Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-01-09

D914 ooapaAv = oslng - x
psEA 1870 @ . hrgs scale 4s0
Rama1n
Pi1b - cheaper than they have
bsen for years IN southsrn Sweden.
Occas1onally =, f1ve-weelrold pig is sold
for 70 cents.
The Swedish colony In Berlin cele.
DRAFTED King Oscars birthday By
banquet and ball at the Kaiserhof,
famous hotel.
Several children have died from
diphtheria in Arlof, and the authori.
ties have failed in their attempts to
stamp ont the disease.
The city council of Kristianstad has
passed resolutions to the effect that
the North Skane infantry regiment
may be transferred to that place.
Ernest Thiel. Stockholm banker,
has donated $4,000 towards estab-
fishing museum for the works of
Nietzche at Weimer, Germany. Metz
che was German philosopher who
lost his mind number of years be-
fore he died. -.
The municipal court Of Skeninge has
handed down a decision which prac-
tically makes the packing houses of
southern Sweden guilty of cruelty to
animals. The cruelty consists in hoist
ing the animals into the air by q
hind leg before the butchers knife
is thrust into their breasts. Packers
are expected to appeal the case to
the higher courts.
Next year the people of Skane are
going to have great time celebrating
the 250th anniversary of the union of
that part Of the country with the
rest Of Sweden. The time fixed for
the celebration is the early part of
June. The duke and duchess of Skane
will be IN attendance. The great feat
ure of the program will be a historical
parade in the streets of Malmo.
The officers of the Swedish army
have reported that the farmers are
placing great difficulties in the way
of military movements by charging
exorbitant pay for damages done to
their land or even prohibiting the
use of land which could not be ma
terially 6Rmaged by military move
ments. AAhe military authorities are
engaged in drawing up a bill to rem
edy this difficulty.
| J. Heilmann, the French consul in
Stockholm, has sent his government
an exhaustive report on the financial
condition OF Sweden. He realizes that
the present industrial awakening
needs foreign capital and he wants
to give French capitalists information
on the subject. His conclusions are
not reassuring. He does not think
so much as the Swedes do of "Swe-
den's slumbering Millions" and some
thing like vein of pessimism runs
through his report. He finds that the
great drawback is the scarcity of do
nestle fuel for manufacturing pur-
poses The waterfalls also came in
for slaps of different kinds. Their
capacity has been put as high as 3,000,-
900 horsepower, but he wants to cut
that down to about 100000. Many
of the waterfalls are far out of the
way, he says, and to transmit the
power to the manufacturing plants
would require an outlay of $1,000,000,-
900. TO make his report still more
disagreeable to the Swedes he points
to the Norwegian waterfalls as far
superior to those of Sweden. But
at the same time he shows that he
is biased, and impeaches the RELIABLE
ity of his whole report. While he
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mates Of the capacity of the Swedish
waterfalls to about one-half he talks
of Norwegian waterfalls of height
of $500 feet and capacity of 100000
horsepower at the turbines. The
chances are that for once the French
capitalists will discount the official
report of a French consul.
The manager of the Kockune iron
works sent a vigorous protest to the
government against the proposition OF
the naval department to have two
new torpedo destroyers built In Eng.
land.
The ordinary hand cars used by
the section men on the government
railroads are being replaced by auto
mobile cars which are manufactured
at Sodertalje at a cost of $3.50 a piece
One hundred and fourteen operators
of cotton or wooden mills who EN-
ploy $4,000 persons belong to spe
cial employers union.
The Masonic children's home At
Stockholm was dedicated Dec. s.
A quantity of East India porcelain,
consisting of 1881 pieces, has just
passed thru the Gothenburg custom
house. The goods had been recovered
from ship which sank near the inlet
to the harbor of Gothenburg In the
year 1745. The duties paid amounted
to SOL. "
The traffic is outgrowing the rolling
stock on the state railways of Sweden
and the railway department has asked
for an extra appropriation Of $1,795,
), 900 for the year 1909. It is esti