Morris tribune., 1912-11-15
OF INTEREST TO
SCANDINAv|ANS
Recent Happenings in This
Country ard Abroad.
FRESH CRISIS IN FINLAND

Taken to St. Petersburg for Trial.
Cod Fishing Industry of Norway
Amounts to 100000 Annually
Novel Method of Raising Charitable
Fund in Denmark.
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A fresh crisis is due in Finland.
Though every effort was made Sc
cretly to take Herr Lagerkrantz, one
of the offending Viborg town court
magistrates, to ST. Petersburg for trial,
his journey to the Finnish border was
made the occasion of such a demon
stratiOn of Finnish patriotism as to
leave no doubt of the temper of the
people. The Finnish officials are in
deed in dilemma. They have sworn
to respect the constitution, yet they
are receiving orders from Russia to
do things which would violate that
oath. In the case now agitating the
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Some Russians applied to the town
court under the new equality law for
trading rights. The court refused the
application, declaring that the law was
unconstitutional and the Russians
must apply to the governor for such
rights. There were three magis-
trates, two of whom obtained bail
after being arrested on Russian or
ders, but Herr Lagerkrantz declined
to obtain respite that way. Hence
his incarceration, which was carried
out by Finn who was once sentenced
for forgery, but escaped to Russia,
only to be appointed chief of police
at Viborg. This is a favOrite method
OF the Russian government, which
finds criminality no bar to such police
employment, provided the officer has
sharp enough crouch against the
community he is to handle. 1t would
obviously be impossible to secure a
Finnish court to punish an official for
respecting his country's constitution,
hence the taking of Herr Lagerkrantz
to Russia for trial If his sentence is
a., savage one the Films will be stung
to sharper reprisals than any that have
occurred of late
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The Nobel prizes were founded by
Alfred Nobel, a Swedish engineer and
inventor of high explosives. He di-
rected that the income of large sum
OF money should be divided each wear
into five prizes-in physics, chemistry.
physiology or medicine, literature. and
in work toward the establishment of
peace. His purpose was ito com
pensate those who in the previous
year have been most useful to hui
mainly" regardless of their national
1ty. 1t is said that the value of each
prize is $4,000. The prizes have
been awarded annually since 1901,
when Behring received the prize in
medicine for his discovery of diphthe-
ria antitoxin. Among the recipients of
this prize are Pawlow, Koch, Laveran,
Finsen, Erich, Metchnikoff and Koch
er. 1t has not been found practicable
to follow to the letter the direction of
the founder to give prizes for the most
remarkable Achievements for the pre-
ceding year, this direction being in
terpreted to mean achievements. Pre-
vious to this year two Americans have
received prizes, A. A. Nicholson of
the University of Chicago in physics
and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for
his efforts to establish peace between
Japan and Russia. This year for the
| first time the prize in medicine comes
to this country.
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A study of Swedish statistics has
brought to light the fact that 10000
persons have committed suicide in
| that country during the last thirty
two years. This would mean 625 an
nually and, reckoning the population
at 100000, it would mean that one
out of every 5000 ends his life with
his own hands every year The re-
port unfortunately goes on to say that
this class of crime is on the increase.
In the country about eleven and in the
cities about twenty-three out of every
100000 commit suicide Tin Stock
holm over thirty-two). With regard to
sex, twenty-five women to 100 men are
guilty of this crime. With respect to
age, it seems that the years from fifty
to tifty-five are the most productive
of this evil. In Sweden the census OF
the people is almost entirely kept by
the state church, and there are said to
be $4,000 children recorded on the
church books who have not been bap-
ltized
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Says an editorial writer in one of
the great American dailies: Two of
August Strindberg's plays have just
been translated into English. They
are said to be typical and of his
strongest. Strindberg's strongest means
horror, despair, weakness, final trag-
edy. But such are his qualities they
are likely to affect the literary fash
ion from now on. Strindberg bids fair
to become the literary vogue for a