Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-07-29
NEWS OF INTEREST
FROM SCANDINAVIA
Resume Of the important Happenings
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark. s
Denmark.

A man from Birkerod went to Hill.
lerod and took on too much OF a load.
Towards morning he felt tired, and
warm and comfortable as the weather
was, he ~undressed and went to bed in
q ditch. When he finally awoke from
his slumber he was aStounded to lind
that the circumstances indicated that
he had been turned into a soldier. All
his civil clothes were gone. In their
place was a soldiers uniform with a
saber and leather girdle. He could
not continue his journey stark naked,
so he had to don the outfit. The story
does not mention what sort of a recep.
ton he was granted by his better-half
upon his return home, but it has been
ascertained that the uniform belonged
to a deserted military laborer at Hell
Singer.
Denmark seems to be in a mood to
grant everything that the I%celanders
see fit to ask for. Now they have
passed a law authorizing the use Of an
lcelandic flag, and the king is pre-.
pared to sanction the law. The flag
Is blue. The leaders of the different
political parties represented in the
rigsdag held a caucus and agreed to
comply with the requests Of the Ice
landers.
A Danish commission recently went
to England to endeavor to induce the
British government to except Den.
mark from the general embargo on the
expectation of coal. The chairman OF
the commission, a banker and member
of the cabinet, reported upon his re.
turn that his mission had been very
successful. The'Danes may have prac.
tically all the coal they need from
England.
About n hundred marine mines
have been picked up along the west
coast of Upland during the past few
months. Now the pesky things are no
longer drifting ashore and %navigators
breathe more freely.
A man in Hjorring lost his bicycle
and neither he 0 the police could
find it. So he had to buy a new one.
Now he was more careful. He painted
in large red letters, Stolen from" and
his name.
Sweden.
Tens of thousands Of Russians have
been stopping in Stockholm since the
war began. HotellC continental had the
honor and profit OF taking care OF
large numbers of them, but many put
up at private houses. Now a change
is taking place. In the long run Stock
holm became too tedious and tame for
them, and they arc leaving for Copen.
hagen, which is in a position to offer
them more fun for their money.
The Russian government has apollo.
gized to Sweden for the violation of
INC AoLtCl AdliOi . uCuIIdllLJ WIFI tuo
German minelayer Albatross was pur-
sued by Russian warships on July 2
and fled into Swedish territorial wa
tiers. This incident was likened to tho
affair off the coast Of Chile when Brit
ish cruisers sank the German cruiser
Dresden. Great Britain a%pologized to
Chile.
Officers Of the Swedish steamer Ia.
mora said they had not been permit
ted to deliver the vessels cargo Of
grain and copper to Stockholm, the
steamers destinations, but that the
steamer had been taken into Kirkwall
by a British cruiser, held there ten
days, and then sent to Barrow.in-Fur-
ness, where the entire cargo had been
discharged.
The Ringsjo settlement in southern
Sweden was visited by a severe frost
as late as the eighteenth of June. The
temperature dropped six degrees be-
low the freezing point, and the potato
vines were killed on high ground.