The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-11-11
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| NorWayS famous ex-premier, is dead
She was woman of rare attainment
and came from an old patrician Der
| genser family. She was popular In
Stockholm. too. where she resided for
1898. She was very diplomatic wo
man and was perhaps one OF the best
informed women on politics in the
country. Madame Nicholson took q
deep interest in her husbands affairs
and during the time that he was prime
minister it is believed that Mr.. Michel
sen relied as much on his wifes advice
as he did on that OF his closest po'
| liticaI advisers At any rate there are
soilie people who profess to believe
| that Madame Benny Nicholson had a
great deal to do with the bringing
about of 4 peaceable dissolution with
Sweden in 1905 She also was the one
who conducted the negotiations in
Stockholm regarding the disposition
OF the much talked of "ministershotel.
let" in Stockholm
Rev. Peter Olsen resigned from his
congregation In Lynge the other day.
At the same time he resigned from the
ministry. all on the ground that he had
been preaching to empty seats. Rev.
| Olsen became so disguised with the In.
| difference of his congregation that he
| decided to leave congregation, minis.
! try and ALL There Is a religious in.
| difference throughout Norway that is
| NOT pmnrfh,r and dnoc mt a,iuup VOL
! for the future. The ministry is writ
ing about the matter and discussing it
at their meetings and many Of them
openly threaten to do the same as Rev.
Olsen has done. The matter Of church
indifference is, according to reports,
worse In Sweden.
Sweden and Denmark will be large.
ly represented at the great Christiania
fair. to be held in 1914 The two
countries together will occupy space
OF 5000 Quadratic meters each on the
exposition grounds and have been ac-
corded the privilege of making the
first selection. Sweden will have an
exceptionally large arr exhibition and
will also have a considerable Industrial
exhibit.
Norway is exporting large cOnsign.
ments or building stone ana stone
Republic. The other day the steamer
Artemis departed from Christiania
with a cargo of $500 tons of building
stone for Buenos Ayres. Large yuan;
titles of Norwegian herring. lumber
and berries are also sent TO Argentina
The Swedish aviator. Baron Ceder
strOm. made successful. flight with
his aeroplane in Christiania Oct Ia,
which was witnessed by thousands OF
people. He sailed around HovedOn
and back again over Ekebcrg. Weather
permitting Baron Cederstrom will give
another aerial exhibition during the
latter part of this month.
The body of Iohan Sverdrup has
been removed to Our Savior's GENE.
terry in Christiania. where monument
will be erected over his burial place.
The removal OF the body was conduct.
ed in the presence Of two sons of the
decreased.
Rev. +. A.. erickson has been ap-
pointed pastor Of the Valerengen's
church in Christiania and rs he Ia n
that ne will be chosen as storthing's
representative from that district
The Socialists in Christiania were
defeated In the election Oct H. They
elected one man and showed some
gains in certain precincts.
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In Copenhagen at present there are
n great many persons who are suffer
ing from infantiIe paralysis. Several
persons have died and there are as
many as a hundred cases on record
now. IL seems that old as we'll as
young persons are susceptible to the
disease AID physicians stand nbso.
Iutely puzzled. They are not even Ger
tain that il is the SO called American |
disease known as infantile paralysis, |
hui its symptoms have been so similar
that The newspapers have given the
disease this name. |
Two railway employees, who received
decorations of honor for saving the
lives OF some men who were about to
he r,in over in IA tunnel by a railway |
train some time ago. have been dis |
owned as members OF the SocialDem |
ocratC society on the. ground that said !
society does not approve OF any of its |
members carrying any decorations of
honor for meritoriOus service or any.
thug else. The two men in question.
however. decided to leave the society |
and kept the decorations awarded |
them
While conducting some excavations
at Charloftenlund the other day some
wOrkmen' came across skeletons.
which, according to experts who have
since examined them, date back to-
1907. II is believed that the skeletons
are those OF Englishmen who were
killed there in the aforementioned
year AT that time ii was not consid,
cred snch terrible thing 10 kill few
people in Denmark and it is very pos.
sibIe that fhc skeletons are those of
murdered Enclishmen.
Swedish einigrants are arriving al!
in large numbers There
are now over $4,000 Swedes in Den
mark and in Copenhagen there are
$4,000. II is. however. a class of emf