The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-07-11
SWEDEN.

The king has permitted two Rus.
sian warships to visit the naval harbo1
at Stockholm.
A fire at Warp, Simris parish, rem.
dered seven families homeless. The
loss was about SIS,
The prospects are very bright for q
rich crop of wild berries, especially
lingon and ~b1ueberries.
The only electric pillow used in actual
farming in Sweden is owned by Mr..
Lundberg, a farmer at >Sandby, Vad.
stena.
Carl David of Wirsen, q noted mar
Of letters, is in a serious condition.
Owing to his old age he is hardly ex.
pected to live.
About 10000 o~ne-year-old American
brook trout have been distributed
among a number of lakes in the west.
ern part of Kali parish.
The journeymen bakers of Sunds.
vail went on a strike. and their mas.
tiers have commenced to import strike
breakers from Germany.
The price of beef has risen to a
height never known before in Sweden,
beef stock on the hoof bringing as
much as ten cents a pound.
A proposition to establish an insti-
tute for the study of the alcohol prob
lem has been referred by the govern
ment to the committee on temperance.
1t is proposed to raise the maximum
apood 0f o,,fonohi1oo ~, tho e&rooke ~
Stockholm from 20 to Is kilometers
an hour (from IA to 16 English miles).
The government was severely criti.
cized for buying coal for the navy on
the foreign market. The admiralty an.
swered that by so doing the govern.
ment saved $4,000 in one year.
About 1900 farmers children in the
country around Stockholm will have
a chance to visit that city by means
of giving concerts and other entertain
ments for covering their travelling ex-
penses.
Herr Person of Tallberg asked the
king to issue an ordinance prohibiting
passengers from taking liquor into the
railway cars and drinking it there. The
railway administration made haste to
explain to the king that such a rule
cannot be enforced.
The Varberg and Atran railway was
flooded for a considerable distance
between Grimeton and Rolfstorp, and
nc train could pass. But the passen-
ger traffic was kept up anyway by
hand cars running between trains ap.
preaching from either side.
A telephone post fell down across a
locomotive running at full speed near
Smedby station. The engine was dis.
abled, but no injury was done to the
rest of the train. If the pole had fall.
len but one second earlier it would
have caused a frightful wreck.
The Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftel.
sen held it's annual meeting in Stock.
holm, General A. Rape presiding. The
society had paid out $780, q to the
missions in the course of the year,
almost two-thirds of this amount hav.
ing been spent in foreign countries.
A strong movement has sprung up
almost instantaneously which has fol-
its aim to give the school children q
chance to see the military establish.
ments of the country. The leaders OF
the movement feel Ire that it will
make the children and their parents
more interested in the defenses OF
their fatherland.
Two brothers, P. A. and e. A. Holm.
gren, of Holmo, lei Umea, found SO
much fish in their nets one night that
their little boat was overloaded. Ev.
erything went we'll until they came
close to the shore, but then the boat
was filed with water and went to the
bottom. The oldest Of the two broth.
ers sank with the boat and was
drowned. while the youngest succeed.
ed in reaching the shore. When found.
the body Of the former vas standing
upright on the bottom, tangled up In
the fishing tackle.
The measles have been raging fol
two months in Ostersund. In some in.
stances the measles were followed by
pneumonia, which proved fatal in
three cases. The epidemic was most
severe among the soldiers %garrisoned
in Ostersund. According to the latest
information the children Of the non,
commissioned officers had also con.
tracted the disease.
DR.. Sven Hedin has expressed the
hope that the subscriptions to the gun
boat fund will be 80 large as to cover
the cost of two gunboats. The sub
scriptions have made a good start or
| the fifth million of dollars.
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