Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-10-24
SWEDEN.

The labor officials are taking up
occasionally the discussion is quite
heated.
S. e. Stromgren, instructor at a
school in Kiel, mas been appointed to
a chair of astronomy at the Univer-
sity of Copenhagen.
A thrifty man named Bergenzaun
bought two farms at Strangnas for
$4,000, paying down only $135. He
knew that the government would need
the ground for barracks for the Solder
mainland regiment, and he asked $685.
73O for it. But the government ex-
propriated the land, paying $15,5OC
for it, a.
The strike at the Kramfors saw
mill was settled on the basis OF a
raise of wages averaging about ~
per cent. But on the other hand the
laborers shall no longer have free
rooms and free fuel. In case of diff
ferences between the employers and
the laborers the work shall not be
disturbed at all during negotiations
which are made compulsory. Union
and non-union man be employed in
discriminatory. The employers have
procured land which the employees
may buy at reasonable rates, and the
employees may buy lumber from the
company and pay for it in ten years
without interest.
The nL..nns9r of items carried
through the mails of Sweden in 1906
was 371 ,S66,l02, Of which l4,8S7,6
were sent out of the country and ~
625.9l9 received from abroad. There
was a gain of 3,0C0 600 or 3.6 per cent
as compared with tie previous year.
There was a decrease of "a and 81
per cent of the items sent to Den
mark and Norway respectively. This
showing was surely due to the dis
solution of the union, the number OF
items sent to other countries OF Gu-
rope increasing 1873 per cent. TA2
money order business OF the post
office department aggregated over
s4OO 900 900, and the increase was 1G.
per cent in one year.
The Royal Swedish Yacht Club
met at Stockholm to discuss the reply
of the New York Yacht Club to its
inquiry as to the conditions under
which a challenge for the America
cup would be considered. After
long debate, in which it was empha
sized that the New York club had not
given clear 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 movers in the movement tt
challenge for the cup said: Il and al
other members of the Royal Swedish
| Yacht Club are greatly surprised ant
| hurt at the sighting manner in which
| the New York Yacht Club replied K
orr communication and the failure O
this club to answer in plain language
! Sweden's civil inquiry as to whether
it was willing to race with seventy
foot boats. We mean business ant
| we are not trihing. We hope tina
| the two millions of Swedes in Amerl
i ca Will Jack US IL Jul oAA VI y -
The Stockholm chamber OF com
merce has petitioned the king to have
the postage on letters to foreign coun
tries reduced from 20 ore 6 % cents
to is ore (about half a cent less).
The civil department has been do
| ing some preliminary work which i
! to be used as a basis for a law 10
| regulating agreements between EN-
/ ployers and employees.
| At the celebration of the one hun
dredth anniversary OF the geological
society Of London the title OF docto
Of science was conferred upon Pro1
| A. g. Nathr-s