in which they express their ad-
miration for him because he avoided
war between Sweden and Norway in
1905.
All Stockholm restaurants must be
closed at midnight, according to a new
ordinance. This has created quiet Il
bit Of complaint among the mid
nighters,'' but the proprietors cannot
well admit anybody after II O'Clock
in order that the customers may have
time to eat before leaving.
According to the London Daily Mail
Wilhelm Dyrsen, chief of the navy de-
partment, will shortly tender his resis-
tfon and accept instead governorship
in NOrrland. Who his successor will
be is as yet a matter of speculation.
but announcements are expected soon.
There is not 4 little apprehension
among government officials because of
the tenacious agitation among So
cialists against militarism. In many
cases the soldiers take kindly to their
arguments.
Mrs. Katherine Tungley will not
start Theosophical colony at Visin-
go as was announced in a former let.
ter. The government forbids it.