Morris tribune., 1909-10-29
SWEDEN.

John Hammar, executive agent and
manager of the Stockholm Export So.
| .ciety received a week ago last Satur.
| day a package, containing a bomb,
which Immediately exploded. Ham
| mar had his thumb and fore finger torn
! off and was severely injured about the
| face. With the bomb there was a
letter, signed J. Asker, who stated in
| the letter that it was a present and
that it was valuable one. Around
the bomb itself, was wrapped copy
of the Socialist paper Brand" It is
believed that the attempt was insti.
| tuted at the hands of the Young So.
| cialists, whose aim it was to thus
wreck one of the leaders of the anti
socialists Hammar had in some way
offended the socialists during the strike.
Another Internal machine was also sent
to Gothenburg, but when it arrived to
the person for whom it was intended,
| it did not explode, and the person in
question remained uninjured.
A Swedish born songstress, Miss
! Agnes Janson, is at present visiting
| friends in Stockholm. She is citi.
| zen of Australia, where she has won
| fame as a singer. She was at one
| time member of the Stockholm Op
era company and appeared in CoVent
| Garden in 1900, where she scored a
| great success. She was later on Ell.
| gagged by an Australian opera com.
| pany and has been singing in Mel
| 4hxa 1oC Rryo hn
| possesses beautiful voice and will ap
pear in concert in Stockholm prior to
returning to her home in Australia.
The anti-emigration society in Swe-
den is now having all kinds of up hill
| work and it's attempt to check emigra.
| tion to foreign lands will now be all
the more difficult as there are thou
sands of laboring men, who will go to
other countries, having been thrown
out of employment at home. Secretary
Molin calls attention to opportunities
for small manufacturers, but this op-
portunity is limited to such as have
considerable capital, and therefore will
not appeal to great many of those
forced to seek fortunes elsewhere.
Recent dispatches from Stockholm
inform us that the arbitration under
taken by the government to settle the
dispute between the employers union
and the confederation Of labor has
failed chiefly on account Of the pro-
posal to settle future disputes by arbi-
tration. A renewal Of the general
strike is therefore imminent and con-
sequently feared. In any event the
postponement of the resumption of
work will entail great suffering on the
$4,000 men who are still idle.
The Young Socialists held their
third massmeeting in Stockholm the
other evening. It was their third an.
nual meeting too, and there was a
large attendance. There was no critic.
ism expressed against the leaders OF
the recent strike, which failed. There
were representatives from Denmark.
Norway and Germany and $500,000 was
solicited. A republican propaganda
was adopted and the government was
severely arraigned for its compulsory
military service.
A society has been organized in
Stockholm for the purpose of offering
protection to those who are willing to
work during the strike, should it con-
tinue for some time, and any one in
terfering with workmen with words or
actions, is to be prosecuted by the So
ciety. 1t is believed that the concerted
action of this society, will greatly SIM
plify matters for employers and give
men who desire to do so, an oppor-
tunity to make a living unmolested
The women of Sweden are gradual
ly crowding out the men. In nearly
all the railway Offices of the country
women are now employed and by the
first of the year it is possible that
there will be only women empolyed In
these offices. They seem to do the
work faster and more conscientiously
than the men and are not so addicted
to late hours and carousing as the men
are.
In 1912 the first representation OF
"The Huguenots" in Sweden took
place The Urbain of that early date
Nile Fundin, is still living at Stock.
holm. The old lady is in her ninetieth
year. She often relates many inter.
esting episodes from her fellowship
with the immortal Jenny Lind at the
Stockholm Opera.
Sweden will be represented at the
Buenos Ayres Agricultural exhibition
in 1910. The departments which Swe-
den will exhibit in are stock breeding,
agricultural machinery and farm cul-
tivation, and an appropriation of 1885, /
900 crowns has been set aside by the
government to take care of exhibits.
Arvid Odmann, court singer and
first tenor of the Royal Opera at !
Stockholm, was married at the age of
fifty-nine. He is still in full artistic
activity, singing all the leading parts.
He has done so since 1873, when he
made his debut.
The tax on whisky in Sweden is
steadily increasing and is now 65 ors