Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-09-26
SWEDEN.

over 9O per cent OF the Whlskey
distillers of Sweden have formed
trust.
Russian spies are said to have been.
operating around the Notifications at
Boden.
The attendance at the summer
school at the university of Upsala
was over 600.
P. Won Moller, of Engelholm, has
donated $4,000 to the city of Lund
for the aid of the poor of that city.
Duchess Maria Pavlovna, the fiancee
of Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, is
a descendant of King Gustaf Vasa Of
Sweden in 81 different ways.
The net proceeds of the "children's
day. in Stockholm was $4,000, which
as the name indicates, will go to
the support of poor children.
The leading organ of the Social
Democrats says that a strike must
not be managed in such way that
the COWS suffer because they are not
MIXED regularly.
Some inscriptions found on a stone
slab at Lampan, Vallentuna commune,
Stockholm Ian, have been carefully
studied and some of them date from
the fifteenth century before Christ.
About 100 soldiers at Solicited be-
haved contrary to the rules, and at
9:15 in the evening they were or
dered out on a march as punish
ment. They were fully equipped and
marched twelve (English) miles
through rain and mud before they
stopped.
The dissenters' tax committee has
reported bill which proposes that a
reduction of the taxes to support the
state church of Sweden be granted
only to persons who formally belong
to some authorized foreign Christian
church or to Jewish synagogue.
A monument of Swedish granite
was unveiled Sept. 1 at Altvanstadt,
Germany, in memory of the historical
fact that King Karl XII of Sweden,
while stopping at that place 200 years
ago, compelled the kaiser to obey the
Westfalen treaty and to grant religious
liberty to the Protestants of Schlesien.
Numerous tokens of honor have
been conferred by the Germans upon
Swedes who contributed to the signal
success of the Swedish department
at the Berlin tourist and sporting ex-
position. Five persons were decorated
with orders Of honor, and diplomas
were given to one hundred different
parties.
Prof. o. Montelius, whose fame as
an archeologist reaches far beyond the
bounds of Sweden, has been appoint
ed national antiquarian of Sweden.
Rev. Lofgren, pastor of Matteus
parish Stockholm, is not well liked,
and large number of the most prom.
inent members of his congregation
have petitioned him to resign. Rev.
Lofgren does not take kindly to this
idea, and he feels pretty safe as long
as he is backed by the authorities.
The agricultural department of the
state of New York has sent G. V.
Johnson, a Swede, to Sweden to in
duce Swedes to come to New York
and work on the farms of that state.
The Swedish government seems to
have taken steps to check the work
of Mr.. Johnson. It is stated that he
was sent out by the state Of New
| York contrary to the laws of the
United States. y
The threshing machines began to
hum in southern Sweden during the
| first week of September. This was
needed, for the granaries were empty
in most places. The rye crop yields
| better returns than the farmers ex
pected, and the grade is from fair tc
good. The potatoes and the root
crops are below the average. The
sugar beets were poor during the sum
ner but they rallied somewhat late,
in the season. The apple crop is poor
in most localities. Wild berries are
abundant The plums are very late
The hazel nut crop is a rich one.
An unusually large number Of
members of the first chamber of the
riksdag have resigned during the
| past few months.
A strike has been started among
the farm laborers of southern Swe
den The immediate hardship caused
by this move was that the COW:
could not be MIXED. Some farmer!
sold part of their stock, the higl
| school students in some of the cite.
Hocked into the country to help mill
the cows, and many farmers VIII,
rad a. little time to spare mornin.
and evening offered their services tt
their richer neighbors. The press j!
| ritter hard on the strikers because
ire latter are so hard on the poo
COWS.
John Froberg, a manufacturer a
Finspong, has insured his life fol
| about 100000 in the Skandia, AM
he is carrying large policies in man!
other companies.
Owing to a partial failure of tn,
fruit crop the genealogical society o
Sweden has decided not to have tn,
] proposed fruit exposition in Stock