The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
News of Scandinavia
Principal Happenings Of the Week
in the Scandinavian Countries.

The exhibits at the Stockholm ex'
position are valued at $500. 900.
About 35 gentlemen and 10 ladies
In Stockholm r going to make an
automobile Jour to the northernmost
part Of Sweden.
1t is estimated that $4,000 will have
to be paid out Of public funds next
winter for meals for underfed Stock.
holm school children.
Forest fires have done some dam.
age in different parts of northern
Sweden. AS far as known, however,
the flames were checked before reach
ing large proportions.
One hundred and fifty thousand tons
OF iron have been shipped recently
from Stockholm to America. This is
the first consignment of this product
of noteworthy magnitude.
An American lady forgot her grip
containing $4,000 in cash at a hotel
in Trollhattan, and the proprietor for
warded the property to her hotel in
Kristiania before he heard from her.
The pulp mills at Klarafors were
closed July 3 because the products
cannot be sold at a profitable price.
About 200 persons were employed at
the mills. The company obtained
work elsewhere for some of them.
Herman de Lagercrantz, Swedish
minister to the United States, sends
to the government of Sweden the re-
suits of his inquiries among Swedish
workmen in America as to why they
left home. OF the replies SO per cent
declared that it was due to the social
istic rule of the unions making exist
ence in Sweden unbearable for work
ingmen.
Eight Russian anarchists were ar.
rested previous to the killing of Gen.
eral Beckman, but their apprehension
was kept secret. Two Of them were
found hiding in the palace. Wang, the
assassin of Beckman, left a letter
saying that inasmuch as his Russian
comrades had been arrested 1t was
impossible for him alone to kill the
emperor, and consequently he assas-
sinated the first high official he met.
Olof Hanson, a member of the
state church congregation at Gard
losa, is so displeased with his pastor,
Rev. Hallgren, that he has written a
complaint to the bishop of Lund. His
charges are quite specific, but his
main grievance is that Rev. Hallgren
believes neither that Jesus was God,
nor that there is a personal devil.
The letter is important because it, no
doubt, voices the sentiments of a
large proportion of the common peo-
pie. Mr.. Hansson's grammar is
shaky, to say the least, and, strange
as it would seem, his letter was
turned over to the press without cor
rections.
John Svanberg won four big races
in the west and made a lot of money.
Two in Chicago, one in Minneapolis,
and one in Kansas City-that's the
story of Svanberg's triumphs. Johnny
Hayes ran second to the flying Swede
in three of these races, but in all he
was outclassed and finished way in
the rea There is only one race left
in the pro" game for this summer,
and that Is a fifteen or twenty mile
match between Svanberg and Alfred
Shrubb, Of England. Both of these
fellows have outfooted all the others
at this distance and they should now
be matched TO run for the champion
ship at the modified Marathon" dis
lance. Svanberg stands willing to
race the great Briton any time before
Aug. /. Svanberg will sail for Swe-
den about Aug. l to take a long rest
up for next winters campaign. In the
twenty-mile race he ran at Kansas
City. Svanberg set a new worlds pro-
fessional record for the distance. His
time was l hour SO minutes 80 sec
onds, displacing the old record held
by Len Hurst by something like 10
seconds.