The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1909-04-08
WEDEN.

The government bank at Stockholm
has recently reduced the rate of dis.
count from to 4 IL per cent.
Last year showed marked increase
in the volume of the poultry industry
in Sweden. The egg production in
creased by 100000 eggs, and the
export of eggs showed an increase of
100000.
The large sewer pipe factory at Ho-
ganas was recently burned, the loss
amounting to over $4,000. The plant
employed $50 men, who are thrown
out of work by the fire. The COM
pany has decided to rebuild at once.
The late Stockholm banker, Axel
Brennan, left property worth 100000,
besides several heavy insurance poll
c!es. In his will he bequeathed the
amount of $4,000 to various charita-
BILE and philantropic purposes,
The poor department of Gotebork
has petitioned the city authorities to
limit the time in which the liquor dis.
penseries are to keep open during the
period when there is so much idleness
among the laboring classes. They ask
that the dispenseries be closed each
week from Friday noon until Monday
morning.
As spring advances there is q no.
ticeable improvement in the labor
market. The Stockholm Separator
company has heightened its working
day to ten hours again, after running
on an eight-hour day for the past six
months. Business generally is i'm.
proving, and it is hoped that lack Of
work will soon be thing of the past
The city authorities of Stockholm
have estimated the years improve
ments for the city, and find that the
funds available will fall short some
s13,O0O,O0O of covering the expenses
of the work planned. The city will
borrow what money it needs to COM
plete such work as is considered most
necessary.
The Swedish frame houses for tenn
porary erection in the districts devas-
tated by the earthquake in Sicily have
proved very popular and additional
orders have been received by the
manufacturers. The Swedish timber
and workmanship has in this instance
produced a superior article, and
brisk demand is the result.
This year there will be two horti-
cultural expositions in Stockholm in
connection with the Art and Industrial
exposition. The government has ap-
1000 crowns toward the ex-
penses, and the dates for the two hor-
ticultural exhibits have been fixed for
June 1f-13 and September 1913. It
is proposed to get the country as a
whole to take part in these exhibits.
The Swedish government has been
the cost of changing the
that runs from the iron ranges
In the north to the Norwegian frontier
into an electric railway. Two CON-
panies have figured on the contract,
and both bids approximate close to
three and half million dollars for
building the necessary power houses,
and putting up the poles and wires.
It is not yet definitely decided wheth-
err the change will be made at pres.
ent.
The administrator of the estate of
Sven Ersson has turned over to Mora
commune and Mora congregation the
sum of $4,000 crowns for the encour.
agement of agriculture and the better.
ment of the common schools of the
parish.
The prospects are that Norway and
Sweden will furnish the granite for
he new Notifications at Rosyth. Eng
land, as they can furnish the stone
several thousand dollars cheaper than
England herself. The contract calls
Tor over 100000 worth of the granite.