Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-06-06
NEWS FROM SCANDINAVIA
Principal Events That Have Trans
PRED in the Old Countries
Within Week or So.
DENMARK.

DENMARK.
lie children Of the royal family o.
denmark have had the measles, tn.
nlaiady having been contracted b,
Trlnce Gustav during his recent visit
% the king and queen Of Norway. Tit
sickness may interfere with the in.
tended visit Of the king and queen II
London and Paris. not to mention thei,
trip to Iceland.
The imports OF Denmark increased
s22,00O,000 in 1906 as compared Will
The figures for the previous year.
The Danish government has voted
$4,000 for placing cheap copies Of ia.
nous Danish paintings in the third.
class waiting rooms of about $50 rail.
way stations.
United States Minister O'Brien ha.
preached the old subject of selling the
Danish West Indies to the United
States. but it is said that political con.
siderations will prevent a closing o,
such deal. ,spa.
III FINLAND -a=@
The new landtdag Of Finland was
opened May rs, at Helsingfors. Gov.
ernor General Gerhard read the speech
from the throne, which was a short
and colorless address. In reply the
president of the landtdag, Judge Swim,
hufvud, delivered an address in which
after abiding to the passing of the
hated Bobrikoff regime, he declared
that the landtdag always would be
guided by the principle of respect fo1
the rights of Finland and the full
restoration of the ancient and Legal
status of the duchy. The opening cere-
monies took place in hall built es.
pecially for the purpose, and were pre-
ceded by service in the Nikolaus
church, the center Of the national re-
liSion Of Finland. The members of the
landtdag, according to ancient custom
marched from the hall Of meeting ia
the church, and from the church to the
palace. A touch Of quaintness was i'm
parted to the procession by the white
coils of the several peasant women
deputies. The male deputies having
academic degrees wore medieval hats
of strange design; they resemble silk
hats encased in baggy coverings of red
or brown silk, and the large number Of
these head coverings in the procession
WAS an indication Of high average OF
Education Of the deputies. The newly
slected legislators wore neither uni
forms nor decorations, but the mem
hers Of the senate were Respondent in
Eoh trimmed frock coats, cooked hats
and epaulets. There was general
holiday In Helsingfors in honor of the
occasion, and all Nhe stores, factories
and schools were closed. Nearly the
entire population of the city gathered
at the church to watch the coming and
The going of the deputies. Governor
General Gerhard dispensed with the
customary escort. The Russian garri-
son in the fortress took no part in
the ceremony beyond mounting guard
o6 honor In front Of the palace. Three
languages, Finnish, Swedish and Rus
pian, were employed in the ceremonies
but the place of honor was given to-
Finnish. President Svinhufvud de-
pivered his reply to the governor gen.
sral entirely in that tongue. The serv-..
ices in the church came to an end,
with a sermon in Finnish by Deputy
Maloivaara, which was subsequently,
repeated in Swedish. The speech from
the throne was couched in Russian,
but Finnish and Swedish TRANSACTIONS
of it were read by M. Michelin, the
Senior Of the senators. The Socialists
attended the opening ceremonies, but
they remained silent when the other
hpplanded. Many of the Socialists
wore red ties and flowers.
SWEDEN.
The students chorus of the Univer.
s1ty of Lund is giving concerts in a
number Of cities in Northern Sweden.
The department Of agriculture has
estimated that the returns from the
salt water fisheries of Sweden for the
Year 1905 were about s2,soo,ooo.
The king and queen have requested
their subjects to give them no pres
ents on the occasion of their golden
wedding. But a subscription has been
started for the establishment of a
home for scrofulous children in order
that the event may be commemorated
bn some tangible way.
Some shipowners and exporters in
Goteborg have proposed the establish
ment of a new line of large steamers
between that city and America. The
plan requires a capital stock of at
least $5,0OO,O00, which would make it
possible to run a 9,000-ton steamer
each way every week. The magnitude
of the operation is SO great that it will
take at least two years before the COM
pany can do any regular business.
The Swedish riksdag has settled a
great question which has agitated the
Swedish people for decades: A general
suffrage bill mas been passed. The
most striking feature of the new law
Us it's provision for proportional repre-
sentation in both chambers of the nat
ional legislature. In order to be eli
gible to the first chamber a man must
either own property to the value of
$13500 or have an annual income Of
$50. The right to vote for members
of the riksdag is no longer to be re-
stricted by property qualifications.
All members of the riksdag are to re-
ceive salaries. The bill also changes
the laws regulating local elections. The
rights of property We're formerly so
great at local elections that in hum
dreds of communes a small minority
hSd everything their own way, and in
about so communes single person had
a right to cast majority of all the
votes The new law provides that no
person shall have a right to cast more
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