Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-09-30
SWEDEN.

The Stockholm EXPOSITION gave d
surplus instead of an expected deficit.
The market quotations of the stocks
of some of the leading mining con.
Germs in Sweden rose enormously at
the close of the strike.
The export of lingon cred berries)
is so heavy from southern Sweden to
Germany this fall that an extra freight
train must be run to Trelleborg every
day.
Over $50 boys have applied for ad.
mission to the first class at TIE NAL
mo high school of technology, and
only 1875 of them can be accommo-
dated.
The railway department turned only
$4,000 into the national treasury in
August, as compared with 100000 in
July. This immense difference was,
o. course, due to the strike.
The former employees of the Stock
holm Streetcar company have offered
to pay the company for the damages
caused it's property during the recent
StllhS, I'LL SoAuAIAOAA SAAAS SAA SAAS IVA AAA
ers be re-employed.
A carpenter at Morrum named Pet
erson was an employer and an EN-
ploye in one person. When the strike
came the man felt something like E
schism within himself. But he finall;
yielded to the propensity of the
employe, and quit work. Time soor
became a burden to him, hours
seemed like weeks. He would like
| awfully we'll to go to work again. Blu
a gentleman and man of honor like
Carpenter Peterson of Morrum die
not want to be "strikebreaker" with
out due cause. So he went to work
and evolved a scheme: going to the
headquarters of the nearest labor
union he spoke somehow in this wise
am on a strike; but am going tt
work again unless I get minimum
Not much! was the prompt answer
and employe Peterson again went t.
work for employer Peterson with {
good conscience.
At Falun are the headquarters O
a mining company with a history 81
remote that the date of it's origin can
not be definitely fixed. In pamphle
recently issued, dealing with the his
tory of the company, it nodestly pre-
fesses to be lone of the oldest com
panies in the world" Its iron am
steel works are now concentrated g
| 4rf1 &C. h1 al CT nj
company in Scandinavia and one c
the oldest in the world. An origina
purchase deed Of 1888 had to do wit:
sale of stock in the company, an;
charters given by King Magnus Q
Sweden and Norway are dated Feb
"a, 1347. At that time the company
rights granted by King Magnus' pred
/ ecessors were referred to as very old
The original business was the manu-
featuring Of copper, and the mine q
Fa1un, "Stora Kopparberget" 9TH
great copper mountain). has been cor
tinuously worked for nearly 700 years
In this time 1t has yielded about 500
600 tons Of copper, Lbs tons OF silve
and IL tons Of gold, the whole repre-
senting . value Of about $270. 900. 900.
Hinke Bergegren, the great socia'
int hero, left Sweden when the grea
strike started. He IL said to hav
found out that husky young fello,
was ready to give him q sound licl
ing Of the kind that Hinke was In th
habit Of recommending for the en-
ployers.
The government has been CON
PEELED to order an extra steamer t
carry lingon cred berries) from Ire
borg, Sweden, to Sassnitz, German!
/ A number Of capitalists have con
menced to raise money for the built
ing Of . dry dock ct Kalmar.