Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-01-21
SWEDEN.

The queen of Sweden left for Italy
Jan. 4.
DR.. Sven Hedin will spend the lat
ter part of January at home in order
to take much needed rest.
Axel Cronholm, the founder and
proprietor Of the Jonkoping law Of
ice, loft fortune of $4,000.
The passenger traffic on the Swed-
ish railways before and during the
Christmas holidays was lighter than
usual.
At the close Of the year 1907 the
aggregate tonnage Of the merchant
marine Of Sweden was 1,110,640, that
Of the steamers being S42,676, that
Of the sailing vessels 387,964. The
increase for that year was 140,932
tons.
The crown prince and crown prin-
cess of Sweden have had a new Ice
yacht made to order. 1t is not a big
one, and the surface of the sail IL
only rs square yards. But the craft
is very suitable for pleasure trips
for small parties
Over 10000 hares and rabbits were
killed In Skane during the last four
months of the past year. An unusual
ly large number of deer were also
shot during the same period, and
still there was an increase of the lat
ter kind of game in 1908.
A government report on the social
condition of the people of Upsalalan
states that the use of liquor is de-
creasing, while the consumption OF
coffee is increasing very fast. The
children of the poor generally get
coffee and bread for breakfast.
Rev. j. Akerblad, assistant pastor
at Voxtorp, tainted while celebrating
high mass in his church, and he had
to be carried into the vestry. He
soon came to again, but he would
not resume his duties, hence the con-
gregation had to leave in the middle
of the services.
The new king of Sweden does not
give out any accounts of the Christ
mas presents received by members
of the royal family: King Oscar was
in the habit of giving such facts to
the press, and it afforded very en-
joyable reading to high and low. The
newspapers comment on the change
in such a way that one may easily
see their displeasure.
The king has accepted an offer OF
$4,000 for the Old Dramatic
Theater. J. M. Juhlin, a member of
the riksdag, closed the contract. But
he is only a representative of a syn
dictate which has obtained possession
of adjoining lots, making 10000
square feet in all. 1t is said that the
syndicate is going to put up a pala-
tial bank building on the ground. The
Stockholm Enskilda bank is the lead
ing member of the syndicate.
An international committee for the
advancement of poultry growing has
engaged J. Byman of the Malmohus
poultry association to write a history
of the origin and development of
poultry raising in Asia and Europe.
The attention of the committee was
called to Byman by his writings on
poultry raising in Sweden and it's
connection with efforts of the same
kind in the adjoining countries and
in Asia and Africa. The committee
has its headquarters in London.
During the year 1908 the govern
ment Of Sweden loaned $1,35O,O0o to
people Of small means who are pro-
curing homes of their own. Three
fourths OF the amount went to coun-
try districts, the rest to cities.
No less than 500 building contract
ors have failed in Sweden during the
past eighteen months, and several
others, especially in Stockholm, are
soon expected to go to the wall.
The church of Sweden has approx
ed the bill passed by the riksdag
abolishing the old provision that the