Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-06-19
SWEDEN.


The Ljungan river has been stocked
with American trout.
Sweden lost 10 lives at sea last
year as a result of shipwrecks and
other accidents.
The late Carl Noraens, a Stockholm
merchant, willed $4,000 to charitable
institutions in his city.
At the Alnarp state farm there are
81 head of cattle that must be killed
on account of tuberculosis.
Two Russians who posed as razor
grinders were arrested at Gothenborg.
They had copies of the map of the gen.
eral staff
SO many fresh conscripts failed to
show up for physical examinations In
Upsala law that the aggregate fines
imposed upon them exceeded $4,000.
The first woman to become lawyer
in Sweden is Marta Bjornbom. She
is graduate of the Stockholm high
school, an institution which in fact e
a university. She intends to begin
practice in company with some other
lawyers
man at Ingelshyttan, Norke, had
a scratch on finger, and an insect in
the ground stung him on that scratch.
He paid no attention to it al the
time. But three weeks later lockjaw
set in, and the mans life could not
be saved.
A Russian saw filler was brought into
court at KarlstaI simply on the charge
of carrying on a work for which he
ought to have taken out a license.
But the court held that in Sweden a
foreigner is allowed to file saws with
out taking out license.
E. Lindahl. president of the city
council of Malmo, and A. Liljenberg,
first city engineer of Gothenburg, have
been appointed by the king to repre-
sent Sweden at the first International
cities congress, which is to be held
in Geneva, Switzerland.
ntral institute of Stockholm have
en invited by the ladies' union in
Amsterdam. Holland, to give gym
nastic exhibitions in that city. They
have accepted the invitation and will
give daily exhibitions for a week.
The French legation in Teheran,
which looks after the interests OF
Swedish citizens in Persia. has report
ed to the foreign Office of Sweden that
the Swedes who are conducting the
education OF the gendarmerie of
Persia are In receipt of a letter from
the minister of the interior of Persia,
which states In the most fiattering
terms that the work performed by the
Swedes is singularly satisfactory. and
the minister extends his fluctuations
to the Swedes and expresses his ad.
miration for the results. An exhibit
ton given the nineteenth of April
made profound impression upon the
minister. The French ambassador
adds that this exhibition was a great
delight to all who were present, and
that the Swedish instructors ought to
be pleased with the results of their
work.
The general pension law provides a
pension for every Swedish man or
woman who does not hold state
office or belongs to existing pension
unions for public functionaries. A
person will receive pension when he
10 disabled or is 81 years old The
dues will be graded as follows: A
person receiving an income of less
than $l35 year shall pay 81 cents; for
an income from $135 to 1915 the rate
shall be $1.35; for one Of $216 to 1924,
$2.16; for an income more than 1924,
1881. Dues will be collected from per-
sons between the ages of is and &C
years. Two kinds Of pensions will
be paid: The annual impost pension
is to be 80 per cent for men and "a
per cent for women of the aggregate
pension dues paid. A supplementary
pension is to be paid to persons who
have an income of less than SIS. The
maximum impost pension will be
sll4.20. the maximum supplementary
pension $4,000. The rates are very
nicely graded according to the income
OF the beneficiary.
Z. Nassen, bookkeeper in Sunds-
vail, saved two girls, from drowning
when he was only twelve years old,
and since that time he has saved
dozen human lives. His heroism was
reported to the national government.
which awarded him a gold medal of
the fifth size. The inscription on the
medal is. For Praiseworthy Deeds"
Mrs. Hilma Fagelberg is running a
soft drink retail establishment in Vet
landa She wished to have the time
of closing extended from ten to eleven
o'clock in the evening, but the law
government refused to grant her petit
ton.
The members of the present cabinet
are accused OF inconsistency with re-
gard to the matter of decorations of
honor. A few years ago they argued
and voted against the whole system;
but now the premier explains that
decorations of honor afford a salts
factory means of showing honor and
gratitude to foreigners who have rend-
cred valuable services to Swedish cit.
liens.
The General Electric Stock Com
pany decided at business meeting In
Westerns to dissolve the company and
turn its assets over to syndicate
which is to organize new company.