Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-04-18


ing with the teachers in the public
| schools with regards to promotions and
pensions. '.' .'
Both Danish and Swedish newspa-
pers are denouncing the methods of
two Danish lottery companies which
are doing a fourishing business in
Sweden. But the companies keep
things moving all the same because
they are operating within the limits
Of the letter of the law.
The past years was a very prosper
GUS one for the sugar barons' Of
Sweden. The best beets welded as
much as 18 per cent Of sugar, some
| thing which was supposed to be i'm
possible two years ago. There was so
much money in the business that both
the beet-grOWers and the laborers
were given enough pay to make them
stop their traditional Kicking" against
the sugar barons." No industry has
brighter prospects in Sweden than
has the production of beet sugar.
Otto Goldschmidt, the husband Of
Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale"
who died in 1887, died in London at
the age Of seventy eight. He married
Miss Lind in 1852, during her American
| tour, during which he was her accom-
PIANIST on the piano. Mr. and Mrs.
GOldschmidt took up their residence in
England in 1858. He was professor in
the Royal Academy Of Music, England
in 1863, and made vice principal in
1866, was first musical director of the
Bach Choir in 1875, and resigned in
1885 He edited, in conjunction with
Sterndale Bennett, 1.-The Choral Book
for England.'
The railway department has pre-
pared a lengthy report on the proposed
finland Railway" which is to run from
north to south thru the whole coun-
try Starting from Gothenburg and
following portions of existing railroads
for short distances, the Inland Rail-
way" according to the opinion of the
railway department., ought to pass
thru the following places: Ellos, Hog
storp, Smedberg, Gesater. Ed, Billings
fors, Lelangen, Silbodal, Koppom.
Ottebol Torsby, Utterbyn, Rya, Ma
lung, Orsa, Sveg, Irenstavik, Brunf1o.
Ostersund. Litsnaset, Gullastjarn. Ul-
riksfors, Dalasjo, Kaska and Genivare.
1t is estimated that this line will cost
s39.10O,OOO.
The American minister, Mr.. Graves,
in letter to the newspapers, explains
that he declined to present Mrs. Ida
NJ. Won Claussen Of New York to King
Oscar because there was no evidence
that she had any royal invitation or
proper credentials. The Swedish news
papers treat the incident with ridicule.
Mrs. Won Claussen, who is the daughter
of Adolph Won Claussen, a retired mer-
chant of New York, recently complain
ed to the state department at WASH
ngtOn that Minister Graves had re-
fused to present her at court. The
minister in reply sent to the state de-
partment the letters Mrs. Won Claussen
wrote to him on the subject. Mrs. Won
Claussen who is one of the heirs of
the Byrne estate, assumed her maiden
name after obtaining a divorce from
her husband, DR.. William Francis Ho-
man.
NORWAY.
The public debt of the municipality
of Kristiania is little over $14,00O,OOO.
The government sold stumpage for
$4,000 on the Kendall reservation last
year, the heaviest buyers being Swedes.
The Norwegian Life Pension Union
has loaned $67,5O0 to the Aalesund
Building Association for the erection
of residences.
Oscar Buurmann who is residing in
Paris, is translating Ibsen's "Ghosts"
into Esperanto, an artificial language
receiving much attention in our day.
The Hygea life insurance company
of Bergen is in prosperous condition.
The new insurance for the past year
amounted to almost $1,0OO,OOO, and the
reserve fund is about $1,300,00O.
The city council of kristiania has
proposed an appropriation of $4,000
for the Western railway on condition
that the storting pass a resolution at
the present session to build such a
railway.
The government has proposed that
the importation of gooseberry bushes
be prohibited in order to protect the
native bushes from "American mil
dew" which is troubling the fruit
growers of Norway and Sweden.
Plans are being prepared at the canal
office for deepening the passage thru
Nordsjo to Eitterdal lake SO that it
may accommodate steamers of 1000
tons. This will afford the fourishing
factories around Notodden a direct
communication with the ocean.
Sufficient money has been raised
for a monument of Peter Dass, the ia
nous poet and preacher Of Nordland.
About 5000 will be paid for the best
designs for the monument, which will
be unveiled in August, 1908, the 200th
anniversary of Peter Dass. The monu-
ment will naturally be located at
Alstahoug Nordland.
Norfolk, Va, April S.-The British
steamer Olivemoor, bound from Mobile
March 80, for Bristol, England, picked
up at sea off the North Carolina coast
yesterday fifteen Of the eighteen men,
bers of the Norwegian bark Hereford,
bound from Pensacola, March 16, for
Buenos Ayres, which was dismasted
in the storm Of April 1, and was help
less at sea until sighted with distress
signals flying by the Olivemoor on her
way across the Atlantic. Three men,
bers of the Hereford's crew were
washed overheard and drowned. Capt.
Jensen, commanding the bark, was
crippled by a falling mast and rigging
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