Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-06-13
IN THE SCANDINAVIAN NORTH
GLeanngs of Important NelOs From the Press or
Nors0ay, Sueden and Denmark.
By ODLAND.
BY MARTIN w. ODLAND.


Germany, recently contained a lengthy
communication from a Stockholm cor
respondent, which has aroused great
interest both in Sweden and in Nor
way. The writer says that more
friendly relationship between Sweden
and Norway will soon prevail, giving
as one of the reasons for this the fact
that King Oscar is working toward this
end. and on June 9Th, when he and
the queen celebrate their golden
jubilee, will issue an address to the
people of the sister nations, in which
he will appeal to them to forget their
past differences and live side by side
in peace and amity. The venerable
monarch, who won the love and re-
spect of all Europe by his noble con-
duct in the crisis of 1905, when he
averted war between the nations over
which he had ruled so long, is sad at
heart over the situation in the Scandl-
/ navian peninsula, fearing that unless
Sweden and Norway form friendly
alliance, their position as independent
nations may be endangered. In this
connection a visit to King Oscar by
Herr Lowenskjold, court steward at
| the Christiania palace, is very inter
! ting. 1t is said that the king sent for
him and that he unbosomed himself
as to his sOlicitude for the future OF
| Norway and Sweden. That the two
peoples may become friendly again is
a wish nearer the aged kings heart
than any other, and should he accom-
| plish this, he will regard his work as
ruler finished.
Consul Ekman, the wealthy Stock
| holm capitalist who died recently, be-
queaihed 100000 crowns of his for
tune to public institutions and for the
general good Among the institutions
remembered is Augustana college of
Rock Island, which gets 10000 crowns.
| The deceased philanthropist also gave
| 400 900 crowns for the establishment
and maintenance in America of bu-
reau of information, whose business
will be to guide and assist Swedes
coming from or returning to their ma
tive land. Consul Ekman desired that
as many of his countrymen in America
as possible return to Sweden after a
| life of active labor in the new world,
in order that they may spend their old
age in peace and quiet where they
were born-a beautiful thought!
dispatch from Stockholm an
nounces that the Swedish government
has asked it's representative at the
court of st. James to obtain the con-
sent of the English authorities for the
removal of the remains of Emanuel
| Swedenborg, the great seer and phil
| osopher, from London to Stockholm:
where it is to be placed in a great
mausolem.
Strong earthquake shocks were felt
at Lulea and other places in North
ern Sweden on May %. The move
| ments were from the southwest to
the northeast and were accompanied
by a dull, rumbling noise, emanating
from the bowels of the earth. The peO-
pie fled from their houses in terror,
but no damage was done and no lives
| were lost.
Among the honors paid to the mem
DRY of Linneus was a notable cele-
bration in one of the royal parks, given
by the crown prince Gustav, on be-
half of the king. Among the guests
were Professors w. j. Farlow of Har-
ward. w. w. Keen of the University of
Pennsylvania, and J. A. Udden of Au-
gustana college, Rock Island, Ill.