Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-05-01
SWEDEN.

Prince Wilhelm has been appointed
commander of the torpedo boat Argos.
A farmer at Soraby caught pike
that weighed 81 pounds in Lake lima
rem.
The Scandinavian bank in London
has distributed six per cent divi-
dend.
Germany is going to be well repre-
sented at the Baltic exposition in NAL
mo next year.
King Gustaf recently attended a
classical concert given at Monte
Carlo by the famous violon-cellist.
Holman.
The commune of Hogleo voted $50
as subsidy to the Sandwich rifle
club. but the courts ruled that this
action was illegal.
The government stamped 342,417
packs o. cards in 1912. OF this num-
Der no less than 100000 were made
In Sweden, and the rest were i'm.
ported.
Ystad is exporting hundreds Of
thousands of gallons of cream to Ger
many. The steamers that carry the
cream also take away much meat and
meat products.
Railway officials OF Sweden, Nor
way, Denmark and Germany held a
conference at Malmo to revise the
rates on certain goods carried between
those countries.
A sow belonging to a farmer in
Felestad, Svalof, has given birth to
81 pigs. She has had five filters, aver
aging 1872 each, and 81 OF the little
fellows survived
"Nya Banker" the bank of the So.
cialists, in Stockholm, has closed its
first half year with profit Of s10.-
900. No dividend was distributed,
however. The highest interest charg-
ed for loans was 10 per cent.
The paint in very many houses in
Ostersund and vicinity contain arsenic
to such an extent that many of the
inmates have taken sick. At least
two persons became insane and com
mitted suicide from the effects of the
insidious poison.
AC AdAibCi VI Ia SIuuChIo at tue
Stockholm high school University
has been as follows for each year
since 1907: 81, 200, 2S6. $50, 3SS. At
the university Of Upsala the number
is 467 for this year, and 344 at the
university of Lund.
The government has proposed that
the export Of iron ore from Norrland
be increased to the extent of 81 1000.
600 tons above what is stipulated in
the contract with the mining COM
pany. The suggestion is made that
the export be increased 100000 in
year to year so that the whole in
crease OF 81 ,000, 900 tons is reached in
1892. The value of the 100000 tons
is put at s100,000,000.
A man seventy years old disap-
peared while walking to the neighbor-
ing town, Sundsvall. A search was
made, and he was found dead in a
most peculiar position, standing on
his legs and leaning up against a
spruce tree. 1t is supposed that his
death was due to an apoplectic fit.
Hacks drawn by horses are fast dis
appearing from the streets of the
large cities OF Sweden. In Malmo
there were 81 hacks and % automo-
biles in public service during the past
year; but after the first of. May there
will be seven horse hacks and 33 auto
mobiles.
The following was found in the
church book Of Regina parish: "In
this parish occurred, on December Is,
1897. the death of Tenant Farmer An
ders Oloison, OF Botn, near Rumpe-
karr, who Was proved to have been
born at Wingaker In 1917, and there
fore lived into his 121st year, with
such health and strength that shortly
before his death he walked both ways
to church over long and difficult
road"
The public education committee has
completed its work and printed 5000
copies of its report. The expenses Of
the committee were $4,000.