Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-12-05
OF INTEREST TO
SCANDINAvIANS
Recent Happenings In This
Country and Abroad.
MANY ATTENDED GATHERING

General Mission Conference Held Re.
Gently In stoekhoIm-Little Norwe-
sIan City Of sashein Equipped With
Every M odern OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Labor Largely Used in Sugar Beet
Cultivation in Denmark.
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A general mission conference was
held recently in Stockholm and lasted
four days. There were over 300 dele
gates in attendance. Among those
who attended the different sessions
were Prince Bernadotte, the ecclesias-
teal minister; Bishops Won Scheele
and DANIEL, Lector Waldenstrom, Cen
eral Rape and others. The confer
ence was opened with a sermon by
! Bishop Danell on the text, All Power
! Is Given to Me-" Prince Bernadotte
and DR.. Fries were elected presidents,
Bishop DANIEL, Lector Waldenstrom
and General Rape were elected vice
presidents, and Missionary SjohoIm
was made secretary. The 300 dele
gates represented twelve mission or
ganizations. 1t is reported to have
been one Of the largest and most sat
isfactory mission conferences ever
held in Sweden.
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Among important matters which
Will come up for consideration at the
aext riksdag are the lottery question
and the matter Of old age pensions.
The lottery evil still exists In great
many European countries and tickets
are sold In all the neighboring coun-
tries. The secretary Of state hopes
70 have q law passed shutting out the
foreign lottery and in time looks for a
complete p ohibition OF the lottery
business. AS to old age pensions and
disability insurance the minister
thinks that some action will be takel
Other European nations, particular
Germany, have for some time been ex-
perimenting with these measures and
they seem to be giving satisfaction.
The Socialists are credited with hay-
ing fastened this kind of Legislation,
as their platforms have demanded
such doctrines for many years past.
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Stockholm papers state that the war
between the Balkan states and Turkey
hao 80 ;kar AL t.,
Sweden and II 10 stated on good au-
thority that the admiralty will ask for
two new battleships from the next
riksdag. The ships are to be of the
% called y type, displacing 1900 tons
and having speed Of twenty-five
knots. Each vessel will carry in ar
morsd turrsts four 13-inch guns and
sscondar' armament OF twelve g.
inch long distance rapid Are guns. 1t
Ii also expected that the riksdag will
authorize the building of some new
destroyers and the four submarines
which have been talked OF for some
time. These vessels, IL authorized,
will all be built as speedily az posi-
BILE at Swedish shipyards.
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The king and queen have donated
800 francs to the wounded soldiers of
the Bulgarian and Greek armies and
have also ordered detachment of
hve Red Cross nurses, headed by DR..
G. II. Eckhart, to 20 to the scene of
war. A number Of wealthy persons
have privately supplied funds to send
an additional detachment OF Swedish
Red Cross nurses and doctors to Con-
stantinople.
Fully 800 fremen in the employ of
the Swedish navy have resigned from
their position. complaining that the
work Is too hard and that there is too
little pay. It 10 predicted by many
that 1t will not be an easy task for
the government to fill these vacancies
and that radical change in the work
ing system will have to be made be-
fore men can be secured willing to do
the work.
The Regnell botanical stipendiate,
amounting to $4,000 crowns, has been
awarded e. l.. Ekman. Phi. D.. q IA
nous Swedish botanist, who will dur
ing the next two years make an ex-
tended botanical tour In the tropical
states of Brazil under the auspices of
the Academy Of Science.
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Countess Casa de Miranda, Chris
tine Nilsson. once one Of the worlds
most famous singers, has presented a
baton used by Richard Wagner to the
Stockholm Academy OF Music. The
name Of Richard Wagner 10 engraved
on It and It is a relic Of much historic
value.
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The cathedral church bell in Gothen-
burx was recently rocasf nv En- p>~~