Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-01-15
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENINGs IN FAR OFF
NORTHWEST.
ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME
Resume of the Most imr ortant Events
In Sweden. Norway and Denmark.
OF interest to the scandinavians
In America.
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
An expensive dog. The justice Of
the peace at Versus, Skaraborg Ian,
has handed down an interesting decis-
ion. o. Akerberg had dog that
was in the habit of running around,
and a forest warden named Moller
picked up the dog on forbidden
| ground and kept him until the owner
came to get him. MIR. Moller charged
s175 for the trouble which he had had
with the dog. Mr.. Akerberg sued Mr..
Moller to set the money back, and
this was the signal for a legal battle
| which resulted In a verdict to the
effect that Mr.. Akerberg had to pay
Mr. Moller s145 in costs, besides an
equal amount to his own lawyer and
witnesses. The dog was an ordinary
cur.
Anchor ice stopped the water
wheel OF a sawmill owned by Alfred
Ericsson of Alfserul and he went to
| work to clear out the wheel. While
he was standing on spoke the wheel
suddenly started and Eriksson was
| pressed between the wheel and the
water spout One Of his sons, who
happened to be close by, heard his
| fathers screams and ran to the mill
to help him, but he was too weak to
release his father, and by the time
some others came to the place the
man was dead Mr.. Ericsson was
fifty-five years old and left wife and
ten children
A girl nine years old was sent all
alone from Lemberg, Galicia, Austria.
| to Nystad, Finland She could speak
only Polish, and card was attached
to her breast with these words, show
ing her route: Lemberg, Copenhagen,
Stockholm, Alec, Nystad. When she
came to Stockholm she had only %
| cents left. But as a minor she could
not be treated as vagrant, and so
the Austrian legation in Stockholm
had to take care of her and have her
sent to her place of destination.
1 Nestor Mellblom, Malmo under
taker, has invented a coffin which he
thinks will be of great practical use,
The main feature of the new kind of
coffin is that the top is not screwed
but soldered on. Thus the casket is
Theoretically closed. The front part
of the cover is a pane of glass on
top Of which>is small lid. The face
of the body may easily be seen
through the glass. As the air is
closed out the body will decay very
slowly.
or the 10000 kronor (ss.100)
which the riksdag voted as bounties
to Swedish authors, the king has or.
dered to be paid to Per Hallstrom
1000 kronor, Ola Hanson 1,400, Fred
rik vetterlund 500, Helena Nyblom
500, Daniel Fallstrom 700, X. G. os-
sian-Nilsson 800, Gustaf Ullman. An
ders Osterling and Henning Berger
each 700, 30 Bergman and KarlErik
Forsslund each 500 kronor
The riksdag voted $4,000 for in
struction IN alcohoioiogy ana hygiene
IN 1914, ana the KING mas authorized
the central committee of the temper
ance organizations to dispose OF the
money Almost one-half of the amount
is to be expended for lectures to be
| given to public school teachers and
at higher institutions Of learning. The
lectures are 10 De gwen between
June 10 ana August 10.
Marcn 10. me 'SVehsKa MafgohDla-
det says tnat decioediy rehglous
Candidates prominently mentioned are
Bishops Danneil and Ekiund and Pro-
lessor holmodln.
L. .. smith, man VINO once was
looked upon as a millionaire, which
depended upon his success as liquor
dealer, died few days ago. His last
days were emDittered by lawsuit IN
stituted against him by his son.
/ JOnn GdT1DOm, OWeQlSn vice con-
sui at GrimsDy, england has written
pamphlet to snow by means OF COM
mercial statlstlcs that the time mas
between sweden ana england.
Among August strihdperg $ postum,
nous WORKS are between ~ ana oo
books, many OF wnich are practicaily
ready Tor the press. Dlnerent par
Ties claim the rient 70 publish them
Inc state railways Oh sweden nave
mad prosperous year
the government OF PERSIA expressed
its satsiaction WIN tne work done
by swedes as military instructors by
conrerIlng lne s usle OF general ZEN. upon Si