Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-09-16
SWEDEN.

Minister or Agriculture Beck-tr1lS
has made an announcement as to the
ability of Sweden to obtain enough
breadstuffs in case the war lasts an.
other year. The purchase of grain
in America has been very successful,
he says, but the facilities of trans
portation are somewhat unsatisfac-
tory. So far no cargo of grain has
been lost. however. lans have been
drawn and estimates of costs made
for the construction of temporary
granaries in order that the govern
ment may not be prevented from i'm
porting grain on account of lack OF
room for storing it. Finally. the min.
lister stated that by means Of the crops
that are expected and the imports that
are going on, the people Of Sweden
will have all the grain needed for an
other year.
A committee which held a meeting
at Christianstad applied to the govern
ment for loan of $135,000 without in
terest for the construction of factories
for making potato meal in southern
Sweden. The committee also wants
the government to guarantee the sale
of at least half of the output for five
years. the price to correspond to that
OF rye. But the minimum and
maximum prices shall be $4.05 and
s6.4S per quarter ton. The commit
tee conferred with the farmers Of
southern Sweden before proposing this
plan.
Another protest has been made to
the German government by Sweden.
The complaint in this instance has to
do with the Smelling of the Swedish
steamer Gotland, which subsequently
was taken into Cuxhaven by the Ger
mans. The Swedish government states
that the steamer carried no contra
band.
A large power station is to be built
at Sagmon, Angermanland. 1t will fur
nish power for a number of Industrial
plants in that part Of the country. in
Guiding the glass factories at Sando
and Klockestrand.
The Swedish steamer Sydic. from
Baltimore for Malmo. Sweden, has
been released and the Swedish steam.
err Anglia from Baltimore for Kalmar
Sweden, has been detained by the
British admiralty.
The Gotland society for the care OF
blind has been permitted by the gov
eminent to take up collection once
a year for its work in all the churches
of the diocese of visby until the year
1918.
Auditor A. Fahlen of Solicited O.
mated 1880 to the Osterasen sana-
toriu:n for consumptives ON his fiftieth
birthday.
The Swedish steamer Disa has been
sunk. Her crew was |. nded.
An interesting burial place has been
found at Halla. Gotland. The tomb
contained a skeleton from the seventh
century. Its skull had been trepaned,
and by its side was ring buckle.
There were also two stone ido's and
fragments of two others.
A stock company has been organ
lied for the purpose OF buying a rat
cnt for a locomotive boiler fe. the
use Of peat and other low-gradp fuel.
The minimum and maximum lirsits of
the capital stock are put at $4,000
and $1s2.L50.
The representatives of the crown In
Buckingham has granted loan OF
cl.nost $4,000 to 10 communes to be
used as aid fer quarrymen and scone-
cutters who are out of work.
On account of the high prices OF
coal and wood the national food com.
mission has asked the government %
prohibit the expectation of wood.
Floods have done much damage in
Hotagen parish, Jamtland. Three grist-
mills were undermined and wrecked.
and several were damaged.