The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21
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The city of Malmo has been visited
by a typhoid fever epidemic. The orr
gin of the disease is not known.
The conservative press is trying to
make out that the present cabinet is
not only in favor of local option but
even of prohibition of the liquor traf-
fic.
Prince Bernadotte laid the corner
stone of the Y. M. G.. A. hall in Nal
mo. Governor Della Gardie and a great
number of other prominent men We're
also present.
The Swedish bog reclamation So
ciety has celebrated it's twenty-five
year jubilee. The celebration took
place at J%onkoping in connection with
! the regular fall meeting of the So
ciety.
The number of people out of work
In Stockholm is very large this win
ter. The most striking feature of
the labor market is the unusually
large contingent of idle clerks and
b~ookkeepers.
The %infantile paralysis epidemic is
on the retreat, but it is far from
stamped out, which may be seen from
the fact that the number of new cases
reported during the first half of No
vember was As.
The executive committee of the Bal
tic exposition was invited to a magnifi.
cent banquet by the industrial union
OF Copenhagen, and the gathering
was made the occasion for paving
the way for a better understanding be.
tween the Swedes and the Danes. The
exposition is to take place in Malmo,
in 1914, and Denmark will be very
c%reditably represented.
England is opposed to athletic com.
petition on Sunday, as planned for the
Swedish Olympial next summer. But
this difficulty will no doubt be disposed
OF in a satisfactory manner The
SWedes are making elaborate prepare
tons for the event and visiting
athletes will be entertained royalty. A
great stadium is being erected il
Stockholm, especially for the athletic
fete, and Sweden can be depended or
to handle the event successfully.
Alarming reports were circulated
about the health of August Strind
berg, and in order to find out the
truth a newspaper reported called OF
him. When asked how he felt tn,
poet answered.: Sick for half a yea,
past; at times so sick that | must ~
to bed at seven o'clock in the evening
1nterna! trouble, but unknown to m,
doctor, who guesses a liver affection
Or an expansion of the vertricle, will
a secondary malady, heart disease
Moreover, | am old and worn an
weary since I approached the Grea
Year of the Climacterie, which Tee
ner avs is the mans s%ixty-third. an
which is said to be dangerous to sick
ly persons" "
Boxing may be added to the curricu
lum OF the Olympic games next sun
mer. Everett c. Brown, former pres
dent Of the National A. A. u, an
member Of the committee in charge c
the international athletic carnival a
Stockholm, has announced himself i
favor of pugilistic as we'll as wrest
ing competition at the meet, and j
supported along this line by James
Sullivan, who heads the United State
committee on selection of teams
Every branch of sport known to tn
amateur field, save boxing and wres
ling, has been listed for trials in tn
Olympic competition, and it is the hop
of Brown and Sullivan that a speci:
series of bouts may be arranged t
bring together entrants from til
i, United States, England and Australi
, the countries in which pugilism hs
long ranked among the leading pa
times.
The subscription to the memoirs
fund which is to be given to Augu
! Strindberg. the author, on his ne.
birthday, is assuming large propo
: tons. Ten thousand subscription lis
: have been distributed, and many S
! cieties of different kinds have take
up the matter. The theaters and 9th,
pleasure establishments are expecte
to swell the amount very materially.
The new taxation rules of Stoc
holm, compel a number of societies
pay taxes that never did SO befor
nj Only organizations that are pure
r benevolent are exempted from tax
ton.