The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-29
SWEDEN,

SWEOEN.
The cigarmakers of Stockholm held
a meeting to discuss the position OF
the tobacco monopoly with regard to
the salaries Of its employees. They
passed IAN indignant protest against
the attempt which is made to still
further depress the existing low
wages. Therefore we cannot refrain
from asking whether 1t was really the
intention of the government and the
rigsdag when they gave this company
the control of the entire tobacco indus
try that the company should be per-
mitted to act in this manner towards
workingmen, who for years have been
made to expect to have their wages
fixed on account Of the pending tax
alton problem and who, during an
other ten-month period, have been
starving and suffering for the benefit
Of the state?"
Tens of thousands of Russians have
been stopping in Stockholm since the
war began. Hotel Continental had the
honor and profit of taking care OF
large numbers Of them, but many put
up at private houses. Now change
is taking place. In the long run Stock.
holm became too tedious and tame for
them, and they are 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
the latter nations neutrality when the
German minelayer Albatross was pur-
sued by Russian warships on July 2
and fed into Swedish territorial wa.
tiers. This incident was likened to the
affair off the coast Of Chile when Brit
lsh cruisers sank the German cruiser
Dresden. Great Britain apologized to
Chile
Officers of the Swedish steamer "a
mora said they had not been permit
ted to deliver the vessels cargo Of
grain and copper to Stockholm, the
steamers destination, 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 report that the German authori-
ties had opened and censored mail on
the Swedish steamships Bjoern and
forster was denied officially by the
German government. The entire mail
on the forster, the officials declare,
was delivered to the Swedish authori.
ties untouched. Some suspected mail
bags In the Bjoern were investigated
and found to contain scissors for cut
ting barbed wire. These packages,
which were addressed to the British
government. were conf1scated.
At the beginning Of the war it was
expected that the mail traffic between
Sweden and Denmark would be great
ly increased, and new steamship con-
nections were established between
Malmo and Copenhagen. But the re-
suit was a great surprise. The route
via Denmark has been more and more
neglected. The mails between Sweden
and Germany have been taken care
of by the Trelleborg- Sassnitz car fer
ries and the Swedish-American mails
by steamers touching at Gothenburg
and cities In southern Norway. Indeed
the change has been so marked that
the authorities have discontinued the
line between Molmo and Copenhagen.
The second application for fertiliz
ers to the beet fields of southern Swe.
den was delayed this year on account
Of lack of fertilizers, the main con.
stituent of which Is saltpeter.
A freakish thunderbolt struck the
ground near Kunssengen in the parish
Of Stockholm-Nas. 1t cut furrow
two feet deep and half as wide. No
less than seven trees standing far
from each other were splintered.
Rocks that happened to be in it's way
were hurled aside or even splintered.
The Ringsjo settlement in southern
Sweden was visited by severe frost
as late as the eighteenth of June. The
temperature dropped six degrees be-
low the freezing poinh ind the potato
vines were killed On high ground.