The Bottineau courant., 1910-07-08
SWEDEN.

riksborg died of sunstroke, the first
fatal case of it's kind in Sweden this
year.
The royal pleasure yacht Drott, with
Queen Victoria on board, has been
making a cruise along the southeast
ern coast of Sweden.
Fire broke out in the national park
at Engelholm, and many young trees
were destroyed, the fire department
succeeded in putting it out.
At target practice at Nora, near
Orebro, woman, Mrs. Thyra Lindes-
joo, won the first prize, which was
a snug sum of money, and silver
cup.
While some boys were wrestling at
! Bonan, Cafe, one of them Erik Oscar
Abrahamsson from Cafe, fell on his
back and broke his neck. Life did not
flee until two days later.
| Henny Hermansson, fifteen year.
old girl who was washing bottles in
the drug store at Herrljunga, came too
close to running shaft, and in the
twinkling of an eye her scalp was
pulled off.
7 A Stockholm court has handed down
a decision in which newspaper men
are particularly interested. A certain
newspaper was sued on the charge of
having printed certain data that had
been copyrighted by the paper from
which the information was supposed
to have been taken.
August Strindberg is writing ex-
tensively for the daily press to expose
what he calls an abnormal tendency
in the works of some of the writer's of
the so-called school. His points are
vel taken, and, as usual, he deals out
stings and blows that prove the man
to be in dead earnest.
The farms of Sweden are opening
up new field for the use Of electric
lty. On thousands upon thousands of
large farms it will pay to use elec
tricity for lighting and for running
| threshing machines and other contriv-
ances. In some places it will pay to
run .even the plows by means of elec-
tricity.
Seventeen motor boats are going to
race from Bothenburg to Stockholm,
kstarting from Nynas harbor> at three
o'clock July II. The competitors
must land at Kalmar, Simrishamn.
and Helsingborg, and round the Falls
terbo lighthouse ship, but otherwise
they are free to choose any route
they please.
The Swedish exporters are in favor
of reducing the value of the Krone
(about 27 centsA to the value of the
French Franc (about 20 cents). They
claim that the proposed change would
be an aid to the Swedish export trade
Having a similar monetary system,
Norway and Denmark are also in
terested in this natter.
The manufacturers of soft drinks
are organizing themselves into a un-
ion for the purpose of crowding sac
charine drinks out of the market.
| Those who belong to the union guar
antee that only sugar has been used for
sweetening their drinks. Saccharine
costs two dollars a pound, but as a
sweetener it is still twenty-five times
cheaper than sugar, and some manu-
facturers of small quantities of soft
drinks are said to take, advantage of
the cheapness of saccharine.
I A journalist who had been working
for the defendant at the time being
i was summoned as witness. He sent
written communication to the court,
calling attention to the law guarantee
ing the liberty of the press, and asking
the court to define to what extent he
i was bound to testify in the case. The
court answered that he had to testify
as an ordinary witness in any ordi-
mary case. If this ruling is upheld
Z. by the higher courts it will be q hard
|blow to, the press. The following quo
i tation from a daily paper voices the
sentiment. among the newspaper men:
/ .If such inquisitorial investigation
with regard to the origin of the CON
1tents Of a newspaper becomes general
I |spractice in court, there may arise
/ consequences which never entered the
q minds of the fathers Of the law guar
anteeing the liberty Of the Swedish
press" q.
4 About 70 delegates are expected tc
q attend Socialistic congress which
4 is to be held in Stockholm In the
latter part Of August. Hinke Berge
gren and the Young Socialists are moi
Egoing to have anything to do witt
d the convention, which Is to discuss
Il business propositions rather than ma
tional politics.
at q yachting regatta at SandhamI
Princess Maria, the Duchess Of So
& sI!dermland, was at the helm of tn,
9 Dafne. D fine yacht. and the winning
J sof the first prize BY this vessel made
line princess still more popular thar
she Was before. s