Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-11-26
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENiNGs IN FAR OFF
NORTHWEST.
ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME
Resume Of the Most Important Events
In Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
OF Interest to the scandInavians
In America.
SWEDEN.


in Sweden is not satisfactory. The
reports from the employment bureaus
of the kingdom show that during Sep
TENDER there were 1883 male appli-
cants for 1896 places, or 1876 for
every 100, as compared with 101 to
100 in September last year. The
number of female applicants In Sep
TENDER this year was 1876. the num-
Der of positions 1892, or LOT to 100.
as against rs to 100 for the same
month last year. The condition i'm
proved somewhat during October.
The building trades will be in the
worst strait on account Of lack Of
sufficient capital combined with the
difficulty Of doing a credit business.
Some English newspapers insinu-
ated that Germany obtains coal from
the Scandinavian countries. The
Swedish press resented the charge in
no uncertain terms. The English min
lister in Stockholm came to the res
cue in explaining that the insinuar
ton must not be regarded az coming
from the British government. He
further pointed out that all English
newspaper articles must be regarded
as purely private expressions unless
it is plainly stated that they give
the views of the government.
At the Katrinefors paper mills ex-
periments are being made to ascer-
tain whether radium can be extracted
from culm in paying quantities. The
raw materials are taken from BIZ
lingen. The method employed was IN
vented by a chemist nameI ]. Landin.
A radium compound has already been
produced. The next problem is to
extract pure radium from this on q
paying basis. The process must be
very slow and difficult for 1t is said
that the final result win not be known
for several months.
About one million dollars has been
subscribed to the capital stock Of the
proposed Swedish-American steam
ship company. Sixty of the subscrib-
ers held q meeting In Gothenburg to
advance the plan. They agreed to
meet again the 18th Of November to
perfect formal organization of the
company. AS the Swedish terminus
of the line, Gothenburg will derive
great benefit from the enterprise. and
efforts will be made to have the city
subscribe 100000 to the capital stock.
The board of health has expressed
itself with regard to the proposition
to exterminate the wild rabbits Of
Skane. Those who are suffering from
the pest are in favor Of destroying the
animals by means of inoculating some
of them with chicken cholera bacilli.
But the board is opposed to a whole
sale poisoning until 1t is proved that
milder means are a failure. The
board, however, is in favor of paying
national and local bounties for killing
wild rabbits by humane methods.
A flying machine met with a pc
culiar accident near the Malmslatt
drill grounds. Lieutenant Slow had
made trip to Linkoping, carrying
one passenger. Just before entering
the hangar at Malmslatt the motor
failed to work as usual, and the ma
chine began to sink. The propeller
struck the roof of house, tearing
away a part of II and damaging the
machine. Both of the occupants ex-
capped unhurt.
The family of j. Elmkvist of Sill
hofda parish, Kalmar Ian. has been
ravaged by tuberculosis to very I'M
usual extent, no less than nine chill
dren having been carried away by
that disease in eight years. Last year
two of them died at such short inter
walls that both of them we're buried
in the same grave Mr.. Elmkvist rs
a public-school teacher.
The railway department asks for
appropriations amounting to almost
$4,000, 900 for the year 1916. This
sum includes 100000 for rolling
stock, $1,200,000 for new buildings
and 100000 for alterations OF the
yards in Malmoe and new shops at the
same place.
The Separator Manufacturing COM
pany In Stockholm has been compelled
to reduce its output very materially
on account of the loss Of the markets
Of the belligerent nations.
The government has published the
new law regarding forest fires. The
law makes every parish fire depart
ment. whose chief is to be elected for
three years. Every able-bodied man
between the ages of eighteen and six.
ty years is under obligation to light
forest fires. The new law win take
effect the first OF January.
The first victims of thin fee this
season were three boys at Boden.
They all broke through the ice on the
Svartbjornsby lake and were drowned
before anybody could reach them.
The proposition Of opening Swed-
ish railway museum has 3een realized
to the extent that rooms have been
set aside at the Stockholm central
station for the collection and care of
such q museum, and Capt. o. Werner,
railway engineer. has been appoint
ed to have charge of the collection.