Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-04-30
Recent Occurrences Of Interest
In Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
VESSEL TO) HEAVILY LOADED
Loss OF the Cane o. amer Gotta Ar
At Gothenburg With Twenty.
Two Passengers-Capta
and Crew Escape.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.


that the canal steamer Gotta Ali cap
sized and sank April IL In the har'
Dor and that twenty persons persisted
Those who persisted were all passen'
gers. The captain and crew saved
themselves by swimming ashore. The
cause Of the disaster was evidently
the fact that the steamer was too
heavily loaded. Only few bodies
were recovered during the night, but
dragging for the remaining bodies he
gan the following day. The steamer
was on old one and had been running
In the canal between Stockholm and
Gothenburg during the past twenty
years.
A Swedish engineer named Wester
berg has invented a new railway car
10 be used in the tunnel under the
Hudson river Mt New York The car
is made Of steel throughout and has
platform on both sides so that at
the stations passengers can step both
Off and on without the slightest in,
convenience. They can get off Oh one
side and on on the other side. Th
car cannot start before all the doors
are closed. Mr.. Westerberg is at pres
emit n resident OF Gothenburg, but has
lived In the United States for a num-
Der OF years.
A telegram from St Petersburg
states that Swedish military balloon
landed about O'clock I'm the after
noon near Schulussenberg, twenty-one
miles east OF the Russian capital. on
April It. In the balloon We're Lieu
tenant Moller and another Swedish
army officer. The officers stated that
they had left Stockholm the previous
morning at 7 a. m. The Swedish Of
ficers were permitted to pack their hal
loon and return with II to Stockholm.
The boundary disputes will, accord
ing to present Indications, be speedi-
~ settled I'm the near future. The two
countries have now agreed to place
the settling of the whole question IN
the hands Of court Of arbitration con
sisting Of the Queen Of Holland, two
Swedish and two Norwegian diplD.
mats. One Of the swedish members
Will serve as chairman. Queen vii.
helmina will decide where and when
the court Of arbitration shall meet
Count Burger Morner, the Swedish
author and at present Swedish consul
AT Sydney. Australia, has been made
an honorary member OF the Australian
A ,,thr<c,~lnSv;<~a1 a<>,Ja1y ro.,px Morna,.
Is well known In Sweden as an au-
thor and his translations from the
Danish and German are considered es-
pccially good. Mr.. Morner resided for
a number Of years in Copenhagen.
Telephone connections between
Gothenburg and Stockholm were
opened April and the line is now in
full operation. The city OF Gothen.
burg does an immense export business
with Germany and the new telephone
connections will prove a great boon to
export men In both Berlin and Gothen-
burg.
There are quite few temperance
people In Sweden, judging from recent
statistics. According to these there
are at least 463,e38 persons who are
allied with some temperance organiza.
ton or other. The temperance cause
has received a great impetus In Swe-
den recently.
There is a professor at Upsala who
does not want hts son to study re-.
ifg4on. His name is Professor Wick
sell. The professor pet1toned the ma.
ttonal government to excuse his son
from passing high school sxamina lions
in religion, but his petition was not
granted.
The Morgenbladet (Christiania)
states that Nine. Gunther- Molthagen.
wife OF the Swedish envoy at Christi.
ania. Herr Gunthsr. died at the Voxen-
kollcn sanatorium April 4. where she
has been confined to her bed for q
number OF weeks.
The Swedish club in Riga, Lifand,
has invited the Upsala Students Male
chorus to give two concerts this sum.
mer In the aforementioned city. They
will guarantee the students 1000 ruble
II they determine to come.
1t is now definitely decided that
President Fallieres, Of France, will
pay Stockholm visit during the lat.
ter part OF the month of June The
French president will also pay a visit
10 Chrfstlania.
An English newspaper correspond
ent states that the Russian govern,
ment no longer has any designs on
the Aaland islands and has abandoned
all efforts to fortify any Of the Isl.
ands.
As diplomatic agent In Egypt, Swe,
den has appointed the consul general
In Cairo, Count @. A. wachtmeister
The Swedish consulate has also been
transferred to Cairo,
Queen Victoria departed the 9TH
Inst. for Karlsruhe and from thence
she will continue her journey to
Venice. where she contemplates re.
naming for number OF weeks.
A Turkish exhibition r. at present
being arranged In Stockholm by the
dragonan DIR. v. r. Martin. The ex.